Shopify Sidekick can now talk to your apps. Here's what to ask it

Q: What can Shopify Sidekick do with my apps now?

Once you grant it access to an app, Sidekick can search that app's data and answer questions, and it can stage an action inside the app that you confirm. For example it can pull your Judge.me ratings and review summary, your Avia store traffic and conversion rate, your email and SMS campaign stats, or your Matrixify import and export job status, all from one chat. Shopify made this generally available on 17 June 2026.

Q: Can Sidekick undo a change it makes through an app?

It depends. A setting can be reversed, either by asking Sidekick to flip it back or by fixing it in the app. A bulk data overwrite or deletion is different. Asked whether it could undo a Matrixify bulk import, Sidekick said that once an import runs and is confirmed the data is written to Shopify and it has no rollback capability, and that Shopify has no native undo for bulk changes. The only way back is a backup taken before the change.

LH By Le Thi Hien · Updated June 2026 · 10 min read

Quick answer

Sidekick now answers across your installed apps

Since 17 June 2026, Shopify Sidekick app extensions let you ask Sidekick about your installed apps once you grant access to each one. It then pulls the answer for you, no tab-hopping.

One question, every appYour reviews, marketing, analytics and bulk-data apps, all from a single ask.

It can act too, with your sign-offSidekick stages the change inside the app, then waits for you to confirm before anything happens.

The payoffFaster answers, fewer dashboards open, and insight you'd otherwise skip.

The catch

Asking is free and safe, but a change you confirm can be hard to undo. Sidekick told us so itself.

What Sidekick app extensions changed

Sidekick is Shopify's built-in AI assistant. It could always work with Shopify itself. On 17 June 2026 Shopify let it work with your other apps too, and that is the shift worth understanding.

Here is the part people get wrong: the apps are not reaching into Sidekick on their own. You ask a question, and the first time you point Sidekick at an app it asks your permission. You grant access per app, one at a time. You stay the one who opens the door.

Once you do, an app shows up in one or both of two ways, and the difference is the whole story for your data.

It reads and answers

Ask, and it tells you. Sidekick searches the app and answers in chat. Nothing changes in your store, so this is risk-free, and it's where most of the value is.

It stages, you confirm

It can act, with your sign-off. Sidekick sets up a change in the app and you approve it. Handy, but a confirmed change is a real change, and some cannot be undone.

See it in action

So we stopped describing it and used it. We installed four popular apps, connected them to Sidekick, and asked it real questions on a test store. First, the access step that always comes first.

Real exchange · the access step

YouWhat can you do with my Judge.me reviews?

Allow Sidekick to access your Judge.me Reviews data? Yes

SidekickDone. I can show your rating and an AI summary of what customers love and complain about, your review funnel and revenue from reviews. I can also publish, hide or reply to a review, with your confirmation.

Nothing happens until you grant access. The app does not connect itself.

Now try it yourself. Tap a question and watch the answer it actually gave.

Apps compatible with Sidekick

Tap a question below. These are the real answers Sidekick gave on a store running Judge.me, Avia, Shopify Email/SMS and Matrixify.

A faithful replay of a real Sidekick conversation, June 2026, with those four apps installed. The chat figures are recreations, not screenshots of a private store, so no merchant data is shown. What each app exposes can change as its developer updates the extension.

What you can ask each app

The same picture as a reference table. The pattern is the point: what you can read is rich and risk-free; what it can change is where you want a safety net before you confirm.

App	Ask it for	It can also do
Judge.mereviews	Ratings An AI summary of what customers love and complain about The review-request funnel Revenue attributed to reviews	Publish, hide or reply to a review; toggle features. reversibleRe-toggle a setting in seconds. A deleted reply needs care.
Aviaanalytics	Store traffic and conversion rate Revenue per visitor and demographics Busy-times heatmaps Lost-revenue analysis Filterable by location	Create, update or delete the store events that feed the traffic forecast. reversibleEvents are quick to recreate.
Messagingemail, SMS	Every email and SMS campaign and automation Impressions, clicks and unsubscribes Templates by category	Create or edit an email or SMS campaign. no undoA sent campaign cannot be unsent.
Matrixifybulk data	Status and results of any import or export job Errors and row counts	Run and schedule exports; run imports that write data in bulk. no undoA confirmed import has no native undo. Restore from a backup taken before it.

App list as published in Shopify's App Store "Apps that work with Sidekick" guide, June 2026, cross-checked against a live test. The "ask it for" and "it can also do" lines are captured from Sidekick's own answers. Verify the current capabilities before relying on them.

What the chat shows you, and what it doesn't

One honest limit, straight from Sidekick. When it does something in an app, the chat hands you a tidy summary, not the full detail. We asked it directly, and it said the quiet part out loud: for the complete picture, open the app and check the exact state yourself.

Sidekick, in its own words

Treat the app's own dashboard as the source of truth, and use the chat to make changes faster, not to review them. For app changes a confirmation dialog always shows first, so nothing is applied without your approval.

So what happens when a change goes in wrong? It splits in two, and the split decides how much trouble you're in.

Real exchange · if a change is wrong

YouIf a change is wrong, how do I review and fix it?

SidekickTell me to reverse a setting and I'll apply the opposite change, with a confirmation. Or fix it in the app, which is the most reliable way to verify and correct. A bulk data overwrite or a deletion is different. There's no opposite to apply, so you restore from a backup.

A setting is a five-second fix. A bulk overwrite is the case a backup is for.

Is it actually valuable?

Short answer: yes, and mostly for a reason people underrate. The headline feature is "AI that does things," but the quiet win is "AI that answers." Three honest takes.

It collapses busywork. "What's my rating and what are people unhappy about, how did last week's campaign do, and when is my store busiest" used to be three apps and ten minutes. Now it's one question. That is real time back, every day.

It surfaces insight you'd skip. Most merchants never open the analytics tab on a Tuesday. When the answer is one question away, you check more often. You catch the dip in conversion, or the run of one-star reviews, while it still matters. Sidekick can even summarize, not just dump numbers.

The value leans toward reading. Asking is where the daily payoff is, and asking changes nothing, so there's no downside to leaning on it. Letting it make changes is a smaller, more occasional win, and it's the part that needs a little care.

The honest verdict

For getting answers, it's genuinely valuable and risk-free, use it freely. For making changes, it's convenient but you're trading a click for speed, so keep a recovery path under the changes that matter.

Pros and cons

What's great

One place to ask. Your apps answer in one chat, no tab-hopping.
Summaries, not just data. It reads the numbers back in plain English.
Asking is risk-free. Read questions change nothing at all.
You stay in control of changes. Nothing saves without your click, and access is per app.

What to watch

Only apps that built it. Coverage depends on each developer.
The chat is a summary. Open the app to see exactly what changed.
Some changes have no undo. A bulk import or a sent campaign can't be reversed.
Answers are only as good as the app's data. Verify before you bet on a number.

The one catch: bulk changes

This is the part worth slowing down for. Action extensions are designed well, Sidekick stages the change and you approve it, so nothing happens behind your back. But "approved" is not "reversible." We asked Sidekick point blank whether it could undo a Matrixify bulk import. Its own answer was refreshingly honest.

Real exchange · can you undo it?

YouIf a bulk import overwrites the wrong product data, can you undo it?

SidekickI cannot undo a Matrixify import. Once it runs and is confirmed, the data is written to Shopify. I have no rollback capability, and Shopify has no native undo for bulk changes. The safest move is to snapshot your data first, so you can restore from a backup if something goes wrong.

Sidekick's own words. A backup taken before the change is the only real way back.

That's not a knock on Sidekick or the app. It's just how Shopify works: there's no global undo and no recycle bin for products, collections, pages or saved bulk edits. The faster it gets to change a lot of data from a chat box, the more that matters. For the full picture of what Shopify does and does not restore, see does Shopify back up your store?

Use it with a safety net

You don't have to choose between moving fast and staying safe. You just need a floor under the changes. With automatic backups running, the trade flips. Ask Sidekick anything, and let it run the tasks you want. If a confirmed change goes wrong, you roll the affected data back to a point before it happened.

Turn on automatic backups first. A backup only helps if it was taken before the change. Set it up while everything is fine, with TinyBackup or any backup app you trust.
Ask Sidekick freely, and confirm the actions you want. Reads are safe; for changes, you have a recovery point behind you.
If a confirmed change goes wrong, restore. Pick a backup from before the change and roll the affected data back, inside the app where you can see exactly what you're restoring.

Key takeaways

Since 17 June 2026, you can ask Sidekick about your installed apps. You grant access to each one; the apps don't connect themselves.
The big daily win is on the read side: one question, real answers, even summaries, from apps like Judge.me, Avia, your email tool and Matrixify.
Asking changes nothing, so use it freely. Changes are staged and you confirm them.
The chat is a summary. Sidekick's own advice: treat the app's dashboard as the source of truth.
A confirmed bulk change has no native undo. Automatic backups taken before the change are the recovery path.

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Frequently asked questions

What can Shopify Sidekick do with my apps now?

Once you grant it access to an app, it can search that app's data and answer questions, and it can stage an action inside the app that you confirm. For example it can pull your Judge.me ratings and review summary, your Avia store traffic and conversion rate, your email and SMS campaign stats, or your Matrixify import and export job status, all from one chat. Shopify made this generally available on 17 June 2026.

Do the apps connect to Sidekick automatically?

No. You ask a question, and the first time you point Sidekick at an app it asks your permission ("Allow Sidekick to access your Judge.me Reviews data?"). The app is not reaching into Sidekick on its own. You grant access per app, and you stay the one who opens the door.

Can Sidekick undo a change it makes through an app?

It depends. A setting can be reversed, by asking Sidekick to flip it back or by fixing it in the app. A bulk data overwrite is different. Asked whether it could undo a Matrixify import, Sidekick said that once an import runs and is confirmed the data is written to Shopify and it has no rollback capability, and that Shopify has no native undo for bulk changes. The only way back is a backup taken before the change.

Does the chat show me everything that changed?

Not the full detail. Sidekick gives you a summary of what it did, and its own advice is to open the app to verify the exact state, and to treat the app's dashboard as the source of truth. Use the chat to act faster, not to review what happened.

Does TinyBackup work with Sidekick?

TinyBackup's Sidekick role is read-only by design: answer questions about your backup status, history, coverage and what changed, in chat. It does not start backups or restore from Sidekick. Restoring stays inside the app, where you can review exactly what you're rolling back before it happens.

App capabilities and chat answers are captured from a live Sidekick session with Judge.me, Avia, Messaging and Matrixify installed (June 2026). Chat figures are recreations, and no private store data is shown. Launch details from Shopify's developer changelog ("Sidekick app extensions available today", 17 Jun 2026) and the App Store "Apps that work with Sidekick" guide. Verify current details before relying on them.