Looking for a Peeksy alternative?
Start with the part most comparison pages bury: Peeksy is cheaper than ShelfHawk, it has a free tier, and it is built by Etsy sellers with 85,000+ sales of their own. If you sell only on Etsy and you want the lowest price, stop reading and go use Peeksy. ShelfHawk is the better tool for one specific seller — the one whose rivals are not all on Etsy.
Side by side
Same core job, different scope
Both tools do the same fundamental thing: watch rival listings on a schedule and email you when something moves. The differences are scope and what happens after the alert.
| Dimension | Peeksy | ShelfHawk |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces covered | Etsy only | Etsy, eBay, Shopify stores, and Amazon (price and stock only) |
| Rival price tracking | Yes — alerts on drops over 10% | Yes — every change logged, any size |
| Rival stock-outs | Via listing status changes | Yes — flagged in alerts and your briefing |
| Email briefing | Weekly on free, daily on paid | Daily plain-English briefing on every plan |
| Reprices your own prices for you | No — reports only | Shopify stores only — auto-pilot inside your guardrails |
| Supplier / buy-side price tracking | No | Yes, on Watch + Suggest and up |
| Etsy sales-velocity estimates | Yes — a core feature | No |
| Tag-gap analysis | Yes, on higher tiers | No |
| Free tier | Yes — 2 shops | No — 14-day free trial instead |
| Price | Free · $9.99 · $24.99 · $49.99 per month | $39 · $79 · $149 per month |
Peeksy pricing and features summarized from peeksy.watch as of September 2026; Peeksy is in beta and its plans may change, so check their site for current terms. ShelfHawk facts match our own pricing page.
The actual difference
Your rivals do not all sell on Etsy
Most Etsy sellers who grow past a certain point stop being Etsy-only sellers. The handmade candle shop opens a Shopify store. The vintage seller has been on eBay the whole time. The print-on-demand shop tests Amazon. The moment that happens, an Etsy-only monitor covers a shrinking fraction of the competition that actually costs you sales.
ShelfHawk puts all of it on one watchlist. The same rival, tracked on their Etsy listing and their Shopify storefront, in the same briefing, with the same alert rules. No Etsy-only tool can do that — not because it is technically hard, but because it is a different product.
The second difference is what happens after the email. Peeksy tells you a rival dropped their price. ShelfHawk recommends what to charge in response — and if you also sell on a Shopify store, auto-pilot can move that price inside guardrails you set and log what it did and why. Reporting and acting are different jobs, and the gap between them is usually a weekend of lost sales.
Our actual recommendation
Which one you should buy
Pick Peeksy if Etsy is your only channel and you expect it to stay that way, if you want Etsy sales-velocity estimates and tag-gap analysis, or if a $10–25/month budget is the constraint. Its free tier is a real one and you can start today at no cost.
Pick ShelfHawk if you sell — or plan to sell — on more than one marketplace, if you want a recommended price rather than just a report, or if you want your supplier costs tracked alongside your rivals' prices. From $39/month with a 14-day free trial.
We are not going to claim we beat Peeksy on price, because we do not, and you would find out in about ninety seconds. The claim we will stand behind is narrower: no Etsy-only tool can watch the rivals you have outside Etsy, and that is the entire reason ShelfHawk exists.
Common questions
Peeksy vs ShelfHawk FAQs
Is ShelfHawk cheaper than Peeksy?
No. Peeksy is cheaper at every tier and has a free plan; ShelfHawk does not. Peeksy runs $0 for 2 shops, $9.99 for 5, $24.99 for 20 and $49.99 for unlimited. ShelfHawk starts at $39/month for 5 competitors. If price is your deciding factor and you only sell on Etsy, Peeksy is the better buy and we would rather tell you that than waste your trial.
What does ShelfHawk do that Peeksy does not?
Three things. First, marketplace coverage: Peeksy is Etsy-only, while ShelfHawk tracks rivals on Etsy, eBay, Shopify and Amazon in the same watchlist — so a seller listing the same product in two or three places sees all of it in one briefing. Second, acting on a move: on Watch + Suggest and up, ShelfHawk recommends a price for each of your products, and if you also run a Shopify store, auto-pilot can change that store’s prices inside guardrails you set, where Peeksy reports and stops. (It cannot change Etsy listings.) Third, supplier price tracking on Watch + Suggest and up, which watches your buy side as well as your sell side.
What does Peeksy do better?
It is cheaper, it has a genuine free tier, and it is built by the JelliesDesign team — Etsy sellers with 85,000+ sales of their own, which shows in the Etsy-specific features. Peeksy tracks sales velocity and does tag-gap analysis against rival shops; ShelfHawk does neither. If your entire business is one Etsy shop, that focus is worth more than breadth you will not use.
Can I use both?
You can, but we would not bother. The overlap is large — both watch rival Etsy listings and email you when prices move — so paying twice mostly buys you duplicate alerts. Pick on scope: Etsy-only, take Peeksy; selling across more than one marketplace or wanting a recommended price rather than just a report, take ShelfHawk.
One watchlist, every marketplace