AisleLens vs Citely ‑ AI SEO & Visibility

Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 13, 2026.

The short answer

  • Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $29.99/month for AisleLens and $19/month for Citely.
  • AisleLens lists 13 features Citely’s listing doesn’t mention, including Analytics, Automations, Benchmarking.

Head to head

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Pitch
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Categories
  • SEO
  • Analytics
  • SEO
  • Analytics
Languages
  • English
  • English
Launched
Jul 15, 2026
Jul 10, 2026
Built for Shopify
Not badged
Not badged
Reviews per month
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Detected stores
0active installs
0active installs
Most common store size
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Top countries
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Free options
Free planFree trial
Free planFree trial
Monthly range
From $0 to $29.99/month
From $0 to $19/month
Plans
FreeFree
Pro$29.99/month
FREEFree
  • · 1 AI visibility check
  • · 1 AI-written product listing a month
  • · Store audit for AI
  • · Your 5 weakest products, ranked
  • · agents.md and llms.txt files
PRO$19/month
7-day free trial
  • · 20 buying questions of your own
  • · 30 AI-written listings a month
  • · 600 AI answers a month
  • · All your products, ranked
  • · History and weekly email report
Pro (annual)$190/year
7-day free trial
  • · 20 buying questions of your own
  • · 30 AI-written listings a month
  • · 600 AI answers a month
  • · All your products, ranked
  • · History and weekly email report
Coverage
19 of 19 features100%
6 of 19 features32%
Unique strengths
  • Analytics
  • Automations
  • Benchmarking
  • Content optimization
  • +9 more
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Analytics
100%8/8
25%2/8
Marketing and sales
100%3/3
33%1/3
Visuals and reports
100%5/5
20%1/5
SEO
100%11/11
36%4/11
Monitoring performance
100%6/6
33%2/6
SEO tools
100%5/5
40%2/5
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AisleLensCitely19 features listed across both App Store listings

Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.

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How it sells itself

Shoppers increasingly ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity what to buy. AisleLens measures whether those assistants recommend your products versus competitors, shows your share of voice, and flags your weakest assistant. It diagnoses why competitors win — tied to the exact buyer prompts you're losing — and proposes reviewable fixes you approve before anything changes (conflict-checked and reversible).

More and more shoppers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude what to buy before they open Google. Most stores are invisible in those answers and never find out. Citely checks whether AI recommends your store, shows the exact sentence it wrote, and names the competitors it picks instead. Still behind a password?

Key points
  • Measure if ChatGPT, Gemini & Perplexity recommend you — with sample sizes.
  • See your share of voice vs named competitors, and your weakest engine.
  • Diagnose why competitors win — tied to the exact prompts you're losing.
  • Apply reviewable SEO fixes — conflict-checked and one-click reversible.
  • See if ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini recommend your store, on demand.
  • See which brands win your category in AI answers and your share of voice.
  • Citely builds and helps publish the file that tells AI what you sell.
  • AI writes the fix: improved descriptions, SEO titles and image alt text.
Screenshots
See why AI assistants pick competitors over you
Review and approve evidence-backed fixesMeasure, diagnose, fix and verify AI visibilityTrack your AI Visibility Score and share of voice
AI visibility score with competitor leaderboard across engines.
Citely AI-readiness audit with score and recommended fixes.Citely dashboard showing AI visibility score and competitors.Generated llms.txt AI file listing the store's products.

All the numbers

Every figure, side by side

A green dot marks the app ahead on a measured figure. Estimates, gaps and apps that leave no storefront trace never take the lead.

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Adoption

MeasureAisleLensCitely
Detected storesNot publishedNot published
Net store change, 28 days0estimated0estimated
Stores added, 28 daysNot enough dataNot enough data
Big-brand shareNot enough dataNot enough data
Top store categoriesNot publishedNot published
Top store countriesNot publishedNot published

Reviews

MeasureAisleLensCitely
App Store ratingNot publishedNot published
App Store reviewsNot publishedNot published
New reviews, 28 daysNot enough dataNot enough data
Reviewers a year or more inNot enough dataNot enough data

Pricing

MeasureAisleLensCitely
Free planYesYes
Lowest paid monthly plan$29.99/month$19/month(ahead)
Longest free trialNot listed7 days
Plans listed23

Listing

MeasureAisleLensCitely
Shopify category rank#1101in SEO#882(ahead)in SEO
Shopify App ChartsNot on this week’s chartsNot on this week’s charts
Built for ShopifyNoNo
LaunchedJul 15, 2026Jul 10, 2026
Languages1English1English
DeveloperThirdOcularAppsAI

FAQ

AisleLens and Citely: common questions

Is AisleLens or Citely cheaper?
Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $29.99/month for AisleLens and $19/month for Citely. Shoplist compares base prices only between monthly plans in the same currency; usage charges and annual plans vary, so check each plan’s limits.
What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
AisleLens lists 13 the others don’t mention, such as Analytics, Automations, Benchmarking, Content optimization. A feature missing from a listing may still be supported; this compares what each App Store listing says.
Where does this comparison’s data come from?
Shoplist crawls Shopify storefronts to detect which apps each store runs, and reads each app’s Shopify App Store listing for reviews, pricing, features and integrations. Store counts are as of Oct 13, 2026; estimated figures are labeled.

How Shoplist compares apps

Store counts come from Shoplist’s crawl of Shopify storefronts, which detects the apps each store runs; they are as of Oct 13, 2026. Reviews, ratings, plans, features and integrations come from each app’s Shopify App Store listing. 28-day figures are labeled when estimated, and a figure that is missing or estimated never decides who leads. Read the methodology.