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TrendTrack

Ecommerce competitive intelligence platform combining a Shopify store database, a multi-network ad library, a Meta advertiser directory and competitor email research.

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Best for: Agencies · Shopify Brands · DTC Brands · Large Teams · Meta Advertisers

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At a glance

Starting price
$59 / month
Pricing model
Subscription
Free plan
Yes
Category
Ad Intelligence

Quick verdict

Best for
Agencies · Shopify Brands · DTC Brands · Large Teams
Not ideal for
Ad reach and spend data only covers ads running in the EU and the UK, a consequence of Meta's disclosure scope, so it cannot answer spend questions about US-only advertisers.
Why it stands out
Combines store research, multi-network ad research, advertiser discovery and competitor email analysis in one workspace, replacing several single-purpose subscriptions.

Overview

TrendTrack consolidates four research jobs that ecommerce teams usually spread across separate subscriptions: finding stores worth studying, reverse-engineering their ad creative, identifying the Meta Pages behind those ads, and reading their email programme.

The Shops database is filterable on niche, country, traffic, growth, creation date and Shopify theme, with pre-built smart segments for common profiles. Any store opens into an analytics view covering traffic trend and visitor countries, technology stack with a change history, live ads over time, published products with best sellers, Trustpilot ratings and social follower growth. A Similar Shops view surfaces comparable stores from there, and saved views and folders keep research organised.

On the advertising side, the creative library spans the Meta, Google and TikTok ad libraries with filters on format, engagement, country, spend and days running, plus a reverse image search that finds visually similar ads from a screenshot. An Ad Rank indicator positions each creative against its peers. Per shop, a dedicated Meta view lays out the full ad history, top performers, media mix, landing-page distribution, ad copy and video transcripts, and testing timelines. Reach and spend come from Meta's own transparency reporting rather than a proprietary spend model, with a hard limitation TrendTrack states openly: those figures only exist for ads running in the EU and the UK.

BrandTracker turns a chosen competitor set into a watchlist refreshed every 24 hours across ads launched and live, email activity, traffic and product launches, with automated summaries of each brand's ad strategy. The Mail research includes both a cross-brand campaign library and per-store analysis of automated flows, sending cadence and campaign calendar with full design and copy.

The API and MCP endpoint add a programmatic research layer: an AI assistant can pull stores, ads, advertisers and emails in natural language rather than only through the TrendTrack interface. TrendTrack also publishes an official n8n template for REST or MCP workflows. API/MCP usage is credit-metered, and at least one recent public reviewer reports that AI queries can consume credits quickly.

Pricing deserves attention before purchase. Starter is deliberately a store-research plan: no ad library, no advertiser database, no API or MCP, and BrandTracker capped at two brands. Pro is the first tier with the ad and creative tooling most buyers associate with the product. Result browsing is credit-metered, with filter changes and additional result pages consuming allowance, so exploratory research can use credits even where a result category is labelled unlimited. A current official 2026 article confirms a functional free entry tier; the older Terms call it Lite, but current quotas are not published. No separate time-limited trial of the paid plans is documented.

Public third-party feedback is concentrated on Trustpilot, which showed 83 reviews at the research date. Most reviews are positive and several praise support responsiveness, while a small number raise concerns about API-credit consumption, plan clarity, billing or refunds. These are individual user reports rather than verified product facts.

Pricing

Plan data as recorded from the vendor's public pricing page.

Lite

Monthly

Free

Annual

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Pricing model
Subscription
Seats
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Limits
Free tier. Current official TrendTrack documentation confirms functional free access for competitor-brand search and ad-creative exploration. Public quotas are not published.
StarterEntry plan

Monthly

$59 / monthper workspace

Annual

$504 / year($42 / month billed annually)
Pricing model
Subscription
Seats
1
Limits
Unlimited monthly Shop results. BrandTracker capped at 2 tracked brands. Mail capped at 20 flow results and 3 campaign results per month. No Ads Library, no Advertisers database, no API/MCP access. Quarterly billing is 51/month (-15%); annual billing is 42/month (-30%), i.e. 504 for the 12-month term. Result browsing is credit-metered: each filter applied, value changed or next page counts as 1 credit.
ProPopular

Monthly

$89 / monthper workspace

Annual

$756 / year($63 / month billed annually)
Pricing model
Subscription
Seats
1
Limits
Unlimited Ads, Shops and Mail results. BrandTracker capped at 30 tracked brands. Advertisers capped at 2,000 monthly page results. API/MCP included with a monthly credit allowance (the exact figure is rendered client-side and could not be read from the page). API rate limits: 20 req/s, 120 req/min, 1,200 req/hr, 24,000 req/day. Quarterly billing at 76/month (-15%); annual at 63/month (-30%), i.e. 756 for the 12-month term.
Business

Monthly

$149 / monthper workspace

Annual

$1260 / year($105 / month billed annually)
Pricing model
Subscription
Seats
3
Limits
3 users included, additional seats at 29 each. Unlimited Ads, Shops, Mail, BrandTracker brands and Advertisers results. API rate limits: 40 req/s, 250 req/min, 6,000 req/hr, 50,000 req/day. Quarterly billing at 127/month (-15%); annual at 105/month (-30%), i.e. 1,260 for the 12-month term.
Enterprise

Monthly

Contact sales

Annual

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Pricing model
Contact sales
Seats
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Limits
Custom pricing, quoted on request. Advertised as unlimited users and product usage, a custom API contract for high-volume data needs, a dedicated Slack channel with an account manager, and custom development on request.
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Features

Ad Intelligence

  • Creative Research

    Requires Pro or higher; not available on Starter · Creative library filterable by format, engagement, country, spend and days running, with an Ad Rank relative-performance indicator, a contextual drawer per ad, and extraction of recurring hooks, angles, CTAs and copy variations. Saved creatives go into shareable folders.

    Yes

  • Landing Page Spying

    Requires Pro or higher · Ads are tied to the landing pages they point to: the per-shop Meta view reports the distribution of top landing pages and the share of traffic sent to home, product and collection pages.

    Yes

  • Meta Ads Research

    Requires Pro or higher; not available on Starter · Meta ad library search plus a dedicated per-shop Meta breakdown covering ad history, top performers, media mix, landing pages, copy and video transcripts. Reach and spend figures come from Meta's own ad transparency reporting and are limited to EU and UK ads.

    Yes

  • Pinterest Ads Research

    TrendTrack's official plan comparison enumerates its included ad libraries as Meta, Google and TikTok. Pinterest is not listed as a TrendTrack ad-research library; recorded as `no` with medium confidence because the conclusion rests on the vendor's explicit network list, not on simple site-search absence.

    not supported

  • TikTok Ads Research

    Requires Pro or higher; not available on Starter · TikTok is one of the three ad libraries listed as included on the Pro and Business plans in the pricing comparison table.

    Yes

AI

  • AI Analysis

    Meta Ads strategy insights included on all paid plans · Automated analysis of a tracked brand's ad strategy (posting frequency, formats used, key messages). The MCP page additionally demonstrates generated market briefs summarising a set of tracked brands.

    Yes

General

  • API Access

    Requires Pro or higher; not available on Starter · REST API with published rate limits (20 req/s, 120 req/min, 1,200 req/hr, 24,000 req/day on Pro; 40 req/s, 250 req/min, 6,000 req/hr, 50,000 req/day on Business). The public API billing guide states that each active workspace plan includes 10,000 recurring API credits per month; top-up credits carry over. Starter does not include API/MCP access, while Enterprise offers a custom high-volume contract.

    Yes

  • Team Collaboration

    1 seat on Starter and Pro, 3 on Business with paid extra seats, unlimited on Enterprise · Folders of saved ads, emails and shops can be shared with teammates for collaborative research. Each workspace member gets their own access and their own credit allowance. limit_value reflects the Business plan's included seats.

    Yes

Product Research

  • Product Tracking

    Included on all paid plans · Shop Analytics lists published products with best sellers and newest additions, and BrandTracker monitors product launches for tracked brands on a 24-hour refresh.

    Yes

  • Shopify Store Tracking

    Included on all paid plans · Shops database filterable by niche, country, traffic, growth, creation date and Shopify theme; per-shop analytics covering traffic trend and visitor countries, technologies used with change history, live ads over time, catalogue, Trustpilot reviews and social growth; plus a Similar Shops view and a BrandTracker watchlist refreshed every 24 hours.

    Yes

Only features we have evaluated are listed. A feature that is not listed has not been evaluated — it is not a statement that the tool lacks it.

Integrations

  • n8n

    TrendTrack publishes an official n8n workflow template. It can be connected through the TrendTrack API key using either an MCP Client Tool node or an HTTP Request node for REST workflows.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Combines store research, multi-network ad research, advertiser discovery and competitor email analysis in one workspace, replacing several single-purpose subscriptions.
  • Pro and Business include access to the Meta, Google and TikTok ad libraries in the same research workspace.
  • Reach and spend figures are pulled from Meta's ad transparency reporting rather than a proprietary estimate, and the vendor states the EU/UK scope limitation openly on the pricing page instead of burying it.
  • API and MCP access let Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini query TrendTrack data directly, and an official n8n template supports automated REST/MCP workflows.
  • Email research goes beyond a swipe file: per-store automated flows, sending cadence and a campaign calendar make it possible to reconstruct a competitor's lifecycle programme, not just admire a single email.
  • A free Chrome extension surfaces traffic, Shopify theme, installed apps and best sellers on any store visited, and saves ads seen on TikTok, Instagram or Facebook into folders, allowing real evaluation of the data before paying.

Cons

  • Ad reach and spend data only covers ads running in the EU and the UK, a consequence of Meta's disclosure scope, so it cannot answer spend questions about US-only advertisers.
  • The entry Starter plan excludes the ad library, the advertiser database and API/MCP access outright and caps BrandTracker at two brands, making it a store-research plan rather than a lighter version of the full product. Reaching the advertised core capability means starting at Pro.
  • Result browsing is credit-metered: every filter applied, value changed and next page consumes allowance, so 'Unlimited' entitlements are bounded in practice by how exploratory the research is.

Frequently asked questions

What is TrendTrack used for?
Competitive research for ecommerce. It is used to find Shopify stores that are scaling, analyse their traffic, technology and product catalogue, study the ads they are running across Meta, Google and TikTok, identify the Meta Pages spending behind those ads, and read the email campaigns and automated flows they send. A BrandTracker watchlist then monitors a chosen competitor set on a 24-hour refresh.
How much does TrendTrack cost?
The current self-serve plans are Starter at $59/month, Pro at $89/month and Business at $149/month. Annual billing is shown as $42, $63 and $105 per month respectively, which corresponds to $504, $756 and $1,260 for a full 12-month term. Business includes three seats and lists additional seats at $29/month; Enterprise is custom pricing. TrendTrack's Terms state that prices are in USD. Some localized marketing output has shown euro symbols, so verify checkout if locale-specific billing matters.
Which ad platforms does TrendTrack cover?
The pricing comparison lists Meta, Google and TikTok as the ad libraries included, on the Pro and Business plans only. Pinterest is not covered. Reach and spend figures come from Meta's ad transparency reporting and, per the vendor, exist only for ads running in the EU and the UK.
Can I connect my own Shopify store to TrendTrack?
TrendTrack is documented primarily as a tool for analysing external Shopify stores rather than as a merchant-side Shopify app. In the official sources reviewed for this research, no Shopify App Store merchant install or OAuth connection for analysing your own store was documented. Its Shopify relationship is mainly data coverage: store themes, apps, catalogues and competitive signals.
Can TrendTrack be queried from an AI assistant?
Yes, on plans that include API/MCP access. TrendTrack publishes an MCP endpoint for AI clients including Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, and an official n8n template for automated REST or MCP workflows. Starter has no API/MCP access; Pro and higher tiers provide programmatic access according to the current pricing/docs.
How does the credit system work?
Result browsing is metered. According to the pricing page tooltips, each filter applied, each value changed and each additional page of results counts as one credit against the monthly allowance for Shops, Ads, Advertisers and Mail. The Terms of Service add that credits renew monthly or annually and that TrendTrack reserves the right to change how they are calculated or consumed.
What are TrendTrack's main limitations?
Three limitations matter most. Meta reach/spend data is geographically limited to EU/UK disclosure coverage. Starter does not include the ad library, advertiser database or API/MCP, so many of the headline research capabilities start at Pro. Finally, result browsing and API usage are credit-metered, so heavy exploratory or automated workflows can consume allowance quickly.

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