Find Shopify Stores That Need Your App
Include an adjacent app signal, exclude named competitors, require enough traffic and a reachable buyer, then export a qualified Shopify prospect list.
StoreInspect helps Shopify app founders build prospect segments from observable store signals. Filter 910K+ stores by specific detected apps, exclude named competing apps, add traffic and contact requirements, then reveal the relevant buyer and export the shortlist. The result is a focused list to verify—not proof that every excluded app is absent or that every store needs your product.
For programmatic market sizing and outbound workflows, use the Shopify store database API to search stores by specific app inclusions and exclusions, pixels, traffic, and contact availability.
The Problem
What makes this hard without the right tool.
A raw list of Shopify stores says nothing about which merchants are likely to need your app
One installed app is only a signal; without traffic and stack context, the segment stays noisy
Competitor-user lists waste outreach when you want greenfield prospects without a named incumbent
Tiny or unreachable stores can dominate a list unless you require traffic and contact availability
The right buyer changes by app category and company size—not every pitch belongs with the founder
Combining store research, app detection, contact enrichment, and CSV cleanup across separate tools slows every campaign
How It Works
Your workflow with StoreInspect, step by step.
Choose an adjacent app signal
Start with a specific detected app that indicates the store already invests in the workflow around your product. Klaviyo can signal lifecycle maturity for loyalty, quiz, reviews, and retention tools.
Exclude named competing apps
Remove stores where StoreInspect detects the specific incumbents you name. You can exclude several apps at once; this is exact-app filtering, not a claim that the whole category is absent.
Require traffic and contact fit
Add a traffic tier, category, country, product-count, and minimum-contact requirement so the shortlist reflects your real ideal customer profile.
Reach the right buyer
Review the store, reveal the relevant founder, ecommerce, growth, or department contact, then save or export only the accounts you can approach with a defensible reason.
Worked prospect recipe
Example: find loyalty-app prospects already using Klaviyo
Suppose your loyalty app integrates with Klaviyo. Use Klaviyo as the adjacent maturity signal, remove stores with three named loyalty incumbents, then keep only stores with meaningful traffic and an available contact.
- Adjacent signal
- Klaviyo
- Shows the merchant already invests in lifecycle marketing; it does not prove loyalty-app intent.
- Exclude competitors
- Smile.io Loyalty, LoyaltyLion, Yotpo Loyalty
- Removes stores where StoreInspect detects one of these named incumbents.
- Commercial maturity
- 50K+ monthly traffic
- Keeps the example focused on stores more likely to support a paid app workflow.
- Reachability
- At least one contact
- Ensures every result has a contact path before you spend time qualifying it.
What this produces
A reviewable greenfield shortlist with an adjacent-stack reason, no detected named incumbent, commercial maturity, and a contact path.
Verify first: Verify each account before outreach. Storefront detection can miss server-side, recently installed, or recently removed apps, and the absence of a detected competitor is not proof that the merchant needs your product.
Features That Matter
The StoreInspect features most relevant to your workflow.
Include Specific Apps
Filter by one or more detected Shopify apps to find stores with an adjacent workflow, integration fit, or relevant budget signal.
Exclude Specific Apps
Exclude one or several named competing apps. Combine include and exclude filters to build a greenfield or migration shortlist without claiming category-wide absence.
Store Fit Filters
Add traffic tier, category, country, product count, Shopify Plus, pixels, and contact availability to distinguish a plausible buyer from a raw app match.
Decision-Maker Contacts
Reveal founder, ecommerce, growth, marketing, or relevant department contacts after the account qualifies. 500K+ contacts are available across the database.
CSV, API, and MCP Workflows
Export qualified stores and selected contacts to CSV, use the REST API for direct integrations, or let an AI client search and enrich through the hosted MCP server.
Saved Views and Lists
Save the filter recipe, rerun it against current data, and organize reviewed accounts into campaign-specific lists before export.
StoreInspect Is Not For Everyone
We'd rather be upfront than waste your time.
You build apps for platforms other than Shopify. StoreInspect only indexes Shopify stores and the Shopify app ecosystem.
You need official or exact Shopify App Store install counts. StoreInspect reports storefront-detected apps on indexed stores, not Shopify's private installation data.
You need guaranteed real-time install, uninstall, or complete category-absence data. Detection is a point-in-time public-storefront signal that must be verified before high-value outreach.
Pricing
Pro is the practical app-founder plan because it unlocks all include/exclude app filters, 1,000 results per search, CSV export, API and MCP access, five saved views, five lists, and 1,000 contact reveals per month.
Pro
- Company-email trial available
- 1,000 reveals/mo
- All filters + CSV export
- 5 lists & saved views
Enterprise
- 10,000 reveals/mo
- Higher API + MCP limits
- Dedicated support
- Custom integrations
How StoreInspect Compares
Other tools people consider for this use case.
vs BuiltWith
BuiltWith is stronger for broad, cross-platform technology research. StoreInspect is narrower: Shopify-specific include/exclude app filters, store qualification, and decision-maker contacts in one workflow.
vs Wappalyzer
Wappalyzer is useful for identifying technologies on known domains. StoreInspect is built for searching a Shopify store universe, applying account-fit filters, and moving qualified results into outreach.
vs Store Leads
Store Leads offers broader ecommerce coverage and historical technology data. StoreInspect focuses on a Shopify-native search-to-contact workflow with named app exclusions and contact reveals.
Related Technology Customer Lists
Start from a visible technology signal, then qualify stores by category, stack, and account fit.
Companies using Klaviyo
Stores already investing in email, SMS, lifecycle marketing, and retention workflows.
Companies using Gorgias
Support-mature Shopify stores with visible helpdesk and customer experience signals.
Companies using Yotpo
Brands using reviews, loyalty, UGC, and social-proof infrastructure.
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