Best Stocky Alternatives for Shopify (2026)

Full disclosure up front: we build StockCue, 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.

(Every competitor price, rating and review count on this page was read on its Shopify App Store listing on September 6, 2026. They drift: check the current listing before you decide.)

The short version

StockCue (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.

• The migration story: import of your Stocky suppliers and product–supplier assignments, free on every plan.
• Pricing: Free plan (50 SKUs). The paid tiers are priced by catalogue size: Starter to 500 SKUs, Growth to 2,000, Scale unlimited. Starter adds purchase orders, receiving, and multi-location stock counts; Growth adds explainable forecasting.
• Honest weakness: we're new. On September 6, 2026 StockCue had zero reviews and no rating, against 356 for Assisty, 246 for Prediko and 11 for Sensible Forecasting. If a review history matters more to you than price and migration speed, look at the other options on this page first.

Sensible Forecasting (~$29/mo)

A focused forecasting and reorder-point app: 4.5 stars across 11 reviews when we read its App Store listing on September 6, 2026. Eleven reviews is a thin evidence base, so weigh it as one. If your main pain is "tell me when to reorder" and your PO process lives in email anyway, it's still a credible choice, and its single flat price is a genuine advantage over any tiered app if you carry a large, low-value catalogue. (The vendor is reported to place no SKU cap on that plan, but we did not read its pricing page directly, so treat that detail as secondhand.)

• Strengths: forecasting focus, one flat $29/mo price with no SKU tiers to climb (App Store listing, September 6, 2026), 30-day trial.
• 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: 4.9 stars across 246 reviews on September 6, 2026, 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, which is the usual reason merchants go looking at lighter alternatives to Prediko. Try the free trial and count how many features you actually touch in week one.

The mid-market class: Inventory Planner by Sage (quote-based)

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

One name you'll see in older roundups is missing here on purpose. Cogsy's own domain now redirects to a page stating that Cogsy has been discontinued and is no longer available, even though a Shopify App Store listing for it was still rendering on September 6, 2026. A contradiction like that is enough to keep a tool off a recommendation list.

• 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 and the alternatives to Inventory Planner are the shorter list to work from; 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 StockCue: 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.

Stocky shut down on August 31, 2026, so however you got here, the urgency is real now, not theoretical. If you haven't exported your Stocky data yet, do that first (Shopify's read-only export window won't stay open indefinitely), then score the shortlist against the requirements a Stocky replacement has to meet and use this comparison to pick one.