Koda vs PPSPY: Shopify Product Research to TikTok
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PPSPY and Koda both help you find a Shopify product worth selling, from different evidence, and only Koda goes on to make the video. PPSPY is a spy tool: a Facebook and Instagram ad library, an ad tracker, Shopify store and product libraries with estimated sales, a sales tracker, traffic and theme research, and a Chrome extension. Its sales figures are estimates — its own sales-tracker page quotes an 80.5% accuracy rate and says per-product sales tracking stopped in September 2023 after Shopify API changes. Koda reads each tracked store's own best-selling order — observed, not estimated — then generates the TikTok video from the real product photo and publishes it to TikTok and Instagram Reels through their official APIs. As of 31 October 2026, 528 stores had their best-selling order read in the previous 7 days. If Meta ad research or revenue estimates are what you need, PPSPY is the deeper research tool.
| PPSPY | Koda | |
|---|---|---|
| What it reads | Facebook and Instagram ads, plus Shopify stores and products: estimated sales and revenue, traffic, theme | Each tracked Shopify store's own best-selling order — the ranking the store displays at /collections/all?sort_by=best-selling |
| Kind of figure | Estimates: its sales-tracker page quotes 80.5% accuracy | A rank inside each store, read from the store itself — not a sales figure; Koda does not know how many units sold |
| Sales tracking | Paste a store URL, report in about an hour, tracking runs 15 days then stops; Shopify only, up to 20,000 products; per-product tracking stopped in September 2023 | 568 active Shopify stores tracked; 528 had their best-selling order read in the 7 days to 31 October 2026 |
| Ads | Facebook and Instagram ad library and an ad tracker for competitor pages | Competitor Meta ads from Meta’s transparency library, TikTok ads from TikTok’s official library and the Top 100 TikTok advertisers, in the app |
| Browser extension | Chrome extension that shows a Shopify store's data while you browse it | None — store analysis and search by photo are in the app |
| Makes the video | No | Yes: script, image, 5 s clip, voice-over, subtitles, 9:16 montage, from the real product photo |
| Publishing | None | Publishes or schedules to your TikTok and Instagram Reels accounts through their official APIs, then reports views and engagement per video |
| Price | Not quoted here — we could not read its pricing page on 23 October 2026; check it there | Subscription from $19 a month or a one-off coin pack from $9; no free plan, no trial |
An estimate of sales, or the store's own ranking
A store's real sales live in its Shopify admin, which no outside tool can read. PPSPY works around that with estimates: its sales tracker watches a store for 15 days and reports what it infers was sold, and its own page puts the accuracy at 80.5%. The same page says it stopped tracking sales per product in September 2023, after changes to Shopify's API.
Koda reads something the store publishes itself. Every Shopify store can list its catalogue at /collections/all?sort_by=best-selling, and Koda records that order for each store it tracks — 568 active stores as of 31 October 2026, 528 of them read in the previous 7 days. It is a rank, not a revenue figure, and it can be checked by opening the same URL.
Neither signal is proof of profit. An estimate tries to say how much; a ranking says what sells most inside one store. Use whichever question you are actually asking.
Where research stops and the video starts
PPSPY's job ends when you have found the product, the store and the ads already running for it. Making your own creative, and posting it, happens somewhere else.
Koda carries the product on. Picked in its feed, it opens in the Create screen with its real photo, title and price; the video is generated from that photo — 226 coins for a full economy video, price on the button — and published or scheduled to your TikTok and Instagram Reels accounts through their official APIs, with the views each account got coming back into the app.
When PPSPY is still the better choice
- Meta ad research is the job. PPSPY's Facebook and Instagram ad library and its ad tracker for competitor pages are built for it; Koda's ad library is not a full ad spy.
- You want a sales or revenue estimate per store, not a ranking. Koda shows a store's best-selling order and says plainly that it is not a sales figure.
- You research while browsing. PPSPY's Chrome extension shows a store's data on the store itself; Koda has no extension.
- You want a store's tech stack and traffic: its theme, apps and traffic sources. Koda reads a store's best-seller order, not its stack.
- You already make your own videos. Koda's generation and publishing would be parts you do not use.
Frequently asked
- Is Koda a PPSPY alternative?
- Partly. Both help you choose a Shopify product: PPSPY from ads and estimated sales, Koda from each store's own best-seller order. Koda then generates the TikTok video and publishes it, which PPSPY does not do. For Meta ad research and sales estimates, PPSPY is the better tool.
- Are PPSPY's sales numbers exact?
- They are estimates. Its own sales-tracker page quotes an accuracy rate of 80.5%, tracks a store for 15 days, and says per-product sales tracking stopped in September 2023 after Shopify API changes. Koda does not estimate sales at all: it shows the order the store itself ranks its products in.
- Does PPSPY make TikTok videos?
- No. PPSPY shows ads, stores and products that already exist. Koda generates the video from the real product photo and publishes it to your TikTok and Instagram Reels accounts through their official APIs.
- Is Koda free?
- No. Koda has no free plan and no free trial: using the app takes a subscription (from $19 a month) or a one-off coin pack (from $9). The Shopify best-sellers page is public and free, with no account.
Everything stated here about PPSPY was read from its own pages on 23 October 2026. Pricing and limits change and nothing here checks them automatically, so verify anything you are about to act on.
How this page was made: drafted with AI assistance from PPSPY’s own pricing and help pages, read on , and from the settings Koda itself runs on.