Shopify app
EmergingMotive ‑ Privacy‑Minded Search
AI-powered ecommerce search for better product discovery
- Rating on Shopify
- 3.4(8)
- Reviews
- 8
- Developer
- Motive Commerce Search Corp SL
- Launched
- March 21, 2024
- Pricing
- From $45/month. Free trial available.
- Languages
- English
The facts
Every value below is read from the listing or computed by the published formula. Nothing is a verdict.
Bayesian rating
4.19
category median 4.43
Reviews in the last 180 days
0
from the 3 reviews on the listing page
1 and 2 star share
13%
1 of 8
Starting price
$45/month
band: $30 to $99 · 30-day trial
Pricing plans as listed on Shopify
All charges are billed in USD. Recurring and usage-based charges are billed every 30 days. See all pricing options
| Plan | Price | Billed yearly | Trial | Usage fee | Included |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mini | $45/month | $372/year | 30 days | none stated | Up to 10K searches/month |
| Medium | $76/month | $624/year | 30 days | none stated | Up to 20K searches/month |
| Maxi | $151/month | $1236/year | 30 days | none stated | Up to 50K searches/month |
Rating distribution
8 ratings on the listing when last refreshed.
- 5 stars7(88%)
- 4 stars0(0%)
- 3 stars0(0%)
- 2 stars0(0%)
- 1 star1(13%)
Latest reviews
The 3 most recent of 3 on-page reviews, quoted to at most 25 words each. Full reviews are on the Shopify listing.
5 starsMay 19, 2025Carter's Jewel ChestUnited States28 days using the app
"Mike Dawson was incredibly helpful and personable throughout the entire process. He went above and beyond to accommodate our needs—even with the challenges of different ..."
5 starsMay 13, 2025Woodline USAUnited States26 days using the app
"Couldn't ask for an easier app to work with. We had numerous complaints with our old search app and it was not easy to adjust ..."
5 starsMar 31, 2025GrovTecUnited StatesAbout 1 month using the app
"From start to finish Michael and the team at Motive were open and honest about their product and process. They did not waste my time ..."
Screenshots
5 of 7 listing screenshots, composed as review cards. Captions are the developer's own.
1 of 5: Motive Commerce Search AI Assisted Search 
2 of 5: Motive Commerce Search AI Mode 
3 of 5: Motive Commerce Search Backroom AI Search Analytics 
4 of 5: Motive Commerce Search Visual Customisations 
5 of 5: Motive Commerce Search Filters
Features Shopify lists for this app
Feature handles from the listing, grouped as Shopify groups them.
Search features
- Instant search
- Multi-language
- AI search
- Typo tolerance
- Synonym groups
- Search suggestions
- Product boosts
- Multi-filter
- Search bar
- Exclude results
Display customization
- Mobile responsive
- Custom styling
- Filter display
- Custom filters
- Search results page
- Sorting
Analytics
- AI insights
- Conversion tracking
- Search queries
Data access
As disclosed on the listing. Never scored.
View staff and contributor data
Store owner, blog contributors
- Store owner: Name, email address, phone number, physical address
- Blog contributors: Email address, IP address, browser and operating system
View and edit store data
Customers, products, companies, Online Store, custom data, other data
- View customers: Customer data
- View products: Inventory, product listings, products, collections
- View companies: Companies
- Edit Online Store: Online Store pages, Online Store script tags, theme
- View custom data: Metaobject definitions, metaobjects
- View other data: Locales, locations, Shopify Markets settings, publications of products on sales channels, translations
Developer
Motive Commerce Search Corp SL
- Apps in the dataset:
- 1
- Address:
- C/ Jimena Fernández de la Vega, 101, ESB09764838, Gijón, O, 33394, ES
- Website:
- not stated
- Support email domain:
- motive.co
- English support:
- yes
- Resources:
- Privacy policy
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From the Shopify listingDeveloper claims, shown verbatim and collapsed. 92 words.Show
- AI Mode: Fully conversational search built in.
- AI-Assisted Search: The search bar you have, only better. Embellished with AI.
- Backroom: Search analytics you can talk to. Ask about search data, get insights.
- Playboard: Boost and bury products. Set rules. Control every search result.
- Your most valuable intelligence (your data) is never used to train Big Tech AI.
AI Search and Discovery. All the power of AI, without the Big Tech dependencies
AI search that improves every result automatically, going beyond keywords to understand real intent and surface what shoppers want and where your biggest opportunities lie.
With Motive, you can chat with your search analytics and ask your shop anything for unique, AI-powered insights. Upload key content and AI Mode answers questions about your store's context as well as showing products.
AI Mode gives you fully conversational search included in all plans.
Built on the Empathy AI private cloud
Questions and comments
Questions people ask about Motive ‑ Privacy‑Minded Search, answered from what this page shows. Entries marked Site editor are written by the EcomAppReviews editor. Reader comments appear after a person has read and approved them, usually within a day. E-mail addresses are never published.
Last updated Oct 19, 2026. Ratings and review counts are the values shown on each app's public listing. How the numbers are computed: methodology.
8 reviews counted on the listing. Rating and count in the structured data are the values Shopify displayed at crawl time.