Store databases

Store databases

13.7M stores, app install and uninstall history, HubSpot native.

Watch for. This works against you too. The same changelog makes your own install and uninstall curve visible to any competitor on a $250 plan.

Alternatives to Store Leads

$75 / $250 / $450 / $950 per month

Store databases

Cheaper store database with decision-maker contacts built in.

Watch for. Same company as AppJubilee. Its whole position is 'cheaper than Store Leads', and narrower coverage is the trade-off. Test the free plan against a segment you know well.

Alternatives to StoreCensus

Free plan, then $49 / $99 / $149by Dark Ecommerce Labs

Store databases

Shopify store database, filtered by the apps each store already runs.

Watch for. Nobody is named. There is no company, no founder and no location, and a support address is the whole contact page. That is a lot of trust to give a vendor selling you millions of merchants' contact details. Treat the contact side as your own compliance question. The site says the data is public. That is not the same as saying an outreach campaign built on it is lawful where you or the merchant are. The store counts are self-reported and disagree: 1.9M, 2.3M and 2.4M on its own pages in the same week. The refresh cadence is described as regular without a number, so how current any single record is cannot be checked from outside.

Alternatives to StoreInspect

Free tier, then $99 / $249 / $599 a month

Store databases

Tracks Shopify brands by app stack and changes.

Watch for. Coverage is not published. The methodology page explains how storefront detection and its dates work. It does not say what share of Shopify stores Sonar has read, or how often a storefront is checked again. The pricing page claims 1M+ stores and apps on every plan, without splitting the two. Like every detector, it only sees apps with a storefront presence.

Alternatives to Shoplist

Free, then $30 / $100 / $300 a month

Store databases

Buying-signal alerts on Shopify stores, with the contact attached.

Watch for. Its scale figures differ between its own pages: 1M+ stores on About and 1.5M+ on Pricing, 1M contacts on one and 800K+ on the other. It calls itself a private beta while charging $199 a month, with a card required to start the trial. It names no founder or team beyond operators who have sold Shopify apps. It gives no address or jurisdiction for Alert Commerce, Inc. Every alert gives you a named person's email for outreach they did not ask for. So the consent question is yours, not theirs.

Alternatives to Alert Commerce

14-day trial, then $199/mo

Store databases

Technology lookup for any site on the web, Shopify or not.

Watch for. Its Shopify detail stops one level above where an app developer works. Its own Shopify page breaks the platform into products and more than 40 themes, and lists no individual app detection anywhere. This category exists for one question: which stores run my competitor. Store Leads answers it with 8,127 tracked apps and install dates, and this does not appear to answer it at all. Price is the other half: $295 a month is the floor, against $75 for Store Leads and $49 for StoreInspect Pro. That tier buys 2 technologies, 2 keywords and 2 reports, unlimited anything starts at $495, and a second seat at $995. There is no free trial either, only the permanent single-site lookup, so there is no way to test a segment at volume before paying. Buy it for the merchants who are not on Shopify yet: everything it does inside Shopify is cheaper and deeper two rows up.

Alternatives to BuiltWith

Free lookups, then $295 / $495 / $995 a monthby Andrew Rogers and Gary Brewernot Shopify-only

Store databases

Store database priced by the lead rather than by the seat.

Watch for. It does not visibly answer the question an app developer buys this category for. Its plugin directory catalogs 9,781 Shopify apps, but that is a list of apps. Nothing on the public site shows the reverse lookup, which stores run a given app, that Store Leads sells with 8,127 tracked apps and install dates. Check it on the free account before anything else. Contacts are also far fewer than stores, 75,000 against 524,047, so most rows arrive with no person attached. Ownership is stated two ways on its own pages, as a business of Ready Innovations Inc., and as a product of Ready, a business of Better Industries Inc., at the same Dover, Delaware mailing address. The Team link in its own footer is dead.

Alternatives to CartInsight

$0.083 a lead, on download tiers from 250 to 10,000 a month. Free account to startby Ready Innovations Inc.

Store databases

Retailer contact database, sold through a demo rather than a signup.

Watch for. Nothing about the price is published. There is no pricing page, and both calls to action are a demo request or a trial signup. The terms put the figure on an order form and add 3% to card payments. That looks like an annual contract, not a card and a login. Coverage is the bigger question: 750 technologies is platform and stack level. Nothing on the public site shows detection of individual Shopify apps. So it is not shown to answer the question this category exists for: which stores run my competitor. It is worth listing only as a contact database for retail brands, some of which happen to be on Shopify.

Alternatives to etailinsights

Not published. Quoted on an order form, with 3% added to carnot Shopify-only

Store databases

Revenue estimates and rankings for online retailers on every platform, from a market data company.

Watch for. A general ecommerce data product, not a Shopify one. Nothing published shows it can tell which apps a store runs, which is the question Store Leads and StoreCensus answer. The revenue figures are modeled estimates. Its 56,000 retailers are a small slice of the stores on Shopify alone, so it suits large merchants, not the long tail. Plans start at €675 a month, billed annually with VAT on top, which is far above anything else in this category.

Alternatives to ECDB

€675 / €975 / €1,975 a month, billed annuallynot Shopify-only

Store databases

Lists of websites by the technology they run, Shopify stores included, from $29 a list.

Watch for. Built for any technology, not for Shopify apps. Its Shopify apps category lists 155 apps, a small part of the App Store, so most competitors you look up will not be detected. Its own Store Leads comparison says to stay on Store Leads for app and install depth. It is one founder's company in Mumbai, under Indian law. Its terms forbid using the data beyond your own business without a separate licence.

Alternatives to TechLeads

Free, then from $249/moby Mehboob Shaikhnot Shopify-only

Store databases

Describe an offer and get a matched CSV, not a database to search.

Watch for. You get less coverage in return for the convenience: 400,000 storefronts, against Store Leads' 3 million Shopify records and StoreInspect's 1.4 million. The app detection on show is a handful of large apps, Klaviyo, Yotpo, Judge.me, Loox and Recharge, where Store Leads tracks 8,127 apps with install dates. So this category's main question, which stores run my competitor, can be answered here only if your competitor is big enough to be fingerprinted. You also cannot look before you buy: there is no searchable account, delivery is a CSV by email, the API is still on the roadmap, and the $99 sample is the trial. Nobody is named anywhere. The revenue bands are a catalog-based estimate calibrated on licensed Similarweb traffic, not observed figures, and their own footnote admits this. The Independent profiles row on the homepage links to Capterra, LaunchFree, TheSaaSDir and three more listing sites, which are submissions, not assessments. The founding rate locked for ten seats shows the pricing is not settled yet.

Alternatives to StoreRadar

Free, then $99 one-time for 500 stores, then $299 or $699 a month

Store databases

Pay per opted-in merchant email, collected when someone joins an ecommerce newsletter.

Watch for. Not a Shopify audience. The audience is one newsletter's new signups: Amazon sellers, DTC founders and general online business owners alongside Shopify merchants. The platform is only known when the subscriber volunteers it. So you pay the same $4 for someone who will never install an app. Volume is capped by that newsletter's growth: 1,500 to 2,000 new subscribers a month by its own count, partly from paid acquisition. The cost per customer and LTV figures on the pricing page are its own illustrations. The opt-in is one click on a post-signup page, and what happens after it is outside anything they track.

Alternatives to EcomAudience

$4 per opt-in, $100 minimum top-upby Idube Pte. Ltd. (Claus Lauter, Ecommerce Coffee Break)not Shopify-only

Store databases

Dropshipper research platform with a 2.4M-store Shopify database and a free app detector.

Watch for. It is not shown to answer the question this category exists for: which stores run my competitor. The app filter is a checkbox for whether a store has apps installed, not a choice of which app. The detector reads one store at a time, with no published method or app list. Every search shows at most 300 results on the free and Basic plans, and 1,000 on Expert. Free accounts cannot export. Sales and traffic are estimates with no method attached. It is built and priced for dropshippers. Refunds are limited to the first purchase within 24 hours.

Alternatives to SellerCenter

100 free credits a month, then $9.99 / $29.99 / $99.99 a month, half that billed yearlyby HANDHUNT HONGKONG LIMITED

Store databases

Ad spy platform whose store explorer filters 5M+ stores by installed app.

Watch for. The store side is what you would pay for, and it is the least documented part. The app filter is a substring match on app names. There is no published count of apps it recognizes, or of how often a store is rescanned. The revenue figures are estimates with no method attached. Everything else is priced for ad research you will not use. The 500k+ users and 5M+ stores are its own figures. There is a free trial that takes no card. So the app filter can be tested against a competitor whose installs you already know before paying.

Alternatives to Winning Hunter

$49 / $79 / $249 a month, 15% off quarterly, 40% off yearly

also in this category. Listed under App Store data

A free explorer of the whole App Store: apps, full review text, rankings and the merchants who wrote the reviews.

Watch for. No company or person is named anywhere on the site, and it has no terms of use, no privacy policy and no pricing page. It hands out merchant contact emails it found by itself, so anyone writing to them should check the consent rules first. It keeps reviews that Shopify took down. It is free, and nothing on the site says how it pays for itself.

Alternatives to HeyApps

Free

also in this category. Listed under Store detectors

Dropshipper spy tool, with a store explorer and an API behind it.

Watch for. It is not built for you, and it is listed for one part of it. Its own homepage says join 130,000+ merchants. The product, the price and the whole library around it are aimed at dropshippers choosing products. So the store explorer comes attached to something else and is priced with it. The order figures are AI predictions, not measured sales, and its own copy says so plainly. So they rank stores and do not report revenue. It names no company, entity or country anywhere on the site. It states that it issues no refunds.

Alternatives to PPSPY

Free plan, then $39 / $99 / $299 a month