Running a strategy for selling digital products can be a really effective monetisation strategy for creators, influencers, as well as brands in complementary with their existing product lines.
So, if you’ve landed onto this guide through doing your research, then you’re going to really like the options that I talk about in this guide - enjoy! :)
Sky Pilot helps you deliver music, books, videos, or any other digital file quickly without any limits, so your buyers can immediately access their purchased content.
Average Shopify Rating – 4.9/5 stars based on over 130 reviews
Along with a free plan (and free trial period), Sky Pilot offers 3 paid plans. The lite plan is priced at $20/month, growth at $75/month, enterprise at $125/month, and even a custom plan for your specific needs.
Easy Digital Products offers a user-intuitive interface that helps you quickly transform your products into digital ones and easily sell them in your store.
Average Shopify Rating - 5/5 stars based on over 165 reviews
With a 100% free plan, this app offers a pro plan that costs $9.99/month.
Kable Digital Products helps you sell any digital product easily and in a secure way, from photography, music, digital art, printables, and recipes to audiobooks.
Average Shopify Rating - 5/5 stars based on over 10 reviews
The starter plan is completely free to install. The premium plan costs $24/month. Of course, you can spin it up and give it a go over 14 days for free as part of a trial.
Unlimited Digital Downloads allows you to easily manage your business and sell everything from PDF documents to eBooks without any coding.
Average Shopify Rating – 4.9/5 stars based on over 65 reviews
In addition to a free plan, this software comes with an unlimited pro paid plan priced at $9.99 per month. You can also leverage the 7-day free trial period.
Digital Downloads seamlessly integrates with your Shopify store where you can easily sell any digital product, from eBooks to digital art (or whatever really).
Average Shopify Rating - 3/5 stars based on over 360 reviews
Digital Downloads is completely free to use!
SendOwl allows businesses of all sizes to automatically sell and quickly deliver digital products like downloads, subscriptions, video, audio, PDFs, and more.
Average Shopify Rating – 4.3/5 stars based on over 155 reviews
SendOwl has a starter plan that gives you 3 free months to use, and then you’ll be charged $9/month. The growth and pro plans cost $15 and $39 per month, respectively, with a 14-day free trial.
Foridev makes adding, managing, and selling products with licenses, codes, and keys via email and SMS a cinch.
Average Shopify Rating – 4.7/5 stars based on over 25 reviews
This one and only simple dimple plan costs $15/month with a 14-day free trial.
Digital Downloads has a great feature-suite for everything to do with selling downloads, including the likes of Zip Files, PDFs, and more. What I personally really like is the email tracking and file protection capabilities.
Average Shopify Rating – 5/5 stars based on over 60 reviews
With a free plan, you can access either of the three paid plans with a 7-day free trial. The basic, growth, and premium plans are priced at $7, $19, and $29 per month, respectively.
FetchApp smoothly integrates with your store and helps you automate the delivery of your digital products, including music, videos, photos, e-books, and PDFs.
Average Shopify Rating – 4.1/5 stars based on over 35 reviews
Along with a 100% free plan, FetchApp offers different plans based on your storage needs. For instance, for 2 GB storage space, you will pay $10/month. For 5 GB storage space, you will pay $20/month.
Filemonk is a great option and is quite easy to use (really seamless UX). Like many of the other options I’ve talked about in this guide, has all the core functionality you need.
Average Shopify Rating – 4.9/5 stars based on over 110 reviews
In addition to a free plan, Filemonk offers multiple plans with a 14-day free trial – lite at $5/month, plus at $15/month, and enterprise at $50/month.
I included all of these digital download apps in this guide because I’ve reviewed and personally rated all of them due to the value for money and the features they provide. However, if I had to narrow down to three apps that I personally would be prioritising and recommending to my clients, they would be SendOwl, Kable, and Sky Pilot. Just check out my reasons which I speak about in this guide, and you’ll see why I like them.
Luckily, most of the apps I’ve touched on provide a free trial or even a free tier (woo). So you can give them a test trial before you commit to one of them long term. For those fairly new to selling digital downloads, you can start off with the likes of EDP (Easy Digital Products) or Kable, which both have a have friendly UI and are easy to navigate around.
I think one of the main things you should look out for in my personal opinion is the ability to customise your design experience (UI) and it’s ease of use - mainly on the customer/visitor side, but also for yourself too. Design customisation you’ll normally be able to tell quite quickly through the product images on the app store, or perhaps you’ll know when you install and start playing around with the setup.
The ones with the best ratings in this guide I put together are EDP (Easy Digital Products), which has over 160+ reviews and mostly 5 stars, Filemonk which has over 100+ reviews, as well as Sky Pilot, which has 130+ reviews averaging around 4.9/5 (which is pretty awesome).
Many of the ones I’ve listed have a pretty good amount of features available, but for anyone looking to require a good suite of features (such as integrations, advanced customisation, etc.), it would have to be SendOwl. Plus, I personally really like the analytics/reporting part of the app, especially for stores/businesses which have a core strategy/offering for selling digital products.
