Judge.me vs Loox vs Yorum Kiti: Which Shopify Review App Fits?

Quick verdict: three different levels of review infrastructure

Choose Judge.me when you want a mature review system but want to keep pricing predictable. Its current Shopify App Store listing shows a Forever Free plan with unlimited product and store reviews, unlimited photo and video reviews, review widgets, carousels, rich snippets and several sync/import features. The Awesome plan is currently $15 per month and adds AI features, more integrations, additional widgets, advanced collection options, coupons and referrals, Google Shopping, social-channel sync and deeper customization.

Choose Loox when visual social proof is part of a larger retention and distribution strategy. Its current App Store listing shows a free Beginner plan with review-request emails and reminders, photo-review incentives, 17+ widgets, rich snippets, social-content tools and Shop App syndication, with a limit of up to 500 orders. Its paid Convert plan is currently $49.99 per month before additional order-based charges and adds video reviews, AI features, referrals, wider syndication, integrations, API access and webhooks.

Choose Yorum Kiti when your job is narrower and you value direct control: star rating, title, written review, up to three photos, approve-or-reject moderation, average rating and a product-page review list. Photos are stored in the merchant's own Shopify Files. The app is currently free, and the owner confirms there is no paid plan. Available in English.

Review collection: automation breadth versus a simple on-page form

Judge.me and Loox both advertise automated review-request workflows. Judge.me's current listing includes unlimited reviews and its paid tier adds advanced collection features such as auto-reminders. Loox's free Beginner plan includes review-request emails and reminders, while its higher tiers expand the surrounding review and referral system. For stores that want review collection to run as a post-purchase lifecycle program, that automation can be a deciding factor.

Yorum Kiti takes a simpler route. Its current official listing documents a product-page review form with star rating, title, text and up to three photos, and every submission waits for merchant approval before appearing. The listing does not advertise an automated post-purchase review-request email system. That makes Yorum Kiti a better fit when you want the core review layer without building a broader review-marketing operation around it.

A practical example: a store shipping thousands of orders and trying to increase review-request participation across multiple regions may value the automated request machinery in Judge.me or Loox. A boutique with a smaller catalogue may prefer to place a visible review form on each product page, moderate every submission and keep the workflow easy for one person to manage.

Photo and video UGC: do not treat all 'visual reviews' as equivalent

Judge.me's free plan currently includes unlimited photo and video reviews. Loox's free Beginner plan supports photo-review collection, while video reviews are listed under the paid Convert plan. Both platforms therefore support a broader visual-review strategy than a photo-only form when video becomes important to your merchandising.

Yorum Kiti supports up to three photos per review. That is enough for many categories where the buying question is visual but static: furniture in a real room, a beauty product result, packaging quality, handmade goods, accessories or a product's scale in everyday use. It should not be described as a video-review platform because the current official listing does not make that claim.

If your creative team actively turns customer videos into paid social assets, a platform with video review collection may be worth the extra breadth. If your goal is simply to put real customer photos next to ratings and written feedback, Yorum Kiti covers that smaller job without introducing a paid tier.

Pricing: free can mean very different things

Judge.me currently has two clear plans: Forever Free at $0 and Awesome at $15 per month, with a 15-day trial for Awesome. The free plan is unusually broad, so a merchant can stay there if the included review, visual UGC and display features are enough. The paid decision begins when features such as the expanded integration set, AI tools, advanced collection, referrals, Google Shopping and deeper customization become necessary.

Loox currently lists Beginner as free for stores within its stated order allowance. Convert is listed at $49.99 per month with 300 orders included in the base price and an additional $50 per extra 300 orders. Unlimited is listed at $299.99 per month. That means a Loox decision should include both the feature tier and the store's order volume, not just the headline plan price.

Yorum Kiti is currently listed as free, and the owner confirms it has no paid plan. That does not make it automatically better value for every store. It means the economic trade-off is simple: if its focused feature set covers the job, there is no subscription tier to justify. If you need the broader automation, video, syndication or integration capabilities documented by Judge.me or Loox, paying for the platform that actually supports those requirements can be the more rational choice.

Syndication, integrations and marketing workflows are the biggest dividing line

Judge.me's current listing emphasizes a wide ecosystem: sync and syndication options, importers, social sharing, Google-related review features, and more than 130 integrations on Awesome. That is useful when reviews are not just a product-page block but data that needs to travel into email, support, shopping feeds and other marketing systems.

Loox's paid Convert tier similarly expands beyond basic review collection with Google, Meta and TikTok syndication, referrals, integrations, API access and webhooks. Merchants building a review-led acquisition loop can justify evaluating those capabilities as part of the whole marketing stack rather than as isolated review widgets.

Yorum Kiti is the focused option. Its current listing documents product-page collection, moderation, display and Shopify Files storage. It does not advertise the same syndication or broad integration layer. For a merchant who does not use those systems, that simplicity can be a feature. For a merchant whose reviews must feed multiple channels, Judge.me or Loox will usually deserve the first evaluation.

Storefront control and photo storage: Yorum Kiti has a distinct operating model

Yorum Kiti's clearest operational difference is moderation and storage. Every submitted review stays hidden until the merchant approves it, and the current listing says customer photos are stored in the store's own Shopify Files and served through Shopify's file infrastructure. The storefront components are implemented as theme app extensions.

That can appeal to merchants who want a very legible content-governance workflow: customer submits, merchant checks, merchant publishes. It also keeps the review-photo assets inside the merchant's Shopify file environment rather than making the review platform the only place those images live.

Judge.me and Loox offer much broader display systems with multiple widget styles and larger marketing toolsets. If you need elaborate carousels, social distribution or specialized display experiences, compare those capabilities directly. If you want a straightforward product-page ratings and photo-review layer with manual approval, Yorum Kiti is intentionally less sprawling.

Migration: protect your historical reviews before changing apps

A review app migration is not just a theme-block swap. Your existing review history is an asset. Judge.me currently advertises review import and migration capabilities, and Loox states that merchants can import reviews from other apps or by CSV. Before moving between any platforms, export what you can from the old system and confirm what the destination can accept before uninstalling anything.

Yorum Kiti's current App Store listing does not advertise a historical-review importer. That means a merchant with years of accumulated reviews should not assume migration will be automatic. Keep the old app and its export data available until you have a verified plan for preserving review history, product associations, customer media and any structured data you depend on.

For a new store with little or no review history, this migration burden is much smaller. That is one reason a focused free tool can be especially attractive at the beginning: you can start collecting proof without first untangling a large review ecosystem.

Three merchant scenarios make the choice clearer

Scenario one: a growing brand wants unlimited review collection, photo and video UGC, rich snippets and a broad free plan now, with a modest flat paid tier later for AI, integrations and advanced collection. Judge.me is the logical first comparison because its current pricing and feature structure maps directly to that path.

Scenario two: a visual-first brand wants review emails, incentives, many display widgets and, as it scales, video reviews, referrals, AI and multi-channel syndication. Loox is worth the additional evaluation because its product is built around a wider visual-social-proof system. The merchant should model the paid tier against order volume before committing.

Scenario three: a smaller store wants ratings, written reviews, customer photos and strict manual approval, does not need video reviews or a large integration ecosystem, and wants to avoid another subscription. Yorum Kiti is a strong fit. It is free with no paid plan according to the owner and is available in English, so its Turkish brand name is not a geography or language restriction.

Bottom line: Judge.me for broad value, Loox for visual growth systems, Yorum Kiti for focused simplicity

Judge.me offers the broadest free feature set of the three based on the current official listings, with a $15 paid tier when a merchant needs more advanced capabilities. Loox has a capable free Beginner plan but places many of its advanced visual, AI, referral, syndication and integration features in higher tiers whose economics change with the plan and order volume. Yorum Kiti deliberately avoids that race for breadth and concentrates on a clean review form, photo reviews, manual approval and product-page display.

For most stores, the correct decision is visible in the workflow. If reviews must power a large marketing ecosystem, choose the platform built for that ecosystem. If customer video and multi-channel social proof are central, test the visual platform. If the store mainly needs authentic product-page ratings and photos under direct merchant control, Yorum Kiti is the lean recommendation and costs nothing at the current pricing structure.

Available in English: Yorum Kiti uses the same official Shopify App Store slug; ShopRadar's CTA requests the English listing locale. That URL choice does not change an installed app's language settings.

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Frequently asked

Is Judge.me free on Shopify?

Yes. Judge.me currently lists a Forever Free plan with unlimited product and store reviews and unlimited photo and video reviews. Its Awesome plan is currently $15 per month with a 15-day trial.

Does Loox have a free plan?

Yes. Loox currently lists a free Beginner plan with review-request emails and reminders, photo-review incentives, 17+ widgets and an allowance of up to 500 orders. Paid plans add broader capabilities and different volume economics.

Is Yorum Kiti free?

Yes. Yorum Kiti is currently listed as Free, and the owner confirms there is no paid plan. This describes the current pricing, not a guarantee that pricing can never change.

Is Yorum Kiti available in English?

Yes. The owner confirms Yorum Kiti is available in English. ShopRadar uses the official app slug and requests the English App Store listing locale.

Which app should I choose for video reviews?

Judge.me currently includes unlimited photo and video reviews on its free plan. Loox lists video reviews on its paid Convert tier. Yorum Kiti's current official listing documents photo reviews, not video review collection.

Can I migrate old reviews into Yorum Kiti?

Do not assume that automatically. The current Yorum Kiti listing does not advertise a historical-review importer, so merchants with an existing review library should verify their migration path before uninstalling the old app.