Shopify Sidekick

Here are some standout features of Shopify Sidekick:

App Generation

One of Sidekick’s most interesting features is its ability to generate custom apps directly inside the Shopify admin.

You can describe what you want to build in plain language, and Sidekick creates a plan before generating the app. This makes it possible for store owners to create small internal tools without needing to code or hire a developer for every operational need.

For example, Sidekick can help create apps that recommend which products need to be reordered based on sales velocity, generate discounted checkout links and QR codes, search customers and create custom discounts, or even build a task tracker for your team.

Content Generation

Sidekick can also help create different types of content for your store.

You can ask it to write product descriptions, blog posts, marketing copy, email campaigns, metaobject entries, and other store content using natural language.

Sidekick can also generate images from text prompts. This can help with hero banners, blog illustrations, product-related visuals, and marketing materials. Images are not added to your store automatically. They remain private in the chat until you choose to save them to your store’s media library.

Personalization

Sidekick becomes more useful over time because it can remember information from your conversations.

It can learn explicit preferences that you share, such as how you like content written or how you prefer to review information. It can also remember past conversations, so you can return to a previous topic without having to explain everything again from the beginning.

Users can also manage what Sidekick remembers, which is important for keeping control over personalization and past conversation context.

Voice and Screen Sharing

Sidekick supports more than just text chat. You can also interact with it using voice mode and screen sharing.

Voice mode is available on desktop, mobile, and Apple Watch. Sidekick can detect and respond in the language you are speaking, which makes the experience feel more natural.

Screen sharing is especially useful for step-by-step guidance. Instead of trying to explain where you are stuck, you can share your screen and let Sidekick guide you through the task directly. This is currently available in early access from the Shopify admin in a desktop browser.

Saved Prompts

Sidekick also lets users save prompts as skills.

This is useful when you find yourself repeating the same requests regularly. For example, you could save prompts for generating social media copy, writing product descriptions, creating sales snapshots, or forecasting revenue for a specific period.

This turns Sidekick from a one-time chat assistant into a reusable workflow tool.

Shopify has always been an easy-to-use platform that takes a lot of the complexity out of building and managing online stores. Sidekick takes that a step further by bringing AI directly into the Shopify admin, where store owners already spend most of their time.
From my experience, Sidekick feels highly responsive and understands the Shopify ecosystem in a way that is much more useful than a generic AI chatbot. It responds more like an experienced Shopify store manager who already knows where things are, and how day-to-day ecommerce tasks usually work.

Over the last two years, Sidekick has also become much more reliable. As a Shopify store owner, a lot of the tasks that previously required leaving Shopify and using an external AI tool can now be done right inside the platform. This includes writing product descriptions, creating blog posts, generating marketing copy, and producing images.

The biggest advantage is context. Sidekick uses the page you are on to better understand what you are asking. If you are looking at analytics, it can help explain performance. If you are working on products, it can help with product content or edits. This makes the experience feel much smoother because you do not have to keep copying information into another tool.

That said, there are still some limitations. App generation is only available from a desktop browser, not from the Shopify mobile app or mobile web admin. Screen sharing is also still in early access and only works from the desktop admin. Generated apps only work inside Shopify admin, so they are useful for internal store management but not for customer-facing experiences.