--- title: Histora alternative: Actorly vs Histora | Actorly description: Histora and Actorly side by side: what each keeps, who made a change, and when to pick each. Every Histora fact links its own page, read 2026-10-14. canonical: https://actorly.app/compare/histora --- # Actorly vs Histora Histora describes itself as product history tracking, with every product, variant, media and price change and a lowest-price message for product pages. Actorly keeps a record of what changed in your store: the old and new value of each change, who made a product change when Shopify reports it, and select fields put back. Read from Histora's own listing on 2026-10-14. [Install free on Shopify](https://apps.shopify.com/actorly) [What Actorly tracks](https://actorly.app/coverage) ## The short version. Both keep a record of changes to a Shopify store. They differ in what they see, how long they keep it, how a person or app is named, and what you can do afterwards. The table puts each side by side, from the listing. This page describes Histora from its own listing, read on 2026-10-14, and links each fact to the page it came from. Its developer is AskSlate, and the listing gives 2024-12-03 as its launch date. Histora may have changed since, so check it. Histora is another company's product and Actorly is not affiliated with it. We make Actorly, so weigh our entry accordingly. ## Side by side. TopicHistoraActorly The jobProduct history, with a 30-day lowest-price message shown on product pages and recovery of deleted products. [listing](https://apps.shopify.com/histora) A searchable record of what changed in your store, with the old and new value. What it keepsProduct, variant, media and price changes with the time of each; its Full History plan adds metafields and changes made from other apps. [listing](https://apps.shopify.com/histora) The changes it sees across 25 parts of a store, from the day it is installed. Not a copy of the store. RestoreRecovers deleted products and restores backed-up images; reverting other field values is not stated. [listing](https://apps.shopify.com/histora) One field at a time, for 15 named fields, after you confirm the exact value, checked afterwards. No bulk restore, no whole-store restore, no restore to a date. Who made a changeStated for edits made through Histora. The listing does not extend that to edits made elsewhere. [listing](https://apps.shopify.com/histora) Product changes only, when Shopify reports it, beside Likely or Possible, and Unknown where Shopify records no one. History keptNot stated. [listing](https://apps.shopify.com/histora) Three months on Watch. Unlimited while on Restore. Price and trial$4.99 or $14.99 a month, each with a 7-day free trial. [listing](https://apps.shopify.com/histora) Watch is $0, with no clock. Restore is $29 a month or $240 a year. Billed by Shopify, never per change. No trial. A cell that says Not stated means Histora's page does not say, not that the thing is missing. We make Actorly, so weigh our entry accordingly. ## Which to pick. **Pick Histora if** - You sell where a lowest-price message on product pages matters, and want it shown for you. - You want deleted products recovered. Actorly does not bring deleted products back. - You want history shown on the product page itself. **Pick Actorly if** - You want to see what changed, when, and from what to what, without a copy of the store behind it. - You want who made a product change shown only when Shopify reports it, beside how sure Actorly is, with Unknown shown rather than a guess. - You want to put one field back and have Actorly check that it took. - You want your history free to see. They can sit side by side: each keeps its own record. ## What Actorly will not do. - It does not copy or restore a whole store. - It does not restore themes or customers, and it never changes an order. - It does not bring back a deleted product: deleted items are kept and shown, not recreated. - The record starts the day Actorly is installed. It cannot show what your store looked like before that. ## Histora source. - [Histora: Product Audit Log](https://apps.shopify.com/histora), read on 2026-10-14 ## Questions. ### Is Actorly an alternative to Histora? They overlap: both keep a record of changes to a store. Histora describes itself as product history tracking, with every product, variant, media and price change and a lowest-price message for product pages. Actorly's own list of what it records, and what it cannot, is on the Coverage page. Which fits depends on the changes you need to see. ### Can I use Actorly and Histora together? They are separate, and Actorly keeps its own record from the day it is installed, whatever else is on the store. What Histora does on its own side is for its listing to say. ### Does Actorly show who made a change? Only for product changes, only when Shopify reports it, and always with how sure Actorly is. Where Shopify records no one, the answer is Unknown, and Unknown is permanent. ### What does Actorly cost? Actorly Watch costs $0 and keeps three months of change history and one restore a month. Actorly Restore is $29 a month or $240 a year. Shopify bills it, never per change. There is no trial. ### Is Actorly affiliated with Histora? No. Histora is another company's product, described here from its own listing as read on 2026-10-14. It may have changed since, so check it. ## Keep reading. **Start the record today.** Your history starts the day you install. Actorly Watch is free, with no clock. [Install free on Shopify](https://apps.shopify.com/actorly)