Bilby / vs TestingBot – Store Monitoring
Bilby vs TestingBot – Store Monitoring: which should you use?
Pick TestingBot if you want to author your own browser tests and have them run continuously from several regions — particularly if your store has a flow that is specific to you and that no general monitor would know to try. The difference is who writes the test. TestingBot gives you a recorder; Bilby already knows the test, because on a store the test is always the same: home → product → add to cart → cart → checkout, desktop and mobile, every night, with the tracking events checked at each step, what changed since last night named, and the risk priced in your own dollars. And you can read the whole report from a free scan before you pay anything. Bilby is made by Navaal — this page says so, and where TestingBot – Store Monitoring is the better fit we say that too.
// TESTINGBOT – STORE MONITORING
A Shopify app from the cross-browser testing company TestingBot that runs real browser UI tests against your store around the clock from more than ten locations. You record the tests yourself, or have it generate them with AI, and it alerts you when one fails.
PRICE · $25 per month, one plan, 7-day free trial, billed in USD (Shopify App Store listing, 17 Sep 2026; rated 0.0 from 0 reviews, launched 19 Feb 2025)
Where it's strong
- Real browser UI tests, not pings — the only other app on this page that actually drives a browser
- Runs around the clock rather than once a night, so a break is caught in hours not by morning
- More than ten geographic locations on the one plan
- You can record a test by clicking through the store, or have it write one with AI
- Behind it is an established cross-browser testing company, not a first product
What it doesn't do
- It tests what you thought to test: the store is checked against the journey you recorded, so anything you did not think of is not watched
- No tracking-event verification — a page can pass its UI test with the purchase pixel dead
- No night-to-night change diff, no speed vitals, no competitor visits, no AI-visibility line
- No revenue-at-risk figure: it reports a failed test, not what the failure is costing
- 0 reviews at the time of checking, so there is no public Shopify track record to weigh yet
FACTS VERIFIED AGAINST THE LIVE LISTING · 17 SEP 2026
// BILBY (OURS)
Visits the store nightly in a real browser — home, product, add-to-cart, cart, checkout, on desktop and mobile — and reports through seven things it checks: Watch, Money, Speed, Change, Rivals, Search, Answer.
PRICE · free scan · Bilby from $29/mo · Pro from $79 · Agency from $199 · 7 free nights
- Add-to-cart really clicked; the cart endpoint's answer is the evidence
- Tracking events verified per step (view, add-to-cart, begin-checkout)
- Revenue at risk in dollars, basis printed
- What changed since last night; a Monday brief written from the data
- The whole report free, once, before you pay anything
Questions people ask
TestingBot runs all day and Bilby runs at night. Isn't more often better?
For time-to-detection, yes. If you need a break caught within the hour, a continuous monitor is the right shape and Bilby is not. What a nightly visit buys you is depth: seven things it checks, the tracking checked per step, a diff against last night, and the cost named — the things you want in front of you at 7am, not a red light at 3am you cannot act on.
Do I have to write tests for Bilby?
No, and that is the main practical difference. TestingBot asks you to record or generate the journeys it should run. Bilby visits the buying path on its own from the day you add the store, because that path is the same on every store. If your store has an unusual flow that only you would know to test, TestingBot can cover it and Bilby will not.
Can I run both?
Yes. They overlap less than they look: TestingBot is continuous and test-driven, Bilby is nightly and investigation-driven. If budget allows only one and your store is a normal Shopify store, Bilby covers more of what costs money; if you have a bespoke flow you must guard minute by minute, TestingBot is aimed at exactly that.
Everything above about TestingBot – Store Monitoring was read from apps.shopify.com/testingbot-1 on 17 Sep 2026. If it has changed since, the page is wrong and we would like to know.
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