SEO Checkup ‑ AI SEO Audit vs StoreHQ: SEO & AEO Audit
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Aug 21, 2026 for SEO Checkup, Oct 14, 2026 for StoreHQ.
The short answer
- Only StoreHQ lists a free plan.
- StoreHQ lists 9 features SEO Checkup’s listing doesn’t mention, including 404 pages, ALT text, Audits.
Head to head
Momentum
New reviews each month
Review pace is the clearest public read on how fast an app is winning new merchants.
Free
- · 1 lifetime scan
- · Affected pages and fix guidance
- · Full-store SEO and AEO audits
- · Rendered HTML and crawler checks
- · Scores and prioritized issues
- · Up to 50 pages per scan
Starter
- · 2 rescans per month
- · Affected pages and fix guidance
- · Full-store SEO and AEO audits
- · Rendered HTML and crawler checks
- · Scores and prioritized issues
- · Up to 250 pages per scan
Growth
- · 5 rescans per month
- · Affected pages and fix guidance
- · Custom page allocation by type
- · Full-store SEO and AEO audits
- · Rendered HTML and crawler checks
- · Scores and prioritized issues
Pro
- · 10 rescans per month
- · Affected pages and fix guidance
- · Custom page allocation by type
- · Full-store SEO and AEO audits
- · Hand-pick exact URLs to audit
- · Rendered HTML and crawler checks
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureMost SEO tools score you for Google. SEO Checkup scores you twice — once for Google, once for AI search — because the two often disagree. A store Google is happy with can still be invisible when someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity for products like yours. 34 checks across your products, blog posts and site settings name the exact products affected and what to change.
StoreHQ runs a full, read-only technical SEO and AEO audit of your Shopify store - no edits, ever - checking readiness for Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other AI search engines. Scan titles, meta descriptions, headings, alt text, JSON-LD structured data, internal links, canonicals, crawlability, robots.txt, llms.txt, agents.md, sitemaps, and redirects.
- Full store scan with a 0-100 score across products, content, and site basics.
- Every issue includes a clear explanation and guidance on how to fix it.
- Run a full-store SEO and AEO audit from Shopify admin in one scan.
- Compare admin SEO fields with what your live storefront pages render.
- Check robots.txt, sitemap coverage, agents.md, llms.txt for crawler readiness.
- See SEO and AEO scores with issues grouped by severity and category.
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 |  SEO Checkup |  StoreHQ |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | SEO Checkup | StoreHQ |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | Not published | 5.0 ★ |
| App Store reviews | Not published | 6 |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
Pricing
| Measure | SEO Checkup | StoreHQ |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Not listed | Yes |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | No monthly plan listed | $19/month |
| Longest free trial | Not listed | Not listed |
| Plans listed | Not published | 4 |
Listing
| Measure | SEO Checkup | StoreHQ |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #254 | #135(ahead) |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | No |
| Launched | Jun 30, 2026 | Jun 26, 2026 |
| Languages | 3 | 1 |
| Developer | Patrick Lin | StoreHQ |
FAQ
SEO Checkup and StoreHQ: common questions
- Is SEO Checkup or StoreHQ cheaper?
- Only StoreHQ lists a free plan. 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?
- SEO Checkup lists 3 the others don’t mention, such as Metadata optimization, Rich snippets, Speed optimization. StoreHQ lists 9 the others don’t mention, such as 404 pages, ALT text, Audits, Broken links. 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 Aug 21, 2026 for SEO Checkup, Oct 14, 2026 for StoreHQ; 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 Aug 21, 2026 for SEO Checkup, Oct 14, 2026 for StoreHQ. 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.