Most review apps don't really charge a flat monthly fee — they charge for your order volume, each in a different way. One has no order meter at all, one bills in 300-order blocks, one moves its price with a volume slider, and one sells the same features in bigger buckets. If you are comparing product review app pricing per order, or looking for a Loox alternative because the block billing stopped making sense, start with how each app counts.
Forever Free, or Awesome at a flat $15/mo at any order volume.
Beginner is free up to 500 total orders. Convert starts at $49.99/mo for 300 monthly orders.
Reviews & UGC plans priced by monthly order volume; the price at 500 orders is higher than the entry price.
Reviews at $23/mo for up to 200 orders a month. No free plan and no trial.
| Judge.me | Loox | Yotpo (Reviews) | Stamped (Reviews) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Stores that want review costs fixed while orders grow | Visual, photo-led Shopify brands | Brands that need Seller Ratings and wide syndication | Stores that want the full feature set at entry price |
| How it bills | Flat. No order meter, no usage fees | Per monthly orders, in blocks: base 300, then +$50 per extra 300 | Per monthly order volume, set by a slider on the pricing page | Per monthly order allowance; tiers change capacity only |
| Free option | Yes — unlimited reviews, requests and photo/video reviews, forever | Yes — until your store passes 500 total orders (cumulative, not per month) | Yes — up to 50 orders/month, text reviews only | No free plan, and no trial listed |
| Paid plans | Awesome $15/mo flat (15-day trial) | Convert from $49.99/mo; Unlimited $299.99/mo flat (14-day trial on paid plans) | Starter from $15/mo, Pro from $119/mo — both rise with order volume; Premium is custom-priced | $23/mo (200 orders), $99/mo (1,000), $199/mo (5,000) |
| Photo reviews | Included free | Included free (Beginner) | From Starter (not on Free) | Included on all tiers |
| Video reviews | Included free | Convert and up | From Starter | Included on all tiers |
| Google syndication | Rich snippets free; Google Shopping syndication on Awesome | Google Shopping on Convert and up | Google Shopping from Starter; Google Seller Ratings on Pro | Google integrations included on all tiers |
| Platforms | Shopify only (other platforms were sunset in January 2026) | Shopify and Shopify Plus only | Shopify plus other ecommerce platforms | Shopify-first; other platforms exist but Shopify is the core |
| Trade-off to know | Widgets are plainer than Loox's, and it does nothing beyond reviews | The free plan ends at 500 total orders, and the first paid step jumps to $49.99 plus blocks | The price you see depends on the volume slider — entry prices are for the smallest stores | You pay before you can test it, and loyalty is a separate subscription |
Prices are USD, before tax, as published by the vendors in November 2026. Yotpo's pricing page shows one order volume at a time (500 orders by default: Starter $89/mo, Pro $169/mo), while its Shopify App Store listing shows the entry prices ($15 and $119) — set the slider to your own volume before comparing. Loox's older Scale plan is closed to new stores; prices quoting it are out of date. Plans change — always confirm the current price and what's included on the vendor's site before you buy.
Calculated only from the published prices above (monthly price × 12, cheapest applicable plan). This is the calculation the headline prices hide:
| Your monthly orders | Judge.me Awesome | Loox | Yotpo Starter | Yotpo Pro | Stamped |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 / month | $180/yr (or $0 free) | $0 while the 500-total-order free allowance lasts, then $599.88/yr on Convert | $288/yr | $1,428/yr | $276/yr |
| 500 / month | $180/yr (or $0 free) | $1,199.88/yr (Convert: $49.99 + one $50 block) | $1,068/yr | $2,028/yr | $1,188/yr (1,000-order tier) |
| 1,000 / month | $180/yr (or $0 free) | $2,399.88/yr (Convert: $49.99 + three $50 blocks) | $1,548/yr | $3,228/yr | $1,188/yr |
Loox Convert includes 300 monthly orders in the base price and adds $50 for each additional block of 300, capped at $999.99/mo; its flat Unlimited plan ($299.99/mo) becomes the cheaper option once Convert would need five extra blocks — roughly past 1,800 orders a month. None of these four apps bills by the number of reviews you actually collect: on an order-metered plan, a month with zero new reviews still bills on your orders.
Judge.me collects product and store reviews, sends automated requests, and displays star ratings, photo and video reviews in widgets on your product pages. Its pricing structure is the simplest in this comparison: the Forever Free plan is unlimited — unlimited reviews, unlimited requests, and unlimited photo and video reviews, with rich snippets and Q&A, carrying Judge.me branding. Awesome ($15/mo flat, 15-day trial) removes the branding and adds Google Shopping syndication, coupons and referrals, SMS requests, AI reply drafts and summaries, and 130+ integrations including Klaviyo. The vendor states $15 is the most you can ever pay it: there is no order band to grow out of. Since January 2026 it is a Shopify-only app.
Loox is a visual reviews app for Shopify and Shopify Plus, designed around customer photos: it sends review-request emails, offers a discount in exchange for a photo review, and presents the results in visual galleries and widgets. The Beginner plan is free and includes photo reviews and up to 2,000 request emails a month — but read the limit carefully: it covers your store only until it passes 500 total orders, counted cumulatively, not 500 orders a month. Convert ($49.99/mo) includes 300 monthly orders, adds $50 for each additional 300 orders (capped at $999.99/mo), and unlocks video reviews, Google Shopping syndication, referrals, branding removal and its AI features. Unlimited ($299.99/mo flat) removes the order meter. Loox's own support page states that the Convert order count is based on your Shopify orders — all of them in the cycle, not just the ones that produced a review.
Yotpo's Reviews & UGC product collects product and site reviews with photos and video, displays them in widgets and galleries, and syndicates them beyond your store — to Google Shopping, Google Seller Ratings on Pro, social channels and retail partners on higher tiers. Pricing is where care is needed: the free plan covers up to 50 orders a month, text reviews only. Starter (from $15/mo) adds photo and video collection and Google Shopping; Pro (from $119/mo) adds Seller Ratings, the Klaviyo integration, custom questions and AI review summaries. Both prices rise with your monthly order volume — at 500 orders the pricing page shows Starter at $89/mo and Pro at $169/mo — and Premium is custom-priced. Loyalty & Referrals is a separate product with its own pricing, and Yotpo ended its email and SMS products at the end of 2025, so older reviews describing a four-product suite are out of date.
Stamped's Reviews product collects reviews inside the post-purchase email itself, gathers photo and video UGC, and displays them in customizable widgets, with Google and Klaviyo integrations. Its pricing is the mirror image of Yotpo's: the Shopify App Store tiers — $23/mo for up to 200 orders, $99/mo for up to 1,000, $199/mo for up to 5,000 — carry the same feature set; only the monthly order allowance changes. There is no free plan and no trial (the free plan was removed in 2025), so the first look costs $23. Stamped also removed overage fees in 2025: pass your allowance and review requests queue until the next cycle instead of billing extra. Loyalty is a separate product and subscription, and Stamped's direct sales pricing (from $199/mo per product) is a different ladder from the App Store tiers above — know which door you are buying through.
Your monthly order count — including your busiest month, not your average — is the input every price here depends on. Work out the annual cost at that number (the table above does it for 100, 500 and 1,000) before you compare feature lists.
Photos alone: Judge.me free or Loox free both cover you. Video reviews: free on Judge.me, paid on Loox, Starter-level on Yotpo, included on Stamped. Google Shopping stars: Judge.me Awesome, Loox Convert, Yotpo Starter, Stamped any tier. Seller Ratings for ads: Yotpo Pro. Buy the cheapest plan that crosses your gate — no higher.
Loox adds $50 blocks automatically, Yotpo's tier rises with volume, Stamped queues requests at the cap, and Judge.me does nothing at all. None of them bill per review collected, so a spike in orders raises the bill even if review response is low.
Judge.me's free plan is a full starting point, Loox's free plan is a runway until 500 total orders, and Yotpo's covers your first 50 orders a month. Stamped has neither free plan nor trial, so read its App Store tier table carefully before the first $23.
It depends which part of the billing bothers you. If you want the order meter gone entirely, Judge.me is the structural answer: unlimited reviews on the free plan and a flat $15/mo ceiling, with photo and video included — you trade away Loox's more polished visual galleries. If you want to stay order-metered but unlock all features at entry, Stamped's tiers change only the order allowance ($23 / $99 / $199). Yotpo is also order-metered, so it is not an escape from per-order pricing, just a different ladder.
From the vendors' published terms: Loox's Convert plan counts your Shopify orders in the billing cycle, while its free Beginner plan counts 500 total orders cumulatively from the end of your trial. Yotpo prices by your average monthly order volume, chosen on a slider. Stamped's tiers are monthly order allowances; exceeding one queues review requests rather than charging overage. Judge.me does not count orders at all.
Per its published pricing, yes: the Forever Free plan includes unlimited product and store reviews, unlimited requests and unlimited photo and video reviews, with Judge.me branding on the widgets. What the free plan does not include is Google Shopping syndication, the full integration set (including Klaviyo) and branding removal — those are the $15 Awesome tier.
Because the price depends on order volume. The Shopify App Store listing shows the entry prices (Starter $15/mo, Pro $119/mo) with a note that pricing changes with order volume, while Yotpo's own pricing page defaults to showing 500 orders a month (Starter $89/mo, Pro $169/mo). Neither is wrong — set the volume to your store's level and use that figure.
No, and this guide makes no such promise. Vendors publish their own claims about the effect of reviews; those are the vendors' marketing figures, not independently verified results, and outcomes depend on your products, traffic and how reviews are displayed. What can be compared objectively is the cost structure and the feature gates, which is what this page does.
Because this guide is compiled from the vendors' published specifications, pricing pages and app listings, not from hands-on testing we haven't done. Where a judgment appears (for example, that Judge.me's cost is the most predictable), it follows from the published pricing shown next to it, so you can check the arithmetic yourself.