Companies Using Gelato

I expected Gelato's numbers to look like any other Shopify app's. They don't, because a print-on-demand store is cheap to open and easy to abandon. Our October 2026 crawl finds Gelato's connector on 15,813 live domains, 1,990 of them matched to a company. The script is what Gelato's Shopify app installs through Shopify's script-tag loader: the connector for its Personalization Studio editor, served from live.gelato.tech. In our first random sample, every one of the 93 reachable stores carrying it loaded it that way. So this is a list of Shopify stores with Gelato connected. Etsy and API sellers are invisible to it.

One store in eight isn't open

I opened 297 random Gelato domains in October. 31 redirected to Shopify's password page, 4 no longer answered, 3 had turned into parked domain pages and 1 showed "Store unavailable". That's 39, about 13%. Page titles across the 15,884 domains in our stack data agree: 182 carry Shopify's error or closed titles and 127 still say "My Store" or "Opening soon". Accounts are clean. In 4,959 domains where the connector's address names the store, we found 4,512 different Shopify stores, and no store covers more than 12 domains.

Sales Signal: treat roughly 13,700 of the 15,813 as trading stores. Filter out password pages before any outreach, or one in eight cold contacts will land on a locked storefront.

Flat since July

The chart reads 9,879 in June, 15,919 in July, 16,099 in August, 15,987 in September and 15,813 in October. The June step is ours: the domains we crawl turn over every month and the signals we detect Gelato with widened. Since August the line has lost 286 domains. 2,580 domains dropped Gelato since we began tracking it on 16 March 2026, and only 117 of those still run it on another hostname, so most drops are real departures or closed shops.

"About one Gelato store in eight was locked, closed or gone when we opened it. For a print-on-demand app, the install count and the trading count are two different numbers." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales Signal: this is a stable pool, not a growing one. Pitch Gelato sellers on keeping a store alive, with marketing, reviews or traffic, rather than on setting one up.

Who the customers are

88.63% of matched companies with a known size have 1 to 10 employees, and the largest founding group is the 2020s at 42.42%. On our Zapiet and Kiwi Sizing profiles the 2010s lead instead. The big names sit at the top of the list for a different reason. 36 of the 50 companies we show run Gelato on a separate shop host: the Brooklyn Museum's shop, Boom Supersonic's merch store, thoughtbot's shop, Deseret News's store, Virunga National Park's fundraising shop. In a random sample, only 7 of 297 domains looked like that.

Sales Signal: two markets share this list. Merch-store operators at museums, clubs, colleges and charities buy fulfilment and design help for a side channel; independent brands buy tools that grow a main store. Split the list by subdomain before you write a sequence.

Europe outweighs the US

The United States has 732 matched companies and the United Kingdom 332, but the European countries in the top 15 add up to 742, ten more than the US. Germany has 113, Sweden 43 and Norway 25. Gelato's subscription page promises local production in 32 countries, and the customer map follows it. Industries lean creative. Retail is 12.13% and Retail Apparel and Fashion 10.66%, while artists and writers, design services, art supplies and graphic design together reach 13.98%.

Sales Signal: a European print, packaging or creator-tools vendor will find more of its market here than on most Shopify app lists. Lead with local production and short delivery times.

Printful is on four stores in ten

Our switching tests found nothing worth charting between Gelato and the apps in its category table, because most domains ever seen with both still run both: 171 Gelato domains run ParcelPanel today and 54 run Route. The overlap that matters is with Printful. 6,609 Gelato domains, 41.61%, load Printful as well. Teeinblue, a personalisation app, is on 265 and teelaunch on 223.

"Four Gelato stores in ten also load Printful. Many sellers keep two print networks connected instead of picking one." - Emma Davies, Data Analyst at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales Signal: for Gelato's sales team, the dual-supplier stores are the easiest place to win a larger share of orders. For Printful's, the 58% of Gelato stores without it are the open door.

The stack around it

Shopify is on 99.88% of Gelato domains. Judge.me runs on 21.05% and Klaviyo's email tool on 15.03%. Google Analytics is on only 39.32%, well below the 70.24% on Zapiet's domains, which suggests owners watch sales in Shopify rather than in a separate analytics tool. In our script records, Product Customizer loads on 45 Gelato domains and Kiwi Sizing's size charts on 41.

Sales Signal: analytics, email and reviews are all thinly installed. A Shopify app that sells measurement or retention to small creative brands has six Gelato stores in ten without Google Analytics to talk to.

What it costs

Gelato's subscription page (checked 14 October 2026) lists a Free plan at $0 with two connected stores, Gelato+ at $29.99 a month or $19.99 a month billed annually, with up to 33% off products, and a custom-priced Platinum tier. Every order is charged for production and shipping. Gelato's leadership page says the company launched in August 2012.

Sales Signal: because the entry plan is free, a Gelato install says little about spend. Gelato+ subscribers are the better-qualified group, though our crawl can't see the plan.

Key takeaways

1. 15,813 live domains, 10th in Shipping, Fulfillment & Returns with 3.17%.

2. About 13% of a random sample was password-protected, closed or expired.

3. 88.63% micro-businesses, and the 2020s are the largest founding decade.

4. 41.61% of Gelato domains also run Printful.

5. The famous names are merch shops on subdomains.

How to use this list

Remove password pages, split merch subdomains from brand stores, then filter by country. For the full list of 15,813 Gelato domains with company, size and stack data, explore TechnologyChecker.io.