Merchint: True Profit AI vs MerchLens AI
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 14, 2026 for Merchint, Nov 12, 2026 for MerchLens AI.
The short answer
- Paid plans start at $49/month for Merchint and $8.95/month for MerchLens AI.
- Merchint lists 3 features MerchLens AI’s listing doesn’t mention, including Marketing attribution, Profit insights, ROAS.
Head to head
Analyst
- · Blended ROAS vs platform-claimed
- · Business Memory learns your store
- · Daily AI insight in your inbox
- · Growth Runway — safe spend ceiling
- · LTV, CAC, and payback by market
- · Stock-aware Google + Meta feeds
Media Buyer
- · All Analyst features included
- · Avoids over-tweaking your campaigns
- · Budget calculator + value targets
- · Campaign-level profit insights
- · Klaviyo segments from real windows
- · Sale review — did it make money?
Manager
- · All Media Buyer features included
- · COGS import + per-market LTV
- · Daily action with one-click apply
- · Google Ads hygiene + waste audit
- · Keyword-to-campaign builder
- · Multi-market profit view
Starter
- · 200 AI questions a month
- · Chatbot connectors
- · Reorder report
- · Sales and inventory dashboard
- · Weekly AI briefing
Growth
- · 500 AI questions a month
- · Brand scorecard
- · Customer segments
- · Everything in Starter
- · Lifecycle and markdown optimizer
- · Sales forecast and seasonality
Pro
- · 750 AI questions a month
- · Buying planner
- · Churn risk and win-back lists
- · Everything in Growth
- · Priority support
Premier
- · 1,000 AI questions a month
- · AI style tagging from product photos
- · Everything in Pro
- · Marketing planner
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureShopify, Google, and Meta each have an AI now — and each optimizes for its own platform, using numbers that don't include your costs. Merchint is the layer above them: it blends your orders, ad spend, COGS, and customer lifetime value into true profit, then delivers one daily action — scale, trim, or hold — sized so it can't breach your margin. Apply it in one click; Merchint remembers the outcome and gets sharper.
MerchLens AI turns your Shopify orders, products and inventory into clear answers for independent boutiques. See sales against prior years with a forecast for the months ahead, which styles to reorder, hold or mark down, which brands, sizes and colors sell, and the customers worth inviting back.
- Resolves Google + Meta double-counting using your real Shopify revenue
- Estimated profit dashboard — blends your store, Google Ads, and Meta Ads
- Growth Runway — your safe ad spend ceiling, even when margins are tight
- Daily AI insight surfaces the highest-leverage profit decision
- Sales vs. prior years with a forecast built from your own seasons
- Reorder, hold or mark-down calls for every style, with stock at risk
- Weekly AI briefing and plain-English answers about your store
- Brand scorecard, size and color mix, and customer win-back lists
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 |  Merchint | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Merchint | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Merchint | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Not listed | Not listed |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $49/month | $8.95/month(ahead) |
| Longest free trial | Not listed | 14 days |
| Plans listed | 3 | 4 |
Listing
| Measure | Merchint | |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #1088 | Not enough data |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Jun 9, 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | Merchint | SparTech Software |
FAQ
Merchint and MerchLens AI: common questions
- Is Merchint or MerchLens AI cheaper?
- Paid plans start at $49/month for Merchint and $8.95/month for MerchLens AI. 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?
- Merchint lists 3 the others don’t mention, such as Marketing attribution, Profit insights, ROAS. MerchLens AI lists 1 the others don’t mention, such as Segmentation. 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 14, 2026 for Merchint, Nov 12, 2026 for MerchLens AI; 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 14, 2026 for Merchint, Nov 12, 2026 for MerchLens AI. 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.