Free Elfsight Alternatives for Review Widgets: Seven Free Plans, Compared by Their Limits
Elfsight makes good widgets, and most people who look for an alternative are not unhappy with how it looks. They hit the free plan's 200 monthly views, the widget went away until the month rolled over, and the next step was a paid plan. If you want to stay on a free plan, the useful question is what each free plan allows and what it holds back. This is that list for review widgets, taken from each vendor's own pricing page, with the date attached.
What the Elfsight free plan allows
Elfsight prices each app on its own page. On September 19, 2026 both the Google Reviews app and the All-in-One Reviews app listed the same free plan: 1 widget, 200 views a month, unlimited websites and Elfsight branding. The All-in-One Reviews pricing page states that exceeding the monthly limit will temporarily deactivate the app. Paid prices depend on the app. Google Reviews is $5 a month billed yearly, or $6 monthly, for 5,000 views and 3 widgets, then $10, or $12 monthly, for 50,000 views and 9 widgets. All-in-One Reviews costs twice that: $10 a month billed yearly, or $12 monthly, for 5,000 views and 3 widgets, then $20, or $24 monthly, for 50,000 views and 9 widgets.
A view is a page load, not a visitor. A widget in your footer loads on every page, so one person reading three pages spends three views. On a small site 200 views is roughly 60 to 70 real people a month.
Seven free plans next to Elfsight
Every figure below was read off the vendor's own pricing page on September 19, 2026. Pricing pages change without notice. The date is there so you can tell how old this is by the time you read it.
| Tool | Free monthly views | What the free plan allows | What it holds back | First paid step |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elfsight | 200 | 1 widget, unlimited websites. | Elfsight branding. Widget is deactivated past the cap. | Google Reviews app $5 a month on yearly billing, All-in-One Reviews $10. 5,000 views |
| BlooTrue | No cap | 1 widget, any 1 of 20+ review platforms. | BlooTrue badge. Shows the latest 10 reviews from the day it was created; new reviews sync daily on paid plans. | $9/mo |
| Featurable | No cap | 1 widget, 1 Google Business Profile location, 15 reviews per widget, all layouts. | Google only. Featurable branding. | $29/mo billed annually |
| SociableKIT | 2,000 | 1 widget, 1 source, 1 domain, 100 reviews. | Syncs only when you request it. | $9.17/mo billed $110 a year |
| EmbedSocial | 500 | 1 source, unlimited widgets, sync every 24 hours. | Of its review sources, only Google is listed on Free. | EUR 29/mo, 3 sources, 5,000 views |
| Tagembed | 500 | 1 feed, unlimited websites. | New content every 4 days. | $19/mo, 2 feeds, 10,000 views |
| Common Ninja | 200 pageviews | 1 widget, free forever, no card. | Shows 5 reviews. | $24 a year list price per widget, unlimited pageviews, 10 reviews shown |
| Trustindex | None stated | A free package with 133 platforms, certificates and trustmarks. | The price table marks the 36 layouts, daily refresh, review filters and review photos as paid. | $65 a year, yearly billing only |
Two free plans do not count views at all
If the view limit is the reason you are leaving, two of the seven remove it completely, and they are built for different businesses.
- Featurable free is the simple answer if all your reviews are on Google and you have one location. One widget, 15 reviews in it, every layout, unlimited page views. If that is your business, you can stop reading here.
- BlooTrue free also leaves views uncapped and lets you pick any one of 20+ review platforms, so it works when your reviews are on Yelp, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Angi or Booking.com and not on Google. What it holds back is freshness: the free widget keeps the 10 reviews it imported on the day you made it. New reviews arrive every day from Starter at $9 a month.
Trustindex does not state a view limit for its free package either. We list it as "none stated" and not as unlimited, because the page does not say unlimited, and because on the day we read it the comparison table marked daily refresh and most layouts as paid features.
Four give you more room but still count
SociableKIT free allows 2,000 views a month, ten times Elfsight, with one source and a sync you start by hand. EmbedSocial and Tagembed allow 500 each. Common Ninja allows 200 pageviews and shows 5 reviews, so it is not more room than Elfsight, but its first paid step is the cheapest here at a list price of $24 a year for one widget with unlimited pageviews.
To work out what you need, multiply your monthly sessions by pages per session, then by the share of pages that carry the widget. A site with 400 sessions and 2.5 pages per session spends about 1,000 views a month with a footer widget. That is past Elfsight, Common Ninja, EmbedSocial and Tagembed free, and inside SociableKIT free. The longer version of this sum is in our comparison of free plan view limits.
If you need more than one platform in the widget
This is the one place where Elfsight free is ahead of most alternatives. Its All-in-One Reviews widget covers 30+ platforms and its price page sets no limit on sources, so the free plan can mix platforms inside its 200 views. Common Ninja free can too. SociableKIT, EmbedSocial and Tagembed free include one source, and BlooTrue free connects one platform, so none of those four can blend for $0. On BlooTrue, Starter ($9/month) blends 3 platforms and Pro ($29/month) blends every platform you connect. We priced this for every vendor in which review widgets combine several platforms in one.
When staying with Elfsight is the right call
If your widget sits on one quiet landing page and 200 loads a month is enough, nothing here is a reason to move. If you use several Elfsight apps, such as forms, popups and social feeds, one vendor is simpler than three. And if you are happy to pay, $5 to $10 a month billed yearly for 5,000 views is a fair price for a polished product. The case for moving is narrow: you want to stay on a free plan, or you do not want a bill that follows your traffic.
Which to pick
Google reviews only, one location: Featurable. Reviews on another platform, or you expect the page to get busy: BlooTrue. Social feeds and reviews from one tool, with modest traffic: SociableKIT. A blended widget for $0 on a very quiet page: stay on Elfsight or try Common Ninja. We also keep a direct BlooTrue vs Elfsight comparison and our full pricing, which is built on locations and never on views.
