Growth Journey vs Store Audit: SEO & AI Search
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Nov 3, 2026.
The short answer
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $19/month for Growth Journey and $19/month for Store Audit.
- Growth Journey lists 11 features Store Audit’s listing doesn’t mention, including AI generation, Analytics, Content analysis.
Head to head
Basic
- · 30 AI actions per month
- · AI image alt & filename optimization
- · AI title & meta description optimization
- · Analyze up to 100 pages
- · Manual scanning
- · SEO health checks and issue reports
Growth
- · 1,000 image compressions per month
- · 200 AI actions per month
- · AI blog post generation
- · AI image alt & filename optimization
- · AI title & meta description optimization
- · Analyze up to 1,000 pages
Pro
- · 5,000 image compressions per month
- · 500 AI actions per month
- · AI blog post generation
- · AI image alt & filename optimization
- · AI title & meta description optimization
- · Analyze up to 5,000 pages
Free
- · 5 one-click fixes a month
- · AI prompts to run yourself
- · Audit history
- · Free tools
- · Full 40-check audit of your key pages
- · Score and action plan
Pro
- · Automatic AI search tests
- · Everything in Free
- · Monthly check-up email
- · Optional: uses your Shopify Analytics
- · PDF report
- · Up to 4 competitors
Pro + Fixes
- · Everything in Pro
- · Undo any fix
- · Unlimited one-click fixes
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureGrowth Journey helps you find SEO issues and decide what to update across your store. Review page checks, choose focus keywords, and edit search titles, descriptions, and page content with AI suggestions you can review before saving. Check for broken pages and barriers to search engine access, and add structured data to help search engines understand your products and business.
Store Audit: SEO & AI Search checks your store against 40 practical checks: storefront, product and collection pages, SEO basics, and how AI tools such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini see your brand. Each check shows what it found and how to fix it in Shopify, with a score and an action plan, most impactful fixes first.
- Review SEO checks for your homepage, products, and collections.
- Edit search titles and descriptions with AI suggestions you can review.
- Choose focus keywords and check how your page content uses them.
- Find broken pages and issues that prevent search engines from accessing pages.
- - Checks titles, descriptions, headings, alt text and broken links
- - Reviews your product pages, photos, buy box and collections
- - Tests your site search, menu, trust signals and delivery information
- - Shows how ready your store is for AI search tools
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 | $19/month | $19/month |
| Longest free trial | Not listed | 7 days |
| Plans listed | 3 | 3 |
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 2, 2026 | Oct 29, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | EMERGENT INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED | Cape Wired |
FAQ
Growth Journey and Store Audit: common questions
- Is Growth Journey or Store Audit cheaper?
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $19/month for Growth Journey and $19/month for Store Audit. 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?
- Growth Journey lists 11 the others don’t mention, such as AI generation, Analytics, Content analysis, Content optimization. Store Audit lists 5 the others don’t mention, such as 404 pages, Broken links, Robots.txt, Sitemaps. 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 3, 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 3, 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.