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BeyondReviews vs Stamped
Stamped is a mature mid-market platform that brings reviews, loyalty and lifecycle together. BeyondReviews does the review job too, on every plan including free, and then does the newer one: turning what your customers write into traffic.
Verdict
For reviews that display well and also grow your traffic, choose BeyondReviews: every review answered in your voice, the phrases your customers repeat put where Google and AI answers read them, and a free plan to start. If you want reviews and loyalty on one platform and one bill, Stamped does that well, with migration help and month-to-month terms.
- BeyondReviews: Stores that want reviews to bring in new customers through search and AI answers.
- Stamped: Mid-market stores buying loyalty and reviews together.
Which is right for you?
What does each think a review is for?
Stamped’s frame is retention: reviews as one of the moments that turn a one-time buyer into a repeat customer, beside loyalty points and lifecycle emails. BeyondReviews shows reviews to the shopper on the page too, and adds discovery: a review and its reply are text that can answer what the next shopper searches, so it writes them into the page and works your customers’ words in.
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, and one and two star replies never carry phrases.
What does the price difference buy?
Stamped runs self-serve tiers on the Shopify App Store from $23 a month, and platform plans that its archived pricing page listed at $299 a month per product with unlimited orders. BeyondReviews is free to 100 orders a month, with photo and video reviews and Google stars; Studio at $29 adds Chorus, phrases in the page, Issues and Copy gaps; Atelier at $99 and Maison at $249 add Search Console ranking, integrations and higher volume. Every price is published.
What else does BeyondReviews tell me?
Issues counts the complaints across your reviews, Copy gaps shows what customers say that your page never does, and Pulse tells you whether the reason they bought held up. On Atelier it connects to Klaviyo, Omnisend and Gorgias.
Each tool in detail
Stamped
The established mid-market retention platform: reviews, loyalty and lifecycle on one platform, with friendly terms.
Stamped · Strengths
- Reviews, loyalty and lifecycle from one vendor, with 50+ integrations
- Unlimited orders on the platform plans
- Migration support on every plan card, plus a contract-buyout offer for rivals’ annual deals
- Month-to-month: upgrade, downgrade or cancel anytime
- 4.7 stars across 3,753 Shopify App Store reviews
Stamped · Trade-offs
- No free plan since 2025; App Store tiers from $23 a month, platform plans $299 a month per product (archived pricing, late 2025)
- Reviews load in a JavaScript widget, which crawlers that do not run scripts do not read
BeyondReviews
The new way: it collects and displays reviews like Stamped, then puts them 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
- 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
- Approved phrases printed into the product page’s own HTML, where Google and AI answer engines read them
- Reviews import at setup, and keeping your Google stars through the switch is treated as our problem
BeyondReviews · Trade-offs
- Focused on reviews and the traffic they bring: no loyalty programme or lifecycle products
- Newer than Stamped, so without its years of App Store reviews
By the numbers
- $23 / mo
- Stamped’s self-serve entry on the Shopify App StoreShopify App Store, 5 Sep 2026
- $299 / mo
- Stamped’s platform price per product, unlimited ordersstamped.io/pricing, archived Nov 2025
- 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
- +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 Stamped better?
For reviews that also grow traffic, BeyondReviews: every review answered in your voice, the phrases your customers repeat put where Google and AI engines read them, and nothing published until you approve it. If you want loyalty and lifecycle on the same platform as reviews, Stamped does that job well.
Does BeyondReviews have a free plan?
Yes. Free to 100 orders a month with unlimited review-request emails, photo and video reviews, Google stars, every widget, 10 AI replies a month and full support. No card, ever.
Can I move from Stamped to BeyondReviews?
Yes. Importing your existing reviews is part of setup, they count toward your rating from day one, and keeping your Google stars visible through the switch is treated as our problem, not yours.