Lifetimely (by AMP) is one of the best-rated dedicated LTV-and-profit apps on Shopify, holding a 4.8-star rating across 504 reviews on its Shopify App Store listing (accessed July 14, 2026). It's live and actively maintained — don't confuse AMP, the Singapore company that owns it, with Ampla, the unrelated fintech lender that folded. So most people searching for alternatives aren't fleeing a broken tool. They're hitting a ceiling.
Why sellers look for Lifetimely alternatives
Three friction points show up again and again in these searches, and they match what the top-ranking roundups list too.
The first is pricing that scales with order volume. Lifetimely is free up to 50 orders a month, then jumps to $149/month on its M plan for stores doing 501–3,000 orders, per its official pricing page (accessed July 14, 2026). A busy month can push you into a higher band right when margins are thinnest.
The second is that it's built for Shopify (with Amazon as a paid add-on). Add a wholesale channel or a second storefront and a single-store LTV app stops keeping up.
The third is the deepest: LTV and cohort reporting tell you what a customer is worth over time, but they stop short of the number a print-on-demand seller lives on — the profit on each order after the supplier, shipping, fees, and ad spend are all subtracted. That's the gap this guide keeps returning to.
The Lifetimely alternatives at a glance
Here are the main contenders, with the entry price and the review score that matter most for a smaller Shopify or POD store.
| Tool | Entry price | Priced by | Shopify rating | Platform focus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sellerboard | $9/mo | order volume | 4.2 / 67 | Amazon-first, Shopify app |
| TrueProfit | $35/mo | order volume | 4.9 / 779 | Shopify-only |
| BeProfit (Viably) | $49/mo | usage bands | 4.3 / 188 | Shopify, Amazon, Woo |
| Lifetimely | free / $149/mo M | order volume | 4.8 / 504 | Shopify (+ Amazon add-on) |
| Triple Whale | $219/mo | annual GMV | 4.0 / 95 | Shopify + ad platforms |
| Polar Analytics | $750/mo | GMV | 4.9 / 112 | Shopify-native BI |
Prices and ratings above come from each tool's own listing and pricing page, accessed July 14, 2026: sellerboard, TrueProfit, BeProfit, Lifetimely, Triple Whale, and Polar. Remember the qualifier: order-volume tools bill on how many orders you ship, while Triple Whale and Polar bill on GMV, so a bare monthly price is misleading without it. For a deeper head-to-head, see our Lifetimely vs. Triple Whale breakdown.
TrueProfit — the broadest ad coverage for the money
If you want a like-for-like Lifetimely replacement, TrueProfit is the closest match. It starts at $35/month for 300 orders on its pricing page (accessed July 14, 2026), and carries a 4.9-star rating across 779 reviews on its Shopify listing (accessed July 14, 2026).
For POD it has the strongest published cost story: it integrates Printful, Printify, and Gelato directly and names eight ad networks — including Pinterest, which Lifetimely and Triple Whale don't publish, per the same Shopify listing. One caveat worth knowing: multi-touch attribution is gated to its $200 Enterprise tier. See how the LTV side compares in our Lifetimely LTV analytics review.
sellerboard — the lowest sticker price
sellerboard's Shopify app starts at $9/month for 600 orders and rates 4.2 stars across 67 reviews on its App Store listing (accessed July 14, 2026). It's cheap and its net-profit math is granular.
The trade-off: it's an Amazon-first tool, and reviewers on that same listing flag ad-spend sync failures, especially with Meta ("Cost — esp ad spend doesn't sync"). For a thin-margin POD store where ad cost is the biggest line item, slow ad sync isn't a minor bug.
BeProfit, Triple Whale, and Polar — bigger, pricier, different jobs
BeProfit starts at $49/month and rates 4.3 stars over 188 reviews on its Shopify listing (accessed July 14, 2026). It covers Shopify, Amazon, and WooCommerce, but note it was acquired by Viably in 2024 per Viably's own announcement, so roadmap and support now sit under a lending platform.
Triple Whale is the attribution heavyweight, but its Foundation plan is $219/month before GMV scaling, per its pricing page, and it rates 4.0 stars across 95 reviews on its App Store reviews (both accessed July 14, 2026). Polar Analytics sits higher still — its Full Platform runs $750/month even for brands under $5M GMV on its pricing calculator, with a 4.9-star, 112-review listing (accessed July 14, 2026). For a sense of that tier, compare Polar vs. Triple Whale. For a store doing under $50k/month, both are hard to justify on price alone.
The angle every roundup skips: per-order profit for POD
Every tool above is, at its core, a dashboard: it shows you numbers and leaves the next move to you. That's fine when your COGS is a fixed figure you type in once. It breaks for print-on-demand, where the supplier sets cost per variant and reprices without warning.
Say you sell a mug for $24.95 and charge $4.99 shipping, collecting $29.94. Your Printify base and print cost is $8.50, the supplier's shipping is $5.20, and the Shopify payment fee is roughly 2.9% plus $0.30, or about $1.17. If it costs you $9.00 in ad spend to land that order, the math is:
$29.94 − $8.50 − $5.20 − $1.17 − $9.00 = $6.07 profit per order.
Now the supplier raises that mug's base cost by $1.50. Your real profit drops to $4.57 — a 25% margin cut — but a tool with static COGS keeps reporting $6.07 until you notice and re-enter the number. Multiply that across every variant and every supplier reprice, and the "profit" on your dashboard quietly drifts away from reality.
This is where PodVector fits, and full disclosure: we build it, so weigh this section accordingly. PodVector connects Shopify, Meta Ads, Google Ads, Printify, and Printful, and computes true per-order profit from those live sources. It isn't a dashboard you have to read — Victor is an AI employee that analyzes your data and, with your approval, takes the Shopify-side actions that follow from it.
To be clear about the boundary: Victor reads your ad data and proposes moves, but he does not touch your ad account — he doesn't pause campaigns or change budgets. The writes he executes are on the Shopify side, always with your sign-off. If the reason you're leaving Lifetimely is that you want profit that acts, not just profit you look at, you can connect your stack and see true per-order profit.
How to choose
Match the tool to why you're actually leaving. Want the cheapest honest profit math? sellerboard or TrueProfit. Want Lifetimely's cohort depth with wider ad coverage? TrueProfit. Need multi-touch attribution above all? Triple Whale. Running a multi-million-GMV brand that lives in BI? Polar.
And if the ceiling you hit is that a dashboard reports profit but never acts on it — especially with POD costs that move under you — that's the job PodVector is built for. For the full landscape, our profit-analytics tools hub lays out every option side by side.
FAQs
Is Lifetimely being shut down or is it safe to keep using?
It's safe. Lifetimely is live, actively maintained, and highly rated — 4.8 stars across 504 reviews on its App Store listing as of July 14, 2026. The "shutdown" rumor comes from confusing AMP (which owns Lifetimely) with Ampla, an unrelated fintech that collapsed. They are different companies.
What's the cheapest Lifetimely alternative?
sellerboard's Shopify app is the lowest sticker price at $9/month for 600 orders, per its listing (accessed July 14, 2026). TrueProfit is the next step up at $35/month and offers broader ad-platform coverage. Both are far below Triple Whale and Polar, which are priced for larger brands.
Which alternative is best for print-on-demand cost tracking?
Among the dashboards, TrueProfit publishes the strongest POD story — direct Printful, Printify, and Gelato integrations and quantity-based COGS, per its Shopify listing (accessed July 14, 2026). The harder problem for POD is that supplier costs change per variant over time; if you want those live costs turned into a per-order profit number and acted on, that's what PodVector is built for.
Do these tools handle multi-touch attribution?
Some do, but often at a price. Triple Whale is attribution-first, built on its server-side Triple Pixel. TrueProfit gates multi-touch attribution to its $200 Enterprise tier per its pricing page (accessed July 14, 2026), while Lifetimely uses simpler first- and last-touch attribution. Match the attribution depth to how complex your ad mix actually is.
Is PodVector an analytics tool like these?
No — that's the honest distinction. PodVector isn't a dashboard or analytics platform. It connects Shopify, Meta Ads, Google Ads, Printify, and Printful to compute true per-order profit, and Victor, its AI employee, acts on that data with your approval on the Shopify side. It reads your ad data but does not make changes on your ad platforms.