Crowdwave is in pre-launch — early access opens in batches. → Join the waitlist
Two engines in one install. A real-time visitor counter for your product pages that flatly refuses to invent a number, and an opt-in exchange that puts your products in other merchants' “You may also like” slots.
Crowdwave is not on the Shopify App Store yet. Everything below is the real component running in your browser, with staged data — there is no live traffic to show you until merchants are installing it.
THE WHOLE POINT
Most social proof apps pick a number out of a range and call it traffic. Crowdwave doesn't. Take the real visitor count down to zero and watch what the widget does.
There's no setting to turn one on, because we never built one.
What a quiet page actually looks like ↓Cedar & Smoke Candle
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Real sessions, counted as they happen.
WHAT CROWDWAVE ACTUALLY IS
One install, one dashboard, one subscription. Two completely different ways to move product — and either one runs perfectly well without the other.
ENGINE 01
Real-time counts on your product pages, store-wide or per product.
ENGINE 02
Your products in other merchants' "You may also like". Theirs in yours.
The exchange is opt-in. Install Crowdwave, leave the network switched off, and nothing about your product page changes except the counter.
ENGINE 01 — THE COUNTER
Live visitor counts, store-wide or per product, updating as people arrive and leave. Pick how it looks, then drop it above your add-to-cart in the theme editor — or anywhere else your layout wants it.
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Everything in that box is the actual widget component, styled by the actual settings. There is no screenshot on this page.
And every count it shows lands in the dashboard — live and historical, per product, inside your Shopify admin.
GETTING IT LIVE
One click from the Shopify App Store. Embedded admin, standard permissions, nothing to configure before it works.
It's a theme app block, so it lives in the theme editor with everything else. Above the add-to-cart is the popular spot, but it goes wherever your layout wants it.
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Theme, colours, icon, style, and whether the count is store-wide or per product. Then leave it alone and read the dashboard.
The counter starts counting from your next visitor. There is no seeding, no backfill and no historical import, because there is nothing honest to import.
ENGINE 02 — THE EXCHANGE
Your product appears in the "You may also like" slot on a partner store's product page. Theirs appear on yours. No bidding, no ad account, no agency.
Illustrative figures. Yours will be whatever they actually are.
How the exchange works, in four steps:
The partner store's readout shows illustrative impressions and clicks figures, not measured ones. Every fifth product is turned away at the halfway point because it matched the merchant's own shop, which is excluded automatically.
“Will I end up advertising to my own customers?”
No. Your shop is excluded from your own placements automatically, at every plan level. You never pay to advertise to yourself.
“Is my product page about to become a billboard?”
No. Four promoted items, maximum, ever. That ceiling is a product decision, not a starting point we plan to raise.
“Will I get impressions in countries I don't ship to?”
Only if you ask for them. Target by country so your placements land where you can actually take the order.
“How do I know it's doing anything?”
You get impressions and clicks per promotion in the dashboard. We won't promise you traffic volume — we'll show you the numbers and let you decide.
Reciprocity, stated plainly: you show, so you get shown. And if you'd rather not, the counter works perfectly well on its own.
QUIET ≠ BROKEN
Every other app in this category has the same failure mode — the widget silently stops rendering and the merchant finds out from a customer. Crowdwave renders nothing on purpose when there's nobody there, so here is exactly how to tell those two apart.
REAL VISITORS
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The widget counts, and the number is the number in the database.
NO VISITORS
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The widget removes itself. No zero, no empty box, no skeleton, no "be the first to view this". Your page just looks like a page.
BROKEN — EVERY OTHER APP
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An empty container, a loading shimmer that never resolves, or a stubborn 0 sitting above your add-to-cart.
Illustrative demo. The counts in these three frames are staged — Crowdwave is pre-launch, so there is no live traffic to show you yet.
A large share of desktop shoppers browse with a blocker on, and blockers pattern-match tracking domains, known asset filenames and known widget class names. That's why social proof widgets quietly vanish for the people running them — and why an honest counter is worthless if a third of your shoppers never see it. Crowdwave was engineered around that from day one.
One theme app block, self-contained, nothing injected page-wide and nothing render-blocking in front of your add-to-cart. We're not publishing millisecond benchmarks we haven't measured on your store.
HOW TO TELL
The dashboard keeps reporting a live heartbeat even while the widget is rendering nothing. Quiet page, healthy app — and you can check it in ten seconds without emailing anyone.
THE CATEGORY, AND US
| Typical social proof apps | Crowdwave |
|---|---|
| Invents a number when traffic is low, from a range you configure | Never invents a number. There is no range to configure. |
| Shows a 0, an empty box or a loading shimmer on a quiet page | Renders nothing at all, and the dashboard still shows a heartbeat |
| Stretches the lookback window until "right now" means "yesterday" | Counts sessions that are happening now, and says so in the widget copy |
| Gets eaten by ad blockers and nobody tells you | Neutral filenames, class names and request paths, from day one |
| Bundles stock-scarcity counters that claim low stock you don't have | No stock counters. Not on the roadmap, and that's a decision, not an oversight. |
| Charges you extra to stop showing other merchants' ads on your own store | The exchange is opt-in on every plan, and off is free |
How typical social proof apps behave, compared with how Crowdwave behaves.
Typical social proof apps:
Invents a number when traffic is low, from a range you configureCrowdwave:
Typical social proof apps:
Shows a 0, an empty box or a loading shimmer on a quiet pageCrowdwave:
Typical social proof apps:
Stretches the lookback window until "right now" means "yesterday"Crowdwave:
Typical social proof apps:
Gets eaten by ad blockers and nobody tells youCrowdwave:
Typical social proof apps:
Bundles stock-scarcity counters that claim low stock you don't haveCrowdwave:
Typical social proof apps:
Charges you extra to stop showing other merchants' ads on your own storeCrowdwave:
Every row on the left is something you can go and verify in a public app listing this afternoon. We'd rather you did.
WHAT IT'LL COST
The exact numbers land with the App Store listing. We're not putting placeholder prices on a website whose entire argument is that we don't make numbers up.
For a store that wants the counter and nothing else
Price at launch: not announced yet.
For a store that wants the network working for it
Price at launch: not announced yet.
For a store running this properly
Price at launch: not announced yet.
Waitlist members see the real numbers before anyone else and keep the founding rate for as long as they stay subscribed. What we won't do: invent a spots-remaining counter, run a countdown timer, or tell you the price goes up on Friday. We'd be the worst possible company to try that on.
Turning the exchange off is free on every plan. Charging a merchant to stop showing other people's ads on their own store is exactly the kind of thing we built this to be the opposite of.
BEFORE YOU ASK
Short answers, no support-ticket voice.
Anything else, the answer is at the bottom of this page and it goes straight to a person.
EARLY ACCESS
Crowdwave opens in early access soon. Leave your email — and your store URL if you want to be in an earlier batch — and you'll get one message when it's your turn.
The waitlist opens shortly
We’re not taking addresses until there’s somewhere proper to keep them — collecting emails we might lose is exactly the sort of thing this site is about not doing. In the meantime, email us and you go on the list by hand.