By the Numbers
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you run a growing Shopify store with real ad spend and email revenue . $19/mo to replace four dashboards is cheap.
Comparison
By the Numbers vs Reddit
By the Numbers and Reddit both land on Depends.
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Fine as a free community and research tool for consumers, niche audiences, and candid product opinions.
| Compare | By the Numbers | |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Shopify stores juggling 4+ dashboards | Niche community discussion |
| Who it's not for | Brand-new stores with no ad spend or repeat revenue | B2B validation . reviewers say G2 analysis is 10x better |
| Privacy | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.² | Two known breaches (2018, 2023) and a removed warrant canary; no security page found.14 |
| Support quality | No support evidence in sources. | 1.2/5 Trustpilot; account-access complaints |
| Public sentiment | No in-depth independent user reviews found; the 5.0 score from 81 Shopify App Store reviews is strong but small, and Reddit threads point to Shopify plus GA4 or Polar Analytics for most needs.¹ | Users value Reddit's candid communities but rate the company itself poorly and remain angry about 2023 API pricing.13 |
| Biggest gotcha | Free tier's feature limits aren't published; expect paywalls on the 38 reports.¹ | 2023 API repricing killed apps like Apollo overnight . paid API costs can spike unpredictably16 |
Pick By the Numbers when
- Shopify stores juggling 4+ dashboards
- Sellers on Klaviyo, Meta, Google Ads
- $20K-$1M/month brands
- Owners wanting weekly AI number briefings
When By the Numbers is not a fit
- Brand-new stores with no ad spend or repeat revenue
- Anyone happy with Shopify built-ins plus GA4
- Enterprise teams needing a custom BI warehouse
- Non-Shopify stores . it is Shopify-only
Pick Reddit when
- Niche community discussion
- Candid product research
- Consumer and dev-tool marketing
- Free audience insight gathering
When Reddit is not a fit
- B2B validation . reviewers say G2 analysis is 10x better
- Teams needing support SLAs or accountable vendor
- Regulated industries with sensitive data
- Anyone depending on stable API pricing
Sources
- By the Numbers homepagebythenumbersapp.comofficial
- By the Numbers security pagebythenumbersapp.comsecurity
review
- Best Shopify Analytics Tools roundupblackbeltcommerce.comreview
review
- Shopify breach tied to third-party app (180,000 users)cyberinsider.comsecurity
- Polar Analytics raises $9M Series Atechcrunch.comnews
- Polar Analytics Shopify analytics guidepolaranalytics.comreview
- ReportGenix AI Analytics app listingapps.shopify.comreview
- BeProfit profit analytics overviewonrampfunds.comreview
- Reddit is rated "Bad" with 1.2 / 5 on Trustpilottrustpilot.comreview
- Reddit discloses security breach that exposed source code and internal docssecurityaffairs.comsecurity
security
- Reddit Users Are Planning 48-Hour Blackout Over New Pricing Policybusinessinsider.comnews
