AEO: AI Catalog Optimizer vs StoreHQ: SEO & AEO Audit
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 14, 2026.
The short answer
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $29/month for AEO and $19/month for StoreHQ.
- StoreHQ lists 14 features AEO’s listing doesn’t mention, including 404 pages, ALT text, Audits.
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
Basic
Free
- · 1 lifetime scan
- · Affected pages and fix guidance
- · Full-store SEO and AEO audits
- · Rendered HTML and crawler checks
- · Scores and prioritized issues
- · Up to 50 pages per scan
Starter
- · 2 rescans per month
- · Affected pages and fix guidance
- · Full-store SEO and AEO audits
- · Rendered HTML and crawler checks
- · Scores and prioritized issues
- · Up to 250 pages per scan
Growth
- · 5 rescans per month
- · Affected pages and fix guidance
- · Custom page allocation by type
- · Full-store SEO and AEO audits
- · Rendered HTML and crawler checks
- · Scores and prioritized issues
Pro
- · 10 rescans per month
- · Affected pages and fix guidance
- · Custom page allocation by type
- · Full-store SEO and AEO audits
- · Hand-pick exact URLs to audit
- · Rendered HTML and crawler checks
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureShoppers increasingly ask an AI assistant instead of searching. If your product pages are hard for those assistants to read, you may not come up — and nothing in your admin tells you that. AEO audits your whole catalog against the feed specs answer engines read, then gives you a readiness score for ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity, plus the exact issue holding each product back.
StoreHQ runs a full, read-only technical SEO and AEO audit of your Shopify store - no edits, ever - checking readiness for Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI search engines. Scan titles, meta descriptions, headings, alt text, JSON-LD structured data, internal links, canonicals, crawlability, robots.txt, llms.txt, agents.md, sitemaps, and redirects.
- Real ACP/UCP feed-spec validation — not just llms.txt generation
- Per-channel readiness scoring for ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Copilot, Perplexity
- One-click revert on every rewrite — never locked into AI copy you didn't approve
- Run a full-store SEO and AEO audit from Shopify admin in one scan.
- Compare admin SEO fields with what your live storefront pages render.
- Check robots.txt, sitemap coverage, agents.md, llms.txt for crawler readiness.
- See SEO and AEO scores with issues grouped by severity and category.
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 |  AEO |  StoreHQ |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | AEO | StoreHQ |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | Not published | 5.0 ★ |
| App Store reviews | Not published | 6 |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
FAQ
AEO and StoreHQ: common questions
- Is AEO or StoreHQ cheaper?
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $29/month for AEO and $19/month for StoreHQ. 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?
- StoreHQ lists 14 the others don’t mention, such as 404 pages, ALT text, Audits, Broken links. 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; 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. 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.