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App detection

Find out which Shopify apps a store runs

Reviews, upsells, subscriptions, email, loyalty, page builders — Store Detector fingerprints the apps behind a store from a library of more than 5,000 signatures, so you can copy a stack that works.

What the panel shows

  • Every app we can fingerprint on the storefront
  • What each app does, so an unfamiliar name is still useful
  • Tracking pixels and analytics tags alongside the apps

Detection is based on what an app leaves behind in the storefront. Apps that run entirely server-side, or in the Shopify admin only, leave no trace and will not appear.

Store Detector apps panel listing the Shopify apps detected on a store
How to read it

Getting a real answer out of it

01

Copy a proven stack

If four stores in your niche all run the same review app and the same upsell app, that is a stack the category has already validated for you.

02

Spot the revenue apps

Upsell, bundle and subscription apps tell you how a store makes money beyond the first order — often more informative than its product pages.

03

Qualify prospects, if you sell apps

A store running a competitor to your app is a warm prospect. A store running nothing in your category may not feel the problem yet.

Who leans on this

Free tools for this

No install and no account — run one on a single store.

Frequently asked questions

How does app detection work?

Most Shopify apps inject a script, a stylesheet, a DOM marker or a known asset path into the storefront. We match those signatures against a library of over 5,000 apps.

Why does it miss some apps?

Because some apps genuinely leave no client-side trace — anything purely admin-side or server-side is invisible from outside the store. We list what we can prove rather than guessing.

Can I search for stores using a specific app?

Yes — that is one of the tools on the Store Detector MCP server, and the free Shopify App Detector checks a single store.

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  • Free to install
  • No account needed
  • Works on any Shopify store