Free Google Reviews Widgets Compared

This page compares the free plans of eight Google reviews widgets, including Zyff's. Every figure was read from the vendor's own pricing or help pages on the date at the top. Where a vendor does not state something, the table says "not stated" rather than filling the gap from a third-party blog.

Zyff publishes this page and is one of the eight, which is worth knowing before reading it. Its free plan does not top the table on monthly views, and the table does not pretend otherwise.

Free-plan limits are the fastest-changing facts in this category. If a figure matters to your decision, follow the source link and check it before you build on it.

Views lead the table because they are what a free plan runs out of first. "Reviews shown" is how many reviews the free widget displays, where the vendor states it; "refresh" is how new reviews arrive on the free plan.

A view is one load of a page that shows the widget. 200 views a month is about 7 page loads a day — enough for a new site's testimonials page, and nowhere near enough for a widget in a site-wide footer.

Placement matters more than traffic. A widget on one page is counted when that page loads; the same widget in a footer is counted on every page of the site.

The vendors differ on what happens when the month runs out. Elfsight's pricing page says the app is temporarily deactivated, and its help centre says the widget disappears for visitors until the reset. EmbedSocial says widgets stop showing until the 1st of the month. SociableKit says the widget may stop displaying normally. Zyff replaces the widget with a short notice saying its monthly view limit has been reached, until the 1st (UTC) or an upgrade.

On a free plan, reviews mostly arrive when you ask. SociableKit's free plan takes manual sync requests, about once a day; Trustindex's free plugin refreshes manually, roughly every one to two weeks; Common Ninja's plan table reserves automatic review updates for its Pro and Ultimate plans. EmbedSocial is the exception, syncing every 24 hours on its free plan.

Zyff is unusual in the other direction: it collects new reviews only when you ask, on every plan, free or paid. There is no background job collecting on a schedule. If you want reviews to appear without pressing anything, a paid plan elsewhere with automatic sync is the better fit.

Many review widgets show five reviews because Google's Places API returns at most five per request and has no way to ask for the rest. Common Ninja's free plan lists five; Trustindex's free plugin shows up to ten; Featurable's free widget shows fifteen.

Zyff collects from your public Google Maps listing instead — up to 200 reviews per business — and a widget can show up to 50 at once, on the free plan as on paid ones. Where a vendor states no number, the table says so.

The cheapest paid tier is where most free-plan limits go away, so it is in the table. Compare the billing period before the price: Elfsight shows each tier as a monthly figure billed yearly, Common Ninja's lowest prices are yearly, Trustindex sells its single plan yearly only, and SociableKit's pricing page opens on its yearly prices.

Zyff bills monthly only, from $3 a month.

The vendors are the ones most often named in search results and AI answers for a free Google reviews widget when Zyff checked in October 2026, plus Zyff itself. Every cell comes from the vendor's own pricing page or help centre, read on the date at the top of this page. Third-party reviews and listicles were not used.

Where a vendor's own pages disagreed, the table follows its main pricing page and says so: Common Ninja's English and Spanish pricing pages showed different prices and plan shapes, Shapo's Google review widget page gives its free review cap as both 15 and 10, and Elfsight prints a struck-through price beside its yearly price without saying what it is.