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BeyondReviews vs Loox
Loox is known for its photo and video galleries. BeyondReviews has the same shapes: a gallery carousel, a dynamic carousel of photo stories, cards, grid and masonry layouts and stars on every product card, on every plan including free. Then it does the newer job: turning what your customers write into traffic.
Verdict
For photo reviews that look as good as they do on Loox and also grow your traffic, choose BeyondReviews: galleries, carousels and photo and video reviews on every plan including free, every review answered in your voice, and the phrases your customers repeat put where Google and AI answers read them. If you want referrals and social syndication built around your gallery, Loox is a sound choice.
- BeyondReviews: Stores that sell on photos and want their reviews to bring in traffic too, with galleries and video included from the free plan.
- Loox: Brands that want referrals and social syndication built around their photo reviews.
Which is right for you?
Which is better for a fashion or beauty brand?
Both collect photo and video reviews and show them in galleries and carousels. Loox builds referrals and social syndication around its gallery. BeyondReviews has four carousels (Dynamic, Gallery, Cards and Testimonials), six review layouts and a full-screen photo viewer on every plan, free included, and then makes the words around the photos work: shoppers ask Google and AI assistants long, specific questions about fit, finish and feel, and the answers are drawn from text in the page.
How do reviews bring in traffic with BeyondReviews?
Chorus counts the phrases your customers repeat on each product; a phrase counts once 3 customers use it. The reply desk drafts an answer to every review in your voice and works one of those phrases in where it fits, and the phrases you approve are printed into the product page’s own HTML, where Google and AI answer engines read them. Nothing publishes until you approve it.
What do they each do about replies?
Loox offers AI review replies from its $49.99 Convert tier. BeyondReviews drafts replies on every plan, 10 a month on free: your voice, phrases your own customers use, ranked on Atelier by your store’s Google Search Console data, and no phrases in one and two star replies, so a bad review is answered without being helped to rank.
What does the price difference buy?
Loox prices by order volume, with video, referrals and AI replies at its $49.99 Convert tier. BeyondReviews is free to 100 orders a month with photo and video included; Studio at $29 adds Chorus, phrases printed in the page, Issues, Copy gaps and AI summaries, and Atelier and Maison add Search Console ranking, integrations and higher volume. Every price is published, and annual billing gives 12 months for the price of 10.
Each tool in detail
Loox
The classic visual-review app: a sound choice if the photograph is what sells your product.
Loox · Strengths
- Good, well-made photo and video review galleries
- Referrals, AI review sorting and auto-translation built in
- Syndication to Google Shopping, Meta and TikTok Shop
- 4.9 stars across 9,663 Shopify App Store reviews
- Serves 130,000+ brands, by its own count
Loox · Trade-offs
- Reviews load in a JavaScript widget, which crawlers that do not run scripts do not read
- Video reviews, referrals and AI replies begin at the $49.99 tier
BeyondReviews
The new way: the same photo galleries as Loox, on every plan, and then the words in the reviews go to work so the next buyer finds you.
BeyondReviews · Strengths
- Photo and video reviews, Google stars, every widget and full support on every plan, including free
- Four carousels (Dynamic, Gallery, Cards and Testimonials), six review layouts and a full-screen photo viewer, in your theme’s own colours
- Chorus counts the phrases your customers repeat on each product; a phrase counts once 3 customers use it
- Every review answered in your voice, a phrase worked in where it fits, published only with your approval
- Reviews, replies and approved phrases in the product page’s own HTML, readable by Google and AI answer engines
- Q&A lifted from reviews, plus Issues, Copy gaps and Pulse to show what to fix and what to write
BeyondReviews · Trade-offs
- Focused on reviews and the traffic they bring: no referral programme or social syndication
- Newer than Loox, so without its years of App Store reviews
By the numbers
- $49.99 / mo
- Loox tier where video and AI replies beginloox.app/pricing, read 26 Aug 2026
- 0
- Major AI crawlers that run JavaScript. GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot read the page as it arrives, so the words that get quoted are the ones in the HTMLVercel and MERJ, December 2024
- 15%
- Of Google searches every day have never been searched before. No keyword list covers them; your customers’ own words doGoogle, Search Central Live, March 2025
- +693%
- AI-referred traffic to US retail sites, year on year. Shoppers now ask AI what to buyAdobe, January 2026
Frequently asked questions
Is BeyondReviews or Loox better?
For reviews that also grow traffic, BeyondReviews: photo and video on every plan, every review answered in your voice, and the phrases your customers repeat put where Google and AI engines read them. If a gallery for showing off reviews with referrals is all you need, Loox is a capable choice.
Does BeyondReviews do photo and video reviews?
Yes, on every plan including free: photo and video reviews, a gallery carousel, a dynamic carousel of photo stories, cards and testimonials carousels, six review layouts, stars on collection pages and Google stars (Review and Product schema). The free plan covers 100 orders a month and never asks for a card.
Do I lose my Loox reviews if I switch?
No. Importing your existing reviews is part of BeyondReviews setup, they count toward your rating from day one, and keeping your Google stars through the move is treated as our problem, not yours.
Can I run both?
Two review apps on one store compete for the same widget space and the same schema, and Google reads one rating per product cleanly. BeyondReviews covers the photo and video display and adds the traffic work, so most stores run one app.