Trendlytic vs Sale Samurai
| Sale Samurai | Trendlytic | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | An extension for Chrome, Edge and Brave that draws on Etsy pages, plus a dashboard | A site you open on purpose, before any marketplace tab |
| Marketplaces | Etsy. Their own site names no other one | Amazon Merch, Redbubble, TeePublic and Etsy, queried together |
| What it measures | Etsy search volume, competition scores and tag data | The shelves themselves, set against the crowd of sellers already standing on them |
| The moment it fits | While you word and tag a listing you are already building | While you are still deciding what to make |
| Listing copy | Listing Creator writes titles and descriptions and fills 13 tags, then pushes an Etsy draft | AI Studio returns a slogan plus an image prompt, and copy sized for each of the four |
| Trademark | Not offered | A USPTO lookup you fire at any phrase in a click, on every plan |
| Price | $19.99/mo or $199.90/yr, which is $16.65/mo, plus a capped free tier (their pricing page, Sept 2026) | From $19.99/mo, with a 3-day trial gated by a $1 card check |
| Early movers | Nothing we could find that flags new listings as they catch on | Rising and Rising fast on new Etsy designs shoppers are latching onto |
Where Sale Samurai wins, it wins outright. Numbers appearing on the Etsy page you are reading, with nothing to paste and nowhere else to click, beats any dashboard, and its Etsy volume data is deeper than ours. We have no extension. If your day is spent on Etsy pages tuning products that already exist, buy theirs and be happy. Trendlytic earns its keep before that, when the open question is what to make and which shelf has room left for it. The two do not compete for the same hour, which is why plenty of sellers keep both. And since it matters on a page like this, the tool on the right of that table is mine. Read the comparison with that in hand.
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Features
What you get
These are two different hours of the working day. Sale Samurai owns the one where a browser is already parked on Etsy: you are reading a competitor listing, filling thirteen tags, choosing how to word a title, and its overlay drops search volume and tag data onto the page in front of you with no second tab and no copy-paste. That is a genuinely good piece of software and nothing here replaces it. Trendlytic owns the hour before that tab exists. No product chosen. Nothing drafted. The only question is which idea deserves the next few evenings of design work, and answering it means weighing four shelves at the same time instead of the one you happen to be browsing.
Research that starts before the tab does
No listing, no shop, no marketplace page needed. Type a subject and the work begins at the point where every option is still open to you.
Four shelves, one query
Amazon Merch, Redbubble, TeePublic and Etsy get read together in a single query, so a packed result on one of them is something you learn now rather than a week after you upload.
Shelf evidence over search counts
You look at the products that are moving, and at how many sellers got to that subject before you. A busy phrase on its own never told you whether anybody paid.
A USPTO lookup, one click, any plan
Sale Samurai does not look at trademarks at all. Here you take a phrase you are drawn to and put it through the USPTO register yourself, in a click, before it reaches a design file. It sits on every plan and is not sold on the side.
35 tools that cost nothing
Tag generators, keyword helpers and profit calculators sit at /tools with no login and no card. Sanity-check an idea there before you touch the paid side.
It ends with something you can upload
A subject that survived your checks goes into AI Studio and comes back as a slogan, a prompt you feed your own image generator, then title, description and tags cut to fit the marketplace you picked. The subject and the wording carry through. The picture is yours to make.
Inside the app
See it working
Four shelves weighed at once, none of them open in a tab
An overlay can only describe the page underneath it. Discover sends one subject out to Amazon Merch, Redbubble, TeePublic and Etsy together, so you can tell that a theme Etsy has already chewed through is still half empty on TeePublic. That comparison does not exist inside a single marketplace, however good the extension sitting on top of it happens to be.
Which recent Etsy designs are pulling away
Etsy prints a favourite count. It will not tell you whether a listing is catching on in its subject, and that is the part that matters when you are picking. Trendlytic reads it for you. Rising goes on a new design that shoppers are quickly taking to, and Rising fast on the newest of those, gaining ground quickest. Favourites are interest rather than receipts, so read a badge as a few weeks of early warning, never as a sales figure.
Widen the shortlist before you commit to anything
Best Niches Today is a deciding-stage list: every hour, the niches behind the Rising designs of the last three days on four marketplaces, each with how many Rising designs back it. You are lengthening a shortlist, not tuning a draft. Nothing you do from a listing page gets you there, because a listing page only knows about itself.
Wording for the three marketplaces an Etsy overlay never sees
Keyword Research pulls the phrases already carrying strong products and scores each one for how wanted and how contested it is. It does that for Redbubble and Amazon Merch as well as Etsy, which matters because the same design needs different wording on each. No Etsy extension can help you tag a Merch upload, and Merch is where a careless phrase costs you the whole account.
The artwork people are buying, not the phrase people are typing
Search volume counts typing. It cannot show you what the winning product looks like. Trendlytic starts from the shelves and puts the strongest performers for your subject in front of you, so you can read the style buyers keep choosing before you brief any artwork. An Etsy tab gives you one shelf's answer to that. This gives you four.
Copy for a product that does not exist yet
Sale Samurai's Listing Creator builds around a listing you are already making on Etsy, and it pushes the draft straight there, which is useful once you know what you are making. AI Studio works a step before that. Point it at a subject that survived your checks and it hands back a slogan, an image prompt aimed at whichever generator you use, and title, description and tag sets shaped to each marketplace's own rules. You carry the subject and the wording forward. You never carry anyone's picture.
Built-in trademark check
Check any phrase against the live USPTO register before you design
Type a phrase and Trendlytic looks it up in the live USPTO register and shows who owns it, its status and its filing date. Included in every plan.
And the designs that were never yours to print are marked
When a result leans on a known brand, a character or a famous person, it arrives with a TM or copyright badge on the card. You see it while you are choosing, not after a takedown. A first filter, not legal advice.
How it works
- 1
Start from the idea, not the listing
Before any marketplace is open, type the subject you are weighing up. One query, four shelves, no page you have to be standing on first.
- 2
Compare the shelves against each other
Read what sells on each one and how full each one already is. Then put the exact phrase you are leaning towards through the USPTO lookup, and let the idea go now if the register says the wording is taken.
- 3
Only then pick where it goes
Send the subject that survived to the marketplace with the most room left, draft the copy in that marketplace's format, and open your design tool last.
Also in every plan
A mockup generator for the design you make next
When your own design for the niche is ready, drop the file in and see it on 500+ t-shirt photos in one go. Pick the shots that fit your shop, on a person or on its own, and save them at up to 2000 px with no watermark. A mockup takes 1 credit from your plan the first time and nothing after that.
Try the free set, no account neededPricing
Simple pricing
3-day free trial on any plan. Then from $19.99/month for 100 searches across all four marketplaces, with the USPTO check built in. Cancel anytime.
Starter
Perfect to get started
- 100 searches / month (= 10,000+ winning niches)
- Best Niches Today (first 12 a day)
- 50 trademark checks / month
- AI Listing Generator (2 credits each = up to 50 listings/mo)
Pro
For serious POD sellers
- 500 searches / month (= 50,000+ winning niches)
- Best Niches Today (every niche, hourly)
- 300 trademark checks / month
- AI Listing Generator (2 credits each = up to 250 listings/mo)
Business
For teams & agencies
- 2,000 searches / month
- Best Niches Today (every niche, hourly)
- Unlimited trademark checks
- AI Listing Generator (2 credits each = up to 1,000 listings/mo)
Included in every plan
- All 4 marketplaces
- Rising & Rising fast badges (new designs already selling)
- AI Niche Finder: niches for your interest, checked on 4 marketplaces
- Keyword Research
- Trending Now (updated hourly)
- Best Design Instant — top winning designs
- AI Studio: Slogan, Quote & Description generators
- POD Calendar with upload reminders
- Mockup Generator: 500+ t-shirt photos
- Save & organize winning niches
- Full search history
- 20+ free POD tools included
Who's behind this
Trendlytic is built and supported by one person, Karim. Write to support@trendlytic.io and he is the one who answers.
About the founder“I'm very satisfied with the way you handled the issue and with your prompt support. Thank you so much.”Jassmin, Pro plan
Frequently asked questions
Is Trendlytic a real Sale Samurai alternative?
It depends which half of the job you want covered. Sale Samurai is built for the work you do on an Etsy page: volume, tags, listing wording. Trendlytic is built for the decision that comes first, weighing one subject on Amazon Merch, Redbubble, TeePublic and Etsy, and letting you test the wording against the USPTO register first. If Etsy is your only shelf and tuning products is most of your week, theirs is the closer fit.
Is there a Trendlytic browser extension?
No, and that is the honest gap between us. Their extension is the best thing they make and we have nothing like it. Trendlytic is a site you go to deliberately, which suits the moment it was built for: you are holding four marketplaces side by side, so there is no single page for an overlay to sit on.
What does Sale Samurai cost?
Their pricing page in September 2026 lists $19.99 a month, or $199.90 for a year which works out at $16.65 a month, both with a 3-day trial, plus a free tier capped at 20 keyword searches and 10 listing analyses a month. Prices move, so read their page rather than ours before you buy. Ours begins at $19.99 a month.
Can Sale Samurai research Redbubble or Merch?
Their own site names Etsy and nothing else, and the extension draws its data on Etsy pages. So if your designs also go out to Merch, Redbubble or TeePublic, that part of your catalogue goes unresearched. Trendlytic reads all four in one go.
Does Trendlytic give you Etsy search volume?
Not as a volume figure, and that is a choice rather than a missing feature. Phrases are scored on how wanted and how contested they are, taken from what is already on the shelves, with a twelve-month interest line so you can tell a subject on the way up from one on the way down. If a hard Etsy volume number is the thing you need, Sale Samurai measures exactly that.
What can you use without paying?
35 tools sit at /tools behind no account and no card: tag and keyword generators for Etsy, Redbubble, Amazon Merch and Pinterest, plus fee and profit calculators. The paid side opens with a 3-day trial, and starting that trial takes a $1 verification against your card.
How much is Trendlytic?
Paid tiers begin at $19.99 a month, and every tier carries the same four-marketplace search and the same one-click USPTO lookup. The trial lasts 3 days and needs a $1 card check to begin.
How does the 3-day free trial work?
Every plan starts with 3 days free. Starting it charges $1 to check the card is real, and that $1 is not refunded. The plan price itself is only billed when the trial ends, and cancelling before then from Manage Plan means it is never charged.
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