Helm (GrowGiant) Review (2026)$129 via the App Store

Pricing (2026)

✓ Pricing re-verified 4 Oct 2026

One plan, called Operator, at $129 a month or $1,299 a year — the listing puts the annual saving at 16% — billed in USD every 30 days, with a 7-day free trial and no free tier. The listing is now headed GrowGiant, with Helm still named as the developer. Everything sits in that single plan: a drag-and-drop KPI dashboard, multi-metric KPI tiles, cross-system data comparisons, Meta Ads, Google Ads and GA4 analysis, QuickBooks financial intelligence, proactive risk and growth insights, monthly executive assessments and executive scenario modelling.

On 16 September the vendor's own site, pactai.app, also sold the Operator plan directly, at $149 a month or $1,499 a year with a paid $49 14-day trial. On 4 October 2026 that pricing block was gone: the rebuilt site publishes no price at all and leads with a free 'Growth Potential Snapshot', marked as needing no payment method and built from public evidence. The App Store's $129 is now the only published price. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.

What the price did

We capture Helm (GrowGiant)’s own pricing page every month and keep the figures, so this is our record of the page — not a forecast, and not someone else’s summary.

What the pricing page doesn’t say

The catch

On 4 October 2026 the App Store listing is headed GrowGiant with Helm still named as the developer; the vendor's site at pactai.app calls the product GrowGiant; the entity in the terms is PactAI, LLC of Texas; and the deletion address in those terms is now growth@growgiant.ai. That is a rebrand still settling rather than anything sinister, but the name you buy under is not the developer name on the listing, and there is little to search for before you commit.

The offer has moved as well. On 16 September the vendor's site sold the same Operator plan at $149 a month or $1,499 a year with a paid $49 14-day trial, $20 a month above the App Store. On 4 October that pricing was gone: the rebuilt site publishes no price and leads with a free 'Growth Potential Snapshot' instead, while its security page still says 'Start Free — No Card'.

The App Store's $129 is the only figure in writing. The evidence base is the real problem. The app was listed on 7 September 2026 and on 4 October it still stands at 0.0 from zero reviews, so nothing here has been checked by anyone outside the company — ourselves included. The rebuilt site no longer leads with the '$20k to $80k a month' mission or the '~$38,000 in annual profit leakage' figure we read in September; its examples now come from an unnamed 'real Shopify business assessment', such as 94.6% of identified customers buying only once, under the line that it reports what it measures, not a promised result.

That is a more careful pitch. It is still the vendor's own. The security page continues to attribute SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001 to Supabase and AWS rather than to GrowGiant. One tension remains. The product promises to find the highest-priority moves to make next, and clause 7 of its own terms says AI can be wrong and that reviewing the output before you rely on it for business, financial, legal or tax decisions is your job. Both statements are fair, and the second one is the contract.

What Helm (GrowGiant) does

Shopify business-intelligence app — sold on the vendor's own site under the GrowGiant brand, by PactAI, LLC of Texas — that reads Shopify, QuickBooks Online, Meta Ads, Google Ads and GA4 together and flags what is costing money: discount and pricing drift, unexplained cost movements, inventory risk, ad performance deteriorating beyond normal variation, and sales anomalies against day, week, month and last year. Adds a drag-and-drop KPI dashboard, scenario modelling and a recurring management review. Integrations are read-only; the listing requests view permissions only. Launched 7 September 2026, still no reviews as of 16 Sep 2026.

What buyers report about Helm (GrowGiant)

Hands-on: not tested by usReported by buyers: none found

Nothing, and we would rather say so than fill the space. We looked for independent user reviews of Helm (GrowGiant) on the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in September 2026, and found none at all. That points to a young product rather than a badly reviewed one, but it does mean there is no crowd verdict to weigh: judge Helm (GrowGiant) on your own trial, not on anyone's score.

One plan, one published price, and a free snapshot first

There is only one plan, so the upgrade question is really whether to start paying at all. Through the Shopify App Store, Operator is $129 a month, or $1,299 a year with the listing's stated 16% saving — an effective $108.25 a month, $249 less than twelve monthly payments of $1,548. That is now the only published price. The direct offer we read on pactai.app on 16 September ($149 a month, $1,499 a year, $49 for a 14-day trial) is not on the vendor's rebuilt site, which on 4 October 2026 shows no price anywhere.

What the site offers instead is a free 'Growth Potential Snapshot' that needs no payment method. That is the cheaper first step: you see what the tool claims it would find before the 7-day trial clock starts. It is not a test of the product on your data, though, because by the site's own label the snapshot is built from public evidence; only the trial, with Shopify, the ad platforms and QuickBooks connected, shows that.

What paying does not buy is a second opinion. The listing still shows 0.0 from zero reviews four weeks after launch, so the case for $1,548 a year rests on the vendor's own description, and clause 7 of its terms says the AI can be wrong and that checking it is your job.

How to actually use Helm (GrowGiant)

If you want a look before any trial clock starts, the free Growth Potential Snapshot on pactai.app needs no payment method, but it is built from public evidence rather than your data. To run the product on your own numbers, install from the Shopify App Store: as read on 4 October 2026 it is the only route with a published price ($129 a month), and its 7-day trial is free.

Connect QuickBooks Online and the ad platforms before you judge anything. The case for this app rests on reading Shopify, Meta Ads, Google Ads, GA4 and QuickBooks against each other; connect Shopify alone and you are paying $129 for a dashboard over data you already have. If you cannot get at least the ad platforms connected in the first day or two, a 7-day trial will not tell you much.

Check what it can reach, because here the vendor's claim is checkable. The listing's data-access section asks to view customers, products, orders and discounts, plus device and activity data and the store owner's record — view only, with no edit or write permission requested anywhere. That matches the read-only guarantee on pactai.app/security, and it is a narrower ask than most apps in this category make. It is the one vendor claim you can verify from an independent surface before you install.

Know the exit before you take the entrance. The terms give a 90-day grace period after cancellation before integration data is permanently deleted, earlier on request to growth@growgiant.ai; cancelling stops renewals but does not refund the period you are in; price changes carry 30 days' notice; governing law is Texas and liability is capped at the fees of the preceding twelve months. And treat the output as a draft. Clause 7 of the terms is explicit that the AI can be wrong and that checking it before acting is your responsibility — so the monthly management review is a memo to read critically, not a decision to execute.

Helm (GrowGiant) vs Selixer, side by side

Each column shows the vendor’s own published entry price, read on the date shown. Entry prices can cover different services or units, so check what each one buys. We do not average them into a score.

Helm (GrowGiant)

What it costs

Operator $129 a month or $1,299 a year via the Shopify App Store, 7-day free trial

Price read on

4 Oct 2026

The catch

Four weeks old and still trading under more than one name.

Best for

Shopify stores already spending on Meta and Google Ads and keeping their books in QuickBooks Online, that want one place reading orders, ad spend, GA4 traffic and financials against each other instead of four dashboards that never quite agree — and that are comfortable being among the first paying customers of an app launched on 7 September 2026 with no reviews yet

Selixer →

What it costs

From $149/mo

Price read on

19 Sep 2026

The catch

Read the feature lists rather than the prices and the entry tier stops looking like the product.

Best for

Shopify fashion and apparel brands with real ad spend that want profit per SKU and per campaign in one place, and can carry the $299 tier where those features actually live

The Selixer link above is an affiliate link — we may earn a commission if you sign up, at no extra cost to you — and the other column is a plain link. Neither changes what this table says.

The natural comparison is Selixer, EcomXray — All three read your own Shopify data back to you, and the honest split is price against evidence. Our own dossiers have Selixer at $149 a month for Essence (re-verified 10 September 2026): two seats, one connected ad platform, a year of history, the ad dashboard, stock health views and 500 AI credits, climbing to $299 and $399 for more ad platforms, the full True Profit waterfall and multi-touch attribution. Helm's single Operator plan is $129 through the App Store and covers Meta, Google Ads, GA4 and QuickBooks together, with no seat or platform cap published — on paper, more coverage for less money. What Selixer has that Helm does not is a record you can look up before you pay. At the other end, EcomXray is free for cost price, gross margin and net units sold over 30, 90 and 365 days, with a $29 Pro tier (re-verified 8 September 2026). If what you actually need is to know which products make money, that is the honest floor of this category, and $1,548 a year buys a great deal of analysis you may never act on. Try them cheapest first: EcomXray free, then Helm's free 7-day trial, then Selixer..

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Frequently asked questions

What does Helm cost?

One plan, called Operator: $129 a month or $1,299 a year on the Shopify App Store, with a stated 16% annual saving, billed in USD every 30 days, a 7-day free trial and no free tier. Read 4 October 2026. That is now the only published price. On 16 September the vendor's own site, pactai.app, sold the same plan at $149 a month or $1,499 a year with a $49 14-day trial; the rebuilt site read on 4 October shows no price at all, only a free 'Growth Potential Snapshot' that needs no payment method and is built from public evidence rather than your own data.

Why does one app have three different names?

Because a rebrand is still settling. On 16 September 2026 the App Store listing changed during the day from Helm: Business Radar to GrowGiant; on 4 October it is still headed GrowGiant with Helm as the developer. The vendor's site calls the product GrowGiant, the entity in the terms is PactAI, LLC of Texas, and the terms now give growth@growgiant.ai as the address for deletion requests. Nothing here suggests bad faith, but the name you buy under is not the developer name on the listing, and there is almost nothing to search for before you commit.

Has anyone else actually used it?

Not publicly. Read on 4 October 2026, the App Store listing still shows 0.0 from zero reviews, on an app listed on 7 September 2026, so every claim about what it will find in your data is the vendor's own. The rebuilt pactai.app has dropped the September headline figures (a '$20k to $80k a month' mission and '~$38,000 in annual profit leakage') in favour of unnamed examples from 'a real Shopify business assessment', and says it reports what it measures rather than a promised result. Its security page still attributes SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001 to Supabase and AWS rather than to the vendor, and clause 7 of the terms says the AI can be wrong. That is candour, not evidence: $129 a month is $1,548 a year taken on trust.

Does the Shopify app read my full order history, or only recent orders?

Its full history. The Shopify App Store listing for Helm (apps.shopify.com/helm, read 23 October 2026) lists all order history in the order data it requests. The listing still shows Operator at $129 a month or $1,299 a year, with a 7-day free trial.

What customer device data does the app request?

The same listing (read 23 October 2026) names geolocation, IP address, browser and operating system. Its privacy policy did not expose a readable body when we fetched it, so how that data is stored or kept is not confirmed.

Is this a hands-on review of Helm (GrowGiant)?

This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.

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