A Linkpop alternative for Shopify sellers

What happened to Linkpop

Linkpop was Shopify's own link in bio tool. It let store owners make a simple page with links and products from their store. Shopify has discontinued Linkpop: its App Store listing says the app is no longer available, and linkpop.com now redirects to shopify.com. Reports put the shutdown in mid-2025, after which pages could no longer be created or edited.

Shopify did not give a detailed reason. For store owners the practical result was the same: a page you cannot change is a page that slowly goes stale.

What makerhandle does differently

Linkpop's strength was product links straight from your catalog. makerhandle does not embed a shop. Instead it treats each store as a project, with its own card, logo, description, tags and screenshot, and links to it.

What it adds is proof. Connect a Shopify app with only the read_orders scope and your page shows the last 30 days of orders, net of refunds, excluding canceled and test orders, with a check mark. Run several stores? Each one gets its own connection. See makerhandle for Shopify stores.

Works with the 2026 Shopify app changes

Since January 1, 2026, new custom apps are created in Shopify's Dev Dashboard, which gives you a Client ID and Client secret instead of a fixed token. makerhandle accepts both that and a legacy custom app token from before 2026.

Credentials are checked before they are saved, encrypted at rest and never shown again. The walkthrough is in how to show Shopify revenue without admin access.

Know which platform sends shoppers

Built-in analytics show visitors, sources, UTM campaigns, countries, devices and clicks on each store, with no cookies and no stored IP addresses. That tells you whether Instagram, TikTok or a newsletter is sending people, and which store they open.

Free covers five projects and seven days of stats. Pro is $20 a year for unlimited projects, a year of analytics, every template and a custom domain. See pricing.