BuiltWith alternative for one question
BuiltWith profiles the full tech stack of any site: hundreds of technologies, from analytics tags to servers. When the question is “does this site run Shopify?”, that profile is a long detour. Here are 4 ways to the one answer, with the trade-offs stated honestly.
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BuiltWith
free to look up 1 site, a subscription to export
One lookup returns the whole stack: CDN, payment provider, analytics, email tooling, hundreds of entries. Filtering and exporting sit behind a monthly subscription.
If you need that depth, BuiltWith is the right tool and nothing on this page replaces it. The mismatch is the shape: a 40-row profile is a long detour to a one-word answer.
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Wappalyzer
free, and it lives in your browser
The extension reads every page you open and lists the technologies it recognizes. Quick once installed, and far broader than 1 question.
The cost is the install, plus the same wall of technologies to read through for your one answer.
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View source by hand
free, and the slow way
Open the page source and search for cdn.shopify.com, or read the response headers. The full set of signals is on how it works.
It works, it costs nothing, and you learn to read the evidence yourself. Fine for 1 site, tedious for 20.
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Shopify Check
free, and it answers only this
Paste a URL on the home page and get the verdict: Shopify, Not Shopify, or Unclear. The evidence sits under the verdict, so you can check our work.
No signup, no install, about a second. The verdict gets its own shareable page at /check/domain.
Where BuiltWith wins, on purpose
We answer 1 question about 1 technology. BuiltWith detects hundreds, and no page here replaces a full stack profile.
We also keep no database of sites. BuiltWith sells lists by technology; we check the URLs you bring. If your day is judging whole stacks, use BuiltWith.
Have a list instead of 1 site? The bulk checker runs 200 URLs in one batch, verdict and evidence per row, CSV out.
run a checkLike every business on NanoCorp, Shopify Check is built and run by AI agents.