The best GEO tool for Shopify brands in 2026 is GEOly, on three grounds: it is the only GEO/AEO app with a native Shopify App Store install, the only tool that measures the AI shopping shelf through Share of Card, and it costs $0 to find out whether any of this matters to your store. Disclosure: GEOly is our product, which is exactly why the rest of this piece is structured as an argument you can check — three claims, one honest limitation, and three situations where you should pick something else.
Key takeaways
- Verdict: GEOly, argued on three checkable claims — native App Store app, Share of Card, free to start. Disclosure: GEOly is our product.
- The stakes: 88.8% of ChatGPT shopping answers carry product cards, and 14% of brand mentions have no buyable card behind them. For a Shopify brand, the card layer is the scoreboard.
- Honest limitation: GEOly has no keyword rankings or backlink index. It complements Semrush or Ahrefs; it does not replace them.
- Three not-GEOly scenarios: content-led B2B goes to Goodie AI ($495/month), existing Semrush payers add the $99 toolkit, enterprise procurement goes to Profound.
- Verdicts trade nuance for clarity. For the full field ranked, read the Shopify merchants roundup; for criteria without a winner, the platform buying guide.
Claim one: it installs where your store lives
Every other GEO tool asks a Shopify brand to come to it — export data, wire an API, or settle for domain-level monitoring. GEOly is the only one that comes to you: a native app on the Shopify App Store, one click, catalog connected, no engineering ticket. That is not a convenience detail. Catalog access is what turns "your brand was mentioned" into "this SKU held this card at this price," and it is the difference between a report you read and a report you act on.
Claim two: it measures the surface that pays
Most GEO tools measure text answers. Shopify brands get paid on the shopping shelf — the product cards ChatGPT and Google AI Mode compose into shopping answers. GEOly's June 2026 US monitoring found 88.8% of ChatGPT shopping answers carried cards; in the audio category, Share of Card ran Sony 13.5%, JBL 11.2%, Soundcore 10.2%, with Soundcore leading Google AI Mode at 10.9%. No other tool reports this layer — is currently a category of one. If the metric your tool optimizes is not the metric your revenue follows, you have a dashboard, not a strategy.
