Comparison
ViralSweep gives you thirteen years of campaign tooling to operate yourself. Sweepsy gives you a campaign that is already run.
Invite only. We review every request by hand. No monthly fee.
ViralSweep figures are taken from its Shopify App Store listing ↗, checked 20 September 2026.
ViralSweep is software you operate.
Sweepsy is a campaign our team runs with you.
A customer buys from your Shopify store. Nothing changes in your checkout.
The order becomes tickets within seconds. Refunds and cancellations remove them.
The entry list is frozen and hashed, the draw runs once, and anyone can replay it.
| ViralSweep | Sweepsy | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | ViralSweep$49 to $999 a month. The listing states external charges may be billed separately from your Shopify invoice. | SweepsyNo monthly fee. Terms agreed on one call. See how |
| Who funds the prize | ViralSweepYours to fund and supply | SweepsyBFCM26: a $100,000 shared prize pool. |
| Volume limit | ViralSweep100 / 1,000 / 5,000 orders by plan. Unlimited on Elite. | SweepsyNo order ceiling on ticketing |
| What it is | ViralSweepA giveaway and contest app you operate | SweepsyA managed sweepstakes campaign, run with you |
| Official rules and winner terms | ViralSweepYours to write | SweepsyDrafted for each campaign and published for every shopper to read |
| Registration and bonding, where required | ViralSweepNot listed | SweepsyHandled with you |
| Free entry route | ViralSweepEntry forms you configure yourself | SweepsyA no-purchase entry route, hosted by Sweepsy |
| Orders become tickets | ViralSweepPurchase-based entries, e.g. $1 spent = 1 entry | SweepsyEvery paid Shopify order, within seconds. Refunds and cancellations remove them. No theme code. |
| The draw, and its proof | ViralSweepAuto-winner selection and fair selection, inside the app | SweepsyThe entry list is frozen and hashed, the draw runs once from a sealed seed, and anyone can replay it See how |
| Winner contact and prize delivery | ViralSweepNot listed | SweepsySweepsy contacts the winner and delivers the prize |
| Connects to | ViralSweepAweber, Drip, Facebook, Klaviyo, Mailchimp and Zapier | SweepsyKlaviyo and Mailchimp natively. Resend as a template to paste. |
| How you start | ViralSweepInstall today. 7-day free trial. | SweepsyInvite only. We review every request by hand. |
ViralSweep meters its plans by orders counted by the purchases app.
7-day free trial.
$49 / month
100 orders
$199 / month
1,000 orders
$399 / month
5,000 orders
$999 / month
Unlimited orders
The subscription is not the cost of a sweepstakes. The prize, the official rules, the registration where a territory requires it, the winner contact and the delivery are the cost — and in all four of these apps every one of them stays with you.
Sweepsy charges no monthly fee. The terms are agreed with you on one call before anything launches, and the plan billed through Shopify is published in full.
Read the billing termsViralSweep is the broadest of the four by a distance. Its listing covers photo and video contests, spin-to-win, instant wins, anniversary and birthday campaigns, a waitlist, A/B testing, an API, multi-language and segments — a range no other app here matches. It has been on the App Store since August 2013 and carries 149 reviews at 4.5. At the Elite tier it also builds one promotion for you each month, which is the closest any of these four comes to a managed service. If you want to run four different campaign formats this quarter with your own prizes, ViralSweep is the better buy and we would tell you so on the call.
See their Shopify listingTheir purchase-based entries are metered by orders: 100 on Starter, 1,000 on Business, 5,000 on Premium, unlimited only at $999 a month. The store that grows into the mechanic pays more to keep counting its own orders. Sweepsy has no order ceiling on ticketing.
Their listing states that external charges may be billed by ViralSweep separately from your Shopify invoice, so the plan price is not the whole bill. Sweepsy charges no monthly fee and the terms are agreed on one call before anything launches.
Everything ViralSweep does happens before the winner exists. The prize, the official rules, the registration where a territory requires it, the winner contact and the delivery are all still yours. That is the part Sweepsy is.
Historical LTB campaign results.
Not Sweepsy product results, and not a forecast for your store.
Tell our team about your store, your order volume and your campaign.
We agree the prize, the scope and the terms. If the pool is not right for you, we say so.
Accept your invitation and open your campaign, entries, rules and winners in one place.
We draft and publish the rules, connect your store and your email tools, and run the draw.
No. Sweepsy is invite only and we review every request by hand. You tell us about your store and your campaign, we talk it through on one call, and your workspace opens after that. If the pool is not right for your store, we say so.
Sweepsy drafts the official rules for each campaign, publishes them for every shopper to read, and handles registration and bonding with you where a territory requires it. Our Prize Desk contacts the winner and delivers the prize.
Yes. The entry list is frozen and hashed before the draw runs, and the draw runs once from a sealed seed. Anyone can replay it at trysweepsy.com/verify and get the same winner.
No. Every campaign includes a free entry route hosted by Sweepsy. Free and purchase tickets join the same draw pool with the same chance per ticket, and each campaign's official rules state eligibility and entry limits.
Elite builds one promotion for you each month inside the app. It does not fund your prize, draft and publish your official rules, handle registration and bonding, run a draw your customers can replay, or deliver the prize to the winner. Those five are what Sweepsy is.
No. That is ViralSweep's ground and it is genuinely good at it. Sweepsy runs one thing: a prize draw where eligible Shopify orders become tickets, with a free entry route beside them.
Sweepsy is invite only and we review every request by hand. If an app like ViralSweep is the better answer for where your store is today, we will say so on the call.
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