Cogsy alternatives (2026): the post-shutdown migration guide
Need Cogsy alternatives? The app is discontinued, with no announced end date. Here's what to export and verified replacement pricing for October 2026.
InventoryX is in development and not available today. ClearStock is the live Shopify app.
Cogsy's own website is now a discontinuation notice. No shutdown date was ever announced — the notice says only that the product is no longer available and that Cogsy was part of Mayple. That leaves orphaned merchants in an unusual spot: an app that planned demand twelve months out vanished without a farewell post, while its App Store listing still surfaces in search results. This page covers what to export while you still have access, the verified replacement landscape as of October 2026, and how to vet the next vendor so you don't get burned twice.
What Cogsy did
Cogsy launched on the Shopify App Store on July 1, 2021 (per its listing), and positioned itself as demand planning for DTC brands: a 12-month planning horizon, what-if scenarios for testing promotions and growth assumptions, replenishment alerts, and purchase orders. Its reviews stood at 4.9★ when it left — across just 13 reviews. That tiny base is worth a pause: a perfect rating on 13 reviews tells you almost nothing about a company's durability. The product was real and well-liked by the merchants who used it; the review count was always the quiet risk signal.
The shutdown, stated plainly
Visiting cogsy.com today serves a bare discontinuation page: "Cogsy has been discontinued and is no longer available… Cogsy was part of Mayple" (the domain redirects to mayple.ai/cogsy.html, accessed October 2026). No official end date was announced, no migration partner was named, and no data-export deadline was published. If you find a third-party page stating a specific shutdown date for Cogsy, treat that date as invented — the vendor never printed one.
The stale-listing trap. The Shopify App Store listing still appears in search results and in "best of" listicles. A listing is not a liveness check. Before you trust any app listing — this applies to every tool, not just dead ones — click through to the vendor's own site, check whether the newest reviews stop long before today, and look for a working pricing page. Third parties noticed the search demand: Prediko maintains its own cogsy-alternatives page, and agencies and content farms rank for the query too. That's fine, but read any of those pages knowing they are written by vendors selling you a replacement — this one included.
The migration checklist: export while you still can
Whatever replaces Cogsy, these five exports come first, while your login still works:
| Export | Where it usually lives | Why the replacement needs it |
|---|---|---|
| Product/SKU catalog with variants and costs | Cogsy catalog / Shopify | Every reorder calculation is per-SKU; costs drive the investment math |
| Purchase order history | PO module | Your supplier reliability record; starting from zero erases it |
| Supplier lead times | Per-supplier settings | The single most valuable number in replenishment; re-guessing takes months |
| Reorder parameters (reorder points, safety stock, min/max) | Per-SKU settings | Jump-starts the new tool; otherwise weeks of cold-start guesses |
| Open POs and expected receipts | PO module | In-transit stock must land in the new tool or you'll double-order |
Save everything as CSVs into storage you control — your own cloud drive, not the app. Stocky refugees learned this discipline the hard way; our Stocky data export guide details what survives an export and what silently doesn't, and the same rules apply to any shutdown, Cogsy included. One Cogsy-specific loss to accept up front: the what-if scenarios and twelve-month plans don't export, because they were projections, not records. What matters is history and parameters, and both are on the list above.
Why lead times top the priority list: a wrong guess compounds silently. Illustrative example — a hiking-socks brand whose supplier actually delivers in 32 days gets re-guessed at 21 days in the new tool. The tool now believes stock arrives 11 days earlier than it does; selling 6.5 pairs a day, that is roughly 70 units of unmet demand every reorder cycle, rediscovered each time as empty shelves. Re-entering the real number from your exported PO history takes minutes; re-discovering it from lost sales takes a quarter.
The replacement landscape, verified
All prices and review counts below were verified from live Shopify App Store listings in late October 2026. Cogsy's core job — replenishment planning for a growing DTC brand — maps to five credible options plus one deliberately narrower one. First, feature by feature, where Cogsy's four jobs live now:
| Cogsy feature | Where it lives as of October 2026 |
|---|---|
| 12-month planning horizon | Prediko's and Fabrikatör's forecasts; no budget-tier tool replicates it |
| What-if scenarios | Largely gone from the category at this price — spreadsheet territory again |
| Replenishment alerts and reorder math | Every tool in the table below |
| Purchase orders | Native Shopify POs, or the write-paths in Stockie and Inventory Planner |
| Tool | Price (Oct 2026) | Reviews | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prediko | $49–199/mo, gated on GMV; sales-assisted above roughly $2M | 265 · 4.9★ | AI demand planning, the closest in ambition to Cogsy's twelve-month planning |
| Fabrikatör | $99–199/mo, revenue-tiered | 112 · 4.8★ | SKU-level forecasts, bundle planning, backorder workflows |
| Sumtracker | $59–119/mo, priced on order volume | 127 · 4.8★ | Multichannel sync (Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Walmart) plus replenishment |
| Stockie | $4.99–59.99/mo | 171 · 4.9★ | Broad budget toolkit: alerts and reorder math at low tiers, POs and landed costs at the top |
| Inventory Planner (Sage) | Quote-based | 154 · 4.3★ | Enterprise replenishment with expert onboarding, typically annual contracts |
| InventoryX | Not published | In development | Out-of-stock-days ledger, estimated lost revenue, weekly Monday buying list |
The honest InventoryX line: Cogsy planned twelve months ahead; InventoryX does not forecast at all. It looks backward — which SKUs were out of stock, what that cost (estimated, and labeled as an estimate), and what to buy this Monday — and it stays read-only, drafting POs only if you opt in. The free tier covers your 50 fastest SKUs. If what you miss about Cogsy is scenario planning, none of that is here by design; if what you miss is a trustworthy weekly buying decision at a flat price, it covers exactly that. For a fuller comparison of the planners above, organized by reason for switching, see our Prediko alternatives page.
Don't get burned twice: the vendor-risk checklist
Five checks before you commit to the replacement — each one exists because a shutdown like this one made it necessary:
- Pricing transparency. Can you see the price without a sales call? Revenue-gated plans (Prediko, Fabrikatör) reprice as you grow; flat plans (Stockie's tiers) don't. Neither model is wrong, but surprise repricing is the complaint that fuels every alternatives search. For what each price band typically buys, see our Shopify inventory cost breakdown.
- Data export. Test the exit before the entrance: install on a trial, load a month of data, then export it back out. If you can't get clean CSVs on day one, you have just found out how the next shutdown will feel.
- Ownership and funding. Who is behind the tool? Cogsy was part of Mayple, its parent company — the app was a side product, and side products die when strategy shifts. Funded startups can also pivot upmarket and leave small stores behind. Ask directly: is this product the company's core business, or an accessory?
- Review-base size versus rating. 4.9★ on 13 reviews is a thinner signal than 4.8★ on 265. Prefer review bases large enough to read, and read the 2–3 star reviews specifically — they describe real friction without total rejection.
- Liveness check. The Cogsy listing still ranks in search results as of October 2026, so re-run the stale-listing test on your shortlist before paying: vendor site resolves, pricing page works, reviews continuing to arrive. The same playbook covers other vanished apps — our Genie alternatives guide serves another group of merchants migrating off a discontinued tool.
Common questions
What happened to Cogsy? Cogsy was discontinued. Its site says the product is "no longer available" and that Cogsy was part of Mayple; the domain redirects to a discontinuation page on mayple.ai. No official end date or migration path was ever announced.
When exactly did Cogsy shut down? No date was ever announced — by Cogsy, Mayple, or anyone official. Any specific shutdown date you find on third-party listicles is fabricated. The only verifiable facts are the live discontinuation notice and a listing that stopped receiving reviews.
Is Cogsy still on the Shopify App Store? The listing still surfaces in search results as of October 2026, but the product behind it is dead — clicking through leads to a discontinuation page. Treat any app listing as unverified until you've confirmed the vendor's own site is alive.
What is the best Cogsy alternative? It depends what you used: for twelve-month planning depth, Prediko ($49–199/mo, 265 reviews at 4.9★) or Fabrikatör ($99–199/mo, 112 at 4.8★); for multichannel sync, Sumtracker ($59–119/mo); for budget breadth, Stockie ($4.99–59.99/mo); for a flat-price weekly buying list, a read-only $9.99/mo option exists.
How do I get my data out of a discontinued app like Cogsy? While your login still works, export the catalog with variants and costs, PO history, supplier lead times, reorder parameters, and open POs as CSVs to storage you control. Projection data like what-if scenarios won't export — accept that loss and rebuild forward.
Next step
Run the five-row export checklist today and put the CSVs somewhere you control — that takes an afternoon and protects every decision after it. Then trial exactly one replacement on your worst data: your longest lead time, your most seasonal SKU, judged after one full replenishment cycle rather than one afternoon. The full Shopify inventory app comparison is the shortlist to start from. This is the second shutdown in the category's recent history — where TradeGecko merchants moved is the earlier cautionary tale.