What’s new in Hotspot Studio
Everything that changed for merchants and their shoppers, newest first. Updates reach your store on their own — there’s nothing to reinstall.
November 2026
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November 4
The app speaks Greek Every plan
Staff whose Shopify admin is in Greek get the app in Greek, and shoppers browsing a store in Greek see the popup, Shop the Look and Frequently bought together in Greek. Your own texts can carry a Greek wording too: 13 languages in all. How it works
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November 3
Right colors on older iPhones Fix
On iPhones and Macs with Safari older than 16.2, which can’t mix colors in CSS, the Shop the Look button, caption shades, see-through and gradient popups, card dividers and menu borders now show their real colors.
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November 3
Carousel popups on iPhone Fix
A popup opened in a carousel covers the whole screen on iPhone, with Add to cart in view, instead of being cut to the slider’s box.
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November 2
Shop the Look cards name the variant Every plan
A card for a hand-picked variant shows its name — a size, a color — under the product, so shoppers know exactly what they add. The style preset sets its size, weight and color, or hides it.
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November 1
Big sections open in the editor Fix
A section whose hotspots offer hundreds of variants opens in the editor again instead of an error page.
October 2026
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October 31
Your words in 12 languages Every plan
Every storefront text in a section or style preset — captions, headings, button labels, Shop the Look titles — can carry its own wording for each of the app’s 12 languages. Shoppers on a page in that language see it; everyone else sees your main text. How it works
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October 30
Popups clear sticky headers Every plan
Popups no longer open under a theme’s fixed header. On touch screens a popup set to Bottom always opens below its dot, and the page scrolls to show it. A new look setting decides whether the product photo and name in popups and Shop the Look cards link to the product page.
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October 30
Popups above page-builder boxes Fix
On Shogun and EComposer pages, an open popup, panel or centered window shows above the builder’s own boxes. Page builders
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October 30
Bulk editing knows linked images and slots Growth
The spreadsheet carries linked images and section slots, and an older file never undoes newer work. Bulk editing
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October 29
Linked images: one look, many galleries Starter and up
Build a look once as a single image and show it in any number of galleries. Publish the original and every gallery that shows it updates; unlink a copy when one gallery needs its own version. Guide and video
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October 29
Look deals from two products Pro and up
A Shop the Look deal can start once a set number of the look’s products is in the cart, and the picker, panel and list say so above the total: “10% off when you buy 2 or more”. Discounts
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October 29
Sharper Shop the Look photos Every plan
Card and picker photos load at the size they’re shown, up to 2x for retina screens — crisp, and lighter on phones. The Shop the Look button fades back in after its panel closes.
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October 28
Test mode Every plan
Open your store with ?hotspot-test=on and your own visits stay out of your statistics, Google Analytics and click tracking for 30 days. How to use it
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October 26
Click tracking Pro and up
A Shopify web pixel follows a hotspot click to an add on that product’s own page, or to an order, within 7 days, and Analytics shows both. On by default; one switch in Settings turns it off. Analytics
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October 26
Orders with your hotspot products Pro and up
A new Analytics card counts the orders that hold a product pinned in a section shoppers saw: their share of all orders, the value of those lines, orders per day and the products found in most of them.
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October 26
Image corners on phones Every plan
Style presets give the section image its own corner radius on phones.
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October 25
Review stars in popups and cards Every plan
Ratings from Judge.me, Loox and other reviews apps that fill Shopify’s standard rating fields, under the product name in popups and on Shop the Look cards — with the review count, sizes and colors in the style preset. How to turn them on
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October 24
Google Analytics 4 and Tag Manager events Every plan
Sections send their views, hotspot clicks, product clicks and adds to cart to the GA4 or Tag Manager in your theme, following each shopper’s cookie choice. On by default. Event names
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October 23
Popup buttons sized for phones Every plan
Popup buttons get their own sizes on phones and a width beside the text.
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October 22
Caption heading tags Every plan
A caption’s heading can be plain text, a heading (H2) or a subheading (H3), so the page keeps the outline you want. The dashboard also flags a published section without hotspots, and a Hotspot Studio block switched off in the theme editor.
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October 21
Page builder guides Every plan
Step-by-step guides for PageFly, GemPages and EComposer. Sections pasted into builder pages keep showing when the builder draws its content late, and a carousel in a closed tab shows its arrows once the tab opens.
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October 20
Video guides and preview zoom Every plan
Step-by-step video guides in the app’s Help and on this site. Settings → Editor preview draws the desktop preview from 50% to 150%.
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October 17
Storefront texts in your store’s language Every plan
Popup buttons, Shop the Look and bought-together titles and notes follow the store’s language; product names and descriptions follow the language the shopper picked. Since October 21, sections pasted into page content do too.
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October 16
Prices the way your theme prints them Every plan
Prices follow your theme’s money format, with a store-wide Prices setting. Cropping a phone image keeps its pins on the products.
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October 15
Section padding and side carts Every plan
Style presets pad a section on their own, per device. Adds from a section refresh the side cart on Broadcast-family and custom-built themes.
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October 13
Basic and Advanced settings Every plan
Style presets open on the settings most stores change, with everything else one tap away. Shop the Look cards and captions can match the “Get the look” design.
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October 8
Whole templates and five more admin languages Every plan
A section can show on every page that uses one theme template. The app now also speaks Japanese, Polish, Turkish, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
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October 7
Popups open with their photo Every plan
Popup photos come at the size the preset draws them and the screen’s own density, and they are ready the moment a popup opens.
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October 6
Where a gallery’s look buttons go Every plan
One switch for a gallery’s Shop the Look buttons: one under the gallery, one on each image with that image’s own products, or both.
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October 1
Tablets, phone bands and preset files Every plan
Popups, captions and the Shop the Look button get their own positions on tablets. On phones a popup can open in a band under the image. Presets export to a file that imports into another store, and Color options can show names or color dots.
September 2026
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September 28
A look for every image Every plan
The panel on the image works in galleries, every gallery image can carry its own look, markers can wait for a hover or a tap, and View product opens the variant the shopper chose.
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September 27
Several sections on one page Every plan
Every Hotspot Studio block takes the next free slot, so a product page, collection, page or blog post can show more than one section — and the app asks before one replaces another.
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September 25
Shop the Look: picker, panel or list Every plan
A look opens as a product picker, as cards on the image or as a list beside it, with hand-picked products, a caption button that opens it and its own spot for the button. About Shop the Look
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September 24
Popup details Every plan
A pinned variant’s name sits on its own line under the title, the close button can be hidden, and buttons can share one row with a gap you set.
August 2026
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August 30
AI Pin Assist for everyone Every plan
Drop in a photo and AI suggests pins matched to your own catalog and drafts captions; you approve every pin. AI Pin Assist
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August 25
Eight new looks for markers and popups Every plan
Markers that change color on hover, a pulse you can scale, popup reveal speed and distance, borders that follow the popup’s arrow, section background images and a close button you can size.
July 2026
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July 29
Live on the Shopify App Store
Hotspot Studio launches on the Shopify App Store with a free plan and three paid ones.
Missing something?
Much of this list started as a merchant’s question. Tell us what your store needs — or try the free plan and see what’s already there.