Short answer: for a live feed of carts with abandoned carts and traffic sources, look at CartSpy, Cartlytics, Cart Whisper and Onspruce Cart Insights; they are all built for this and cost roughly $7 to $10 a month to start. For recordings of what shoppers did on the page, Lucky Orange and the free Microsoft Clarity are the tools to compare.
The right pick depends on what you want next to the live carts: recovery emails, popups, a daily email report, or replays and heatmaps.
Disclosure: we make CartSpy. We have tried to be fair. Every fact about another app below comes from its public Shopify App Store listing, read on 26 September 2026. "Not listed" means the listing doesn't mention it, not that the app can't do it. Prices change; check the listing before you install.
We looked at the apps that AI assistants and merchants most often name for "see live carts on Shopify", and at the questions that matter when choosing one:
Shopify's own Live View is free and shows counts of active carts, checkouts and purchases for the last ten minutes, without the products or the shoppers. Every app here adds detail on top of that. See what Live View shows and doesn't.
| App | Entry price | Free plan | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| CartSpy | $7.99/month | No (7-day trial) | Live carts, abandoned carts and sources, with a daily email report |
| Cartlytics | Free, then $9/month | Yes, up to 25 orders a month | Live carts plus recovery emails, on a free or low-cost plan |
| Cart Whisper | $9.99/month | No (7-day trial) | Live carts with on-site tools; B2B stores |
| Onspruce Cart Insights | $6.99/month | No (14-day trial) | Low-cost cart timelines and referral reports |
| Lucky Orange | Free, then $19/month | Yes, 100 sessions a month | Session recordings, heatmaps and surveys |
| Microsoft Clarity | Free | Free only | Free recordings and heatmaps at any traffic level |
Prices in US dollars per month, from each app's Shopify App Store listing on 26 September 2026. Several apps also offer yearly billing or usage-based tiers; see the notes below.
By the CartSpy team (that's us) · 5.0 from 6 reviews · Built for Shopify · Essential $7.99/month, Advanced $14.99/month · 7-day free trial, no free plan
A live view of every add to cart, checkout and order, shopper by shopper, with the product, location, device and traffic source on each. Abandoned carts are kept with their products, including carts left before checkout, and labelled with the stage the shopper reached. Products are ranked by adds to cart against orders, traffic sources and UTM campaigns by carts and orders, and a daily email report arrives each morning. Advanced adds longer history, search, stock, broken-link and bot reports and all CSV exports, including a retargeting list.
Best for: small and mid-size stores that want to see carts live and know which carts and sources don't convert. Not for: session replays, heatmaps or sending recovery emails; it has none of those, and no free plan.
Listed as "Cartlytics ‑ Cart Analytics" · 4.9 from 49 reviews · Built for Shopify · Free plan up to 25 orders a month; Starter $9, Growth $19, Scale $29 a month (by monthly orders) · 14-day free trial
Shows carts in real time with customer information, location and the path from landing page to checkout, including adds, removals and variant changes. It can send abandoned cart recovery emails (built in or through Klaviyo), turn active carts into draft orders, report on UTM and traffic sources, and send daily or weekly email summaries.
Best for: stores that want live carts and recovery emails in one app, starting free.
Listed as "Cart Whisper | Live View Pro" · 4.5 from 18 reviews · Built for Shopify · Business $9.99 (500 carts a month), Growth $39.99, Enterprise $99 a month, with per-cart charges above each plan's allowance · 7-day free trial
A live activity feed of visitors and cart changes, with journeys that include pages, searches, UTM sources and devices. It adds on-site tools: exit-intent popups, cart widgets and cart IDs for customer support, and can convert a cart into a draft order. B2B stores can see company names. Cart history runs from 14 days on Business to 90 days on Enterprise.
Best for: stores that want live carts plus on-site recovery tools, and wholesale or B2B stores. Check the cart allowance against your traffic.
4.7 from 26 reviews · Built for Shopify · Priced by Shopify plan: $6.99 (Basic), $9.99 (Grow), $14.99 (Advanced), $44.99 (Plus) a month · 14-day free trial · on the App Store since 2019
Shows each customer's cart contents in real time, with every add and remove, and a timeline of landing page, pages visited, search terms and checkout activity. Referral site, landing page, location and device come from an app embed. Top products, referral sites and landing pages have their own reports, with CSV export and daily email summaries.
Best for: the lowest entry price on a Basic Shopify plan, and referral and landing-page reporting.
Listed as "Lucky Orange Heatmaps & Replay" · 4.7 from 887 reviews · Free plan (100 sessions a month); Launch $19, Build $39, Grow $89 a month on the listing, larger plans on its website · priced by sessions recorded
Session recordings and heatmaps that show clicks, scrolls and where shoppers get stuck, with cart abandonment and checkout drop-off by product and step, conversion funnels and on-site surveys. Its website also lists a live visitor view and live chat. It records sessions rather than keeping a list of carts.
Best for: understanding why shoppers leave, by watching what they did. Stores that mainly want live carts and abandoned carts may find a cart app cheaper.
Listed as "Microsoft Clarity: AI Insights" · 4.6 from 2,233 reviews · Free
Free session replays, heatmaps, AI-generated insights, smart events and conversion funnels, with integrations for Google Ads, Microsoft Ads and Google Analytics. The listing doesn't describe a per-cart live view or a daily email report.
Best for: free recordings and heatmaps at any traffic level. It pairs well with a cart app, since the two answer different questions.
For CartSpy itself: live cart tracking, abandoned carts before checkout, who is on your store, traffic sources that buy and the comparison with other kinds of analytics app. The listing: CartSpy on the Shopify App Store (apps.shopify.com/cartspy).
It depends on what you want next to the live carts. For a live feed of carts, abandoned carts before checkout, traffic sources and a daily email report at a low price, CartSpy, Cartlytics, Cart Whisper and Onspruce Cart Insights are all built for it. For session replays and heatmaps, Lucky Orange or the free Microsoft Clarity.
Cartlytics has a free plan for stores with up to 25 orders a month. Microsoft Clarity is free but is a session replay and heatmap tool rather than a per-cart feed. CartSpy, Cart Whisper and Onspruce Cart Insights are paid, with free trials.
If you mainly want live carts and abandoned carts rather than recordings, a cart app costs less: Onspruce Cart Insights starts at $6.99 a month, CartSpy at $7.99, Cartlytics at $9 after its free plan and Cart Whisper at $9.99. None of them records sessions.
No. CartSpy shows carts, checkouts, orders and each shopper's path as events. It has no session replays or heatmaps; use Microsoft Clarity or Lucky Orange alongside it if you need those.
The team that makes CartSpy. The facts about other apps come from their public Shopify App Store listings, checked on 26 September 2026. Prices change, so check each listing before you install.
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