---
title: "Backbone Catalog Shopify App Profile"
description: "Backbone Catalog turns supplier PDF catalogs into Shopify products. Upload a PDF, AI classifies each page, extracts products with variants and specs, and shows you a side-by-side review before anything hits your storefront. Re-upload a new catalog version — Backbone diffs against the previous version and syncs the changes to your existing Shopify products. Supports tabular layouts, multi-page configurators, modular compositions, visual indexes, and look books — common formats across wholesale."
canonical_url: "https://shoplist.co/shopify-apps/backbone-catalog"
markdown_url: "https://shoplist.co/shopify-apps/backbone-catalog.md"
last_updated: "2026-10-14"
entity_type: "shopify_app"
slug: "backbone-catalog"
source: "public Shopify app profile allowlist"
---

# Backbone Catalog Shopify App Profile

> Backbone Catalog turns supplier PDF catalogs into Shopify products. Upload a PDF, AI classifies each page, extracts products with variants and specs, and shows you a side-by-side review before anything hits your storefront. Re-upload a new catalog version — Backbone diffs against the previous version and syncs the changes to your existing Shopify products. Supports tabular layouts, multi-page configurators, modular compositions, visual indexes, and look books — common formats across wholesale.

## Quick answer
Backbone Catalog has 0 detected stores in Shoplist. This Markdown profile displays 0 public brand examples; it is not a complete customer list.

## Key facts
- Name: Backbone Catalog
- Monitoring status: First-adopter watch
- Developer: Atelier Minkes
- Developer profile: https://shoplist.co/app-developers/atelier-minkes2
- Shopify App Store URL: https://apps.shopify.com/backbone-catalog
- Launch date: May 28, 2026
- Shoplist category: Product Reviews & UGC
- Free trial signal: Yes

## Pricing summary
Starter: $15/month

Shoplist has not yet found reliable public storefront evidence connecting a Shopify store to this app. This does not mean the app has no users. Some apps are new, admin-only, server-side, theme-independent, or otherwise difficult to detect from public storefront signals.


## App Signals
As of November 8, 2026:

- Stores running it: 0, 0.0% of the stores Shoplist tracks
- Store movement, last 28 days: +0 new stores, +0 returning, −0 removed, net 0 (estimated; 1 day held out of movement)
- Primary App Store category: Store data importer, #257 (14-day median position)
- Listing reviews: 0

## Public callouts
- AI extracts products, variants, and specs from supplier PDF catalogs
- Side-by-side review — edit and approve every product before pushing
- Re-upload a new catalog version to sync changes automatically
- Bring your own Anthropic API key for direct AI access
- Multi-currency, wholesale discount, retail markup — all built in
## Shopify App Store categories
- Store data importer

## Data note
Profile updated: October 14, 2026. This is the profile revision date, not a guarantee that every store was checked on that date.
Public snapshot built: 2026-11-08 17:54:06.545696\+00
Detection metrics refreshed: 2026-11-08 10:00:00.19319\+00
Public app evidence date: 2026-10-14 04:45:07.034917\+00
This generated Markdown profile intentionally exposes only public, stable app-profile fields and a small public app-stack sample from Shoplist. It excludes private contact data, people data, internal scores, crawl provenance, full datasets, and unstable operational fields.

## Related links
- [HTML app profile](https://shoplist.co/shopify-apps/backbone-catalog)
- [Shopify apps directory](https://shoplist.co/shopify-apps)
- [Shoplist data methodology](https://shoplist.co/data-methodology.md)