Catalog Armor vs CatalogGuardHQ
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 9, 2026 for Catalog Armor, Nov 6, 2026 for CatalogGuardHQ.
The short answer
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $9/month for Catalog Armor and $9/month for CatalogGuardHQ.
- CatalogGuardHQ lists 7 features Catalog Armor’s listing doesn’t mention, including Images, Inventory, Metafields.
Head to head
Free
Starter
Growth
Pro
Free
- · 1 on-demand snapshot a day
- · 100 products
- · 7 days of snapshots
- · Preview, verify and undo included
Starter
- · 2,000 products
- · 30 days of snapshots
- · 5 on-demand snapshots a day
Growth
- · 10,000 products
- · 90 days of snapshots
- · Unlimited on-demand snapshots
Scale
- · 100,000 products
- · 365 days of snapshots
- · Unlimited on-demand snapshots
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureCatalog Armor helps merchants detect risky catalog changes and recover supported product and collection fields from verified history. Configure protection policies, monitor products, collections, discounts, locations, and recent orders, review alerts, compare snapshots, and start merchant-confirmed restores from Shopify Admin.
CatalogGuardHQ snapshots your catalogue every night and on demand: products, variants, prices, inventory, images by reference, metafields, collections. When an import, app or mistake goes wrong, choose a snapshot, the products and the fields, and see every value that would change before any write. Safe mode keeps what you changed since, and names it. Nothing is ever deleted.
- Keep verified backup history for protected products and collections
- Monitor catalog and store changes with merchant-defined rules
- Compare snapshots before selecting supported fields to restore
- Review, acknowledge, and suppress detected risk alerts
- Nightly and on-demand snapshots, encrypted; no customer or order data read
- Restore by product and by field, previewed first, verified after, undoable
- A Coverage table that states what a restore brings back and what it cannot
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/month | $9/month |
| Longest free trial | Not listed | Not listed |
| Plans listed | 4 | 4 |
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 9, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | Solid Craft Labs | GuardHQ |
FAQ
Catalog Armor and CatalogGuardHQ: common questions
- Is Catalog Armor or CatalogGuardHQ cheaper?
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $9/month for Catalog Armor and $9/month for CatalogGuardHQ. 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?
- CatalogGuardHQ lists 7 the others don’t mention, such as Images, Inventory, Metafields, Scheduled tasks. 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 9, 2026 for Catalog Armor, Nov 6, 2026 for CatalogGuardHQ; 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 9, 2026 for Catalog Armor, Nov 6, 2026 for CatalogGuardHQ. 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.