Magicad vs Marketing Pulse ‑ ROAS Tracker

Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 13, 2026.

The short answer

  • Paid plans start at $149/month for Magicad and $29/month for Marketing Pulse.
  • Marketing Pulse lists 6 features Magicad’s listing doesn’t mention, including GDPR compliance, Marketing attribution, Notifications.

Head to head

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Pitch
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Categories
  • Analytics
  • Analytics
Languages
  • English
  • English
Launched
Apr 2, 2026
May 17, 2026
Built for Shopify
Not badged
Not badged
Reviews per month
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Detected stores
0active installs
0active installs
Most common store size
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Top countries
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Free options
Free planFree trial
Free planFree trial
Monthly range
From $149 to $249/month
From $29 to $79/month
Plans
Starter$149/month
  • · Basic AI advisor insights
  • · Daily data sync
Growth$249/month
  • · Hourly sync
  • · Up to 3 team users
Starter Plan$29/month
14-day free trial
Pro Plan$79/month
14-day free trial
Coverage
5 of 11 features45%
10 of 11 features91%
Unique strengths
  • Historical analysis
  • GDPR compliance
  • Marketing attribution
  • Notifications
  • Purchase tracking
  • +2 more
Analytics
45%5/11
91%10/11
Marketing and sales
40%2/5
100%5/5
Visuals and reports
50%3/6
83%5/6
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MagicadMarketing Pulse11 features listed across both App Store listings

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How it sells itself

Magicad connects Shopify, Google Ads, Meta Ads, and Stripe so merchants can manage data in one place. It consolidates sales, subscriptions, and ad spend into a single workspace with currency and timezone settings. Use it to review performance by channel and keep data sources synced.

Marketing Pulse connects your Meta and Google Ads accounts to Shopify and calculates true, cross-platform ROAS using first-party order data. The app attributes UTM-tagged clicks to real Shopify orders, aggregates spend and revenue per campaign, and surfaces the results in a simple analytics dashboard. Merchants receive a daily performance digest by email and Slack, plus optional SMS alerts on ROAS drops

Key points
  • Unified data workspace: Shopify, Google Ads, Meta Ads, and Stripe
  • Cross-channel performance view: Review sales, ad spend, and subscriptions
  • Guided setup for data: Step-by-step onboarding to connect each data sources
  • UTM-based attribution that matches ad clicks to real Shopify orders.
  • Daily performance reports with spend, revenue, and ROAS per platform.
  • Embedded analytics dashboard for Meta and Google Ads campaigns.
Screenshots
Unified marketing intelligence
Ads AdvisorPerformance OverviewConnected Sources
Slack notification
Page warnings and notificationsEMAIL notificationPage charts and compaing

All the numbers

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A green dot marks the app ahead on a measured figure. Estimates, gaps and apps that leave no storefront trace never take the lead.

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Adoption

MeasureMagicadMarketing Pulse
Detected storesNot publishedNot published
Net store change, 28 days0estimated0estimated
Stores added, 28 daysNot enough dataNot enough data
Big-brand shareNot enough dataNot enough data
Top store categoriesNot publishedNot published
Top store countriesNot publishedNot published

Reviews

MeasureMagicadMarketing Pulse
App Store ratingNot publishedNot published
App Store reviewsNot publishedNot published
New reviews, 28 daysNot enough dataNot enough data
Reviewers a year or more inNot enough dataNot enough data

Pricing

MeasureMagicadMarketing Pulse
Free planNot listedNot listed
Lowest paid monthly plan$149/month$29/month(ahead)
Longest free trialNot listed14 days
Plans listed22

Listing

MeasureMagicadMarketing Pulse
Shopify category rank#1165(ahead)in Analytics#1182in Analytics
Shopify App ChartsNot on this week’s chartsNot on this week’s charts
Built for ShopifyNoNo
LaunchedApr 2, 2026May 17, 2026
Languages1English1English
DeveloperMagicadMETRIXAI

FAQ

Magicad and Marketing Pulse: common questions

Is Magicad or Marketing Pulse cheaper?
Paid plans start at $149/month for Magicad and $29/month for Marketing Pulse. 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?
Magicad lists 1 the others don’t mention, such as Historical analysis. Marketing Pulse lists 6 the others don’t mention, such as GDPR compliance, Marketing attribution, Notifications, Purchase tracking. 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 13, 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 13, 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.