Blocky Review 2026: Shopify Country & IP Blocker

At its simplest the app maintains block lists and applies them to your store. Country blocking is unlimited on every paid plan and is the feature most stores install for, you stop taking orders from places you do not ship to, or places that generate chargebacks faster than they generate profit. Blocked visitors get a fully customisable page rather than a broken store, which matters if you would rather explain than simply vanish. A country redirector on the higher tiers sends visitors to the right regional storefront instead of blocking them outright, which is the friendlier version of the same geolocation logic.

Higher up, the app moves from geography to identity. Advanced adds unlimited IPv4 and IPv6 blocking plus an IP whitelist, which is the combination you need when you are blocking broadly but must guarantee access for yourself, your staff or a wholesale buyer. Pro adds blocking by email, name, address and phone, the fields that persist when someone changes IP, along with a bot killer targeting TOR, proxy and VPN traffic, a right-click blocker, an add-ons blocker, and unlimited visitor analytics logs so you can see what is actually hitting your store before you decide what to block.

Blocky is a good version of a category that is easy to do badly. Applying rules at checkout rather than only on the storefront is the right architectural choice, and the Pro tier’s identity-based blocking is genuinely useful against attackers who rotate addresses. For a store losing time and money to a recurring, identifiable problem, it pays for itself quickly.

Set it up conservatively. The failure mode of every blocker is enthusiasm: broad rules feel safe, and the orders they silently prevent never show up in any report you look at. Start from the analytics, block narrowly, and widen only when you can point at the traffic you are stopping.