Algolia Search and Discovery

Algolia Search and Discovery

Free plan available. Additional charges may apply.
Rating (3.2)
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Highlights

Built for your business
  • Use directly in Shopify admin

About this app

Launched

October 28, 2016

Languages

English

Categories

Search

Works with

Shopify Flow

Search & discovery platform delivering personalized experiences to drive conversions and engagement.

Algolia connects with your Shopify store product catalog and collections to provide a frictionless search and navigation experience. Easily bring search autocomplete, typo tolerance, synonyms management, filters and facets, and many more to your customers, on any device, with unparalleled speed and relevance. Algolia scales to handle large amounts of queries per month and is supported by data centers around the world.

Algolia connects with your Shopify store product catalog and collections to provide a frictionless search and navigation experience. Easily bring search autocomplete, typo tolerance, synonyms management, filters and facets, and many more to your customers, on any device, with unparalleled speed and relevance. Algolia scales to handle large amounts of queries per month and is supported by data centers around the world. more
  • Rank search results by popularity, discount rate, weight, or any datapoint
  • Configure and optimize your Collections: enable filters, sort order, and more
  • Promote your own set of products within Collections and search results
  • Always-on syncing: Your new products are immediately available in search results
  • Customize your Shopify search to your brand through your Shopify dashboard

Pricing

External charges may be billed by Algolia separately from your Shopify invoice. Learn more

Build

Free

  • Start with our free plan to build your first Search & Discovery solution
  • 10,000 search requests/mo
  • 1 Million records

Grow

$0.50/month

Starting at $0.50 per unit. See our pricing page for more information.

  • Develop your search foundation with simple, usage based pricing
  • $0.50/1,000 search requests/mo
  • 100,000 records included

Premium

Free to install

See our pricing page for more information.

  • Bring AI to search, with custom pricing to meet your business needs
  • AI features
  • Merchandising Studio
  • Volume discounts

Elevate

Free to install

See our pricing page for more information.

  • Unlock end-to-end AI for next level Search & Discovery
  • Everything in Premium
  • Algolia NeuralSearch

Build

Free

  • Start with our free plan to build your first Search & Discovery solution
  • 10,000 search requests/mo
  • 1 Million records

Grow

$0.50/month

Starting at $0.50 per unit. See our pricing page for more information.

  • Develop your search foundation with simple, usage based pricing
  • $0.50/1,000 search requests/mo
  • 100,000 records included

Premium

Free to install

See our pricing page for more information.

  • Bring AI to search, with custom pricing to meet your business needs
  • AI features
  • Merchandising Studio
  • Volume discounts

Elevate

Free to install

See our pricing page for more information.

  • Unlock end-to-end AI for next level Search & Discovery
  • Everything in Premium
  • Algolia NeuralSearch

All charges are billed in USD. Recurring and usage-based charges are billed every 30 days. See all pricing options

26 reviews

Overall rating
3.2
Counts per rating level
  • 69% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 4% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 0% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 8% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 19% of ratings are 1 stars
Edited December 18, 2022

We tested almost every search app out there and spent countless hours finding the right search for our shopify store, robotvacuums.com. We also ported it to another site, freedomusasales.com
Algolia is not only better than all search engines, it completely blows all other apps out of the game.
I cannot understand any of the low reviews except A: Lazy ignorant people who do not understand what they are missing out on or B: Jealous competitors who know their goose is cooked.
Other search apps are just modifications of the built in shopify search, which is extremely lacking in features. Some are so backwards that you cannot even type a search term in middle of a sentence, it will not show results.
We are still new to algolia and learning how to harness it but seeing the bad reviews is so categorically false and wrong on so many levels that it just gets me angry and we had to write something...
Thanks!

Freedom USA Sales
United States
27 days using the app
October 3, 2022

Very overpriced for our needs. Post-sales customer support is slow. The tool itself is pretty quick and slick (once setup, however you will need a professional developer to install it, certainly not a plug-and-play setup. Online documentation and knowledgbase is very technical. Support just send you links to the knowledgebase each time). We have been oversold a package for which we didn't come close to using the quota. Would only recommend for enterprise-level websites.

Snaffling Pig
United Kingdom
11 months using the app
March 31, 2023

It is very difficult to set up and use. You need an IT expert to be able to use this application.
I've spent days trying to find a way to use it, but it doesn't work.
The support team responds very slowly.

Việt Music
Vietnam
7 days using the app
October 11, 2017

A little bit tough to get it started, but once I did I really liked the final results. There is a ridiculous amount of power in this that you can use if you want to (but pay for it). This is close to enterprise level search for a reasonable price per month.

We removed Algolia because the free 10k operations don't last long at all. This includes all indexing, searching (per key), etc. If they had a cheaper intro plan we'd probably jump in, but I'll look around to see if there's another option at the price point we need.

Adkguitar
United States
14 days using the app
Edited November 28, 2018

No longer supported - plan to replace

From github: https://github.com/algolia/instantsearch.js/issues/3309

"Note that InstantSearch v1 is no longer supported. "

This is the version shopify uses.

In the last week. I have contacted algolia twice for help with things not working as expect. Both times they gave the impression that shopify is not important and would not help.

I wanted to add an exclude for some customers, so some product would be excluded from the search, but this feature does not work. When I asked for help they said the shopify version was not supported.

While the basic search is impressive, adding options as been a problem, with features not working for me.

Update: They plan upgrade shopify to InstantSearch v2 in a few months. This looks to fix my current issues. InstantSearch v2: https://codesandbox.io/s/l598wkxoy7

Nexus Promo - IT Solutions
Australia
Almost 2 years using the app

About this app

Launched

October 28, 2016

Languages

English

Categories

Search

Works with

Shopify Flow

Built by Algolia

About Algolia

3.2 average rating

7 years building apps for the Shopify App Store

Support

Send a message

support+shop@algolia.com

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