# Shopify app detector: see which apps a store runs > Paste a store’s address and see the apps on its storefront, grouped by job, free and with no sign-up. - Page title: Shopify app detector: see which apps a store uses | Spytrend - Page description: Free Shopify app detector: paste a store address and see the apps on its storefront, grouped by what they do, with the date we checked. First lookup free. - Tool: https://spytrend.com/shopify-app-detector - Embeddable version: https://spytrend.com/shopify-app-detector/embed - All free tools: https://spytrend.com/tools - The product behind it: https://spytrend.com/websites To see which apps a Shopify store uses, paste its address. You get the apps visible on that storefront, grouped by what each one does, with payment methods kept apart and the date we last checked the store. When we find nothing, the page says so instead of guessing. ## The visible app stack of one storefront The detector answers one question: which apps we found on a storefront, and what each of them does. Most answers are short, a handful of apps rather than a wall of them, because an app either leaves a trace on the store’s pages or it does not. The address is the store, not the brand: shop.brand.com and brand.com can be separate stores with separate stacks. We look up exactly what you typed, and if we fall back to the root domain, the page names the address the answer belongs to. One store address returns the stack we can see, grouped by what each app does. ## A store’s visible app stack, grouped by job You get every app we found on the storefront, sorted into groups such as email and SMS, reviews, upsell, page builders, analytics, tracking pixels, ad networks and buy now, pay later. What comes out: - **The apps, by job.** Each app sits under the job it does, so the stack reads as a funnel rather than an alphabetical list. - **Payment methods, kept apart.** Shop Pay, Apple Pay and the rest are listed separately and not counted as apps: almost every Shopify store has them. - **An app card where there is one.** Some apps come with a one-line description and a rating from the Shopify App Store. Many do not, and a missing rating is not a bad one. - **The date of the last look.** Every answer carries it, including the ones where we found nothing. You see what shows on the storefront. An app that works in the admin, in the warehouse or after checkout leaves nothing on the page, so no detector can list it. ## Shopify app detector: three steps 1. **Paste the store address** Type brand.com or paste the URL you were looking at; the protocol, www and path are dropped for you. 2. **Press Show apps** Apps come back under the job they do. Two review apps or two email apps usually mean a migration in progress, or paying twice for one job. 3. **Check the date** The date of the last look separates “this store runs no apps” from “this store ran no apps a month ago”. Paste the storefront itself, not a marketplace listing or a shortened link, or the lookup finds nothing. ## Collected in advance, not scanned on demand Pasting an address does not send anything to the store. The answer is read from our last record of that storefront, which is why it arrives in a moment and comes with a date. We revisit stores about once a month, so an app installed yesterday may be missing and one removed last month may still be listed. The date on screen is how you judge that. The platform is read the same way. “We could not tell” and “this is not Shopify” are different answers, and the page never blurs them. ## When the list comes back empty An empty list is a normal answer, not a glitch. Some stores load their apps in ways the detector can’t see, so an empty list doesn’t always mean no apps. Some merchants run nothing beyond the theme, since Shopify handles discounts and checkout on its own. Others use apps that work where a visitor never looks: fulfillment, accounting, support desks and parts of the checkout. If the store was password-protected or closed when we looked, the page flags it, because a locked store hides part of its stack. So an empty list is evidence about the storefront, not proof about the business. ## Free version limits Your first lookup is free, no sign-up. Leave your email for one more, then create a free Spytrend account: it opens this store in the Websites catalog, and paid plans add every store and every filter. One lookup returns the whole visible stack of one store, every group at once. ## Read a store’s priorities — its app stack is what it pays for every month An app stack is a list of decisions somebody pays for monthly. A store running a reviews widget, an upsell app and an SMS platform has decided those three jobs are worth a recurring bill. If you sell to merchants, the stack is qualification: a store already paying for a tool in your category is a switch to win, and a store with nothing in that group is a different conversation. If you compete with the store, the stack is the shape of its funnel: where it collects addresses, how it pushes a second product into the cart and which ad networks it feeds. One store is one data point. Which stores run the same app, and which of them buy traffic, is a job for Spytrend. ## Every store running the same app, and the ads they buy This page reads one store’s stack. Spytrend is an ad intelligence platform for Facebook and TikTok advertising: a full five-year archive of ads, AI-classified into 33 business categories, with every advertiser assembled into a single card — all ads, pages, domains and countries in one place. In Spytrend, one app from this page becomes a list of the stores running it, with the ads behind each. ### Who works this way App and agency founders qualifying merchants before a pitch, media buyers sizing a niche, and ecommerce teams checking what the stores they lose customers to pay for. ### What Spytrend shows you - **Stores filtered by the apps they run.** The Websites section filters stores by installed app, so one app becomes the list of stores using it. - **Theme and apps as one filter.** Combine a theme, an app and a country into a segment you can work, not a lookup you repeat. - **Which of those stores advertise.** Each store sits next to the ads its domain runs, so a list of merchants is also a list of advertisers. ### Why not check them one store at a time For a shortlist, this page is enough. For a category it stops scaling: the list of stores to check is the thing you do not have, and one stack says nothing about how common it is. ### How to start Check the store here first, then open Spytrend and turn one of its apps into the list of stores using it. [Create a free account](https://spytrend.com/register?source=tools&returnTo=%2Fwebsites%3Ffrom%3Dtools&utm_source=tools&utm_medium=free_tool&utm_campaign=shopify-app-detector): it opens the Websites catalog, and paid plans add every store and every filter. ## FAQ - **How do I find out which apps a Shopify store uses?** Paste the store address and press Show apps. You get the apps we found on the storefront, grouped by what each one does, plus the date we last checked the store. - **Why does this store show no apps?** Because we found none on the storefront. Some stores load their apps in ways the detector can’t see; others run nothing beyond the theme, use apps that work after checkout, or were locked when we looked. - **Are Shop Pay and Apple Pay counted as apps?** No. Payment methods are listed in their own group and left out of the app count. Almost every Shopify store offers them, so counting them would make the number meaningless. - **What if the store is not on Shopify?** You still get an answer: the platform we found, when we can tell. When we cannot, the page says so instead of calling the store “not Shopify”, because those are different findings. - **How fresh is the data?** As fresh as the date on the answer. Stores are revisited about once a month, so an app installed in the last few weeks may not show yet. - **Why do some apps show a rating and others do not?** Ratings and descriptions come from the Shopify App Store, which does not cover every app we find. Without an entry there, the app is shown by name alone. - **Is the Shopify app detector free?** Yes, to start. Your first lookup is free, no sign-up, and your email unlocks one more, with no password and no card. After that, a free Spytrend account opens this store in the Websites catalog; paid plans add every store and every filter. ## Turn one app into the market that runs it One app on one store is a lead. Every store running it is a market. [Open Spytrend](https://spytrend.com/register?source=tools&returnTo=%2Fwebsites%3Ffrom%3Dtools&utm_source=tools&utm_medium=free_tool&utm_campaign=shopify-app-detector) ## Related tools - [Shopify theme detector](https://spytrend.com/shopify-theme-detector): Paste a store address and see which Shopify theme it runs, with the theme’s version. - [Creative reuse](https://spytrend.com/creative-reuse): Paste an ad link and see how many ads and Facebook pages use the same image. - [Advertising countries](https://spytrend.com/ad-countries): Paste a brand’s website and see every country its ads run in, with the number of ads in each. - [Meta Ad Library search](https://spytrend.com/meta-ad-library-search): Paste a domain and see which Facebook pages advertise it, with the ad count for each and a link to its Ad Library page. - [Facebook ad run time](https://spytrend.com/facebook-ad-run-time): Paste an Ad Library link or an ad ID and see when the ad started, how many days it has run and whether it is still running. - [YouTube transcript](https://spytrend.com/youtube-transcript): Paste a YouTube link and get the video’s transcript with timestamps. Copy it or download TXT and SRT. [All free tools](https://spytrend.com/tools) ## Embed this tool on your site Put the lookup on your own page. One iframe, no account, and it follows the same free limits as this page. ```html ``` App detection reads what is visible on a storefront, from data collected in advance and refreshed about once a month. Apps that leave no trace on the page — back-office, fulfillment and post-checkout tools — cannot be detected by any tool of this kind.