What sellers say about StoreLister: the Shopify store directory built for product research

I run a pet supplies store and used to spend my mornings scrolling tiktok for product ideas which is honestly a waste of time. Switched to using StoreLister over coffee instead. The pet niche has like 12 sub-categories so I can drill straight into pet beds or interactive toys or whatever I'm focused on that week. Found a feeder gadget last month that I'm now running ads on and it's pulling decent numbers, nothing crazy but consistent. The fact that the stores are new is what sold me. By the time something shows up on adspy half the dropshipping world is already running it.

Pro plan, 7 months in

wife and I run a side hustle dropshipping store, mostly home decor stuff. we research together on weekends, pull up the home & living niche, scroll through new stores, save ideas in a shared doc. it became part of our weekend routine which sounds nerdy but it's actually fun. found 3 products this quarter that did well for us. zero complaints.

honestly the best shopify product research workflow I've had. I check the new stores list every morning, filter by jewelry niche, and just see what's getting carried. Way better than the curated lists other tools push because those are usually a few months old by the time they hit me. The filter combo (one-product stores + under $50) saves me hours.

Monthly plan, Shopify seller since 2024

ex amazon seller, moved over to shopify last year and product research is a completely different game over here. amazon you look at BSR and you're done. shopify you have to figure out what stores are actually testing, what's pulling traction, what's worth touching. StoreLister fills that gap. I use it for the country filter mostly, I want to see what UK stores are listing because my supplier network is European. Would recommend it to any seller making the Amazon to Shopify transition.

I'm a beginner, like four months into dropshipping, and this was the first tool I subscribed to that didn't make me feel dumb. You just pick a niche, look at the stores, look at the products. There's no learning curve at all. The Finder swipe thing is fun when I don't know what I'm looking for. Sometimes I just open it while I'm watching tv and save anything that catches my eye for later research.

Started dropshipping in late 2025

Came over from a competitor that gave me trending product lists but no actual store context. The difference here is you see the whole catalog of a store, not just one product cherry-picked out of it. I can tell pretty quick if a store is testing one product hard or if they're building a real brand. That context changes which products I copy and which I skip. Most dropshipping software hands you a list and calls it a day, this hands you the actual market and lets you read it yourself.

Switched from another product research tool

almost didn't subscribe because there's no free trial which is annoying. but the monthly is cheap enough that I figured I'd risk it for a month. four months later and I've kept the subscription. doesn't try to be a million things, it's a shopify directory and a product directory and that's exactly what I needed. ended up sticking with it.

Subscribed mid-january and have been finding winning products at a steady clip. Not every product I test wins obviously but the hit rate is way better than when I was relying on tiktok trends. The Finder is my favorite feature when I have 20 minutes and just want to browse. The store directory is more for when I'm in research mode and need to focus.

Used to rely on instagram reels and influencer picks for product ideas but those are saturated within a week. Found a small kitchen gadget niche on here that wasnt on anyones radar yet, ran ads for a couple weeks, did alright before competitors started copying. Wouldn't have spotted it without browsing newly opened stores. That's the actual edge: fresh data, not recycled lists.

Full-time dropshipper, 3 years

My main shop is handcrafted jewelry on Shopify, and I use StoreLister to study what other one-product stores in the jewelry niche are doing. Not to copy products but to study how they structure their catalogs, pricing tiers, product descriptions. The data is current which is what matters. Looking at a store that opened 8 months ago tells me nothing useful, looking at one from last month is gold.

Boutique jewelry, Etsy + Shopify

Pet niche seller on shopify here, and the level of niche depth in this tool is what gets me. Pet supplies has like a dozen sub-niches and you can drill into pet beds, pet feeders, pet toys, etc separately. Most tools just have one massive pets bucket. The granularity matters when you're competing in a category that's already crowded, you need to enter on a sub-niche that's still wide open.

Pet niche store, second year

Agency owner here, I run product research for 4 client stores in different niches. Before this I had spreadsheets full of shopify URLs I'd manually scrape, basically running my own makeshift shopify scraper which was a mess. The fact that new stores get added daily and the products are already sorted by niche is the whole game for me. I can hand a client a fresh batch of ideas every week without burning a full day digging. The price filter is clutch when a client's margin range is locked in.

side hustle dropshipper, do this on weekends between my actual job. an hour every saturday morning on StoreLister gives me enough product ideas for the whole week. for anyone trying to find products to sell without committing 40 hours a week to research, this is the move. the niche categorization is what makes that possible. I can jump straight into the categories I'm focused on without scrolling forever. would not have stuck with dropshipping past month two without this kind of tool.

Best shopify spy tool I've used and I've tried most of them. Niche scraper, ecomhunt, the lot. The reason this one stuck is the daily store updates. Everything else either curates picks (slow) or gives you ad-based discoveries (filtered through whoever else is running ads). This shows me what stores are actually listing. Different signal.

Tried 4 other tools first

Spent the last 6 weeks using this almost daily for digital product research. The fact that digital products has its own category was unexpected, most product research tools completely ignore that segment. The TLD filter is something I didn't think I needed until I used it. Just one star off for personal stylistic reasons, nothing actually wrong with the platform itself. Would recommend it to anyone doing serious digital product research on Shopify.

Had a real moment with this tool last month. Was about to launch a store in a niche I thought was wide open, did 20 minutes of filtering on StoreLister and realized there were already 40+ stores in that exact micro-niche launched in the past 3 months. Pivoted to a different sub-niche before I sunk money into ads. Saved me a launch I would have regretted.

Two-store owner, planning a third

shopify product research used to mean me clicking through 50 random stores trying to spot patterns. now I can filter to home goods stores with under 10 products selling between $30-$80 and get a clean list of exactly what I want to study. Winning products in my niche have come straight out of that filter combo three times this year. It's the kind of tool I wish existed when I started in 2022.

It's useful and the data is solid. My three stars are more about my own expectations than the product itself. I came in hoping for more guidance alongside the data, things like case studies or walkthroughs of how successful sellers actually use this to land on products. What you get is the directory and the trust to figure out the rest, which is fine but takes adjustment if you're still building intuition. Still keep the subscription and would recommend it with the caveat that you'll do the analytical work yourself.

Quick honest take: it's a shopify directory that actually works the way you'd expect. Niches are organized, search works, filters do what they say. Most shopify stores list tools out there have bloated dashboards full of fake metrics, this one just shows you the stores and the products and lets you decide. Refreshing tbh.

Quarterly plan

Good product overall and I use it weekly. The store directory is the part I use most, the swipe finder I tried twice and went back to the directory view. The number of filter combinations is honestly a lot once you start stacking them, took me a few sessions to settle on the workflow that actually suits how I research. Solid for the price, would recommend to anyone past the trend-chasing stage of dropshipping.

Monthly plan, 3 months

annual plan since september and have zero regrets. ~$21/month for a tool that's directly tied to which products I test is a no brainer. the data quality is what surprised me most. expected a bunch of dead stores or junk listings, instead got fresh stuff almost every day. good purchase.

running ads for clients and need to feed them a constant stream of validated product ideas. this is the cleanest source I've found. shopify product research is half the job in this business and the time we save on discovery means more billable hours on actual ad work. switched our whole agency over after testing it on one account first.

Agency, 8 active clients