Cloze: AI Shopping Assistant vs Curio | AI Shopping Assistant
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 14, 2026 for Cloze, Sep 20, 2026 for Curio.
The short answer
- Only Cloze lists a free plan.
- Cloze lists 17 features Curio’s listing doesn’t mention, including Agent avatar, Business hours, Cart recovery.
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
- · 25 AI conversations per month
- · 7 days of conversation history
- · Core assistant customization
- · Up to 100 synced products
Starter
- · 250 AI conversations per month
- · 30 days of insights and history
- · Full assistant customization
- · Up to 1,000 synced products
Pro
- · 750 AI conversations per month
- · 90 days of conversation history
- · Advanced insights
- · Up to 10,000 synced products
Scale
- · 2,000 AI conversations per month
- · One year of insights and history
- · Priority support
- · Unlimited synced products
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureCloze is an AI shopping assistant and ecommerce chatbot that helps customers discover, compare, and buy products directly in conversation. Powered by your live Shopify catalog, inventory, knowledge base, and shopper cart, it delivers personalized recommendations, product answers, rich product cards, upsells, cross-sells, and order tracking.
Curio is an AI shopping and support assistant that helps customers navigate your store through conversation. Instead of making shoppers search through collections, filters, product pages and FAQs, Curio lets them simply ask.
- Smart product recommendations with rich cards, carousels & live inventory
- Full visual customization: 30+ color settings, icons, fonts, position & CSS
- Order tracking with automatic carrier detection for 12+ shipping providers
- Human handoff: take over any conversation from AI and release back instantly
- Conversational product discovery Help shoppers find products by describing
- AI product recommendations Recommend relevant products on shopper preferences
- Product Q&A Answer questions on specifications, variants, sizing, ingredients.
- Product comparison Help customers understand differences between products
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 |  Cloze |  Curio |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Cloze | Curio |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | 5.0 ★ | Not published |
| App Store reviews | 1 | 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
Cloze and Curio: common questions
- Is Cloze or Curio cheaper?
- Only Cloze lists a free plan. 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?
- Cloze lists 17 the others don’t mention, such as Agent avatar, Business hours, Cart recovery, Chat assignment. Curio lists 1 the others don’t mention, such as Cross-sell. 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 Oct 14, 2026 for Cloze, Sep 20, 2026 for Curio; 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 Oct 14, 2026 for Cloze, Sep 20, 2026 for Curio. 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.