Site Reviews vs Starfish Reviews
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| Feature | Site Reviews v8.3.5 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.9/5 Visit Details | Starfish Reviews v3.1.31 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free + paid · ★ 4.6/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 60,000+ | 100+ |
| Last updated | October 13, 2026 | October 23, 2026 |
| Editions | Site Reviews · Site Reviews add-ons ($) | Starfish Review Generation & Marketing for WordPress · Starfish Reviews Premium ($) |
| Pros | Reviews assignable to posts, pages, users and products; Shortcodes, blocks and page builder elements; Spam filters including captcha and blacklist options | Funnels route happy customers to public review sites; Testimonials and feedback collected on your own site; Shortcode and embed options for funnels and testimonials |
| Cons | Premium add-ons are licensed separately from Nifty Plugins; Captcha and Akismet options call outside services; Many settings and shortcode options to learn | Review importing, reports and scraping need Premium; Freemius licence and account flow comes with the plugin; Large plugin with many premium-gated screens |
| Mentioned in our posts | 2 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Review, reviews, form and summary shortcodes, Gutenberg blocks for reviews and forms, Blacklist for words, IPs and emails, CSV import of third-party reviews, JSON-LD rating schema, Discord and Slack notifications for new reviews, Captcha options on the review form, Reviewer location lookup, Add-on licence and updates from Nifty Plugins ($) | Review funnels that route happy customers to review sites, Funnel shortcode for embedding on pages, Testimonial capture and storage on your own site, Private feedback entries from unhappy customers, Custom branding on funnels and collections ($), Scheduled scraping of existing review profiles ($), Import reviews from funnel destinations and display them ($), Basic reports ($), Premium-only feedback screens ($) |
| Integrations | ||
| E-commerce | WooCommerce, SureCart | — |
| Plugins | Divi, Elementor, Yoast SEO, WPForms | Freemius |
| Other | Akismet, Slack, Discord, Cloudflare Turnstile, Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Gravatar, ip-api.com | Starfish community feed |
| Requires WordPress | 6.8 | 6.0 |
| Requires PHP | 8.1.2 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 7.0.4 |
| Phones home | Only if you agree | Only if you agree |
| External services | niftyplugins.com, api.site-reviews.com, ip-api.com, api.wordpress.org, secure.gravatar.com, api.friendlycaptcha.com, global.frcapi.com, www.google.com, api.prosopo.io, hcaptcha.com, challenges.cloudflare.com | starfish.reviews, api.freemius.com, checkout.freemius.com, cdnjs.cloudflare.com |
| Blocks | 6 | — |
| Shortcodes | 5 | 1 |