Sites like AppSumo: 3 tracked alternatives compared (2026)

TL;DR

• We track 3 working substitutes for AppSumo, compared here on live catalog size, median price and refund window rather than on reputation.
• StackSocial carries the largest live catalog of the alternatives at 27 listings, against 32 on AppSumo.
• PitchGround offers the longest refund window of the alternatives at 60 days, versus 60 days on AppSumo.
• Prices here are the lowest we observed per listing on the most recent crawl, not marketing prices — 300 snapshots inform the AppSumo column alone.

Sites like AppSumo, measured side by side

Most "sites like AppSumo" lists are a row of logos with no way to tell which one actually has anything worth buying today. This one is generated from our own crawl: catalog size is what we counted live at the last cycle, median price is the middle of the prices we recorded, and the refund window is the marketplace's published figure. LemDeals sells nothing on any of these platforms.

Marketplace	Listings live at last crawl	Median price	Refund window	Catalog no longer live
AppSumo (the one you searched)	32	$19.00	60 days	27%
StackSocial	27	$19.99	15 days	16%
Dealify	25	$59.00	30 days	0%
PitchGround	1	$0.00	60 days	0%

Read the table by what you came for. If you want selection, follow the live-listings column. If you want the longest time to change your mind, follow the refund column. If you want prices that hold, look at the churn column — a marketplace whose catalog empties fast is one where the deal you bookmark is often gone before you decide.

Which alternative covers what AppSumo covers?

Marketplaces are not interchangeable by category. These are the categories we actually observe in the AppSumo catalog, and which of the alternatives we observe carrying the same category right now.

Category AppSumo covers	Listings there	Where else we see it
Software	21	no tracked substitute this cycle
Website Builder	3	no tracked substitute this cycle
AI Content Creation	2	no tracked substitute this cycle
Scheduling Tool	2	no tracked substitute this cycle
Business Tools	1	no tracked substitute this cycle
Startup Tool	1	no tracked substitute this cycle
AI Prompt Enhancement	1	no tracked substitute this cycle
Web Automation & Data Extraction	1	no tracked substitute this cycle

A blank right-hand column is genuinely useful information: it means the category you are shopping is one AppSumo covers and the substitutes do not this cycle, so switching marketplace would mean switching what you buy.

What is actually on each shelf

Catalog counts hide the thing you care about: whether the software is any use to you. These are named listings from the most recent crawl of each marketplace, so you can judge the substitution on products rather than totals.

Marketplace	Listings we can name right now	Its dearest tracked listing
AppSumo (this page)	Poppy AI, MagicFit, Skillplate, WEBSITE•IM - AI-Powered Business Website Builder	Poppy AI at $279.00
StackSocial	JBL PartyBox Club 120 Portable Wireless Party Speaker (Open Box), Toybox Alpha One 3D Printer Deluxe Bundle with 8 Printer Food Colors, Koofr Cloud Storage: Lifetime Subscription (1TB), Lenovo Thinkpad 11E Laptop Computer, 1.60 GHz Intel Celeron, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 128GB SSD Hard Drive, Windows 10 Home 64 Bit, 11" Screen (Renewed)	JBL PartyBox Club 120 Portable Wireless Party Speaker (Open Box) at $249.99
Dealify	Structa – Lifetime Subscription, ZenCall – Lifetime Subscription, PitchBob - AI Startup Co-Pilot, HelloFeed	Structa – Lifetime Subscription at $149.00
PitchGround	Get notified	Get notified at $0.00

AppSumo is the largest lifetime-deal marketplace by volume and traffic. Founded in 2010 and based in Austin, Texas, it runs a curated launch calendar — usually one or two Featured deals per weekday plus a longer tail of Select and Marketplace listings. AppSumo Plus subscribers get an extra 10% off and early access to launches. Category strengths are marketing automation, sales tools, and no-code builders. The buyer flow is single-tier or stacking codes, with tier upgrades typically allowed inside the published refund window. Refund conditions specifically exclude codes redeemed onto a vendor account that has already used features contingent on the paid tier. The refund window we track for AppSumo is the figure shown in the tables above, taken from its own published policy.

What none of them protect you from

Every marketplace on this page sells one-time access to software somebody else operates. The refund window protects you from a bad purchase for a few weeks; nothing protects you from a vendor closing down in year three. Across the marketplaces here we have watched 17 of 102 tracked listings stop being purchasable. Judge a lifetime deal by whether the tool is worth the money in the next twelve months, and treat everything after that as upside.

Where to go next

For the evidence behind each name above, the marketplace trust assessments set out crawl days, price stability and churn per marketplace. If you are weighing whether the one-time price beats simply subscribing, the cost-of-ownership pages run that arithmetic per tool, and the AppSumo buying checklist covers refunds, support and what to check before you pay.