Let Shoppers Search Your Store by Photo
Shoppers can't always put what they want into words. Image SearchIQ lets them search by picture instead — snap a photo, upload an image, or use their phone camera, and instantly see the matching products in your store. Better discovery, fewer dead-end searches, more sales.
The Product Is There — They Just Can't Find It
A shopper who can't name a style, colour, or cut hits "no results" and leaves — even when the perfect item is sitting in your catalog. Visual search closes that gap.
Words Fail Shoppers
Your customer saw the perfect piece on someone, or has a photo saved on their phone, but no idea what to call it. Keyword search leaves them empty-handed — and you lose a sale you could have made.
Standard Search Is Text-Only
Shopify's built-in search matches words, not pictures. A shopper who can't describe the look never discovers the product that's right there in your store, one photo away.
Built for Your Size
Enterprise-grade visual search without the enterprise invoice. Start free, index your first products at no cost, and upgrade for a few dollars a month as your catalog and traffic grow.
Visual Search That Actually Converts
Photo in, products out — refined with words, cropped to the exact item, and turned into demand signals you can act on.
Search by Photo
Shoppers snap a picture or upload an image and instantly see the visually-matching products from your store. Works beautifully on mobile with native camera capture — no typing, no guessing the right words.
Crop to What Matters
A photo is usually busy — a whole outfit, a full room. Shoppers drag a crop box over the one item they care about, and SearchIQ searches just that. Included free on every plan.
Photo + Words Together
Let shoppers refine a visual search with text — "this style, but in blue," "similar, but cheaper." Combining what they can show with what they can say lands them on the right product faster.
Smart Auto-Tagging & Filters
SearchIQ reads your product images and pulls out attributes — colour, category, material, style — automatically. You get richer filters and sharper matches without hand-tagging a single product.
Visual Recommendations
Show shoppers visually similar items on product pages and complementary picks at the cart. Help them discover more of what they already like — and lift average order value while you do it.
See What Shoppers Want
Every visual search is a signal. See the styles people look for, the searches that come back empty — your catalog gaps — and, on higher tiers, the looks shoppers want that you don't stock yet, labelled in plain language.
From Photo to Purchase
Four steps, zero theme code — live on your storefront within minutes of installing.
Snap or Upload
A shopper takes a photo, uploads an image, or uses their phone camera right from your storefront search.
Instant Matches
SearchIQ instantly surfaces the products from your store that look most like the photo, ranked by visual similarity.
Refine & Crop
They crop to the exact item and add a word or two to narrow it down, landing on the right product in seconds.
You Learn & Stock
You see what shoppers are hunting for, fix the searches that return nothing, and stock the looks they keep asking for.
Fast, Private, Ready for Volume
Fast, Even at Scale
Visual matches come back in real time, even on large catalogs and at peak traffic. Shoppers get answers instantly — not a spinner — so the moment of intent never goes cold.
Private by Design
A shopper's search photo is used to find a match and then discarded — never stored. Your catalog and store data stay isolated to your store and encrypted at rest. Their data stays their data.
GDPR-Ready
Full Shopify data-request, customer-redact, and shop-redact compliance — every request honoured automatically, with a Data Processing Agreement available on request.
Free to Start, Priced to Grow
No credit card on the free plan. Every paid tier gets a 14-day free trial. Save about 17% with annual billing.
- 100 products indexed
- 1,000 searches / month
- Visual search + crop-to-region
- Daily search analytics (7 days)
- Merchandising controls
- Community support
- 1,000 products indexed
- 2,000 searches / month
- Photo + text refinement
- Smart auto-tagging
- Out-of-stock handling
- 30-day analytics · Email support
- 10,000 products indexed
- 15,000 searches / month
- Everything in Starter
- Full hybrid search & auto-filters
- Visual product recommendations
- 90-day analytics · Priority support
- 50,000 products indexed
- 100,000 searches / month
- Everything in Growth
- Visual demand intelligence
- Full analytics history
- Dedicated support
Bigger catalog? Enterprise covers 200,000 products and 500,000 searches a month — talk to us.
Turn "No Results" Into Sales
Install Image SearchIQ free from the Shopify App Store and let shoppers search by photo today — no credit card, no code, live in minutes.