In this article, we'll give you a brief overview of Vajro, how it works, and the pros and cons. We'll compare it to 5 different Vajro alternatives including our own platform, MobiLoud, which we believe is the ideal choice for serious businesses to convert web stores to professional eCommerce apps.
What is Vajro?
Vajro is another Shopify focused drag-and-drop app builder. It's known for having affordable pricing and focusing on smaller and simpler eCommerce apps. Their system relies on a series of templates and drag and drop widgets, creating a "branded" app that is then hooked up to your Shopify store via API.
Now let's take a look at Vajro's pricing.
Vajro Pricing
Vajro has 4 tiers of pricing.
- Starter: $99/mo
- Core: $249/mo
- Premium: $499/mo
- Plus: $999/mo
The Starter tier is a basic plan giving you 10 push campaigns per month with deep linking, and live video selling, along with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger Integration.
Moving up, Core has everything in starter plus Meta Ads integration, Customer Success Program, Apple Pay Integration, and other features. Finally, the Premium plan gives you everything in Core with some of Vajro's more advanced integrations.
For premium integrations and custom development, Vajro's Plus plan offers features beyond Premium, including Klaviyo, WebEngage, and CleverTap. However, it costs an extra ~$1k/mo plus another $1k for every $100k in sales driven through the apps.
Vajro Pros & Cons
Vajro has a decent selection of integrations with platforms like Firebase, Tidio, Klarna and others. The pricing is also relatively cheap on the lowest tier (if your requirements are also low). The platform is appropriate for a non-technical user (who doesn't mind fiddling).
The problem with Vajro is the same as most of the other (almost identical) Shopify app builders. Their reliance on templates, APIs and pre-built widgets limits you. It forces your business and brand into their mould.
To be completely clear, it is not your site converted into an app. It is a prebuilt native shell with your branding that pulls data from Shopify.
You will never be able to faithfully recreate your web store, only to build an approximate copy - if you're lucky. Even on Vajro's top plans (~$900/m), you'll still only be able to recreate whatever site features they have a pre-built integration for.
Now we've had an overview of the tool, its pricing, and its pros and cons. It's time to move on and start looking at some Vajro alternatives, starting with our own site-to-app platform, MobiLoud.
Vajro Alternative #1: MobiLoud
MobiLoud powers thousands of top apps, allowing you to convert your site into native eCommerce apps in just days, without losing any features or functionality, for a fraction of the cost of custom development.
Our eCommerce app platform integrates with any CMS - whether it's Shopify, WooCommerce, PrestaShop or any other - and let you reuse every plugin, feature and functionality from your main web store.
Unlike Vajro, MobiLoud converts your web store - in its entirety - into iOS and Android eCommerce apps. Nothing is lost in the process, and there's no need to compromise with boilerplate templates.
MobiLoud is the best way to convert your web store into native eCommerce apps for iOS and Android, as well as the best alternative to Vajro.
There are several key reasons why:
- No templates, no blocks, no APIs - we don't restrict you to our pre-built front-ends, we allow you to convert your web store completely, and to reuse all your existing plugins, themes, and tech stack.
- Keep what works - you already built your ideal site for the web, tweaking it endlessly for conversions and sales. With MobiLoud you can translate that directly into m-commerce native apps, without needing to reinvent the wheel. You already did the hard part, we handle the rest!
- Easy Management - many app builder platforms like Vajro gives you an extra CMS to manage, adding work for you and your team. Since MobiLoud apps sync with your web store in real time, this work is eliminated, you just need to keep managing and updating your store as usual, and if you want to change something specifically for the apps, use our easy no-code UI.
- Done for you - there's no need for you to fiddle, drag-and-drop, or waste time trying to set the apps up. You just need to tell us any special requirements, add some key information, and our team handle all technical aspects of the app build including submissions to Google Play and the AppStore.
MobiLoud Pricing
We have two standard pricing tiers:
- Startup - For fast launching and validation: $170/month
- Growth - Perfect for more established businesses: $382/month
We also have custom, corporate plan for more demanding projects. Read more about our pricing here.
The difference between MobiLoud and Vajro is clear.
Unlike Vajro, we don't restrict you to clunky templates and whatever they can pull from Shopify's API. We let you integrate any of the thousands of plugins and tools available on the web, unlike the handful that Vajro can support. Not only do we help you to build better apps, but our pricing is lower as well as flat and transparent.
MobiLoud has been used to build thousands of successful apps, including many successful eCommerce brands like Rainbow Shops, Bestseller, John Varvatos, and many others.
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Vajro Alternative #2: ConstApps
ConstApps is a budget-friendly app-builder from Armenia, designed specifically for WooCommerce businesses. If you're looking for something that can integrate WooCommerce you might have seen it mentioned as a Vajro alternative.
ConstApps has a range of themes and plugins for various sectors like restaurants and jewellery stores. There's also ConstApps.js for those who can code their own plugins.
On the downside, it only works with WooCommerce, not other platforms like Shopify or Magento.
It also can't integrate other WordPress plugins, so your site again cannot be fully recreated in an app. If you want unique, sophisticated eCommerce apps that recreate everything from WooCommerce and WordPress you'll need to look elsewhere.
ConstApps Pricing
ConstApps has four plans:
- WooCommerce - basic features - $29.99/mo
- Standard - more advanced features and standard integrations - $79.99/mo
- Enterprise - premium features and functionality - custom
Vajro Alternative #3: Shopney
Shopney is another drag-and-drop app builder for Shopify eCommerce stores, known for its strong integrations, themes, and features. It's a good fit if you want a basic app that mirrors your site's product catalogue.
Being a template-based builder, it can't fully turn your site into iOS and Android apps or make use of all your plugins, themes, and features. For complex and unique businesses, it will be limiting and less ideal, as it also restricts you with predefined templates.
Shopney Pricing
Shopney has four plans:
- Silver - basic features with flexible design - $99/mo
- Gold - more basic features & more flexible design elements - $199/mo
- Platinum - more advanced features and unlimited design elements - $499/mo
- Enterprise - premium features and functionalities and a dedicated success manager - $999/mo+
Vajro Alternative #4: Mowico
Mowico is another no-code app builder for eCommerce brands. It works with Shopify and WooCommerce, and plans to connect with PrestaShop, BigCommerce & Wix in the near future. Mowico has useful integrations like Smile, Langify, and Judge.me, along with built-in features like push notifications and AR shopping.
While Mowico will work well for smaller stores, it also has the usual limits.
As a template-based app builder, it makes a basic eCommerce app with your products and logo, and covers some basic needs with integrations. But like the others it can't copy all the complex features, design, and plugins of your web store. Again, the apps will not replicate what you've built for the web because you're relying completely on their templates, pre-built integrations, and whatever data is available via API.
For complex stores, this will limit you severely compared to the web (and MobiLoud).
Mowico Pricing
Mowico offers three plans for each eCommerce platform. In the case of Shopify, we have:
- Startup: Priced at $79/month, it includes basic features.
- Growth: Priced at $399/month, it includes all the Startup features plus enhanced features.
- Enterprise: This plan includes premium features, custom feature integrations, and tailor-made development. The pricing is available upon request.
Note: Pricing may vary for each eCommerce platform.
Vajro Alternative #5: Appmaker.xyz
Appmaker.xyz is an eCommerce app creator aimed at Shopify and WooCommerce brands, providing a good selection of plugins and integrations. Recently they've been moving more and more into the eCommerce market.
Appmaker.xyz can be a decent way for non-technical people to hack together simple eCommerce apps. For the cost though (min $1k/mo) it's too limiting and rigid though.
As with similar platforms - its dependency on blocks, templates, and widgets is its downfall. It is essentially a no-code, drag-and-drop app builder, so you again can't expect it to build more than simple, basic apps. As usual, the customization offered can't fully copy your web store.
Appmaker.xyz Pricing
- Pro - includes custom integrations, launch assistance, and enterprise support - $1k/month
- Plus - premium blocks, success manager, priority support - $2k/month +1% success fee
Most Vajro alternatives share the same flaws
We've looked at a few Vajro alternatives, and given you some key information about each.
As we've seen, many of these tools share the same fatal flaws. On the one hand - their reliance on blocks, themes, templates, and pre-built widgets does allow you to build and launch (some kind of) eCommerce app fast, affordably and easily compared to custom development. On the other, this same reliance puts you and your brand in a straightjacket.
It means that you will only ever approximate your web store, and you'll be forever at the mercy of whatever pre-built features they have as well as whatever data they can fetch via API (which can change). The apps will be a branded shell with some of your data pulled in and not much more.
While this is OK for simple stores is basic and small product ranges and features, this will almost always be a deal breaker for serious eCommerce brands.
You probably have a finely-tuned tech stack, along with all the plugins, third-party integrations, and custom features you need to drive sales and revenue optimally. To discard all this hard work for cookie-cutter apps with your logo on will rarely make strategic sense.
MobiLoud is the best Vajro Alternative
That's why, although we're biased of course, we believe MobiLoud is not only the best Vajro alternative but a superior alternative to every eCommerce mobile app builder on the market.
The first key reason: we allow you to reuse everything from your site in the apps.
If it already works well on the mobile web, it'll be even better as iOS and Android apps. It makes no sense to ditch that winning formula and those painstakingly chosen tools just to compromise with restrictive templates. That's too much of downgrade from what you've already built, and with MobiLoud - unnecessary. Keep what already works.
The second reason: it's so simple to manage MobiLoud apps.
Platforms like Vajro will often add hours per week to your workflow with effectively a new CMS to manage.
In contrast - MobiLoud apps sync in real time with your site. There's no need to manually add new product lines, update pricing, or worry about keeping the apps up to date. The apps will reflect changes and updates to your site instantly.
This goes for any core changes you make to your site too. You can switch out plugins, pull off a major rebrand, or build whatever custom functionality you choose. It doesn't matter what it is - it'll work straight out of the box in the apps, which can grow with your brand into the future.
On top of this, our team handle any ongoing updates and maintenance needed as part of our service, along with all fiddly aspects of the app build and bringing them live to Google Play and the AppStore. We work with you to ensure your apps are a success, and we're only ever an email or phone call away.
MobiLoud allows you to combine the best of the web with the best of native apps. It's a winning formula, check out the success these eCommerce brands have had:
Over 1000 other businesses have used MobiLoud to build winning apps - and you can too.
Unlike with Vajro, there's no risk. We don't do long-term contracts and we'll refund you if you're unhappy with the apps. If you're like most of our eCommerce customers - the apps will pay for themselves almost immediately.
It all starts with a call with one of our app experts, where we go over your exact requirements for the apps and answer your questions.
