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.
[ What it is ]
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.
[ What you get ]
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.
[ How to use it ]
Shopify app detector: three steps
Paste the store address
Type brand.com or paste the URL you were looking at; the protocol, www and path are dropped for you.
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.
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.
[ Where the data comes from ]
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.
[ Empty answers ]
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.
[ Limits ]
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 Shops section, and paid plans add every store and every filter.
One lookup returns the whole visible stack of one store, every group at once.
[ Why marketers use it ]
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.
[ Go further with 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 Shops 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: it opens the Shops section, and paid plans add every store and every filter.