Low Inventory Alert Guru vs StockNest ‑ Inventory Alerts
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 22, 2026 for Low Inventory Alert Guru, Nov 6, 2026 for StockNest.
The short answer
- Only StockNest lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $6.95/month for Low Inventory Alert Guru and $7/month for StockNest.
- StockNest lists 11 features Low Inventory Alert Guru’s listing doesn’t mention, including Batch notifications, Custom alerts, Forecasting.
Head to head
Simplify inventory management. Monitor low stock levels easily
Momentum
New reviews each month
Review pace is the clearest public read on how fast an app is winning new merchants.
Starter Plan
- · - Locations
- · - Products
- · - SKUs
- · - Storewide
- · - Variants
- · 10 Credits: set 10 alerts of any type:
Essential Plan
- · 100 Credits (set 100 alerts of any type)
- · Everything in the Starter plan
Professional Plan
- · 500 Credits (set 500 alerts of any type)
- · Everything in the Essential plan
Enterprise Plan
- · Everything in the Professional plan
- · Set unlimited alerts of any type
- · Unlimited Credits
Free
- · 500 stock adjustments per month
- · Back-in-stock notices on recovery
- · Bulk stock adjustments, 50 records/run
- · Instant alerts or a daily/weekly digest
- · Low-stock and out-of-stock email alerts
- · Preview, live progress, one-click undo
Starter
- · 10,000 stock adjustments per month
- · CSV export of stock status
- · CSV import of reorder points
- · Drift alerts clear when stock is fixed
- · Everything in Free
- · Negative-stock (drift) detection
Pro
- · Cover-days + lead-time rules per scope
- · Days of cover for every product
- · Everything in Starter
- · Priority email support
- · Running-out-soon alerts (cover days)
- · Sales-velocity forecasting per item
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureEasy to use. No coding. No scripts to install. No rules to configure. Automatically get notified when inventory levels fall below thresholds you set. You can send the alert to one email address or multiple emails. The email can also include CSV file. This way, you can easily identify products that need attention.
StockNest keeps a live copy of your inventory levels for every location and watches it for two things: items about to run out, and stock that has gone negative. Set a default reorder point, then override it per SKU or per location. Alerts arrive as one deduplicated email or Slack digest, and clear themselves when stock recovers. Need to fix quantities?
- Track low inventory for all your Shopify locations, including POS & warehouses
- Set alerts by product, collection, variant, or storewide
- No complex rules needed to create alerts. No coding
- Run report on demand or schedule it. Bulk set alerts.
- Reorder points per SKU, product, collection, vendor, tag, location or default.
- Negative-stock detection so silent inventory drift surfaces as an alert
- Instant or daily/weekly digests by email or Slack; back-in-stock notices too
- Bulk stock adjustments: preview the exact records, apply in background, undo
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 |  Low Inventory Alert Guru | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Low Inventory Alert Guru | |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | 5.0 ★ | Not published |
| App Store reviews | 9 | Not published |
| New reviews, 28 days | 0 | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
Pricing
| Measure | Low Inventory Alert Guru | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Not listed | Yes |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $6.95/month(ahead) | $7/month |
| Longest free trial | 14 days | Not listed |
| Plans listed | 4 | 3 |
Listing
| Measure | Low Inventory Alert Guru | |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #204 | Not enough data |
| Shopify App Charts | #6 on Featured by Shopify in Inventory optimization | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Feb 14, 2020 | Oct 1, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | Cork Labs | AppNest Studio |
FAQ
Low Inventory Alert Guru and StockNest: common questions
- Is Low Inventory Alert Guru or StockNest cheaper?
- Only StockNest lists a free plan. Paid plans start at $6.95/month for Low Inventory Alert Guru and $7/month for StockNest. 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?
- Low Inventory Alert Guru lists 5 the others don’t mention, such as Alert settings, Auto-alerts, Inventory tracking, Low stock. StockNest lists 11 the others don’t mention, such as Batch notifications, Custom alerts, Forecasting, Import and export. 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 22, 2026 for Low Inventory Alert Guru, Nov 6, 2026 for StockNest; 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 22, 2026 for Low Inventory Alert Guru, Nov 6, 2026 for StockNest. 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.