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 see visually similar products from your indexed catalog while search allowance is available.
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 take or upload a photo to find visually similar indexed products. Supported mobile devices can use their camera without typing a description.
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, in leather." 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
On Growth and above, add similar-item or complete-the-look recommendations to product pages. Preview the picks in the app before adding the product-page block.
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 setup steps, with indexing time determined by catalog size, processing limits and available allowance.
Snap or Upload
A shopper takes a photo, uploads an image, or uses their phone camera right from your storefront search.
Visual Matches
SearchIQ compares the photo with indexed product images and returns visually similar products, subject to your search settings and allowance.
Refine & Crop
They crop to the exact item and add a word or two to narrow it down, to refine the available matches. Photo-plus-text refinement requires Starter or above.
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
Search Your Indexed Catalog
Search is limited to the indexed catalog. Processing time and availability depend on catalog coverage, provider capacity and the plan’s shared AI allowance.
Private by Design
A shopper's search photo is used to find a match and then discarded — never stored. Search records and numeric fingerprints support analytics and demand patterns; results are scoped to your store.
Shopify Compliance Webhooks
SearchIQ includes handlers for Shopify data-request, customer-redact and shop-redact webhooks. See the app privacy information for details.
Free to Start, Priced to Grow
No credit card on the free plan. The first eligible paid subscription gets a 14-day free trial. Save about 17% with annual billing.
Indexing, tagging, photo and keyword searches, and demand labels share the monthly AI allowance. The first exhausted limit pauses new paid work. These ceilings do not guarantee full catalog coverage or completed search volume; check image and AI usage in the app.
- 100 product ceiling; image cap also applies
- 1,000 logical searches / month; shared AI allowance also applies
- Visual search + crop-to-region
- Daily search analytics (7 days)
- Merchandising controls
- Community support
- 1,000 product ceiling; image cap also applies
- 2,000 logical searches / month; shared AI allowance also applies
- Photo + text refinement
- Smart auto-tagging
- Out-of-stock handling
- 30-day analytics · Email support
- 10,000 product ceiling; image cap also applies
- 15,000 logical searches / month; shared AI allowance also applies
- Everything in Starter
- Full hybrid search & auto-filters
- Visual product recommendations
- 90-day analytics · Priority support
- 50,000 product ceiling; image cap also applies
- 100,000 logical searches / month; shared AI allowance also applies
- Everything in Growth
- Visual demand intelligence
- Full analytics history
- Dedicated support
- 200,000 product ceiling
- 100,000 indexed-image ceiling
- 500,000 logical searches per month
- Shared AI allowance can stop work earlier
14-day trial for eligible shops.
Bigger catalog? Enterprise has ceilings of 200,000 products and 500,000 logical searches a month. Image caps and the shared AI budget/call allowance can stop work earlier. Compare plans in the app’s Billing page.
Turn "No Results" Into Sales
Install Image SearchIQ free from the Shopify App Store and let shoppers search by photo today — no credit card on Free, with guided setup and theme-editor placement.