Gideonis AI Visual Search vs Smart Visual Search

Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 4, 2026.

The short answer

  • Gideonis AI Visual Search and Smart Visual Search are detected on the same number of Shopify stores (1) as of Nov 4, 2026.
  • On the Shopify App Store: Gideonis AI Visual Search 4.1 from 3 reviews and Smart Visual Search 1.0 from 3 reviews.
  • Gideonis AI Visual Search lists 10 features Smart Visual Search’s listing doesn’t mention, including AI insights, Autocomplete, Custom dashboards.

Head to head

Detected stores

Gideonis AI Visual Search: 1
Smart Visual Search: 1

App Store reviews

Gideonis AI Visual Search: 3
Smart Visual Search: 3
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Pitch
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Enable AI-Powered Image Search on Your Store

Categories
  • Search and filters
  • Search and filters
Languages
  • English
  • English
Launched
Oct 6, 2025
Jan 4, 2021
Built for Shopify
Not badged
Not badged
Reviews per month
1 last full month
1 last full month
Detected stores
1active installs
  • Molls
1active installs
  • DF Richards Veneers
Most common store size
1,001-5,000 products100%
101-200 products100%
Top countries
  • United Kingdom100%
  • United Kingdom100%

Momentum

New reviews each month

Review pace is the clearest public read on how fast an app is winning new merchants.

035JanJulMarOctNovJanMayGideonis AI Visual Search: 1 reviews in October 2025Gideonis AI Visual Search: 1 reviews in November 2025Gideonis AI Visual Search: 3 reviews in January 2026Gideonis AI Visual Search: 1 reviews in May 2026Smart Visual Search: 1 reviews in January 2021Smart Visual Search: 1 reviews in July 2021Smart Visual Search: 1 reviews in March 2025
Gideonis AI Visual SearchSmart Visual SearchCompleted months only
Free options
Free planFree trial
Free planFree trial
Monthly range
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From $4.99 to $29.99/month
Plans
Free
Basic$4.99/month
7-day free trial
  • · 7-day Free Trial
  • · Automatic Product Re-Indexing
  • · Fully Customizable UI
  • · Up to 1000 Products Indexing
Standard$14.99/month
7-day free trial
  • · All Basic Plan Features
  • · Hide "Powered by VisionBrain.ai" branding
  • · Up to 5000 Products Indexing
Professional$29.99/month
7-day free trial
  • · All Standard Plan Features
  • · Similar Products Recommendation
  • · Unlimited Product Indexing
Coverage
15 of 16 features94%
6 of 16 features38%
Unique strengths
  • AI insights
  • Autocomplete
  • Custom dashboards
  • Custom filters
  • +6 more
  • Custom styling
Search and filters
94%15/16
38%6/16
Analytics
100%4/4
25%1/4
Display customization
75%3/4
50%2/4
Search features
100%8/8
38%3/8
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Gideonis AI Visual SearchSmart Visual Search16 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

Gideonis AI Search enhances your store with smart AI-powered search. Provide customers image-based search, advanced search bar with predictive suggestions, prefilled queries, and personalized upsell/cross-sell offers. Improve product discovery, conversions, and deliver a seamless shopping experience with powerful AI tools—all in one app

By enabling visual search in your store, your customers can upload an image that seems inspiring to them and search your catalog for visually similar products. Some customers have a specific product in mind when they arrive in your online store. If they have a visual search option, they can quickly find their product.

Key points
  • Smart Search Bar: search recommendations and rapid product search and discovery
  • Merchandising: pin and hide products in the search bar & search results
  • AI image advance search: Upload image and search related products in store.
  • One-click Setup
  • Customize the Smart Visual Search widget in your theme's settings
  • User-Friendly UI for Customers
  • Fast and Accurate Apparel Search Engine
Screenshots
Dashboard
Floating Widget Image searchAdvance Search BarAI image search Gideonis
Visual Search Illustration
Visual Search Widget Customization In Theme's SettingsVisual Search Admin PanelVisual Search Results

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

MeasureGideonis AI Visual SearchSmart Visual Search
Detected stores1as of Nov 4, 20261as of Nov 4, 2026
Net store change, 28 days0estimated0estimated
Stores added, 28 daysNot enough dataNot enough data
Big-brand shareNot enough dataNot enough data
Top store categoriesHome & GardenFurniture
Top store countriesUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom

Reviews

MeasureGideonis AI Visual SearchSmart Visual Search
App Store rating4.1 ★(ahead)1.0 ★
App Store reviews33
New reviews, 28 daysNot enough dataNot enough data
Reviewers a year or more inNot enough dataNot enough data

Pricing

MeasureGideonis AI Visual SearchSmart Visual Search
Free planNot listedNot listed
Lowest paid monthly planNo monthly plan listed$4.99/month
Longest free trialNot listed7 days
Plans listedNot published3

Listing

MeasureGideonis AI Visual SearchSmart Visual Search
Shopify category rank#131in Search and filters#93(ahead)in Search and filters
Shopify App ChartsNot on this week’s chartsNot on this week’s charts
Built for ShopifyNoNo
LaunchedOct 6, 2025Jan 4, 2021
Languages1English1English
DeveloperGideon ISVisionBrain

FAQ

Gideonis AI Visual Search and Smart Visual Search: common questions

Which is more popular, Gideonis AI Visual Search or Smart Visual Search?
Gideonis AI Visual Search and Smart Visual Search are detected on the same number of Shopify stores (1) as of Nov 4, 2026.
Which has better reviews, Gideonis AI Visual Search or Smart Visual Search?
On the Shopify App Store: Gideonis AI Visual Search 4.1 from 3 reviews and Smart Visual Search 1.0 from 3 reviews.
What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
Gideonis AI Visual Search lists 10 the others don’t mention, such as AI insights, Autocomplete, Custom dashboards, Custom filters. Smart Visual Search lists 1 the others don’t mention, such as Custom styling. 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 4, 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 Nov 4, 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.