EasySearch puts the compatibility table and saved vehicles behind its $75 Premium plan. ViewForge includes both on the free tier. Not as a trial, not for fourteen days — free, for your first 50 products, with no clock running.
Their Premium features. Our free tier.
A dropdown that filters a collection is table stakes. What makes shoppers trust it is the compatibility table on the product page — proof, in writing, that this part fits their vehicle — and the saved garage, so they do not re-enter it next visit. EasySearch puts both on the $75 Premium plan. ViewForge ships both on the free tier, as theme app extensions, alongside the search widget and the product-page notice.
Fourteen days is long enough to install something and not long enough to import a catalog, which is why trials expire right as you start relying on the thing. ViewForge’s free tier has no expiry. Fifty products with fitment, manual entry, all four theme extensions, indefinitely. If you have a small catalog, that is not an evaluation period — that is the product, and you never pay.
EasySearch is built for vehicles. That is fine right up until you add a line of marine parts, or trailer components, or anything that does not decompose into Year/Make/Model. ViewForge ships 8 vertical templates and lets you rename every dimension, so a new category is a template change rather than a second app and a second subscription.
EasySearch stores fitment in its own database. Whether you get it back on the way out depends on their export tooling and their goodwill on the day you cancel. ViewForge writes Shopify metaobjects: native records, in your store, readable from the Storefront API and exportable through Admin GraphQL. There is no export request, because there is nothing to request.
Compare like for like: EasySearch Premium is the tier that includes the garage and the compatibility table. ViewForge includes both at $0.
Install freeYes, and the tier comparison is the interesting part. EasySearch puts the product-page compatibility table and the saved-vehicle garage on its $75/month Premium plan. ViewForge includes both on the free tier, along with the search widget and product-page notice, for your first 50 products with no time limit. Paid tiers start at $19/month for 1,000 products with CSV import.
EasySearch runs roughly $19/month for the basic widget and $75/month for the Premium tier that adds the compatibility table and saved vehicles. ViewForge is free to 50 products with those features included, $19/month for 1,000 products plus CSV import and custom templates, $49/month for 5,000 products plus Smart Parse, and $240/month for unlimited with VIN decode and ACES/PIES.
Actually free, with no expiry. Fifty products carrying fitment, manual entry, all eight vertical templates, and the four theme app extensions — search, garage, fitment table, product notice. If your catalog fits inside 50 products with fitment, you never pay anything. There is no countdown and no card required to find out whether the storefront experience works on your theme.
EasySearch is automotive-oriented. ViewForge ships 8 vertical templates — automotive, motorcycle, tractor, marine, power equipment, bicycle, printer, electronics — and a custom builder, with all four cascading dimensions renameable from the $19/month Starter tier. If you sell tractor, marine or anything outside vehicles, that is the difference between configuring a template and buying a second app.
Export your fitment from EasySearch as CSV, install ViewForge, and map the columns in the importer — fuzzy matching flags near-duplicate values so you do not end up with two spellings of the same make in the storefront dropdown. Once the coverage dashboard shows the import is complete, uninstall EasySearch. The data is in Shopify metaobjects at that point, so it stays. Catalogs under 5,000 products typically finish in an afternoon.
Look at what sits behind EasySearch’s $75 Premium tier: the compatibility table on the product page and the saved-vehicle garage. Those are the two features that make a fitment app feel finished, and they are the two ViewForge gives away. Paying $900 a year for them is a decision worth making on purpose. see ViewForge →