A good product reviews app for Shopify is a must-have. But how do we differentiate the many apps in the app store.
A simple evaluation criteria is:
- Page speed impact—does our app hurt page speed, bounce rate, engagement, conversion, and ad spend cost
- Price
- Feature set
- Customer Support
Top 4 Product Reviews Apps For Shopify
Worst 4 Product Reviews Apps For Shopify
#1 Best — Rapid Reviews
Rapid Reviews is the fastest product reviews and questions app for Shopify, with deep search, media, email/SMS review capture, translations, and more—with excellent pricing.
Pros
- Fastest app with best page speed improvement— just 12K sent to browser with a single request
- Chat GPT integration
- Full-featured product reviews app with questions, deep search, media, email/SMS review request feature, translations, customization—with Shopify 2.0 app blocks
- Excellent pricing starting at $1 / month
- Clean and simple admin UI interface
- Easy import/export reviews and questions
- Built by a developer focused on page speed and SEO
Cons
- Fewer integrations than Okendo (but much cheaper)
#2 Best — Okendo
Okendo is a full-featured product reviews app with a decent page speed profile.
Pros
- Decent page speed compared to Yotpo, but far behind Rapid Reviews
- Full-featured with questions, deep search, media, email/SMS review capture, translations, customization
Cons
- High price for expected features
- Confusing admin UI interface
#3 Best — Judge.me
Judge.me is a full-featured product reviews app with poor page speed profile, but good pricing.
Pros
- Full featured
- Good pricing
Cons
- Poor page speed profile—too many requests, large data payload, and slow time to render
- Confusing admin UI interface
- Difficult to export reviews
- Does not have deep search feature
#4 Best — Stamped
Stamped is a full-featured product reviews app with poor page speed profile and average pricing.
Pros
- Full featured
Cons
- Poor page speed profile — too many requests, large data payload, and slow time to render
- Confusing admin UI interface
- Difficult to export reviews
- Does not have deep search feature
#1 Worst—Ali Reviews
Ali Reviews is a full-featured product reviews app with terrible page speed profile and clunky UI. It is not recommended—probably the worst app on the market.
Pros
- None—this app is not recommended at all
Cons
- Terrible page speed profile—sometimes sending over 500K to the browser and 20–30 requests
- Slow time to render
- Confusing admin UI interface
- Clunky visitor-facing widget UI interface
- Expensive for being such a terrible app
#2 Worst — Yotpo
Yotpo is a full-featured product reviews app with terrible page speed profile and confusing admin UI interface.
Pros
- Many third-party integrations
Cons
- Terrible page speed profile — sometimes sending over 400K to the browser and 20–30 requests
- Very expensive to start—VERY expensive when adding expected features like questions and search
- Slow time to render
- Confusing admin UI interface
- Clunky visitor-facing widget UI interface
#3 Worst — Growave
Growave is a minimally-featured product reviews app with terrible page speed profile and confusing admin UI interface.
Pros
- None — this app is not recommended at all
Cons
- Terrible page speed profile — sometimes sending over 400K to the browser and 15–30 requests
- Very slow time to render—probably the slowest
- Confusing admin UI interface
- Clunky visitor-facing widget UI interface
- Poor import/export
- No questions, media, or search
#4 Worst — Shopify Product Reviews
Shopify Product Reviews is a minimally-featured product reviews app with average page speed profile and excellent price (because it’s free).
Pros
- Price—it’s free
Cons
- Average page speed profile — requires jQuery
- Slow time to render
- Clunky visitor-facing widget UI interface
- Poor import/export
- No questions, media, or search
- No review request feature