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Junip vs Loox
Loox is built around visual reviews and presents them better than anything at this price. Junip is lighter, has a free plan that is not capped on orders, and does not put video behind a higher tier.
Verdict
Choose Loox if the photograph is doing the selling and you want galleries that look like part of the storefront rather than a plugin bolted onto it. Choose Junip if you want a free plan that is not capped on monthly orders, lighter widgets, and video reviews without stepping up a tier. For a visual brand specifically, Loox usually wins on presentation and Junip wins on cost of entry, and which of those you are short of decides it.
- Junip: Visual brands that are still small, or that want video without a premium tier.
- Loox: Brands where the photo gallery is the reason the product page converts.
Which is right for you?
Which is better for a visual brand?
Loox, if the question is about presentation. Visual reviews are not a feature it added, they are the product, and its galleries are the most polished in the category. Junip supports photo and video and does it competently, but competently is the right word. The counter-argument is narrower than it looks: Loox includes photo on every tier and gates video to its $49.99 Convert tier, while Junip includes both. So a brand whose reviews are photo-first should look hard at Loox, and a brand whose reviews are video-first should price the Convert tier before assuming Loox is the obvious choice.
Which is cheaper?
It depends entirely on where you are. Both can be run for nothing now: Loox made its Beginner tier free in 2026, capped at 500 orders, and Junip's free tier is not capped on monthly orders at all. So the free comparison is about headroom, not price. Once you are paying, the order inverts from what it used to be: the first paid Loox tier is Convert at $49.99 a month, above Junip's Core plan, and Loox then prices by order volume on top. Model your own order volume rather than comparing entry prices.
Which is better for video reviews specifically?
This is the row where the obvious answer is wrong often enough to be worth checking. Loox presents video better, and if video is central to how you sell, the Convert tier at $49.99 a month may simply be the price of that. But Junip includes photo and video without a premium tier, so a brand collecting a modest number of videos alongside photos is paying a large multiple on Loox for presentation rather than for capability. Count how many of your last hundred reviews would actually have carried a video before you buy the tier that displays them.
Which is lighter on the product page?
Junip. It is built mobile-first and its widgets are light by design. Loox renders polished galleries, and media-rich galleries cost page weight by nature, which is a design consequence rather than a defect. Do not take either claim on trust: install one, then look at what the product page does to your largest contentful paint and your layout shift on a real phone. A star rating that arrives late and pushes the buy button down the page costs more than the review it displays is worth.
Which gets my reviews read by search engines and AI answer engines?
Neither is built for it, and both support star rich snippets, so the stars are not the difference. Junip renders through lighter widgets and Loox is explicitly the visual widget with less crawlable text, so Junip is marginally ahead on the review text being reachable. The more useful point is structural rather than about either vendor: a review programme that succeeds at collecting photos and videos is, by construction, collecting very little quotable text. If you want your reviews to answer questions in a search result as well as reassure someone already on the page, ask for a sentence alongside the photo.
Each tool in detail
Loox
The visual-review specialist. The most polished photo and video galleries in the category, free up to 500 orders, with video and higher volumes on a paid tier that rises with order count.
Loox · Strengths
- The best presentation of photo and video reviews at this price
- Photo reviews on every tier
- Lower paid entry price than Junip Core
- 4.9 stars across 9,511 Shopify App Store reviews
Loox · Trade-offs
- The free tier stops at 500 orders, and video is not in it
- Video reviews require the $49.99 Convert tier or higher
- Pricing is gated by order volume and can move you up a tier as you grow
- Review requests are email only
- Review text sits inside a visual widget, so less of it is crawlable
Junip
The modern, mobile-first pick. Light widgets, a submission flow built for a phone, photo and video without a premium tier, and a free plan that is not capped on monthly orders.
Junip · Strengths
- Free tier not capped on orders or requests, gated on widgets instead
- Photo and video reviews without a higher tier
- Mobile-first submission forms and lightweight widgets
- 4.8 stars across 1,146 Shopify App Store reviews
Junip · Trade-offs
- Galleries are competent rather than distinctive, and a visual brand will see that
- Paid Core plan starts above the Loox entry price
- A much smaller App Store review base than Loox
BeyondReviews
Both are modern collection tools with widgets a shopper enjoys. Neither answers the review for you, and neither puts the answer where a crawler can read it.
BeyondReviews · Strengths
- Reviews and replies in the served HTML, not injected by JavaScript afterwards. The crawlers that read pages for AI answers do not run JavaScript, and you can check any store with View Source
- Every review answered in a voice learned from your own writing, carrying real phrases from your own Search Console data, rather than a suggestion box you still have to staff
- Product schema and aggregateRating on every product page, so your stars are eligible in the result itself
- Every price on the page: free plan, $29 to $249 by volume, Enterprise from $750. No demo required to find out what it costs
BeyondReviews · Trade-offs
- No loyalty, subscriptions or retail syndication. Reviews and replies only, on purpose
- Newer than either, and no photo-first gallery to match Loox
By the numbers
- Uncapped vs 500
- Orders on each free tier. Junip does not cap them; Loox Beginner stops at 500 and holds video backShopify App Store listing, checked August 2026
- $49.99
- The Loox Convert tier, where video reviews start. Photo reviews are on every tier and Junip includes bothVendor pricing, checked June 2026
- 9,511 vs 1,146
- Shopify App Store review counts. Loox rates 4.9 and Junip 4.8, so this is track record rather than qualityShopify App Store, checked September 2026
Frequently asked questions
Does Loox have a free plan?
Yes, up to 500 orders, on the Beginner tier. Paid plans begin at $49.99 a month on Convert, which is where video reviews start. Junip has a free plan that is not capped on orders at all, which is still the largest practical difference between the two for a store that is still small.
Is Loox worth it for a small store?
Only if visual reviews are genuinely how you sell. If your product photographs well and customers are already sending pictures, the galleries earn their price. If you are collecting a handful of reviews a month and most are text, you are paying for presentation you are not using, and Junip's free tier is the more honest starting point.
Which one includes video reviews?
Junip includes photo and video. Loox includes photo on every tier and requires the $49.99 Convert tier for video. Loox displays video better once you are paying for it, so the question is whether the presentation is worth the difference at your volume.
Which is faster?
Junip, by design and by claim. Loox galleries carry images and video, which costs page weight regardless of how well they are built. Measure it on your own theme before treating either as settled, because the number that matters is what your product page does on a mid-range phone, not what either vendor reports.
Can I move my reviews from Loox to Junip?
Yes, both support exporting and importing. Photos are the part to check carefully: media often travels as links rather than as files, so confirm what the destination importer does with images before you assume a gallery will survive the move intact. Keep one set of review structured data live throughout so your star ratings do not drop out of search results.