Free scan
$0always
No login. No install. No card.
- Storefront-visible app detection
- Duplicate-app flags
- One cheaper-swap finding
- List-price spend estimate
- Stack Efficiency Score
Pricing built on one promise
We never pad your bill.
Start free — scan your store, find duplicate apps and cheaper swaps. Upgrade to Monitor only when you want the number that matters: your invoice-confirmed spend.
Monitor
$9.99/ month
14-day free trial · cancel anytime
- Everything in Free
- Invoice-confirmed per-app spend
- Apps billing you but not on your storefront
- Your real total beside the list-price estimate
- Re-audit any time as charges change
Two numbers. Never summed.
Most tools blur an estimate into a total. We hold them apart — so you always know which number is a guess and which is real.
List-price estimate$129/moFrom public app-store prices — a quick sanity check.
From your invoice$143/moParsed line-by-line from your Shopify bill — the real one.
Example figures. Your scan shows your own numbers.
What's in each plan
| Feature | Free | Monitor · $9.99/mo |
|---|---|---|
| Storefront app detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Duplicate-app flags | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cheaper-swap suggestions | Top finding | All findings |
| List-price spend estimate | ✓ | ✓ |
| Stack Efficiency Score | ✓ | ✓ |
| Invoice-confirmed per-app spend | — | ✓ |
| Apps billing you but not on your storefront | — | ✓ |
| Your real total beside the estimate (never summed) | — | ✓ |
| Re-audit any time as charges change | — | ✓ |
| Account required | No | Standard install |
Shopify shows what you pay — never whether you should. It earns from every app you keep.
App Cost Watchdog is the part that's on your side.
Pricing questions
- How much does App Cost Watchdog cost?
- The storefront scan is free with no account. Monitor — invoice-confirmed per-app spend and billed-but-not-detected apps — is $9.99/month with a 14-day free trial. Cancel anytime from your Shopify admin.
- Is the free plan really free?
- Yes. Paste a store URL and get detected apps, duplicate flags, a cheaper-swap finding, and a Stack Efficiency Score — no login, no install, no card. The free scan never writes to your store.
- What do I get by upgrading to Monitor?
- Monitor reads your Shopify invoice and shows your confirmed per-app spend, plus apps that bill you but never appear on your storefront. Your real total is shown beside the list-price estimate — clearly labeled and never added together.
- Why won't Shopify just tell me which apps to cancel?
- Shopify's billing shows what you pay, never whether you should — it earns from every app you keep, so it can't be the one to tell you to cancel. App Cost Watchdog is the independent check: it flags duplicates, cheaper swaps, and apps billing you off your storefront.
- How is the estimate different from my real bill?
- The free scan estimates from public list prices. Monitor parses your invoice for the confirmed amount. The two are shown side by side and are never summed — so you always know which number is an estimate and which is real.
- Can I cancel anytime?
- Yes. Monitor billing is handled by Shopify; cancel from your admin and you return to the free scan with no further charges.