Any Store AI vs MerchantIQ ‑ AI Chat Assistant
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 13, 2026 for Any Store AI, Nov 6, 2026 for MerchantIQ.
The short answer
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $9.99/month for Any Store AI and $79/month for MerchantIQ.
- Any Store AI lists 6 features MerchantIQ’s listing doesn’t mention, including Agent avatar, Cart recovery, Cross-sell.
Head to head
Free
- · 1 store and 1 team member
- · 25 chats a month
- · 30 days of chat history
Growth Founding
- · Everything in Growth
- · For the first 20 paying stores
- · Founding price kept while subscribed
Growth
- · 3 stores and 2 team members
- · 300 chats a month
- · Email automations
- · Klaviyo, Mailchimp, HubSpot and more
Pro Founding
- · Everything in Pro
- · For the first 20 paying stores
- · Founding price kept while subscribed
Pro
- · 1,500 chats a month
- · 10 stores and 5 team members
- · Everything in Growth
- · Reports and visitor details
Free
- · 100 shopper messages a month
- · 24/7 AI shopping assistant
- · AI that knows your whole catalogue
- · Answers FAQs from your own policies
- · Chats in your shopper's language
- · Personalised picks, added to cart
Growth
- · 1,500 shopper messages a month
- · 12 months of analytics
- · Everything in Free
- · Lead capture and shopper profiles
- · Real-time order tracking
- · Shared inbox with 3 team seats
Complete
- · 3,000 shopper messages a month
- · Advanced analytics, unlimited history
- · Custom AI instructions
- · Everything in Growth
- · Shared inbox with 5 team seats
- · Shopper list export (CSV)
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureAny Store AI is a sales and support chat for your storefront. It answers from your live products, prices, stock and policies, and from the pages and files you add to its knowledge base. It recommends products, builds a cart that goes to your Shopify checkout and answers order status questions. When a shopper asks for a person, you reply from the inbox inside Shopify admin.
No time to answer shoppers around the clock? Let the AI sales agent do it. It answers product, delivery and returns questions from your live catalogue and your own published policies, suggests what fits, builds the cart, and looks up orders while you are asleep. When a shopper wants a person, your team takes over the same conversation from one inbox, with the whole history already there.
- Answers product questions using your real catalog, not a generic script
- Looks up order status and shares your actual return and shipping policies
- Builds a cart from the conversation and hands off to Shopify's native checkout
- Hands chats to your team, with an inbox inside Shopify admin
- Answers from your live catalogue and your own policies, not a stale FAQ
- Recommends products that fit, explains why, and builds the cart in the chat
- Looks up an order and gives its status and tracking to the shopper
- Your team takes over any conversation from one inbox, with the full history
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.
Adoption
| Measure | ||
|---|---|---|
| Detected stores | Not published | Not published |
| Net store change, 28 days | 0 | 0 |
| Stores added, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Big-brand share | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Top store categories | Not published | Not published |
| Top store countries | Not published | Not published |
Reviews
| Measure | ||
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | Not published | Not published |
| App Store reviews | Not published | Not published |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
Pricing
| Measure | ||
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $9.99/month(ahead) | $79/month |
| Longest free trial | 7 days | 7 days |
| Plans listed | 5 | 3 |
Listing
| Measure | ||
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Nov 13, 2026 | Nov 4, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | FroGman | MerchantIQ |
FAQ
Any Store AI and MerchantIQ: common questions
- Is Any Store AI or MerchantIQ cheaper?
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $9.99/month for Any Store AI and $79/month for MerchantIQ. 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?
- Any Store AI lists 6 the others don’t mention, such as Agent avatar, Cart recovery, Cross-sell, Customer insights. MerchantIQ lists 6 the others don’t mention, such as Chat buttons, Chat flows, Color and font, Discounts. 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 Nov 13, 2026 for Any Store AI, Nov 6, 2026 for MerchantIQ; 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 Nov 13, 2026 for Any Store AI, Nov 6, 2026 for MerchantIQ. 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.