Short answer: if the job is watching your store live, CartSpy is built for exactly that: every add to cart, checkout and abandoned cart as it happens, shopper by shopper, in a compact view that opens straight on your carts and that you can leave open on your phone and your desktop. Each morning a short email sums up yesterday's carts.
If you'd rather have recovery emails, exit popups, a free plan or session replays, other apps list those. They are named further down.
Disclosure: we make CartSpy. Facts about other apps come from their public Shopify App Store listings, read on 29 September 2026.
One screen, the Live View, that you glance at between other things: on your phone in the Shopify app, or in a browser tab next to your work.
One shopper adds a jacket to a cart that already holds something else. Another pays. A third reaches checkout. Each of them is one card, with the product, the cart total and the city, and when a shopper takes the next step, their card moves to the top with it.
Carts, checkouts and orders arrive in the same feed, so you can follow one shopper from the first add to cart to the paid order, and see which channel or campaign sent them.
When a shopper leaves, CartSpy keeps the cart: the products, the value, where the shopper came from and the stage they reached, Cart or Checkout. That includes carts left before checkout, which Shopify's abandoned checkouts don't list. See abandoned carts before checkout.
Around 6 AM in your store's time zone, CartSpy emails a short summary of yesterday: carts, checkouts and orders, where the carts came from, the abandoned carts with what was in them, and anything worth fixing today. You know how the day went before you open anything. What's in the email.
Essential, $7.99 a month, includes everything above: the Live View, abandoned carts, traffic sources and campaigns, and the daily email. 7-day free trial.
Advanced, $14.99 a month, adds longer history, search, stock, broken-link and bot reports, and all CSV exports.
The price doesn't depend on your traffic. CartSpy installs from the Shopify App Store and listens through Shopify's web pixel, so there is nothing to add to your theme.
CartSpy deliberately does one job. These apps list the things it leaves out:
From each app's Shopify App Store listing, read on 29 September 2026. Plans change; check the listing before you install.
More about CartSpy: live cart tracking, who is on your store right now and CartSpy next to Shopify's own Live View. The listing: CartSpy on the Shopify App Store (apps.shopify.com/cartspy).
It depends on the job. If you want to watch your store live, cart by cart, in a view you can keep open on your phone and your desktop, CartSpy is built for exactly that, and it sums up yesterday's carts in a short email each morning. If you would rather have recovery emails, exit popups, a free plan or session replays, other apps list those; this page names them.
Yes. CartSpy's Live View has its own phone layout: each cart is one compact card with the shopper's location, their latest step, the product and the cart total. It opens in the Shopify mobile app like any other Shopify app, and while it is open it keeps updating by itself.
Cartlytics, RealtimeStack and LivePeek list free plans on their Shopify App Store listings (read 29 September 2026). CartSpy has no free plan: Essential is $7.99 a month after a 7-day free trial.
No. CartSpy shows you the carts and where each shopper stopped; it sends nothing to your shoppers. Cartlytics lists built-in recovery emails and Cart Whisper lists exit-intent popups, if you want those in one app.
The team that makes CartSpy. Facts about other apps come from their public Shopify App Store listings, read on 29 September 2026. Plans and prices change, so check each listing before you install.
Install, and the Live View fills as soon as someone adds to their cart. 7-day free trial, cancel any time.
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