Catch risks before Etsy does

Protect your Etsy shop from hidden compliance violations.

Scan listings for trademark violations, banned items, and policy risks — with live USPTO trademark verification — before Etsy flags you.

ListingSafe is a free Etsy compliance scanner that checks your listing titles, descriptions, and tags against 460+ trademarked terms and Etsy policy rules before you publish.

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Watch how ListingSafe catches trademark violations in seconds — before Etsy does.

Check if your Etsy shop name is trademarked

Thinking of a name for your shop — or wondering if your current shop or store name is safe? Paste it into the scanner: it checks live USPTO records, including the exact class a word is registered in, so a name that's only trademarked for candles won't scare you off a jewelry shop. Same free scans, no card needed.

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Popular trademark searches

Check whether a brand is trademarked before you use it in an Etsy listing.

Is “Boy Mom” trademarked?Is “Cricut” trademarked?Is “Disney” trademarked?Is “Koozie” trademarked?Is “Lilly Pulitzer” trademarked?Is “Onesie” trademarked?Is “Stanley” trademarked?Is “Yeti” trademarked?

These are the ones sellers search for most. The rest are sorted by category in our directory of brands that get Etsy listings removed.

From the blog

Practical guides on Etsy trademark rules, takedowns, and safer listings.

What We Check For

Our AI cross-references your listings against trademark databases, Etsy policy rules, and Etsy's prohibited-items categories.

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Trademark Violations

Brand names and logos that could trigger DMCA takedowns. Live-verified against the official USPTO trademark database.

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Intellectual Property

Well-known characters and franchises your design may resemble — surfaced as an AI risk flag, not legal proof.

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Prohibited Items

Materials and products banned by Etsy policy.

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Handmade Policy

Listings that may violate Etsy's handmade/vintage rules.

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Safety Standards

Products that require regulatory compliance disclosures.

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Medical & Health Claims

Unsubstantiated health or therapeutic benefit claims.

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Listing Practices

Misleading descriptions, keyword stuffing, and fee avoidance.

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Authenticity & Counterfeits

Replica or counterfeit product language that violates policy.

How It Works

Get compliance results in seconds, not an afternoon.

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Paste Your Title

Enter the title and description of the listing you want to check — no account needed for the free scan. Or connect your Etsy shop and pull in every active listing automatically.

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AI Scans Your Listing

Our AI checks against Etsy policies and Etsy's prohibited-items categories, then cross-checks suspicious brand names against the live USPTO trademark database in real time.

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Get Actionable Results

Get a clear report — every issue with a specific fix and a Safe Rewrite that keeps your title compliant and searchable. Paste the full listing in the app to add a quick SEO score check on your listing structure.

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Connect your Etsy shop — scan everything in one click

Skip the CSV export. Connect your shop and ListingSafe pulls in all your active listings automatically — then scan them in one click, as far as your monthly credits go.

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Read-only access. We only request permission to read your listings (listings_r). We can never edit, deactivate, or publish anything in your shop. Disconnect anytime.

The term 'Etsy' is a trademark of Etsy, Inc. This application uses the Etsy API but is not endorsed or certified by Etsy, Inc.

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Scan right from your Etsy dashboard

The ListingSafe Chrome Extension lets you scan any listing without leaving Etsy.

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Is that a copy, or did you both buy the same clipart?

We check your listings on the schedule you set and sort out what turns up — so you're not squinting at someone else's product photo at midnight trying to work out whether you're allowed to be annoyed.

It watches, so you don't have to.

Pick the listings you care about. On the schedule you set, we run a reverse image search on their photos and check what comes back. Results show up right on your Etsy product page — no extra tab to remember, no going looking.

Shown on Etsy by the ListingSafe Chrome extension — install it first, or read the same results in Copycat Watch.

Most of what turns up isn't a copy.

That's the annoying part. Print-on-demand shops using the same licensed graphic. Sellers listing the same vintage piece. Shops selling the same kind of thing that just looks close in a thumbnail. We pull those apart so you can spend your time on the one that actually matters.

Selling secondhand instead of designing? Same scan, different job.

If you resell rather than draw, this becomes Market Watch — who else has the same item, and what they're asking. Nobody's accusing anyone of anything. You just want to know the going rate.

And if one of them does turn out to be a copy, you'll have the platform's actual reporting page and a DMCA notice with everything the law requires already in it. We don't send it for you, and nobody can promise you how it'll go — but you won't be starting from a blank page.

Simple, Transparent Pricing

Choose the plan that fits your shop size.

Free

Free account

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  • check_circle 20 credits per month
  • check_circle Single + batch CSV scan
  • check_circle Connect Etsy shop — one-click scan, up to your monthly credits
  • check_circle Copyright risk flag + Safe Rewrite
  • check_circle SEO score check
  • check_circle Up to 2 Copycat photo checks per month
  • check_circle Every feature — AI image scan, USPTO lookup, appeal letters
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Basic

For regular sellers.

$9 /month
  • Everything in Free, plus:
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  • check_circle Up to 50 Copycat photo checks per month
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Pro

For serious, high-volume sellers.

$29 /month
  • Everything in Basic, plus:
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  • check_circle Up to 1,000 Copycat photo checks per month
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A Copycat photo check counts as 10 credits from your monthly quota.

Listing scans include their photos — 1 credit per listing, up to 10 photos.

A Listing Generator row costs 2 credits and a Market Research report costs 15 — all from the same pot.

Frequently Asked Questions

The free plan gives you 20 credits per calendar month at no cost — no credit card required. A listing check costs 1 credit and runs one listing's title, description, and tags against our trademark database and Etsy policy rules, and returns the same flagged issues that paid users see. Free users can also use batch CSV upload (export your listings from Etsy Shop Manager and upload the CSV) and download results as a CSV report. Every feature is available on every plan, including free — USPTO live lookup, AI image scan and the appeal letter generator all included. What the paid plans add is volume: a bigger monthly credit pot and a higher image-check allowance (50 a month on Basic, 1,000 on Pro), plus priority support on Pro. The credit counter resets on the first of each month; unused credits don't roll over. For most sellers doing an initial shop audit, the free tier covers the highest-risk portion — trademark problems typically concentrate in the top 15–20 active listings by views, which is where enforcement actions start.
Manual checking means searching the USPTO trademark database, reading Etsy's House Rules and Prohibited Items policy, and remembering which generic-sounding words are actually registered trademarks — Frisbee, Chapstick, Crockpot, Onesie, Velcro, Band-Aid, Popsicle, and dozens more. You'd repeat this for every listing. ListingSafe scans a title, description, and tags against 460+ trademarked terms, flagged phrases (such as "Boy Mom" or "Hot Girl Walk"), and Etsy's prohibited categories in one pass, then returns each issue with a specific fix recommendation. Suspect brand-like words are also cross-checked against the live USPTO database for a definitive answer, on every plan. Manual searches also miss phrase-level trademarks entirely — "Boy Mom" and "Hot Girl Walk" don't appear in the USPTO phrase index but are actively enforced on Etsy and regularly trigger IP complaints that result in listing removal.
Yes. All plans, including the free tier, support uploading the listings CSV exported from your Etsy Shop Manager (Settings → Options → Download Data → Download CSV) to scan multiple listings in one batch. Each CSV row costs 1 credit, the same as a single check, so free users can check up to 20 listings per month, Basic users up to 500, and Pro users up to 10,000. After the batch finishes, you can download a CSV compliance report listing every flagged issue, its severity (Critical or Warning), the specific term that triggered it, and the recommendation to fix it — so you can prioritize which listings to revise first. Every plan can also download the report as a PDF. A typical Etsy shop with 50 active listings processes in under two minutes — from exporting the CSV out of Shop Manager to downloading the completed compliance report with flagged issues sorted by severity.
Listing data is sent to Google's Gemini AI models for compliance analysis. We keep the listing text you scanned alongside its result so we can audit our own accuracy and fix wrong verdicts, and cached results expire after 7 days. Scan results live temporarily in your browser's localStorage so you can revisit them. Your listing titles, descriptions, tags, and images are never sold or shared with third parties, and are not used to train AI models. You choose how listings reach us: paste them in, upload a CSV you exported yourself, or connect your Etsy shop — the Etsy connection is optional and read-only (listings access only), so we never touch your password, orders, or payment data. You can confirm this in your browser's network tab during a scan — no listing content is sent anywhere except to our backend, which forwards it to Gemini.
Each flagged issue comes with a specific recommendation on how to fix it. For trademark violations (e.g. "Disney mug" or using "Frisbee" instead of "flying disc"), you'll be told to remove the trademarked term and given a generic replacement. For policy issues (e.g. unsupported health claims, banned categories like recalled items or live plants to certain regions), you'll be told what wording to drop or what category to avoid. On every plan, including free, the Safe rewrite feature can automatically generate a compliant version of your title or description. The goal is to catch and fix issues before Etsy's automated moderation flags or removes the listing. For example, a listing titled "Stanley-style tumbler" would be flagged for the Stanley trademark, with the recommendation to rewrite it as "stainless steel tumbler, 40 oz" or "double-wall insulated tumbler" instead.
Yes. The Appeal Letter Generator helps you write a professional response when Etsy has already removed a listing or sent you a policy violation notice. It supports three scenarios: DMCA takedown notices (from brand rights holders), trademark infringement complaints, and Etsy Creativity Standards / IP violations. You describe what happened — what listing was removed, what notice you received, what your side of the story is — and it generates a ready-to-send appeal letter that addresses the specific policy and references the correct Etsy process. It is available on every plan, including free; working out which notice you received is free, and each letter it writes costs 1 credit from your monthly credits. The generator asks for the specifics of your case — item type, the exact notice you received, and your explanation — so the output is tailored to your situation rather than a generic template Etsy's review team recognizes and dismisses.
ListingSafe cross-checks brand-like words in your listing against the official US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) trademark database in real time — confirming whether a term is an active, registered trademark, who owns it, and what goods or services it covers. This catches lesser-known trademarks the AI alone might be uncertain about (newer brand registrations, niche category marks, registered phrases) and gives you a definitive answer before you publish. USPTO lookup runs on single and batch scans on every plan, including free. For example, scanning a listing that includes "Stanley" returns an active registration in Class 21 (kitchen utensils and containers) owned by PMI Worldwide — confirming the risk before you publish rather than after Etsy removes the listing.
Copycat Watch runs a reverse image search on the listing photos you pick, on the schedule you set, and sorts what comes back: shops using the same licensed print-on-demand graphic, sellers listing the same vintage piece, and shops selling the same kind of thing that just looks close in a thumbnail — most of what turns up is one of those, not a copy. Results show up on your Etsy product page — that part needs the free ListingSafe Chrome extension — and in a summary email, which works without it. If one of them does turn out to be a copy, you get that marketplace's actual reporting page — Etsy, Amazon, eBay VeRO, Walmart and others — and a DMCA notice that already contains the six elements 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3)(A) requires, so what you send counts as a notice and goes to the right place. We don't send it for you, and nobody can promise you how it will go. Copycat Watch is available on every plan, including free; each image check draws from the same monthly quota, so how many you can run depends on your plan.
Your ListingSafe subscription renews automatically each month until you cancel. You can cancel anytime from the Settings page in the app — you'll keep access until the end of your billing period. Refunds are handled by Paddle, our Merchant of Record.

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