Buyable: AI Product Readiness vs Surfacly

Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 12, 2026 for Buyable, Nov 11, 2026 for Surfacly.

The short answer

  • Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $29/month for Buyable and $49/month for Surfacly.
  • Surfacly lists 14 features Buyable’s listing doesn’t mention, including Audits, Automations, Content analysis.

Head to head

Detected stores

Buyable: —
Surfacly: 4
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Pitch
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Categories
  • SEO
  • SEO
Languages
  • English
  • English
Launched
Nov 11, 2026
Sep 22, 2026
Built for Shopify
Not badged
Not badged
Reviews per month
—
—
Detected stores
0active installs
4active installs
  • 3D Laser Land
  • Zahler Nutrition
  • Neugini Naturals
  • Sono Sleep
Most common store size
—
11-50 products50%
Top countries
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  • United States50%
Free options
Free planFree trial
Free planFree trial
Monthly range
From $0 to $29/month
From $0 to $549/month
Plans
FreeFree
  • · 30 AI fix credits
  • · AI revenue report
  • · Score dashboard and guided fixes
  • · Unlimited scans,up to 5,000 products
Growth$29/month
14-day free trial
  • · Everything in Free
  • · Priority support
  • · Unlimited AI fixes,fair use 500 a day
FreeFree
  • · 1 store
  • · 30 credits / month
  • · ChatGPT only
  • · Up to 25 SKUs
  • · Weekly audit
Starter$49/month
7-day free trial
  • · 1 store
  • · 200 credits / month
  • · All 4 AI channels
  • · Email support
  • · Up to 250 SKUs
  • · Weekly auto-audit
Growth$199/month
7-day free trial
  • · 1,000 credits / month
  • · 5 seats included
  • · All 4 channels
  • · Daily audit + AI fix drafts
  • · Up to 1,500 SKUs
  • · Up to 10 workspaces
Scale$549/month
7-day free trial
  • · 4,000 credits / month
  • · All channels + new ones first
  • · Dedicated support engineer
  • · Hourly audit · auto-publish
  • · Unlimited seats · SSO
  • · Unlimited workspaces
Coverage
6 of 20 features30%
20 of 20 features100%
Unique strengths
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  • Audits
  • Automations
  • Content analysis
  • Conversion tracking
  • +10 more
SEO
30%6/20
100%20/20
Monitoring performance
38%3/8
100%8/8
SEO tools
25%3/12
100%12/12
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BuyableSurfacly20 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 ask AI assistants like ChatGPT,Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot what to buy.They rely on clear,complete product data.Buyable scans your catalog and storefront, scores each product and shows what is missing.Fix with AI rewrites titles,descriptions, categories and image alt text from your own product facts.

Shoppers increasingly ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Copilot for product recommendations—but AI assistants skip products they can't read. Surfacly scans every product and scores how well AI can understand it, then shows the exact issues holding each one back.

Key points
  • Fix titles, descriptions and alt text with AI, using only your product facts.
  • Review every suggestion first, and undo any applied fix in one click.
  • See the orders and revenue AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude send you.
  • Score every product and your store on what AI shopping assistants look for.
  • Score every product on how well AI assistants can read it
  • See the exact issues keeping each product out of AI answers
  • Apply AI-written fixes for titles, descriptions, and meta tags
  • Add image alt text so products are described for AI and shoppers
Screenshots
Applied fixes with score before and after and an Undo button.
AI suggestion shown before and after,with Edit and Skip.Dashboard with AI readiness score and points lost per category.Products list with readiness scores,top issues and Fix with AI.
Products ready for ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity
Shoppers ask AI assistants to recommend productsSurfacly scores each product for AI readinessProduct and FAQ structured data added to your store

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.

Showing only the rows where the apps differ.

Adoption

MeasureBuyableSurfacly
Detected storesNot published4as of Nov 11, 2026
Net store change, 28 daysNot enough data0estimated
Stores added, 28 daysNot enough dataNot enough data
Big-brand shareNot enough dataNot enough data
Top store categoriesNot publishedHealth & Beauty, Food, Beverages & Tobacco, Home & Garden
Top store countriesNot publishedUnited States

Reviews

MeasureBuyableSurfacly
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

MeasureBuyableSurfacly
Free planYesYes
Lowest paid monthly plan$29/month(ahead)$49/month
Longest free trial14 days7 days
Plans listed24

Listing

MeasureBuyableSurfacly
Shopify category rankNot enough data#318in SEO
Shopify App ChartsNot on this week’s chartsNot on this week’s charts
Built for ShopifyNoNo
LaunchedNov 11, 2026Sep 22, 2026
Languages1English1English
DeveloperSynarcsomotomox

FAQ

Buyable and Surfacly: common questions

Is Buyable or Surfacly cheaper?
Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $29/month for Buyable and $49/month for Surfacly. 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?
Surfacly lists 14 the others don’t mention, such as Audits, Automations, Content analysis, Conversion tracking. 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 12, 2026 for Buyable, Nov 11, 2026 for Surfacly; 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 12, 2026 for Buyable, Nov 11, 2026 for Surfacly. 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.