# TinySEO review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Shopify app for image compression, page speed and SEO fixes

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA.

TinySEO, called TinyIMG until July 2026, is a Shopify app that began as an image compressor and now covers page speed and SEO. It compresses and resizes images, writes alt text and file names, lazy-loads and minifies assets, audits pages, adds JSON-LD schema and llms.txt, fixes broken links with redirects and pings search engines through IndexNow. Plans are priced by monthly image allowance.

- **Category:** SEO Plugins & Apps
- **Made by:** TinySEO Ltd (since 2019)
- **Website:** https://tinyseo.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free, as it stops at 50 images and 10 AI credits a month.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, TinySEO has a free plan, and paid plans start at $14 per month for 1,500 image optimizations, billed every 30 days.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 50 image optimizations a month, alt text and file name optimization, a 50-page site audit, 10 AI credits and 30-day image backup.
- **Free trial:** 7-day free trial of the paid plans.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 50 image optimizations and 10 AI credits a month, alt text and file names, instant page speed-up and 24/7 support. |
| Beginner | $14 per month for 1,500 image optimizations, billed every 30 days | 150 AI credits, resizing, lazy loading, preloading, return-policy and shipping schema, 150-page audit. Extra images 2¢ each. $140 a year. |
| Advanced | $23 per month for 5,000 image optimizations, billed every 30 days | 300 AI credits, CSS and JS minification, IndexNow, llms.txt, broken-link redirects, 500-page audit. Extra images 1¢ each. $230 a year. |
| Expert | $49 per month for 15,000 image optimizations, billed every 30 days | 1,000 AI credits, Search Console insights, extended JSON-LD, redirects on product deletion, 1,500-page audit. Extra images 0.8¢. $490 a year. |

Read from https://apps.shopify.com/smart-image-optimizer on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with TinySEO before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 17% with yearly billing** (Annual discount): The Shopify listing offers Beginner at $140, Advanced at $230 and Expert at $490 a year, which it says saves 17% against monthly billing. Source: https://apps.shopify.com/smart-image-optimizer

## Key features

- **Image compression:** Compresses images without visible quality loss, resizes them and keeps 30-day backups; extra images beyond the plan cost 2¢ to 0.8¢ each.
- **Speed optimization:** Lazy loading and asset preloading from Beginner; script control and CSS and JavaScript minification from Advanced.
- **Site audit:** Checks pages for SEO problems: 50 pages on the free plan, then 150, 500 or 1,500 pages, with automated fixes on paid plans.
- **Alt text and AI metadata:** Writes image alt text and file names on every plan, and uses AI credits for meta titles, product descriptions and keyword suggestions.
- **JSON-LD and sitemaps:** Adds structured data, including return policy and shipping details from Beginner and extended types on Expert, plus an HTML sitemap.
- **Indexing and AI search:** From Advanced, submits changed URLs through IndexNow, writes llms.txt and agents.md files, and redirects broken links.

## Good for

- Shopify stores with heavy product images slowing pages down
- Merchants who want speed and SEO fixes in one app
- Large catalogs, since paid plans include thousands of image optimizations

## Worth knowing

- Works only on Shopify stores; it is installed from the Shopify App Store.
- Renamed from TinyIMG to TinySEO in July 2026; the Shopify listing is titled Tiny SEO Speed Image Optimizer.
- Broken-link redirects, minification, IndexNow and llms.txt start at Advanced, $23 a month.
- Images beyond the monthly allowance are billed per image; the free plan stops at 50 a month.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. TinySEO, called TinyIMG until July 2026, compresses and resizes Shopify images, writes alt text, speeds up pages and adds schema, audits and IndexNow. Plans are priced by image count, extra images are billed one by one, and redirects, minification and llms.txt start at $23 a month.

- **Value for money: C.** Beginner is $14 a month for 1,500 images, or $140 a year, between this category's cheaper quarter ($7.99) and dearer quarter ($19.99). Images past the allowance cost 2¢ each on Beginner.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** 50 image optimizations and 10 AI credits a month, alt text and file names, and a 50-page audit. A store with real stock will get through 50 images quickly.
- **Features: B.** Image compression and resizing, lazy loading and minification, site audits with fixes, alt text, AI meta, JSON-LD, an HTML sitemap, IndexNow, llms.txt and broken-link redirects. It covers the whole job across its plans.
- **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. It installs from the Shopify App Store, but speed settings, schema and audits change plan by plan, with AI credits to manage.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, inside Shopify. It connects to Search Console and IndexNow, and works with PageFly, Judge.me, Loox, Yotpo and Stamped.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from TinySEO's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among SEO plugins and apps

- TinySEO's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 33 of the 78 other SEO plugins and apps we grade, and level with 15.
- It stands best on features (B, above 53 of 78) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $14 a month, against a middle price of $9.99 for the category: 33 of the 58 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/seo-plugins

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** The plain part of TinySEO you could make: schema markup. What surrounds it you could not. The 5 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It costs $168 a year.

- You could make: Schema markup: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: Speed tests run from real browsers on a schedule.
- You could not: A crawler that checks every page of a site.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Search Console, IndexNow and PageFly among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Google Search Console, IndexNow, PageFly, Judge.me, Loox, Yotpo, Stamped

**Tags:** Page speed, Site audit, Schema markup, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Booster AI SEO + AEO Optimizer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/booster-seo): Shopify app that audits and fixes store SEO and compresses images. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/booster-seo-vs-tinyimg)
- [Avada SEO Suite](https://toolgpa.com/tools/avada-seo-suite): Shopify SEO app with AI audits, image compression and speed tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/avada-seo-suite-vs-tinyimg)
- [SearchPie](https://toolgpa.com/tools/searchpie): Shopify SEO app for schema, meta tags, indexing and page speed. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/searchpie-vs-tinyimg)
- [Tapita AI SEO Optimizer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tapita-ai-seo-optimizer): Shopify SEO and speed app with audits, schemas and AI meta tags. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/tapita-ai-seo-optimizer-vs-tinyimg)
- [AltText.ai](https://toolgpa.com/tools/alttext-ai): AI alt text for images, with WordPress and Shopify plugins. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/alttext-ai-vs-tinyimg)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://apps.shopify.com/smart-image-optimizer
- https://tinyseo.com/pricing/
- https://tinyseo.com/blog/tinyimg-is-now-tinyseo/
- https://tinyseo.com/terms-and-conditions/

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