Most merchants land on Mailchimp because they used it before Shopify, not because they chose it for a store. That is the honest reason people go looking for something else. Mailchimp holds 4.8 across 1,360 Shopify reviews, which is respectable, but its integration is not native the way its rivals are.
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Selected from Shopify’s own Email Marketing sub-category, so the comparison is like-for-like. The one-line descriptions are each vendor’s App Store tagline, quoted as written.
On review data, Omnisend Email Marketing & SMS rates 4.8 across 2,956 reviews and sits #4 of 19 in Email Marketing here – see details.
One thing no ranking shows: Mailchimp's Shopify integration has been switched off and rebuilt more than once. Merchants who remember that tend not to come back.
Ranking method, the review floor and how paid placement is kept separate are explained once on how ranking works. Short version: review data sets the order, money never does.