Printful App vs GelatoConnect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Printful App
Launch and manage an online store for custom-designed apparel, home decor, and accessories. This platform handles printing, embroidery, and dropshipping, allowing you to focus on design and sales without upfront inventory costs.
- Print-on-demand fulfillment
- Custom product design tools
- No upfront inventory costs
- Set your own retail prices
- Custom branding options
- Variety of premium products
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Looking to start a printed or embroidered t-shirt business? Or sell wall art or blankets from the comfort of your home? Do it with Printful—we’re a print-on-demand dropshipping supplier ready to support you every step of the way and take care of the boring stuff (you know, like fulfillment). How Printful will help you build an ecommerce business: Get more return customers thanks to high-quality products. Choose from a variety of premium products ranging from apparel and accessories to home and living products. Don’t pay upfront. Do your business with Printful with no investment. Pay only when an order comes in. Control what you earn. You decide how much you’ll make from each sale. We charge you to cover production—you set your own retail price. Save time on designing. Use built-in tools to create stunning designs, product mockups, and even your brand logo—all in just a few clicks. No design skills necessary! Boost your brand’s visibility with custom branding. Add personalized pack-ins, packing slips, or customize your packaging to make your brand stand out. It’s time to take full control of your ideas, time, and finances—start or expand your existing online business with Printful! For feedback, questions, and support, message us at support@printful.com.
GelatoConnect
This production software solution helps businesses elevate efficiency, cut costs, and automate operations. It provides real-time production status updates, performance insights, and access to procurement, workflow, and logistics management tools.
- Production status updates
- Real-time order information
- Performance insights and benchmarking
- Automated procurement
- End-to-end workflow management
- Logistics and carrier integration
- Cost reduction tools
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Welcome to the future of production. With GelatoConnect you can quickly elevate efficiency, cut costs, and seamlessly automate with our all-in-one production software solution. With the GelatoConnect mobile app you have access to a powerful range of information and features anytime, anywhere, including: Production status updates: Keep tabs on the status of production files and dispatch queues to ensure you meet your SLAs. Real-time information: Plan your production days more effectively by staying informed on order status, enabling fast issue resolutions. Performance insights and benchmarking: Tap into our performance insights to track your progress and compare it against the wider Gelato production network. Gain insights into how to improve the efficiency of your workflow, increase throughput and minimize errors. The mobile app gives you access to all GelatoConnect modules you have signed up for, including: Procurement Leverage automation to procure raw materials in a more effective and cost-efficient way. Get access to lower-priced, high-quality materials through Gelato’s platform, consolidating suppliers in one system and helping you reduce raw material costs by 5-20%. Receive automated recommendations to optimize your inventory levels and reduce your stock need by 10-30%, ensuring the right materials are always on hand. Workflow Manage all your workflow needs from our OEM-agnostic, end-to-end production solution, reducing legacy software spend. You can seamlessly manage order intake, intelligent pre-flight, gamified QC and machine-specific file optimization, reduce rework by 10-70% and streamlining your operations by 5-30%. Improving your workflow visibility with a comprehensive dashboard coupled with real-time machine tracking, offering you complete visibility over production. Logistics Easily add new carriers and we handle all elements of carrier integration, including maintenance of APIs, tracking, address verification, creation of shipping labels. Get access to our beneficial distribution rates for shipping and delivery to reduce your shipping costs by 15-35%. Optimize cost, delivery performance and transit times with real-time analytics. Increase your profitability and improve your efficiency. Be part of the future of production with GelatoConnect.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GelatoConnect at 5.0 against Printful App's 4.6. GelatoConnect also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Printful App's advantage is ratings volume (7.4K vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
GelatoConnect holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Printful App has 7.4K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Printful App ships an update every 2 weeks, GelatoConnect every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Printful App | GelatoConnect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (7.4K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7.4K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 120 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Printful, Inc. | Gelato AS |
Customer experience
Printful App
GelatoConnect
Bugs and requests
Printful App
Reported bugs
5 issues- Designs disappearing during editing
- Mockups not aligning properly
- Frequent app crashes
- Syncing issues with connected stores
- Incorrect pricing and shipping information
Requested features
6 requests- Dedicated iPad app
- Improved mobile design editor
- Ability to manage orders on-the-go
- Dark mode option
- More product categories and styles
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- Easier integration with other platforms
GelatoConnect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Printful App
No in-app purchases
GelatoConnect
No in-app purchases
Questions
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