Recharge Payments Shopify Apps – Analytics & Insights

Recharge Subscriptions App dominates recharge payments with 73.4% market share — a clear category leader Shopify merchants gravitate to first, 71.2pp ahead of Skio, a Recharge Company (2.2%). Scala Payment Method Discount sits at #3 with 2.6% share, rounding out the top tier. Together, the top 3 apps absorb 78.3% of all recharge payments installs — a highly concentrated landscape with limited room for new entrants. Scala Payment Method Discount is the standout mover this month, climbing 1 position — a momentum signal worth tracking.

Recharge Subscriptions App's 73.4% share looks dominant, but ETP Sort Hide Payment Methods slipped 1 position this month and the rest of the top 5 has reshuffled. Recharge Payments apps are settled at the top and contested below — for merchants whose needs aren't a perfect Recharge Subscriptions App fit, the #2–#5 apps often surface better niche options.

Recharge Subscriptions App held #1 steadily from Sep 2025 to Sep 2026 — an entrenched leader in recharge payments that challengers haven't displaced. Across the top 5 plotted recharge payments apps, 2 improved their ranking while 1 declined — the category is moving upward overall. Recharge Subscriptions App's share contracted -2.0pp from 75.4% (Sep 2025) to 73.4% (Sep 2026) — a meaningful narrowing of the leader's gap against other recharge payments apps over this window.

3 of 5 plotted recharge payments apps moved positions in this window — recent trajectory beats current rank as a signal when a category is reshuffling this actively.

United States dominates demand for recharge payments apps with 46.7% of all tracked installs — a single market that effectively defines the category's product priorities. United Kingdom follows at 14.8%, with Australia at 4.8%. Together, the top 3 markets account for 66.3% of recharge payments app installs worldwide. Germany (3.9%) and Canada (3.4%) round out the top 5. United Kingdom is the fastest-growing market this month (+1.3pp), pointing to accelerating demand outside the established leaders.

With 46.7% of recharge payments app installs concentrated in United States, the leading apps in this category typically prioritize United States-based merchants for localization, currency, and support hours — merchants in United Kingdom (14.8%) and other regions sometimes find better fit in apps that over-index outside United States.

Recharge Subscriptions App is the only app in this set to have crossed 1,000 reviews, reaching the milestone in 80 months since launch. The remaining 4 recharge payments apps tracked here are still building toward 1,000 — current cumulative review counts give the clearest picture of where each one stands today.

4 apps on this chart haven't yet crossed 1,000 reviews: ETP Sort Hide Payment Methods at 432, HidePay: Hide Payment Methods at 356, Skio, a Recharge Company at 225, Scala Payment Method Discount at 70 cumulative reviews. ETP Sort Hide Payment Methods is closest to the milestone — its current count puts it roughly 43% of the way to 1,000.

Recharge Subscriptions App is the only app in this set to have crossed 1,000 reviews so far — a useful signal for merchants that one app has already proved sustained adoption while the others remain in the "promising but unproven" tier of the recharge payments category.