About Koala Apps
About Koala Apps Your Shopify Success Champions
Koala Apps builds affordable, accessible competitive-intelligence tools that give every Shopify seller a fair shot at success.
By the numbers
95,200
Weekly Revealed Products
250,000+
Downloads
112,500
Weekly Revealed Shops
2,550
Weekly Revealed Apps
Our story
Koala Apps was founded in 2018 by eCommerce sellers who kept running into the same wall: the tools that could show you what a competitor was selling, which Shopify theme they were using, or whether their ad campaigns were working all cost hundreds of dollars a month, if they worked for Shopify at all. The founders wanted something specific, affordable, and browser-native.
The first version of Koala Inspector launched as a Chrome extension that could reveal a Shopify store's theme, apps, and products in a single click. Within the first year more than 50,000 eCommerce sellers had installed it. The product grew from there: app detection, sales tracking, traffic estimation, and ad campaign analysis were all added based on what users asked for. By 2023 the installed base had crossed 150,000.
Today Koala Apps is used by more than 250,000 sellers in over 100 countries. Dropshippers, brand founders, and agency researchers use the tools to spot winning products, audit competitor stores before entering a niche, and track what the top stores in a category are doing week to week. The pricing stayed accessible on purpose: there is a free forever plan, and Premium runs $22/month, so the tools work for someone building their first store, not just established brands with a research budget.
Our mission
Give every Shopify seller real visibility into what their competitors are doing, at a price that works for a one-person store and a fifty-person team alike.
Our vision
A Shopify ecosystem where the quality of a seller's competitive research is not limited by their budget. Good data should not be a premium feature.
What we actually build
Koala Inspector started because the founders were running Shopify stores and wanted to know what theme a competitor was using and which apps were powering their checkout. The only ways to find out were to spend hours digging through source code or pay for an enterprise research tool that was built for agencies, not sellers. Neither felt right.
The solution was a browser extension that does the digging for you. Open a Shopify store, click the extension, and see the theme, the installed apps, the product catalog, estimated sales volume, and ad activity in one place. Sellers use it before entering a new niche, when scouting products to add to their own store, or just to keep an eye on what the stores they compete with are doing.
We add features when enough users ask for the same thing. Sales tracking came from users who wanted to know if a competitor's new product was actually selling or just well-presented. The free theme detector and app detector tools came from users who wanted a quick answer without opening the full extension. That pattern continues: the backlog is shaped by what people actually ask about in support, not by what sounds impressive in a product roadmap.
Our products
A suite of Shopify-focused tools built for eCommerce professionals.