ToolGalli VS ViewForge

ToolGalli's answer

Plain HTML, CSS and vanilla JavaScript, with no backend for file processing. Everything runs client-side in the browser

ViewForge's answer:

• TypeScript
• Shopify metaobjects, as the fitment data store
• Shopify theme app extensions for the storefront components: fitment search, saved-vehicle garage, compatibility table, product-page fit notice
• Shopify Storefront API, for querying fitment from the theme
• Shopify Admin GraphQL API, for writing and exporting fitment records
• NHTSA vehicle database, for VIN decoding
• ACES and PIES XML parsing, for automotive catalog import

ToolGalli's answer

Everyday Indians dealing with paperwork: students and job aspirants preparing exam and application forms, people completing bank or KYC formalities, tenants generating rent receipts for HRA, and anyone who would rather not upload their Aadhaar or PAN to an unknown website. Increasingly also professionals — chartered accountants and HR teams — who handle other people's documents. Primarily India, in English and Hindi.

ViewForge's answer:

Shopify merchants whose customers need to know whether a part fits before they will buy it — and who do not have an engineer on staff to build that themselves.

Concretely: auto and truck parts retailers, powersports and motorcycle dealers, tractor and agricultural parts sellers, marine and outboard suppliers, small-engine and power equipment stores, bicycle and e-bike component shops, printer supply merchants, and electronics accessory sellers.

Catalog sizes run from a few dozen products on the free tier up into the tens of thousands; it is running in production on a catalog of roughly 40,000 SKUs. The common thread is not the industry — it is that "does this fit my thing" is the question deciding the sale.

ToolGalli's answer

Everyday paperwork in India still runs through cyber cafés — to resize one photo for a form or unlock an eAadhaar PDF, people hand their most personal documents to a stranger's computer, where copies can linger long after they leave. A small independent team in India built ToolGalli to replace that trip: tools that do the job on your own phone and never upload anything. "Galli" means a small neighbourhood lane — it's the cyber café in your pocket, except nothing ever leaves your hands.

ViewForge's answer:

ViewForge came out of agency work. Normal View was building for a parts retailer running roughly 12,000 SKUs who needed fitment search, and every app we evaluated stored the merchant's compatibility data in the vendor's own database.

That is a strange trade when you look at it directly. Fitment data is genuinely expensive to produce — it is weeks of work — and the merchant would not own the result. It would belong to whichever app happened to be installed that year.

Shopify metaobjects made a different answer possible: write fitment as native structured data inside the merchant's own store. The theme reads it, the Storefront API queries it, Admin GraphQL exports it, and it is still there after an uninstall. That decision is what the rest of the app is built around.

Everything else came from real catalogs rather than a roadmap. Eight verticals exist because a tractor catalog is not Year/Make/Model. Smart Parse exists because that retailer had already written fitment into 12,000 product titles, and nobody was ever going to retype them.

ToolGalli's answer

ToolGalli runs entirely inside your web browser — your files are never uploaded to any server. You can prove it in ten seconds: turn on aeroplane mode and the tools still work. Almost every other document tool uploads your file to process it; ToolGalli can't see yours at all, which for sensitive Indian documents like Aadhaar, PAN and bank statements is the whole point.

ViewForge's answer:

Three things. (1) Data ownership: ViewForge writes fitment as Shopify metaobjects native to your store — most competitors store fitment in their own database. (2) 8 verticals out of the box: auto, motorcycle, tractor, marine, power equipment, bicycle, printer, electronics — most competitors are automotive-only. (3) Smart Parse: extract fitment automatically from your existing product titles and descriptions instead of re-typing everything.

ToolGalli's answer

Three reasons. First, privacy you can verify rather than just trust — nothing is uploaded, provable instantly with aeroplane mode. Second, it's built for Indian paperwork specifically: exact exam photo and signature sizes (SSC, IBPS, NEET and more), Aadhaar masking, rent receipts, tax calculators, and guided "Form Ready" packs that assemble exactly the documents an exam, visa or job needs. Third, it's genuinely free — no sign-up, no watermarks, no file-size limits, nothing paywalled.

ViewForge's answer:

Data ownership. Fitment lives in your Shopify metaobjects, so uninstalling does not take your compatibility data with it. Convermax, EasySearch and PartFinder all keep it in their own databases, and getting it back depends on their export tooling on the day you cancel.

Cost at the low end. The search widget, the compatibility table on the product page and the saved-vehicle garage are all on the free tier, up to 50 products, with no expiry. EasySearch puts the table and the garage behind its $75/month Premium plan. Convermax starts at $250/month.

Automotive and non-automotive coverage. Eight built-in templates, and fully custom templates from $19/month, for catalogs that do not decompose into Year/Make/Model at all.

ToolGalli's answer

ToolGalli is a free consumer product with no sign-up, and by design it stores nothing that could identify a user — so there are no "customers" in the enterprise sense. It's used by students, job applicants, tenants and small professionals across India.