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Yotpo vs Loox
Yotpo is a broad enterprise suite. Loox is a focused visual-review app. One wants to run your whole retention stack; the other wants to make your reviews look beautiful.
Verdict
Choose Yotpo if you want reviews, loyalty, and subscriptions from one vendor and will pay enterprise prices. Choose Loox if your priority is gorgeous photo and video reviews and you do not need loyalty. For most mid-size visual brands, Loox is the simpler, cheaper, better-looking pick.
- Yotpo: Larger brands consolidating reviews, loyalty and subscriptions.
- Loox: Visual brands that want premium photo and video reviews.
Which is right for you?
Do you need loyalty and subscriptions too?
If yes, Yotpo bundles them and Loox does not. If you only need reviews, Loox is more focused and far cheaper to run than Yotpo at scale.
Which has better photo and video reviews?
Loox. Visual reviews are its entire reason to exist, and the galleries are the most polished in the category. Yotpo supports photo and video, but presentation is not its focus.
Which is lighter on the storefront?
Loox is lighter than Yotpo, which carries the heaviest JavaScript footprint of the major review apps. Neither renders review text as crawlable HTML the way Judge.me does, so both are weaker for search and AI visibility.
Each tool in detail
Loox
The visual-review specialist: the best-looking photo and video galleries, priced by order volume.
Loox · Strengths
- Best-in-class photo and video reviews
- On-brand, design-forward widgets
- 4.9 stars across more than 9,000 App Store reviews
- Far cheaper than Yotpo at most volumes
Loox · Trade-offs
- No loyalty or subscriptions
- Free to 500 orders, and video needs the $49.99 tier
- Widget-rendered text is weak for SEO and AI citation
Yotpo
An enterprise suite: reviews plus loyalty and subscriptions, powerful and expensive.
Yotpo · Strengths
- Reviews, loyalty and subscriptions in one platform
- Deep analytics and segmentation
- Free plan available, up to 50 orders a month
Yotpo · Trade-offs
- Expensive once you add the bundles most brands buy
- Heaviest widgets of the major apps
- SMS and email products retired at the end of 2025
BeyondReviews
One sells breadth, the other sells polish. Both draw reviews with JavaScript, so on the question of what a crawler reads they answer the same way.
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 loyalty stack or photo-first gallery
By the numbers
- $49.99
- The first paid Loox tier, above its free 500-order tier; Yotpo climbs far higher with bundlesShopify App Store listing, checked August 2026
- 4.9 vs 4.8
- Shopify App Store ratingsShopify App Store, checked September 2026
- Reviews only vs suite
- Loox is focused; Yotpo is a retention platformVendor positioning, June 2026
Frequently asked questions
Is Loox cheaper than Yotpo?
At most order volumes, yes. Loox is free to 500 orders and $49.99 a month above that. Yotpo starts low on the App Store but real spend, especially with loyalty bundled, runs much higher.
Which looks better on a fashion or beauty store?
Loox. Its photo and video galleries are the most polished in the category and are designed for visual storefronts.
Which is better for SEO and AI search?
Neither is strong here. Both render reviews through JavaScript widgets. If crawlable, citable review content matters to you, Judge.me is better today, and BeyondReviews is being built specifically for AI-search visibility.