MarketGuard vs Markets QA ‑ Market Checks
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
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $9.99/month for MarketGuard and $29/month for Markets QA.
Head to head
Free
- · Availability Guard
- · Manual store verification
- · Monitor 1 Shopify Market
- · Monitor up to 10 products
Starter
- · Daily automatic verification
- · Email alerts
- · Monitor up to 2 Markets
- · Monitor up to 250 products
- · Regional Price Guard
Guard
- · 12-hour reconciliation
- · Change Guard
- · Currency Guard
- · Monitor up to 1,000 products
- · Monitor up to 5 Markets
- · Priority continuous monitoring
Pro
- · 6-hour reconciliation
- · Change Guard
- · Currency Guard
- · Highest processing priority
- · Monitor up to 10 Markets
- · Monitor up to 2,500 products
Free
- · 1 manual scan per day
- · 1 selected market
- · 7-day scan history
- · Core checks, evidence, ignore and snooze
- · Issue email alerts
- · Weekly scheduled scan
Starter
- · 3 manual scans per day
- · 30-day scan history
- · Core checks, evidence, ignore and snooze
- · Daily scheduled scan
- · Issue email alerts
- · Up to 3 selected markets
Growth
- · 10 manual scans per day
- · 90-day scan history
- · Core checks, evidence, ignore and snooze
- · Daily scheduled scan
- · Issue email alerts
- · Up to 10 selected markets
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureMarketGuard monitors Shopify Markets for product availability, regional amount, currency configuration, and meaningful catalog changes. Availability Guard finds products that lose Market access. Guard checks regional currency changes. Currency Guard verifies eligible digital products against Market currency settings. Change Guard shows what changed since the last check.
Markets QA creates a merchant-approved baseline for each selected Shopify Market, then checks it on a schedule for changes in product publication, currency, fixed prices, and web presence. Review affected markets and before-and-after evidence in Shopify Admin, ignore intentional differences, snooze a finding, and review scan history.
- Detect products that unexpectedly lose Market availability
- Check regional currency across your monitored Shopify Markets
- Verify eligible digital products against Market currency settings
- Track meaningful availability, amount, currency, and product changes
- Approve a baseline for the markets you choose to monitor
- Check product publication, currency, fixed prices, and web presence
- See before-and-after evidence for every detected difference
- Ignore intentional differences or snooze a finding for 24 hours
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 |  MarketGuard |  Markets QA |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | MarketGuard | Markets QA |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | MarketGuard | Markets QA |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $9.99/month(ahead) | $29/month |
| Longest free trial | Not listed | Not listed |
| Plans listed | 4 | 3 |
Listing
| Measure | MarketGuard | Markets QA |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #38 | #1573 |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Sep 25, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | THAVIQ | Tuesday Ops |
FAQ
MarketGuard and Markets QA: common questions
- Is MarketGuard or Markets QA cheaper?
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $9.99/month for MarketGuard and $29/month for Markets QA. Shoplist compares base prices only between monthly plans in the same currency; usage charges and annual plans vary, so check each plan’s limits.
- 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.