Lunvo vs Luseri
Lunvo presents itself as the Mantle alternative built for Shopify app developers: a merchant CRM, install and uninstall tracking, revenue analytics and affiliates, with the same API as Mantle so you can switch without rewriting code. It is free during its early access, and part of what it describes is announced rather than live. Luseri covers revenue too, adds your App Store listing and the traffic it gets, and has no affiliates or CRM. Here is what each does, as described on their sites on October 21, 2026.
By Arthur Renard, updated
Side by side
For Lunvo, the table says what its site presents as live in its preview, and what it lists for its V1 (announced for mid-July 2026 and still described that way on October 21, 2026) or for later versions.
| Lunvo | Luseri | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free during its early access, with paid plans announced for later, as published on October 21, 2026 | Free for now, while it welcomes its first users, and free for life for accounts created before paid plans launch. Planned plans, per app and per month: $14.99 up to $2,000 of MRR, $29.99 up to $10,000, $69.99 above, announced by email at least 30 days ahead. |
| Connection | Partner organization ID and a Partner API token you create, read only; a Stripe connection is listed in its V1 | Partner API client you create, which it only reads; Google Analytics 4 as a viewer |
| Revenue | MRR with new, expansion, contraction and churn, ARR, gross and net revenue, revenue per merchant | MRR and its movements, cash collected in its own currency, one page per store |
| Installs and churn | Install, uninstall, trial and churn events from the Partner API, with history backfilled; churn on subscriptions and merchants, with freezes counted apart | Installs and uninstalls from the Partner API, retention by install cohort |
| Uninstall reasons | Not mentioned | Yes |
| Merchants | A merchant CRM listed in its V1: plans, status and full history for each store | One page per store: plan, history, payments |
| Affiliates | Links, attribution and commissions, listed in its V1; an affiliate marketplace on its roadmap for V3 | No |
| Coming from Mantle | "Same API surface as Mantle", according to its site; history rebuilt from the Partner API; an import of your Mantle export (merchants, notes, affiliates, history) announced with V1, "not live yet" according to its docs | History rebuilt from the Partner API; no import from Mantle |
| Keywords | Not mentioned | Daily rank for up to 20 chosen keywords, with your competitors' positions, the searches that brought visits, and ideas of searches to track |
| Category rank, reviews, competitors | Not mentioned; "Review intelligence" is on its roadmap for V2, and "Rankings" for V3 | Daily category rank, reviews and rating over a year, up to six competitors side by side, log of listing changes |
| Listing traffic (GA4) | Not mentioned | Views, Install clicks, confirmed installs, App Store searches with your position, by country and language |
| In-app events | Not mentioned; a merchant health score is on its roadmap for V2 | Optional, with a health score per store |
| AI | "AI insights" and churn prediction on its roadmap for V2, announced for "Later in 2026" | An assistant that answers questions from your numbers, suggests what to do next and drafts replies to your reviews, and a read-only MCP server for your own assistant |
| Alerts | Not mentioned | Weekly email report, uninstall alert by email |
| Billing | Not handled: its docs point to Shopify App Pricing | Not handled: it only reads |
| Languages | Website and docs in English, French, Spanish, German and Brazilian Portuguese | Site and dashboard in English and in French |
Where Lunvo is stronger
- Affiliates: links, attribution and commissions are part of its V1, and its site says the links your partners already share from Mantle keep working once imported. Luseri has no affiliate features.
- A merchant CRM built around stores, with the plan, status and full history of each merchant. Luseri has a page per store, but no CRM.
- A path designed for Mantle users. Its site says Lunvo has "the same API surface as Mantle", so you point your existing Mantle integration at it instead of rewriting code. An import of your Mantle export (merchants, notes and segments, affiliates, history) is announced with V1; on October 21, 2026, its docs said it was "not live yet".
- Its website and documentation in five languages: English, French, Spanish, German and Brazilian Portuguese. Luseri's are in English and French.
- Plans for later that Luseri does not cover: churn prediction for its V2 ("Later in 2026"), then an affiliate marketplace, partner discovery, cross promotion and shared audiences for its V3.
Where Luseri differs
- Your App Store listing is in the dashboard: reviews and rating over a year, category rank recorded daily, up to six competitors side by side, a log of changes to your listing and theirs, and your position on up to 20 keywords you choose, read every day. Lunvo's site does not mention App Store data; "Review intelligence" is on its roadmap for V2, and "Rankings" for V3.
- Listing traffic is read from your Google Analytics 4 with viewer access: listing views, Install clicks, confirmed installs, and the App Store searches that brought each visit with the position your app held, by country and by language. Lunvo's site does not mention Google Analytics.
- Retention is read by install cohort, next to the reasons merchants give Shopify when they uninstall. Lunvo describes churn rates and install events, without cohorts or uninstall reasons.
- An AI assistant is in the dashboard today: it answers your questions from your own numbers and suggests what to do next. It runs on Claude, a model made by Anthropic, and you do not need an API key of your own. Lunvo announces "AI insights" for its V2.
- Optional in-app tracking adds a health score for each store, and an email alert warns you when uninstalls rise sharply, next to a weekly report. Lunvo lists a merchant health score on its roadmap for V2.
- Cash collected is shown apart from MRR, in the currency Shopify pays you.
- A read-only MCP server opens your numbers to your own AI assistant (Claude, Cursor, VS Code or another) with a personal token. Lunvo's site does not mention MCP access.
Which one to choose
Choose Lunvo if what you miss most from Mantle is the affiliate program and the merchant CRM, or if you want to keep the code that called Mantle's API, and you are fine with a tool in early access whose Mantle import is still announced. Choose Luseri if you want your revenue, your App Store listing and its traffic in one place, with an assistant that answers from your numbers. Both read your Partner account without changing it, so you can try them side by side.
For the other tools that took over part of Mantle's job, see Shopify app analytics tools compared and a Mantle alternative for the analytics part.
Questions
- Is Lunvo free?
- Its homepage says it is free while in early access, with paid plans to come later, and that "the people who join now get the best deal" when they do. It publishes no price (checked on October 21, 2026).
- What can I use in Lunvo today?
- On October 21, 2026, its homepage describes Lunvo as "In active development", says "a working preview is live today", and presents merchants, installs, MRR and churn as "what's live to test today". The same page still says "V1 ships mid-July 2026", and lists for V1 the merchant CRM, affiliates, a Stripe sync and the Mantle import. Its documentation says the Mantle import and the affiliate import are "not live yet" and will ship with V1.
- Can Lunvo import my Mantle data?
- Not yet, according to its documentation on October 21, 2026: the Mantle import "is not live yet" and ships with V1. Its docs ask you to export from Mantle, before its shutdown, what the Partner API does not hold: merchant notes and segments, affiliates and their links, and your event history. Revenue, MRR, installs and uninstalls are rebuilt from the Shopify Partner API, as Luseri does too. Its site also says Lunvo has "the same API surface as Mantle"; its documentation does not describe that API, so we could not check it.
- Does Lunvo track App Store rankings, reviews or keywords?
- Its site does not describe any App Store data on October 21, 2026. Its roadmap lists "Review intelligence" for V2 and "Rankings" for V3, without more detail. Luseri follows your reviews and rating, your category rank every day and up to six competitors, and your position on up to 20 keywords you choose, with the position of the apps you watch, read every day among the first 192 App Store search results.
- Does Lunvo use AI?
- Not yet, according to its site on October 21, 2026: "AI insights" and churn prediction are on its roadmap for V2, announced for "Later in 2026". Luseri has an assistant in the dashboard that answers questions from your app's numbers (revenue, merchants, retention, uninstall reasons, reviews, rank, competitors, listing traffic) and suggests what to do next. It runs on Claude, by Anthropic, and you do not need an API key of your own. It also has a read-only MCP server, so your own AI assistant can read the same numbers with a personal token.
- Does Lunvo replace Mantle Billing?
- No. Its site says billing stays on Shopify App Pricing, the route Shopify recommends. Luseri does not handle billing either: it only reads your Partner account.
- Can I use both at the same time?
- Yes. Both connect to your Shopify Partner account with an access token you create in your Partner dashboard, and only read it.
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