Burnish: AI SEO, AEO & ChatGPT vs OptAEO
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 5, 2026 for Burnish, Oct 13, 2026 for OptAEO.
The short answer
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $49/month for Burnish and $149/month for OptAEO.
- Burnish lists 20 features OptAEO’s listing doesn’t mention, including AI generation, Alt text, ALT text.
Head to head
Momentum
New reviews each month
Review pace is the clearest public read on how fast an app is winning new merchants.
Free
- · 20 real buyer questions, rivals named
- · 50 product fixes; you approve each
- · AI traffic: visits and orders
- · Brand reputation check at install
- · Daily readiness score + weekly digest
- · No card. No time limit.
Signal
- · 100 product fixes a month
- · 25 buyer questions, with rivals named
- · AI-traffic view: visits and orders
- · Answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini
- · Autopilot: review each or auto-publish
- · Brand Reputation checked every 14 days
Presence
- · 20 AI-optimized blog posts a month
- · 300 product fixes a month
- · 50 buyer questions, with rivals named
- · Answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini
- · Autopilot: review each or auto-publish
- · Brand Reputation checked every 3 days
Authority
- · 1,000 products AI-optimized / month
- · 40 AI-optimized blogs / month
- · 50 buyer questions, re-checked ~5 days
- · AI answers analyzed on 5 engines
- · Adds Claude and Grok (5 AI engines)
- · Autopilot: review each or auto-publish
Free
Pro
Business
Enterprise
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureShoppers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini what to buy. Burnish asks them 20 real buyer questions about your products and shows which stores they name: you or a competitor. Then it finds what costs you the answer and drafts the fix to titles, descriptions and metadata. You approve each change before it publishes. Start with 20 buyer questions and 50 product fixes.
AI shopping agents are the new search engine. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini already recommend products to your customers — but only when your product data is clean enough for them to read. OptAEO scans your entire catalog, surfaces every issue, generates AI-powered fixes, and writes them back to Shopify in one click.
- AI Commerce Index: one 0-100 score across 5 AI engines, re-scored daily.
- Fixes your whole catalog, collections, articles and pages in your brand voice.
- Autopilot never sleeps: it fixes, re-measures and publishes on its own.
- Revenue attribution: estimate the AI-channel revenue tied to each change.
- AI-powered product description enrichment from title, brand, and product images
- Auto-find missing barcodes from product images and titles.
- Generates AI-readable FAQs that surface in shopping agent answers.
- Catch Google Merchant Center errors before they kill Shopping ads.
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 |  Burnish |  OptAEO |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Burnish | OptAEO |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | 5.0 ★ | Not published |
| App Store reviews | 2 | Not published |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
FAQ
Burnish and OptAEO: common questions
- Is Burnish or OptAEO cheaper?
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $49/month for Burnish and $149/month for OptAEO. 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?
- Burnish lists 20 the others don’t mention, such as AI generation, Alt text, ALT text, Analytics. OptAEO lists 5 the others don’t mention, such as APIs and webhooks, Breadcrumbs, Import and export, Multi-language. 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 5, 2026 for Burnish, Oct 13, 2026 for OptAEO; 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 5, 2026 for Burnish, Oct 13, 2026 for OptAEO. 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.