“Knowledge is Power,” said a wise man, once.
That goes double when it comes to your competition. As the writer of the infamous “The Art of War,” Ancient Chinese General Sun Tzu said, if you know yourself and your enemies, you won’t lose a battle.
Here we list more than 11 best Shopify Spying Tools that are currently available and recommended online as of 2021.
Use this list to understand your competitors, discover new winning products and gain valuable insight into what works and how you can optimize your existing campaigns and stores.
Shopspook
Here’s something new and a little different, our own Google shopping spy tool, Shopspook.
With most of the other dropshipping spy tools you’re looking at data scraped from stores directly, or perhaps Amazon or Facebook ads.
With bestseller data scraped from popular stores, you cant really be sure where those sales came from and if you can really trust that each store claims its bestsellers are. Their bestsellers might by heavily influenced by sales converted from email listings, affiliates, references and social circles where the quality of the product may not be a direct reflection of its success as a “bestseller”.
Shopspook provides you analyzed and real time data directly from your competitors Google shopping ad campaigns.
Paid Google product listing ads are tough to make successful meaning you can be almost 100% certain that the most consistently popular products in your Google product listing ads keyword niche are winners and that those competitors have spent a lot of time optimizing their ad copy, landing pages and other assets.
Knowing for certain what products are winners with competitive paid Google ads can give you a ton of insight into selecting new products for your store or improving your own products, ad copy, feeds, landing pages and other marketing assets.
Shopspook reveals the winning products and competitors across all your selected keywords, ideal for discovering the latest top products in your niche as of right now (no old useless from months ago).
Price: US$9 / for 100 keywords (which analyzes and sorts over 10k products listing ads in your niche)
Intelligynce
Intelligynce is a dropshipping spy tool that is especially useful for advanced users.
We really like Intelligyence because of all the bonus software that is included in the bundle such as Ali Inspector 2 and Keyword Generator tool as its useful for analyzing and getting data from multiple other sources.
Considering all the functions, its a great research tool, and is also fairly affordable.
Price: $99 lifetime access.
ShopInspect
One of the more interesting dropshipping spy tools that is currently on the market.
They provide you with both Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and a Live Team of eCommerce Analysts.
On top of that, they claim that their system can provide information of on products before they go viral so if you are looking for new products to offer on your store and ride the coming wave, check it out.
Price: $19/month
AdPlexity Ecommerce
AdPlexity claims to offer in-depth analysis of the strongest stores on the market. It provides details and analytic content about the stores they claim to be the strongest.
They only provide real-time analysis for the strongest stores but this should be able to provide good insight depending on your niche.
It might be a great investment if you are already running a successful dropshipping business and have the funds to spare, but if you are just starting off, it can be a bit pricey.
Price: $199/month or $1990/year
NicheScraper
One of the most popular spying tools that is currently on the market right now. NicheScraper provides data on new products and a wide range of additional operations for you to make research easier.
Offers store analysis for Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, and eBay.
Price: Not shown
Commerce Inspector
Commerce Inspector is another dropshipping spying tool that is popular and easy to use.
With one simple click, it allows you to see bestsellers, with another click it shows product insights. It also has a great notification system which can save you time.
Definitely worth it if you are not looking to get a full-on spy tool experience.
Price: $59/month (10 unlimited data for 10 stores.)
Ecomhunt
Ecomhunt is a great niche products spy tool. They add new options for winning products every day.
Even though the tool doesn’t claim to be the best spy tool for dropshippers, we thought it worked the best while analyzing niche products.
It is fairly easy to use and provides its members with a whole variety of best-selling products every day.
Price: $29
Bigspy
Bigspy is a popular ad spy tool, not only for shopify or ecommernce. It provides analysis for over 7 platforms with 10 filtering features.
They also use an impressive dataset with over a billion ads in it.
One major downside is that they don’t offer anything special for individual dropshipping store owners, great for researching ads for other systems.
Price: Starts from only $9
Sell the Trend
Sell the Trend Provides a fully automated spy tool to help you run your dropshipping business.
Sell the Trend is not just a spy tool, it’s an all-in-one dropshipping solution for everything you need to get started. It provides templates, product listings, supplier listings, and many other features to provide you with a great dropshipping experience.
However, it has it’s limitations when all it’s features considered individually. If you need a great and unique sales template, you might find an ideal one elsewhere. If you are looking for a great spy tool, there may be better ones, but it all depends on your needs,
It’s quite useful if you are not only new to spy tools but to also dropshipping in general.
Price: $39/month
Dropship Spy
Dropship spy offers you a reliable spy tool as a way for you to find and list trending products easier.
They host over 5,000 products to choose from. On top of that, they also analyze what is trending on social media to help provide you more insight.
In our judgement, it does what it claims to do but there may be tools which provide more detailed or comprehensive info.
Price: $49/month
We’ve already covered 10 of the best spy tools that do a great job of analyzing what’s trending on eBay, Amazon, Shopify and more.
In addition to that, we also want to provide you with 2 of the best spy tools to analyze paid social media and other types of ads.
Poweradspy
PowerAdSpy is a great niche spying tool that focuses on what’s trending using Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube, Native advertising, and more.
It provides a great overall spying tool to be used on everything social media and ppc ads related.
Price: Starts from $49/month for facebook
Adspy
AdSpy is another great tool that is purely focused on social ads. It’s database searches products from Facebook and Instagram ads.
It’s fairly easy to use and it’s a great addition to have if you do ppc and social media ads.
Spying tools are essential to use if you are thinking about launching a successful dropshipping business. Most people don’t put the time and the effort in finding the best products to list on their stores or researching competitors. This results in them losing a lot of their time and money after failing to receive any return on their investment.