Alternatives to App Store Research
1 tool competes with App Store Research: the same category, or named as a rival. Each difference below comes from details confirmed on the vendors' own sites, and each tool keeps its caveat.
A paid panel of vetted Shopify merchants to book calls with.
Free account, from $150 per research call · by ShopExperts
Watch for. It sells sales calls alongside research calls, and a merchant paid $300 to take one is not the same signal as inbound interest. Those conversations are research with a discount applied, not pipeline. The incentive is also the part that changes. It is adjusted for participant quality, urgency and targeting, with $85 the minimum for a research interview. So the worked examples show how a bill is built up, not a quote for yours. And a paid panel selects itself, like every paid panel. You are hearing from operators who will take $100 to talk for half an hour. That is a different population from the merchants who ignore the invitation.
Paid feedback calls with established Shopify brands, booked for you.
Quote only, plus a payment to each brand per call · by Garner Labs LLC
Listed here because: same category.
Details for one of these are not confirmed yet, so no difference from App Store Research is stated.
Watch for. No price is published. It is invite only, and each client gets a quoted monthly package. Each brand is also paid separately per call, so the full cost is unknown until you apply. The founder built it after leading go-to-market at Tydo, and one homepage testimonial is from Tydo's CEO. The call format and the coaching ask where you fit and what would make a test easy. That is closer to sales discovery than to research. Brands in the network also get its Chrome extension, which labels and filters cold vendor pitches in Gmail.