Digital Downloads , 436 reviews

Overall rating
2.8
Counts per rating level
  • 33% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 13% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 16% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 15% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 24% of ratings are 1 stars
March 9, 2017

It is Just Perfect ! Free and easy to use

Betheldesigns
Italy
About 1 year using the app
June 29, 2016

Not a bad app, delivers digital files instantly - which is great.

What is bad - email notifications.

Customers already receive one email before the "Digital download is ready" email with a download link. Seems really redundant and our customers are irked by it. Major opportunity to implement a feature to turn off follow up emails.

Visuals By Impulse
United States
About 5 years using the app
Edited September 11, 2021

Generally, the app works. However, there are some issues that would have been nice to deal with. Shopify does not support this app properly. Shopify does not update the app. It's extremely disappointing how Shopify treats users of the app. 1) There is no search by order number, this implies that you have to manually flip through pages of customers, which takes , to get into one particular customers' details. 2) Shopify has not updated an app and around a year ago, it stopped opening in Safari. I am sure if Shopify looks at the stats - a lot of ecommerce store owners use Mac computers. None of my requests through Shopify support lead to any changes. Shopify does not care and does not listen. Which is a bad practice in my opinion. 3) Yes, sure, it's a basic app and on average works well, but download speed can be slow sometimes. Maybe it would make sense to add a feature, where for extra $x download speeds could be improved. But this is a secondary question.

C D
United States
Almost 5 years using the app
Shopify replied September 16, 2021

Thank you for writing your review and for sharing your experience using the app here, and I'm sorry to hear that you've come across these issues. I can appreciate your frustration with these limitations and that they have not been addressed sooner. Our development team still ask that we provide feedback on the app from merchants to them so that they can be reviewed and considered, so I will be sure to submit your comments to them. Thanks again for reaching out. -Victor, Shopify Support

Edited January 8, 2017

Well, It's free but it's also essential to use shopify for digital products. They need to do so much work on this app though. We need to be able to see when a customer has downloaded and from which IP address with order details. I can't delete files for the digital products that have been removed, they are still in the list!

The stat's page needs a complete redesign. Need a global setting for download limit. The list goes on.

It does do the job, but needs some love to make it great!

Updated review: After about 3 months of use - there are problems with large downloads not completing and the downloads are very, very slow, unacceptably slow in fact.

This app is probably OK for small files but for anything over 250 MB I would look else where. Also, the email address that the download links come from often gets rejected as spam resulting in the customer not getting the link and YOU have to manually create a link and send it to them - not good if you have 100's of orders a month!

I will have to move to a PAID app, but that is probably why this free one is so restricted isn't it Shopify?

New Loops
United Kingdom
Over 4 years using the app
December 2, 2018

I really love this APP.
Team please add the ability to add 3-5 files to each product so that the buyer can choose what they want to download.

LowlyPoly
Ukraine
About 1 year using the app
April 2, 2023

Customers are having trouble with the downloadlink they receive. They are often times redirected to the store, which in my case is not possible, since I am running on the Lite subscription (no storefront) what could be the trouble? This has happened too many times now in a short period of time.

Rollaganza
Netherlands
About 2 years using the app
Shopify replied April 6, 2023

Thank you for sharing your customers' experience with us! I have a solution for the Lite plan that will take customers to a download page rather than redirecting them to a store page. In the email template for digital downloads, try changing {{ attachment.shop_url }} to {{ attachment.url }}. If you require further assistance with this, please get in touch with our team here: https://bit.ly/2AWw5VA. -Sophia, Shopify Support

November 20, 2015

I LOVE this app. Very easy to use and set up. My digital content is a PDF file with tutorials.I like that I can limit the number of downloads a customer can have for an order. Wish there was something I could do to is prevent customers from sharing that once they receive the PDF

Mannequin Madness
United States
12 months using the app
August 12, 2020

Incompatible with Safari. I've reached out to Shopify support about this issue but what you would think would be a fluid conversation takes DAYS for a response and no solution has been achieved or discussed.

Nick Noir
United States
About 2 years using the app
Shopify replied September 1, 2020

Hi, there! I'm sorry to hear that you've had trouble contacting us - our support is experiencing large volumes of requests at the moment, so it may take longer than usual for someone to reply if you've reached out via email. If you need urgent support, I'd suggest starting a live chat with us, or reaching out on Facebook or Twitter.

We typically recommend using the admin with Google Chrome, however you should be able to use the app in Safari without any issues if you prefer that browser. You likely need to clear your Safari cache and cookies or disable a browser extension or ad blocker - I'll reach out to you via email shortly and we can do some troubleshooting together. Speak soon! - Brie, Shopify Support

June 25, 2021

the app is great despite one issue, when the customer receive the email that contains the download link, it takes him to the download page and there is a "Download Now" button there but it comes with white color so the customers cannot see it and i should send it to them later, and i solved it by changing the background color to gray, but still sometimes the clients cannot see it because the white color is very light to be seen, so can you help me and clarify how to change this color because i tried a lot without any success.

MHMStudios
United Arab Emirates
12 months using the app
Shopify replied July 1, 2021

Thank you for reaching and for writing your review, and I'm glad to hear that you've enjoyed using the app. We appreciate you sharing your feedback with us here.

In terms of the issue you have experienced, it is not possible to edit the download page within the Shopify theme editor and all customization options that exist are the ones shown within the app itself. I can see why being able to change the colours of the text on the download page would be helpful and will be sure to pass on your feedback to our development team for their consideration. -Victor, Shopify Support

August 11, 2016

Love this app for my monthly freebies. Very easy to use.

Studio 110
New Zealand
12 months using the app