Magic Tabs , 40 reviews

Overall rating
3.8
Counts per rating level
  • 63% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 3% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 0% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 0% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 35% of ratings are 1 stars
November 5, 2018

When this app was free it was a nice little feature, however they are now charging for what multiple other apps (with better ratings I may add) offer for FREE! In fact, this app is one of the lowest rated page tab apps and one of the only ones charging! Crazy. No reason to charge for such a small and simple feature. It would have been better for them to offer a free AND premium version (they'd have to add to justify that) instead of forcing previous customers to pay for the service. This is the smallest feature for descriptions only, no idea what made them think charging 5$ a month would be reasonable. There was also NO WARNING before this charge was demanded and the app's features were taken off the site, so they essentially screwed up the look of everything to force you to pay. Not cool and won't work, finding another app that won't take their customers for granted.

Shop Built Tools
United States
5 months using the app
November 28, 2018

This was a free app. After we installed it, configured it and made the changes to our product pages they suddenly want $5 a month. All it does is create tabs! This feature should be standard for shopify. Why do we have to pay more money for tabs? And it doesn't even work very well. Thanks for wasting our time!

Biggs Ltd
United States
5 months using the app
September 25, 2018

This app helped me a lot with my pugyou.net store by saving time and money. I recommend, and i hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did

PUGYOU
Canada
About 1 month using the app
July 27, 2018

Quite a few glitches. The texts appears twice, tabs do not separate etc etc which is a pain when you install it onto an already established store and after manually adding the tabs into existing descriptions on the 30th one this starts happening so its too late to uninstall but do not want some with and some with out. Unfortunately the developer does not seem very easy to get hold of. Seems like it will be an uninstall and a waste of several man hours so it was not free after all.

Soel Beads
United Kingdom
4 months using the app
November 10, 2018

5$ monthly is not worth paying for this app, One time cost 10$ is what they should be charging. Bad move by this app developer, people will install another app,
If there's a one-time charge option than people might still think to pay and use this.

Woleh
India
3 months using the app
June 28, 2018

Works Like a Charm. Had to do some styling to fit theme, but looks nice and works well.

Pet Woofhouse
United States
28 days using the app
Edited November 4, 2018

This suddenly went from a free app to $5/mo. It's a very simple app that isn't worth $5/mo forever. They should at least still offer a free version, rather than just automatically removing the app until you sign up for the paid version. The free version worked great and I liked it. If you aren't afraid of a little cutting and pasting of code, there are truly free alternatives for this simple feature.

DAOSbiz
United States
3 months using the app
Edited October 15, 2018

I have used Magic Tabs practically since you launched on Shopify and was very happy with the way it worked and looked. It ticked all the boxes for what I wanted to achieve on our websites.
However, I have just tried to make a few changes in the control panel and found out that I now have to pay!!
Not only that the app has uninstalled and changed all my pages back to how they used to look.
I am very disappointed that there was no warning of this, it just changed everything without me knowing and I feel cheated by the way this has been handled.
I understand that you have to make money but would have thought that the people that have supported you in the past would be looked after!
I will be having a look into removing Magic Tabs and the code etc. from my site if this remains to be the case. Although reading the reviews I am now worried about what coding will be left behind or what damage it will /can do!
I have also used Magic Tabs on another one of our sites: www.pasta.kitchen and again the same problem.

Bake-O-Glide™
United Kingdom
2 months using the app
July 3, 2018

It works great. I did have a problem at first with one of the tabs not showing anything but I messed with the formatting a few times and it worked. For something free, I'm not going to complain that I had to do a little work for a few minutes.

Tks Oddities
United States
20 days using the app
Edited September 26, 2018

So at first I was thrilled that this app was free, but logged into my account today and seen a note stating that the app was no longer free, neither was the app installed on my theme anymore unless I start to pay a fee. Yes, I get it, make your money but come on, ya'll could have at least kept it free for the customers who already had it installed like some other apps do on here. That's unfair, unprofessional and rude to just uninstall the app from our theme to force me into paying for it. I've never had any issues with this app until now and I don't appreciate being forced to pay for a app which was initially free when I installed it and given no prior warning or email communication that they would even begin to charge for the app, because had I known this, I would have never installed the app in the first place! I just don't like how it was handled and I will be uninstalling the app altogether.

Update: Upon uninstalling the app from our theme, it left a chunk of code behind which was a nightmare to remove, had to end up contacting shopify support to assist in removing the app, plus after removing the app, it had completely wiped out each of our product descriptions, leaving line errors on our website. Thankfully we were able to get this sorted out and fixed quickly.

Herbal Healing Nation
United States
2 months using the app