Zakeke alternatives, starting with the honest one
The short answer
Zakeke is the closest like-for-like alternative on this shelf: customization, 3D configuration, AR and virtual try-on from one install, since 2017. Buy Zakeke if your orders flow to print-on-demand fulfillers — its files reach Printful automatically, and ours do not. Buy Custivo for products with a shape: full access costs less than half of Zakeke's top plan, with no cut of sales.
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Side by side
What each one actually does
Every cell below comes from the app's own Shopify App Store listing. Where a listing does not answer a row, it says so — we do not guess on a competitor's behalf.
Capability | Custivo | Zakeke |
|---|---|---|
Interactive 3D on the product page | ||
AR — see it in your room | ||
Camera try-on | Scale plan | |
3D configurator | Scale plan | |
Text, image and colour personalisation | Scale plan | |
Print-ready production files | Scale plan | |
Cut of every sale | None | 1.5%–1.9% |
Entry plan | $59/mo | $69.90/mo |
Full feature access | $119/mo | $299.90/mo |
Read from Zakeke ‑ Customizer 2D & 3D, rated 4.7 by 95 merchants, on August 20, 2026.
Check the listingWhat the two actually cost
Zakeke publishes three plans and charges a percentage of every order placed through the app on all of them; the percentage decreases on the higher tiers. Ours are flat, and the scene allowance on our top plan matches theirs.
Custivo
Starter
25 scenes
$59/mo
Grow
50 scenes
$79/mo
Scale
100 scenes
$119/mo
No fee per sale, on any plan.
Zakeke
Starter
Up to 10 published products
$69.90
1.9% per sale
Grow
Up to 50 products, white label
$129.90
1.7% per sale
Scale
Up to 100 products, white label
$299.90
1.5% per sale
Where Zakeke is the better answer
An automated fulfilment hand-off we do not have
Zakeke generates print-ready files and hands them to Printful, CustomCat and Order Desk automatically. Custivo generates the files too — a 300 DPI PDF and PNG accompany every customized order — but pushes them nowhere; a merchant forwards them. If your volume makes that forwarding a job, this row decides the comparison.
Nine years of accumulated edge cases
A customizer earns its value in details — font handling, clipart libraries, conditional rules, the seventeenth thing a customer tries to upload. Zakeke has been listed since 2017 and has had longer than anyone here to meet them.
Everything unlocked on a development store
Their free tier opens every feature on a dev store, so an agency can build and approve the whole configuration before anybody pays. Our trial is time-boxed instead, which is worse for agency workflows.
Where Custivo is the better answer
No cut of your sales
Zakeke takes a percentage of every order that goes through it, on every plan, and the only way to shrink it is to move up a tier. Custivo takes nothing. Past a few hundred customized orders a month that line is bigger than the subscription it sits next to.
Full access costs less than half
Try-on, the configurator, customization and photorealistic renders are all in our Scale plan, which sits well under Zakeke's equivalent tier while allowing the same number of products. On the entry plans the comparison is closer and Zakeke gives you more — we would rather say so.
Four storefronts, not one
The same scenes run on Shopify, ikas, Wix and Salla — the last of them the Saudi market's own app store — plus any other store through a script tag. If you sell in more than one place, this is the deciding factor.
So which one
Both lists are honest. If the left column describes your store, install the other app — you will be happier and we would rather you found that out here than after a month of trying.
Choose Zakeke if
You print, engrave or embroider your products and need files sent to a fulfiller.
Your catalogue is flat artwork on blanks rather than objects with geometry.
You are an agency that needs every feature open on a development store before a plan is chosen.
Choose Custivo if
Your order values are high enough that a percentage of each sale outweighs the subscription.
You sell something with a shape — footwear, furniture, eyewear, jewelry — and want it rotated, placed in the room, or tried on.
You sell on more than one platform — ikas, Wix, Salla or your own storefront.
Switching from Zakeke
Your models come with you. Custivo reads the same glTF and GLB files a Zakeke 3D scene was built from, so the modelling — the expensive part — is not repeated. What does not carry over is anything held in Zakeke's own format: configuration rules, print templates and design presets are rebuilt here. On a catalogue of a few dozen products that is an afternoon; on a few thousand it is a project, and you should plan it as one.
Your glTF and GLB models import as they are — the modelling work is not repeated.
The same scenes run on Shopify, ikas, Wix, Salla and any other storefront through a script tag.
The trial is long enough to rebuild one product and compare the two side by side before you cancel anything.
Frequently asked questions
The other alternatives
Nobody shopping for this installs the first app they read about. Here is the rest of the shelf.
See it on your own product before you decide
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