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6 best StoreInspect alternatives in 2026

StoreInspect is a capable Shopify store database with a free detector extension — but it is not the right fit for everyone. Here are 6 alternatives compared on price, features and who each one is actually for, including the cases where StoreInspect is still the one to keep.

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StoreInspect Store database + free detector extension storeinspect.com

A searchable index of 930K+ Shopify stores paired with 1.04M+ contacts, sold to agencies, app developers and B2B SaaS teams for prospecting and competitive research. Filters run on apps, themes and pixels. It also ships a free no-signup Chrome extension — Store Inspector: Theme & App Detector — that reads theme, 100+ apps, pixels, a traffic tier and a lead-fit score off the store you are on.

Why people look for a StoreInspect alternative

The free tier is a look, not a tier

Ten contact reveals a month, zero exports and 50 results a query. Enough to confirm the data exists; not enough to do a week of work with. The first useful tier is $39/month on annual billing.
You may not want the contact layer

The 1.04M-contact database is what most of the price buys. If you are researching competitors rather than prospecting merchants, you are paying for an outreach tool and using the smaller half of it.
Prospecting-shaped, not merchant-shaped

Filters run on apps, themes and pixels — the questions a vendor asks about a market. Bestsellers, product research and change alerts, which is what a merchant sizing up a rival wants, are not advertised.

We build a competing tool, so read this with that in mind — which is exactly why every block below lists what the tool does worse as well as better, and why 4 of the 12 rows in the comparison table go against us.

The 6 best StoreInspect alternatives

1 Store Detector Best free all-rounder for Shopify Free · $4.99/mo
2 StoreLeads Best for B2B lead generation $75–$950/mo
3 Charm.io Best for brand discovery and diligence Demo only
4 TrendTrack Best all-in-one, if the budget is there $42–$105/mo
5 Koala Inspector Best for supplier matching Free · $22/mo
6 Particl Best for multi-retailer market data $250–$1,000/mo

#1 · Best free all-rounder for Shopify Shopify spy extension + free rankings

1. Store Detector

Free and merchant-side. The same theme, app and pixel read on any store, plus traffic and revenue estimates, live ad counts, bestsellers and a section clone — with the index published as open ranking pages, a free JSON API and a free MCP server. No contact data at all, so if outreach is the job this is not the swap.

What you get

Free core with no credit limits — the extension, the rankings and the API need no card
One sidebar covers traffic, revenue, ads, apps, theme, bestsellers and SEO
Section clone: lift a section from any store as working code
A public JSON API and an MCP server, so Claude or ChatGPT can query the index directly
Free ranking pages for every country and niche we hold — open, no login wall

What it does not do

No ad creative library — we report that a store is advertising and how many ads are live, not the creatives themselves
No email campaign archive; we detect the email platform, not the sends
No supplier or AliExpress image matching
Shopify only — WooCommerce, Amazon and TikTok Shop are out of scope

Pricing

The extension, every ranking page, all 17 free tools and the public JSON API are free with no account. Pro is $4.99/month billed annually ($59.88/year) or $9.99/month billed monthly, charged when you subscribe.

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Store Detector sidebar showing a Shopify store's estimated monthly revenue, monthly visits, global rank and 12-month traffic trajectory

Best for

Anyone who wants the full per-store picture — traffic, ads, apps, theme, SEO — from a free tier with no search credits to run down, and who wants the same index reachable as open ranking pages, a JSON API and an MCP server rather than only through a dashboard.

Best for B2B lead generation

2. StoreLeads

Ecommerce store database (B2B)

Not a dropshipping spy tool — a data platform for prospecting and market research. 13.7M+ stores across 408 platforms (2.9M of them Shopify), 40+ attributes per store, 60 search filters, CRM enrichment into HubSpot, Salesforce, Outreach and Pipedrive, an API, and historical app install and uninstall timelines. Bought mostly by agencies, Shopify app developers and equity funds.

Why it is on this list: The bigger database by a distance — 13.7M stores across 408 platforms, with app install history and CRM enrichment — at $75 to $950 a month.

Strengths

By far the largest index — 13.7M active stores across 408 platforms, and 1.7B products
Historical app install and uninstall timelines, which nothing else here offers
Theme, theme vendor and theme style tracked alongside apps and third-party tech
CRM enrichment straight into HubSpot, Salesforce, Outreach and Pipedrive
A mature API built for bulk export, plus 60 search filters

Limitations

Starts at $75/month and runs to $950 — priced for sales teams, not merchants
The free account is a limited preview, not a working free tier
Built for prospecting, not for judging whether a product is worth selling
No ad or creative intelligence is advertised

Pricing

$75–$950/mo

Premium $75, Pro $250, Elite $450 and Enterprise $950 per month. A free account gives a limited preview; API access starts at the Pro tier.

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Best for: Agencies and Shopify app developers who need lead lists, firmographics and CRM enrichment. If your job is selling to merchants rather than competing with them, this is the right tool and Store Detector is not.

Best for brand discovery and diligence

3. Charm.io

DTC brand + TikTok Shop intelligence

A data-intelligence platform tracking roughly 4 million DTC brands alongside daily TikTok Shop sales, sold to retailers curating their assortment, investors sourcing deals and brands benchmarking themselves. Its crawlers cover about 2.5 million web pages a day, and brand reports carry growth, social metrics, tech stack, ad count and estimated revenue. TikTok Shop data spans the US, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Southeast Asia.

Why it is on this list: ~4M DTC brands with tech stack, revenue estimates and brand contacts, plus daily TikTok Shop sales, aimed at retailers and investors. No public pricing.

Strengths

Around 4M DTC brands tracked, with tech stack, installed apps and estimated revenue per brand
Daily TikTok Shop sales across category, shop, product, creator, hashtag and video
Audience demographics, social growth percentiles and brand contact details
Salesforce and HubSpot CRM integrations
Built for investor diligence and retail merchandising, not just product hunting

Limitations

No public pricing at all — every route is a demo booking
No free tier is advertised
No Chrome extension or public API is advertised
Enterprise-shaped: heavier than a solo merchant checking one competitor needs

Pricing

Demo only

No public pricing. Three role-based packages — Brand Discovery for retailers, Sourcing & Diligence for investors, Competitive Intelligence for brands — each behind a “Get Pricing” or “Book a Demo” form.

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Best for: Retailers deciding which brands to stock, investors sourcing and diligencing DTC or TikTok Shop brands, and brands benchmarking market share. If you need brand contacts and CRM enrichment at that scale, this is a different category of tool from a spy extension and we do not replace it.

Best all-in-one, if the budget is there

4. TrendTrack

Store database + ad & email spy

The most feature-complete of the store-database platforms: 5M+ stores and 250M+ ads, with a shop database you can filter by niche, country and growth, an ad library, a BrandTracker that follows a competitor’s spend and hooks, shop analytics, and an email library that archives the campaigns brands send. It also ships free Shopify app and theme detectors, a free Chrome extension, and an MCP integration for Claude and ChatGPT.

Why it is on this list: If the research is competitive rather than commercial: a 5M-store database with ad and email libraries, from $42 a month.

Strengths

Email library — an archive of the campaigns a brand actually sends, which almost nobody else has
Ad library across 250M+ ads, plus BrandTracker for spend, hooks and landing pages
5M+ store database with niche, country and growth filters
Shopify app and theme detectors, plus a free Chrome extension
An MCP integration, so Claude or ChatGPT can query stores, ads and emails directly

Limitations

No permanently free plan — the cheapest ongoing tier is $42/month on annual billing
Per-seat pricing at $20 on top of the plan
Result limits (shops, ads, email) are tiered, so the cheapest plan caps how much you can pull

Pricing

$42–$105/mo

Starter $42, Pro $63 and Business $105 per month on annual billing ($50 / $75 / $125 monthly), plus a custom Enterprise tier. 15% off quarterly, 30% off annual, and $20 per extra seat. There is a free Chrome extension and a free signup, but no permanently free plan.

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Best for: Agencies and funded DTC teams that need ad creatives and email campaigns archived alongside store data, and have a research budget to match. The email library in particular is something Store Detector does not offer.

Best for supplier matching

5. Koala Inspector

Shopify spy extension

The best-known free Shopify spy extension, with 250,000+ users. Click the icon on any Shopify store to get bestsellers by estimated sales, theme and app detection, traffic estimates and live ads — plus two things most rivals lack: AliExpress supplier matching by image, and monitoring that alerts you when a tracked store changes a product or a price.

Why it is on this list: The cheapest way to keep the per-store read without a database subscription — free tier, $22/month for sales estimates, plus supplier matching.

Strengths

AliExpress supplier matching by image — find who actually makes the product
Store monitoring with alerts on product and price changes
A free tier that never expires for theme and app detection
CSV and Excel export

Limitations

Sales estimates sit behind the $22/month tier — over four times Store Detector Pro
Some usage is metered through one-time token packs on top of the subscription
No searchable store database, public API or AI-assistant access is advertised
No section clone or on-page SEO/CRO checklist

Pricing

Free · $22/mo

A free tier that never expires covers browsing, theme and app detection. Sales estimates and the advanced panels are $22/month, with one-time token packs from $3.99.

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Best for: Dropshippers who want to trace a product back to its AliExpress supplier and be alerted when a competitor changes a price. That supplier match is a real capability Store Detector does not have.

Best for multi-retailer market data

6. Particl

Retail & marketplace intelligence

A competitor-tracking platform that aggregates product revenue, pricing, promotions and assortment across 20,000+ retailers — Amazon, Walmart, Nike, Sephora, Lululemon, Target, Zara and REI among them — so brands can spot bestsellers, emerging demand and pricing moves. It notifies you when events like new product launches happen, and connects to Claude and ChatGPT.

Why it is on this list: Product-level revenue and pricing across 20,000+ retailers, if the market you care about is wider than Shopify.

Strengths

20,000+ retailers tracked, well beyond Shopify — Amazon, Walmart, Target, Sephora and more
Product-level revenue, pricing, promotion and assortment data
Alerts when tracked competitors launch products or change pricing
An MCP integration, so Claude or ChatGPT can query it directly
Published pricing, which several tools in this category do not offer

Limitations

Starts at $250/month — the most expensive entry point here after StoreLeads
Retailer- and product-level, not Shopify-store-level: no app stack, theme or on-page SEO
API and bulk export are gated to the Custom tier
No Chrome extension is advertised

Pricing

$250–$1,000/mo

Starter $250, Essential $500 and Growth $1,000 per month, plus a Custom tier. Every plan comes with a 14-day free trial; there is no free tier. Bulk exports and API access are on the Custom tier only.

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Best for: Brands and merchandising teams who need to see what is selling across the wider retail market — marketplaces and big-box retailers included — rather than what one Shopify store is running. Store Detector has no visibility outside Shopify, so this is a genuinely different dataset.

Side by side

StoreInspect alternatives, compared

Every tool on this page against the 12 capabilities that decide which one you need. 4 rows go against us — that is the honest shape of it.

Capability	StoreInspect Comparing	Store Detector This is us	StoreLeads	Charm.io	TrendTrack	Koala Inspector	Particl
Free plan A free tier that does not expire (~ = trial only)	Yes	Yes	Partial	Not advertised	Partial	Yes	Partial
Chrome extension Analyse a store from the page you are on	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not advertised	Yes	Yes	Not advertised
Traffic & revenue estimate Monthly visits and a modelled revenue figure	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Installed app detection Which Shopify apps the store runs	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not advertised
Theme detection Theme name and version	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not advertised	Yes	Yes	Not advertised
Live ad detection Whether the store is advertising right now	Partial	Partial	Not advertised	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not advertised
Ad creative library A searchable swipe file of the actual ads	Not advertised	No	Not advertised	Partial	Yes	Not advertised	Partial
Product research Bestsellers and product discovery	Not advertised	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Change alerts Notified when a tracked store changes	Not advertised	No	Not advertised	Not advertised	Yes	Yes	Yes
Searchable store database Filter a whole index, not one store at a time	Yes	Partial	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not advertised	Yes
Public API Query the data from your own code	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not advertised	Yes	Not advertised	Partial
AI assistant access MCP or an AI API for Claude / ChatGPT	Yes	Yes	Not advertised	Not advertised	Yes	Not advertised	Yes
Entry price Cheapest way in, checked 2026-08-02	Free · $39–$279/mo	Free · $4.99/mo	$75–$950/mo	Demo only	$42–$105/mo	Free · $22/mo	$250–$1,000/mo

Yes
Partial
No
Not advertised by the vendor

Built from each vendor’s own public marketing, checked 2026-08-02. “Not advertised” means the capability is not claimed on their site — not that it is missing. Prices drift; check the vendor before you buy.

So which one should you pick?

There is no single best StoreInspect alternative — there is a best one for the job you are doing. Find your row.

You need to contact merchants

StoreInspect

Stay. 1.04M contacts with usable channels is the product, and nothing else here has it.

You just want the store read, free

Store Detector

Theme, apps, pixels, traffic, revenue estimate, ads and bestsellers — free, no credits.

You want the largest prospecting database

StoreLeads

13.7M stores, 408 platforms, app install history and CRM enrichment.

You want ad and email intelligence too

TrendTrack

Store database plus the ad library and email archive, from $42/month.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free StoreInspect alternative?

For the store read, yes — Store Detector is free with no card and no credit meter: theme, installed apps, pixels, traffic and revenue estimates, live ad counts and bestsellers on any Shopify store, plus open ranking pages and a free JSON API. For the contact database there is no free alternative; that is the part StoreInspect charges for and we do not offer at all.

Does Store Detector have contact data for merchants?

No, and it is not on the roadmap. We index what a storefront publicly shows — apps, theme, pixels, products, traffic signals. Email addresses and outreach contacts are a different product with different compliance obligations. If that is what you need, StoreInspect, StoreLeads or Charm.io are the right tools.

Both have a free Chrome extension — what is the difference?

StoreInspect’s reads theme, 100+ apps, pixels, a traffic tier and a lead-fit score, which is the shape of a prospecting qualifier. Store Detector’s adds an estimated revenue range, live Meta ad counts, bestsellers, an SEO/CRO read and a section clone that gives you working markup — the shape of a competitor teardown. Both are free and they do not conflict.

How big is Store Detector’s index next to 930K stores?

Smaller: roughly 312,000 active Shopify stores. Ours is a curated index published openly as free ranking pages rather than a prospecting database behind a login, which is a different trade — fewer rows, no contacts, and nothing gated.