The Best Stocky Alternatives for Shopify in 2026 — An Honest Comparison

Full disclosure up front: we build Reorderly, one of the tools on this list. We'll be as honest about the others as we are about ours — because if you pick the wrong tool, you'll be back here in three months, and nobody wins that.

Who this comparison is for: a Shopify store with one location, roughly 50–1,000 SKUs, doing its own purchasing. If you run multiple warehouses or need demand planning across channels, your answer is different — see the mid-market row.

(Competitor details as of July 2026 — check current pricing and reviews before deciding.)

The short version

Reorderly (our app)

Built specifically as the Stocky replacement: reorder alerts from your sales velocity, purchase orders (PDF + supplier email), receiving, and stock counts — plus demand forecasting, which Stocky never had.

• The migration story: one-click import of your Stocky suppliers and product–supplier assignments.
• Pricing: Free plan (50 SKUs). Paid plans from $19/mo flat — and if you install before September 30, 2026, you keep the $19 founding price forever (it becomes $29 after). Higher tiers add demand forecasting and multi-location stock counts.
• Honest weakness: we're new. The review count is small. If a long review history matters more to you than price and migration speed, look at the next two options.

Sensible Forecasting (~$29/mo)

A focused forecasting and reorder-point app with a solid reputation (~100 reviews). If your main pain is "tell me when to reorder" and your PO process lives in email anyway, it's a credible choice.

• Strengths: forecasting focus, fair price, established reviews.
• Watch out for: the purchasing workflow is narrower — check that PO creation, sending, and receiving match how you actually work before committing.

Prediko

A planning tool aimed at growing DTC brands (~200 reviews), with deeper inventory planning and a polished product.

• Strengths: planning depth, brand polish, established user base.
• Watch out for: if you have ~200 SKUs and one location, you may pay for planning machinery you'll never use. Try the free trial and count how many features you actually touch in week one.

The mid-market class: Inventory Planner, Cogsy & co. (~$150–400/mo)

Genuinely powerful demand planning — built for multi-location, multi-channel operations with an ops person to run it.

• Strengths: depth, integrations, sophisticated modeling.
• Watch out for: price, setup weight, and the honest truth that a single-location store will use a fraction of it. If that's not you, this class is overkill; if it is you, nothing cheaper will satisfy you.

Spreadsheets ($0)

The honest default most stores fall back to. Under ~30 SKUs with stable demand, a spreadsheet genuinely works.

• Strengths: free, flexible, no vendor.
• Watch out for: it breaks silently. No alert fires when a SKU's velocity doubles. You find out when you stock out. Every store on this list outgrew a spreadsheet — the question is whether the cost of the misses exceeds the cost of a tool.

How to choose (our honest flowchart)

1. Under ~30 SKUs, stable sales? Spreadsheet. Come back when it hurts.
2. Migrating from Stocky and want the same jobs plus forecasting, fast? Try Reorderly — the import takes minutes.
3. Forecast-first, POs stay in email? Trial Sensible Forecasting.
4. Scaling DTC brand wanting planning depth? Trial Prediko.
5. Multi-location or multi-channel with ops staff? Budget for the mid-market class.

Whatever you pick, pick it before the August 31 rush — every tool's support queue will be underwater in the last week of August.