Best Appifyfor Shopify appsBest Appifyfor Shopify appsFive Shopify App Store intelligence tools, side by side at $0. Every rival number here was read from their own pricing page on 6 November 2026; our free numbers come straight from the plan catalogue the product enforces at runtime, so this page cannot quietly over-promise.
Two of the five don't have a free plan at all. Ranksy and Rankbase offer a 7-day and 14-day no-card trial respectively, then charge $39 and $49 a month. If a free plan is the thing you are choosing on, that narrows the field to three.
Applora wins on breadth. Their free tier can read any app in their 30,600-app index — no "tracked app" cap — because it is a research tool paid by the lookup (50 credits a month). Great fit if the work is "ask Claude to investigate N things".
AppStorePulse wins on history. They give 14 days of history on the free plan; we give 7 inside the dashboard. A paying customer sees everything, but on day one AppStorePulse's free account can look a week further back than ours.
BestAppify wins on depth and on agents. Our free plan watches 10 competitors (AppStorePulse free is 1), ships 500 MCP calls a month and 100 REST requests a day on the open API, and has no per-query credit meter. Public keyword pages, every app page and the Chrome extension overlay also work without a sign-in at all.
Rival numbers come from each tool's own pricing page on 6 November 2026. We have not used their products from the inside. If any of this is out of date, please tell us — a comparison page nobody re-reads is the one that ends up wrong.
| Tool | Apps tracked | Keywords tracked Our search-rank crawl has been paused since 6 September 2026 (Shopify disallowed /search). The slot is kept so this reads honestly. | Competitors you can watch Rivals added to your own app's watch list. | History on the free tier Days of history visible inside the account on the free plan. | MCP calls per month An AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) calling the tool's MCP server. | REST API Programmatic access from a script. | Credit card to start | How long the free plan lasts A plan that never ends is not the same as a trial that does. |
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BestAppify /pricingDashboard + public pages. The free tier is the product, not a sample. | 1 app | 3 keywords (crawl paused) | 10 competitors | 7 days (public app pages go back to July 2026) | 500 calls / month | 100 requests / day | No card | Free forever |
AppStorePulse appstorepulse.com/pricingFree plan published on their pricing page. | 1 app | 3 keywords | 1 competitor | 14 days | No | Paid plans only | No card | Free forever |
Applora applora.ai/pricingFree plan with monthly research credits. | Not capped — read any app in their index | 392 keywords monitored platform-wide | Ad-hoc research, not a saved watchlist | 7 days | 50 research credits / month (per-query meter) | Shared with the credit meter | No card | Free forever (credits reset monthly) |
Ranksy ranksyapp.comNo free plan — 7-day trial, no card, then $39/mo Starter. | No | No | No | No | No | No | No card (but it's a trial) | 7-day trial, then paid |
Rankbase rankbase.appNo free plan — 14-day trial, no card, then $49/mo. | No | No | No | No | No | No | No card (but it's a trial) | 14-day trial, then paid |
Every winner highlighted above was chosen by looking at the number, not at who we are. Rows where a rival ties us or beats us say so plainly — a comparison that hides its losses isn't worth reading.
None of the five require a card at signup. Ranksy and Rankbase have no free plan at all — they offer a 7-day and 14-day no-card trial respectively, then charge $39/mo and $49/mo. AppStorePulse, Applora and BestAppify have free plans that do not expire.
Applora lets you research any app in their published 30,600-app index without a per-app cap — it is a research tool, not a watchlist. BestAppify and AppStorePulse both cap the free plan at 1 tracked app. Ranksy and Rankbase have no free plan.
BestAppify free plan watches 10 competitors for your one app, with daily refreshes. AppStorePulse free is 1 competitor. Applora does not run a saved watchlist — you spend research credits each time instead.
BestAppify free plan has 500 MCP calls/month and 100 REST API requests/day — enough to wire it into Cursor or Claude Code and feel the value. Applora free gives 50 research credits a month on their MCP. AppStorePulse keeps its MCP server behind paid plans. Ranksy has MCP on paid plans only; Rankbase has no public MCP.
Every number on this page was read from the rival's own pricing page on 6 November 2026. BestAppify's free limits are imported from lib/billing/plans.ts at build time, so the page and the runtime cannot drift. If anything changes, tell us at /contact and we'll date-stamp the fix.
10 competitor slots, 500 MCP calls a month, 100 REST requests a day, and no card at signup.
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