Hi! Sorry if this comes across as spam! We’re just a team of devs looking for honest advices while we test our new Agents/AI-powered Shopify apps.
Any criticism or suggestions are truly appreciated, so feel free to be brutally honest 
You can find all our apps for free on the Shopify App Store:
Clonefy – Copy and Edit + AI
Save hours and money. Copy any product listing from other stores and instantly edit it with AI with SEO Optimizations.
Textify – From File to Product
A unique AI Agent that converts text, PDFs, and files into SEO-ready product listings in seconds.
Segmentify – AI Segments Tools
Your AI Agent for automatic customer segmentation — gender, behavior, interests and custom needs.
All plans are currently free, and our first supporters will never be charged when we release future paid plans.
Thanks so much for any advice or ideas for future developments, it really means a lot to us!
HI @ecommercia
Sorry, but I have to ask something about your Clonify app.
Save hours and money. Copy any product listing from other stores and instantly edit it with AI with SEO Optimizations.
How is this different from, let’s say, I steal a car from you, paint it, and sell it to another person? I do save hours in earning for a car, and do save money too, plus I get some.
Maybe not a good analogy, but truly, is it legal and moral to take other people’s original content? You would say everyone is taking from everyone. But also, if you copy content from someone, your SEO rank is on a bad start, which is why you may rephrase with AI (optimization, right). Isn’t the point to have unique copy? But AI can generate some copy from the start, right? Why do you need a copy of other stores? They did something right, their products sell, they spent time and effort in making something good. So that anyone can copy and optimize.
Again, I apologize for the rant, but that is how I see it.
Thank you so much for your feedback! t really helps us improve and explain our apps better. I completely understand your concern; it’s natural that it might feel almost like stealing.
Clonefy always asks for consent and acceptance of responsibility before doing anything. You can only use it to sell products when, for example:
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You are doing dropshipping
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Your supplier explicitly tells you to use products from their catalogs
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You are copying products from one store you own to another (this is actually why Clonefy was created, a client of my long-standing e-commerce marketing agency needed an app to clone products from his main store to his second store, we made it as a private app in 2024, and decided to publish on 2025)
Every Shopify app must also pass rigorous review processes. Many developers give up on building apps just because of this. Each app is carefully reviewed and approved before being published in the Shopify App Store.
Apps like Textify were created for similar needs: it allows generating an entire catalog from a supplier’s invoice, with product variants, images, prices, colors, and more. This is especially helpful when a merchant has limited time and needs to upload a new catalog online. In cases where you’re authorized, you’d use Clonefy; otherwise, Textify helps automate catalog creation.
I like to say that even when a merchant is in the bathroom or waiting the line at the doctor’s office 
, a simple upload can generate an entire catalog with AI support, Google Images or other DB (all copyright-free, CC0, or brand that authorize any commercial or reseller to use their product images), and the user’s input to fine-tune the result.
Anyway thanks again for your time and feedback! If you’d like, I’m happy to offer support or answer any questions, and I’d love to hear if you’ve had a chance to try our apps.
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Thank you for the explanation, it did not sound like that from the initial description.
But then, can it copy from a store you do not own?
Thank you so much for your message — and no worries, I completely understand why the initial description may have sounded unclear.
To answer your question directly: technically, a tool like Clonefy can copy or clone Shopify stores, but that does not mean it is legally allowed. You cannot legally copy products from a Shopify store you do not own or from a catalog you don’t have explicit permission to use. Clonefy simply provides the automation, while the legal rights and responsibility always belong to the merchant.
It’s important to highlight that the real issue is never the tool itself, but how the tool is used — just like any instrument, it can be used correctly or misused. Clonefy was created to save time and automate product imports for merchants who already have the rights to work with those products, such as store owners, dropshippers, suppliers, or businesses managing multiple Shopify stores.
Shopify reviewed the app with this in mind before approving it. Their process ensures that merchants remain responsible for what they upload, clone, publish, or import into their stores.
Even if this feels like new territory, it’s part of the broader AI transformation in e-commerce. Tools are becoming faster and more powerful, but ethical and legal responsibility remains with the user, exactly as it has always been.
I hope this clarifies your question, and I really appreciate your thoughtful feedback. If you need help, more details, or want to explore how Clonefy works in practice, I’m always happy to assist.
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Yes, thank you for the detailed reply. It is true tool itself is not a problem, but the people who misuse it.
Like the Shopify is great and easy to set up. But as such, it is also used a lot by scammers to make fake stores, and people who do get scammed often blame Shopify for not screening merchants more. But it is difficult.
Your app could also be misused, then, illegally, of course. And yes, you would not be leggaly accountable, but still, customers who shop was copied stores could blame you, hypothetically. So from a technical point, could you add maybe a required step so your app can confirm the store that is copied is really owned by same person. Some way to add a token, or API call to confirm it, if user install your app on both stores? Just a thought.
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You’re absolutely right that a token-based verification system could be a great addition, and we’re already considering solutions to make ownership validation even clearer. At the same time, our previous examples weren’t meant to replace a verification method, but to highlight the different legitimate use cases where merchants typically rely on Clonefy. It’s more complex than it seems:
Imagine a supplier telling you to use their store link. In that case, Clonefy can still generate all the content from scratch. But we obviously cannot synchronize a full “cloning function” with every possible Shopify store and every supplier in the world, that would be impossible to maintain at scale. Note that Clonefy works even if the products have no descriptions, no metadata, and none of the information you actually need**.** We actually don’t need their “original” and “marketing invested” descriptions and original pics / videos made from the merchant.
The same applies to dropshipping: the same products are sold worldwide by thousands of merchants, both online and offline. You don’t own the intellectual property of the product itself. So if the data is used only to inspire the AI model and the final output is completely different, it may look like stealing, but in reality it isn’t your product to begin with. The only party who could ever complain is the actual supplier but again, they’re the one who authorized you to list those products in the first place.
In any case, putting all philosophy aside, the practical reality is that anyone can manually do exactly what Clonefy does and take information from another store by hand. It would just take many hours. That’s why we explicitly say that Clonefy saves time and money but the moral action itself is the same. The merchant is always responsible for what they choose to copy, import, or publish.
Thanks again for sharing your perspective, feedback like yours helps us improve the way we communicate and also refine how the app works. If you have more ideas or concerns, I’d love to hear them.
