Bilby / vs Uptime – Automated Store Tests
Bilby vs Uptime – Automated Store Tests: which should you use?
Pick Uptime if you want a Shopify-admin toggle for availability alerts and nothing more. Bilby visits the buy path in a real browser on desktop and mobile every night, verifies tracking events per step, diffs what changed, and prices the risk in your dollars — from $29 a month, with the free scan showing you the whole report before you decide. Bilby is made by Navaal — this page says so, and where Uptime – Automated Store Tests is the better fit we say that too.
// UPTIME – AUTOMATED STORE TESTS
A Shopify-native monitoring app that checks your store's availability and key pages, with plans from $29 to $299 a month.
PRICE · $29 / $99 / $299 per month (Shopify App Store listing, 5.0★ from 31 reviews)
Where it's strong
- Lives inside the Shopify admin — no separate account
- Well-reviewed, simple to switch on
- Higher tiers add more checks and faster intervals
What it doesn't do
- Availability-style checks: a page can answer 200 while add-to-cart is dead — Uptime doesn't click the button
- No tracking (pixel) verification per step
- No night-to-night change diff, no competitor visits, no AI-visibility line
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
Can I run both?
Yes. Uptime pings for availability; Bilby visits the journey. Many stores keep a pinger for minute-level downtime and Bilby for everything a pinger can't see.
Everything above about Uptime – Automated Store Tests was read from apps.shopify.com/uptime on 17 Sep 2026. If it has changed since, the page is wrong and we would like to know.
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