# Alitools shopping assistant

> Auto-find & apply AliExpress ™ promo codes, price history, seller rating, similar products, find item by picture

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/ali-tools](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ali-tools)

## Overview

- **ID:** `ali-tools`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** BigData Technologies Ltd.
- **Category:** shopping
- **Daily users:** 5,096
- **Weekly downloads:** 68
- **Rating:** 4.25 / 5 (408 ratings)
- **Version:** 26.3.2.17962
- **Last updated:** 2026-03-24
- **First published:** 2017-11-28
- **Size:** 1.33 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ali-tools/)
- **Website:** [https://alitools.io/feedback](https://alitools.io/feedback)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ali-tools/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/ali-tools/privacy/)

## Description

Alitools is a comprehensive shopping assistant for AliExpress that automatically finds and applies the latest promo codes to your cart, ensuring you never miss a discount. It features a price history checker supporting multiple currencies, helping you avoid artificial discounts during big sales events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The extension verifies sellers for reliability, so you can buy with confidence.

Additionally, Alitools offers powerful search capabilities, allowing you to find exact items by image or explore similar products effortlessly. You can browse real customer photos and reviews before purchasing, and track your shipments through various shipping methods. With data synchronization across devices and compatibility with other shopping and cashback extensions, Alitools enhances your AliExpress shopping experience and helps you save money seamlessly.

## Rankings

- #1,162 — Overall
- #47 — Shopping
- #9 — assistant
- #9 — shopping
- #21 — ali
- #22 — shop

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `contextMenus`
- `cookies`
- `notifications`
- `tabs`
- `webNavigation`
- `storage`
- `webRequest`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users value AliTools for its price-history and comparison features and say it helps find better deals. Major repeated complaints: the add‑on can stop working (especially on AliExpress), price histories may be incorrect or not logged, it injects affiliate/tracking links into searches, and there are language/currency/region ambiguities (forced Russian UI or unsupported currencies).

### Pros

- Provides price history and price dynamics for AliExpress, helping users track past prices and seller behavior.
- Helps find optimal prices and compare products—useful shopping-assistant features appreciated by multiple users.
- Many users report overall satisfaction; the add-on is seen as feature-rich and generally lightweight.

### Cons

- Unreliable on some sites—several users report the extension stopped working or fails to redirect, notably on AliExpress.
- Price history/tracking can be incorrect or fail to log prices for products.
- Injects affiliate/tracking links into search results and product links, which can break links and raises privacy/ethics concerns.
- Locale/currency/language issues: some users get a forced Russian UI and/or see unsupported currencies or unclear country-specific price data.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/ali-tools)