CartPulse: Checkout Monitor vs Playecom Watch: Uptime Monitor
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 11, 2026 for CartPulse, Oct 22, 2026 for Playecom Watch.
The short answer
- Only Playecom Watch lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $29/month for CartPulse and $2.99/month for Playecom Watch.
- CartPulse lists 3 features Playecom Watch’s listing doesn’t mention, including Custom alerts, Multi-channel, Staff notifications.
Head to head
Spark
- · 7 days of history and screenshots
- · Alerts with a checkout screenshot
- · Checkout checked every 60 minutes
- · Daily health report
- · Email alerts when checkout breaks
- · Monitor up to 3 stores
Pro
- · 30 days of history and screenshots
- · 50 key products tested hourly
- · Alerts with a checkout screenshot
- · Checkout checked every 30 minutes
- · Hourly health report
- · Monitor up to 10 stores
Enterprise
- · 150 key products + full catalog daily
- · 90 days of history and screenshots
- · Alerts with a checkout screenshot
- · Checkout checked every 10 minutes
- · Email and Slack alerts
- · Monitor up to 25 stores
Free
- · Access to the monitoring dashboard
- · Alerts to 1 email recipient
- · Shopify status monitoring
Team
- · Alerts to 6 emails recipients
- · Shopify Flow trigger
- · Shopify status monitoring
Business
- · Alerts to 11 emails recipients
- · Shopify Flow trigger
- · Shopify status monitoring
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureCartPulse runs a real shopper’s path through your store around the clock: it opens a product, adds it to the cart and loads checkout, the same way a customer would. If any step fails, you get an email with the failing step, the error and a screenshot of the page (plus Slack on Enterprise), and another when it recovers. Pick key products to test every hour, or have every in-stock variant tested daily.
Playecom Watch monitors your storefront and follows Shopify's public status updates. Receive email alerts about availability issues and recovery, and review up to 30 days of history. Notify up to 6 email recipients with Team or 11 with Business. Both plans include a Shopify Flow trigger for status changes. Manage alert preferences and send a test email from your Shopify admin.
- Checkout tested automatically every 10, 30 or 60 minutes, day and night
- Instant alerts with the failing step, the error and a checkout screenshot
- Key products and their variants added to the cart every hour
- Every in-stock variant in your catalog tested once a day (Enterprise)
- Monitor your storefront and receive email alerts about availability issues.
- Follow public platform incidents affecting checkout, admin, and storefront.
- Receive updates when incidents change and affected services recover.
- Choose which alerts you receive and where notification emails are sent.
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 |  Playecom Watch | |
|---|---|---|
| Detected stores | Not published | Not published |
| Net store change, 28 days | Not enough data | 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 | Playecom Watch | |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | Not published | 5.0 ★ |
| App Store reviews | Not published | 1 |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
Pricing
| Measure | Playecom Watch | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Not listed | Yes |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $29/month | $2.99/month(ahead) |
| Longest free trial | 7 days | Not listed |
| Plans listed | 3 | 3 |
Listing
| Measure | Playecom Watch | |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | Not enough data | #13 |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | #1 on Pricing moves in Staff notifications |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Nov 11, 2026 | Oct 9, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | CartPulse: Checkout Monitor | Agencia FY |
FAQ
CartPulse and Playecom Watch: common questions
- Is CartPulse or Playecom Watch cheaper?
- Only Playecom Watch lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $29/month for CartPulse and $2.99/month for Playecom Watch. 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?
- CartPulse lists 3 the others don’t mention, such as Custom alerts, Multi-channel, Staff notifications. 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 11, 2026 for CartPulse, Oct 22, 2026 for Playecom Watch; 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 11, 2026 for CartPulse, Oct 22, 2026 for Playecom Watch. 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.