What is the best alternative to Lifetimely?

It depends on what you use Lifetimely for. TrueProfit is strongest for a real-time net profit dashboard with ad spend, shipping rules and a mobile app. BeProfit is strongest for profit reporting across several shops and platforms, including Amazon. Triple Whale is strongest for marketing attribution and measurement, with net profit alongside.

Is there a free alternative to Lifetimely?

Triple Whale, Bloom, GoProfit have a free plan or are free to install, with limits. Check each listing for what the free tier includes.

Is Cogsy an alternative to Lifetimely?

Not for profit reporting. Cogsy has no dashboard, ad spend or order reports. It is an alternative only if what you wanted from Lifetimely was accurate product costs, which is where many profit numbers go wrong.

Lifetimely alternatives

Lifetimely is best known for customer lifetime value and cohort analysis alongside profit and loss. These are the other Shopify apps that do that job, what each is best at, and where a narrower tool for product cost fits beside them.

Updated 8 October 2026

Facts about each app are from its Shopify App Store listing and its own help pages as they read on 8 October 2026. We make Cogsy, which is listed last and described as plainly as the others.

6 alternatives to Lifetimely

TrueProfit
Best for: a real-time net profit dashboard with ad spend, shipping rules and a mobile app.
A net profit analytics app that pulls orders, product costs, shipping, fees and ad spend into a real-time profit dashboard, P&L report and product-level analytics. It also offers customer lifetime value, marketing attribution, a mobile app, a multi-store view and an MCP connector for AI tools.
Price
From $35 to $200 a month, plus per-order charges above each plan's limit
Rating
4.9 from 906 reviews
App Store listing Cogsy vs TrueProfit
BeProfit
Best for: profit reporting across several shops and platforms, including Amazon.
A profit analytics app that tracks revenue, expenses and profit in real time and reports profit by order, product, country, platform and shop. It includes a live P&L, ad platform integrations, LTV and retention reporting, and multi-shop views.
Price
From $49 to $249 a month
Rating
4.5 from 201 reviews
App Store listing Cogsy vs BeProfit
Triple Whale
Best for: marketing attribution and measurement, with net profit alongside.
A commerce analytics and AI platform that brings store, ad and marketing data together for attribution, measurement and automated actions. Product costs, shipping, gateway fees and custom expenses can be entered so the platform reports net profit alongside its attribution data.
Price
Free plan; paid plans at $219 and $749 a month
Rating
4.0 from 91 reviews
App Store listing Cogsy vs Triple Whale
Bloom
Best for: a lower-priced profit dashboard with dated costs, quantity tiers and attribution.
A profit analytics app that tracks profit after COGS, shipping, ad spend and expenses across Shopify and Amazon, with views by order, product and campaign. It adds marketing attribution, custom dashboards, email and Slack reports, and an MCP connector for AI tools.
Price
Free to install; paid plans from $20 to $80 a month
Rating
5.0 from 40 reviews
App Store listing Cogsy vs Bloom
Profit Calc
Best for: profit dashboards with cost rules by country and quantity, and many supplier integrations.
A profit calculator app that combines orders, product costs, shipping, taxes, fees and ad spend into profit dashboards and reports by order, product or store. It syncs ad spend from the major ad platforms and supports VAT, COD and multiple currencies.
Price
From $39 a month
Rating
5.0 from 67 reviews
App Store listing Cogsy vs Profit Calc
GoProfit
Best for: a Built for Shopify profit dashboard with alerts on profit changes.
A profit tracking app that combines sales, COGS, shipping, fees, taxes and ad spend into a live profit dashboard with a P&L report. It adds ad channel tracking, product and order analytics, scheduled reports and alerts on profit changes.
Price
Free plan; paid plans from $29 to $199 a month, plus per-order charges
Rating
4.9 from 90 reviews
App Store listing Cogsy vs GoProfit

Side by side

How Lifetimely and its alternatives handle product cost, the input every profit figure depends on.

Capability	Cogsy	Lifetimely	TrueProfit	BeProfit	Triple Whale	Bloom	Profit Calc	GoProfit
Profit by order	No	Not mentioned	Yes	Yes	Not mentioned	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ad spend tracking	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Finds variants with no cost	Yes	Not mentioned	Yes	Not mentioned	Not mentioned	Yes	Yes	Not mentioned
Costs with dates or a cost history	YesEvery cost has a date it applies from	Yes	UnclearIts help centre describes two versions of its COGS page that differ on this	Not mentioned	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not mentioned
Cost import by CSV	YesBy SKU, with a preview	Yes	UnclearIts help centre describes two versions of its COGS page that differ on this	Not mentioned	Not mentioned	Yes	YesDocumented as a per-order cost upload	Not mentioned
Extra costs on top of the unit cost	YesPer unit or as a percent of price	Not mentioned	Yes	Not mentioned	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not mentioned
Writes cost to Shopify's cost per item	YesWhen you run it; you choose what the figure includes	Not mentioned	Not mentioned	Not mentioned	YesOptional, through its bi-directional cost setting	Not mentioned	Not mentioned	Not mentioned

Where Cogsy fits

Every app on this page calculates profit from the same starting point: what each product costs. Most of them take that figure from Shopify's cost per item, and several let you override it inside the app.

Cogsy does not calculate profit. It keeps that starting figure right in Shopify itself: variants with no cost are listed, every cost is dated and has a source, packaging and other costs can be added on top, and bundles are costed from their components. Whichever profit app you choose then reads a number you can trace.

App names are trademarks of their owners; Cogsy is not affiliated with any of them. If something here is out of date, write to support@cogsy.app and we will correct it.

Questions

What is the best alternative to Lifetimely?: It depends on what you use Lifetimely for. TrueProfit is strongest for a real-time net profit dashboard with ad spend, shipping rules and a mobile app. BeProfit is strongest for profit reporting across several shops and platforms, including Amazon. Triple Whale is strongest for marketing attribution and measurement, with net profit alongside.
Is there a free alternative to Lifetimely?: Triple Whale, Bloom, GoProfit have a free plan or are free to install, with limits. Check each listing for what the free tier includes.
Is Cogsy an alternative to Lifetimely?: Not for profit reporting. Cogsy has no dashboard, ad spend or order reports. It is an alternative only if what you wanted from Lifetimely was accurate product costs, which is where many profit numbers go wrong.

Sources

Compare
Cogsy vs Lifetimely
Lifetimely: customer lifetime value and cohort analysis alongside profit and loss.
Compare
Cogsy vs TrueProfit
TrueProfit: a real-time net profit dashboard with ad spend, shipping rules and a mobile app.
Compare
Cogsy vs BeProfit
BeProfit: profit reporting across several shops and platforms, including Amazon.
Compare
Cogsy vs Triple Whale
Triple Whale: marketing attribution and measurement, with net profit alongside.
Feature
Write the right cost to Shopify
Mark which costs are part of Shopify's cost per item. Cogsy writes that one number back and keeps the rest beside it.

Lifetimely alternatives

6 alternatives to Lifetimely

TrueProfit

BeProfit

Triple Whale

Bloom

Profit Calc

GoProfit

Side by side

Where Cogsy fits

Questions

Sources

Related

Start with the costs Shopify already has.