Free Shopify Product Importers (2026): Which Ones Are Actually Free

Search for a free Shopify product importer and almost everything you find is a trial. "Free to install" in the Shopify App Store means the install costs nothing — it says nothing about whether you can use the app without paying.

Here's what each of the main importers actually gives you at zero cost, checked against their pricing pages on 22 July 2026. We build Ecopy, which appears in this list; the numbers are from public pages and you should verify them.

What "free" actually means for each

App	Genuine free plan	What you get free	Time limit
Ecopy	Yes	Limited imports, 1 AI product page, full page builder and templates	None
POKY	No	Trial only	2 days
Kopy	No	Trial only, then $9.99/mo	3 days
PagePilot	No	Can build but not publish	Trial period

Of the four, one has a free tier you can keep using. The rest are countdowns.

The trial problem

A 2- or 3-day trial sounds reasonable until you try to evaluate anything with it.

Realistically, in three days you can confirm the app installs, connects to your store, and imports one product without breaking. That tells you it isn't broken. It doesn't tell you the things that decide whether it's the right tool:

• How does it map variants for your products — colours, sizes, multi-dimension Etsy options?
• Is the AI-rewritten copy usable in your niche, or does it need rewriting anyway?
• What happens on a bulk import of 200 products rather than a demo of one?
• Do imported pages actually convert with your traffic?

That last one is the only question that matters commercially, and none of these trials is long enough to answer it. Traffic takes longer than three days to say anything meaningful.

PagePilot's restriction is the sharpest version: you can build pages during the trial but can't publish them to Shopify. You're evaluating how the page looks, never how it performs.

What a free tier realistically gets you

Free plans have limits, and it's worth being blunt about them rather than pretending otherwise.

Ecopy's free plan gives limited product imports, one AI product page in preview, and the full page builder with templates. That is enough to:

• Import real products from your actual suppliers and see how the data maps
• Build and publish a page, send traffic to it, and measure
• Decide whether the AI output suits your niche before spending anything

It is not enough to run a store at volume. "Limited imports" means limited, and one AI product page is one page. When you're importing regularly, the $4.99 Basic plan is where the tool actually lives.

That's the honest shape of a free tier: enough to make an informed decision, not enough to avoid paying forever. Any vendor promising otherwise is either metering something you haven't hit yet or planning to change the terms.

If free isn't the priority, price is close

If you'd rather pay a little than work inside free-tier limits, the numbers are small.

POKY — $2.95/month flat. Unlimited imports, 28+ source platforms, a custom scraper builder for unlisted platforms. The cheapest real option and the widest coverage. No free plan and no AI page builder, but at this price the trial length matters less.

Ecopy — $4.99/month. Unlimited products, bulk import, AI copy, Facebook ad creative, AI product page. Free tier underneath for testing.

Kopy — $9.99/month. Standard sources plus Kopy Protect against store scraping. Extra stores $4.99/month each.

PagePilot — $39/month. A different category — a page builder, not an importer. Only three source platforms.

The whole spread from cheapest to most expensive importer is about $7/month. Choosing on price alone is optimising the wrong variable.

How to actually evaluate one for free

Whichever tool you test, run this sequence rather than clicking around:

1. Import from your real supplier, not the demo product. Coverage claims are generic; your supplier is specific.
2. Check variant mapping on your most complex product. Colours, sizes, and multi-dimension options are where importers quietly fail.
3. Read the AI-rewritten description as a customer, not as a merchant. If you'd rewrite it anyway, the AI isn't saving you time.
4. Publish one page and send real traffic. Any tool that won't let you do this on a free tier can't be evaluated on the thing that matters.
5. Try a bulk import if bulk is your use case. Single-product behaviour tells you little about 200.

If a free tier or trial can't get you through those five steps, you aren't evaluating the product — you're evaluating the demo.

Bottom line

Only one importer in this comparison has a free plan without a clock on it, and free plans everywhere are deliberately limited. Their real value isn't avoiding a subscription — it's letting you publish and measure before committing.

Given that paid plans here start at $2.95 and $4.99, the decision shouldn't hinge on saving money. It should hinge on whether you can validate the tool against your own suppliers, your own products, and your own traffic before you pay. That's what to insist on.

• Try Ecopy's free plan on Shopify

Related reading

• POKY vs Kopy vs Ecopy
• Shopify product importers with no subscription
• Free Shopify apps for product import
• How to choose a Shopify product importer