Elfsight alternative: showing reviews or collecting them

Elfsight and Formgong side by side

Each Elfsight cell comes from Elfsight's own pages, read on 31 October 2026. The table has no prices; plans change, and the linked pages carry them.

When to stay with Elfsight

• Your reviews are already on Google, Facebook or Yelp. Elfsight connects to those sources and refreshes by itself; its FAQ says new reviews usually show within about 72 hours. Formgong does not pull reviews from those sites; it imports export files.
• You want many kinds of widget from one account. Elfsight also sells chat, forms, galleries and calendars.
• You run a local business with reviews spread over several platforms. One Elfsight feed can combine several locations and profiles.

Keeping your Google profile and showing it through a widget is a reasonable setup for a shop with one counter and many Google reviews.

Where Formgong fits, and what it does not do

• Reviews written on your site, for your products. Customers rate on a page we host, from the widget's "Write a review" link, or from a review email after an order. Each product page shows its own reviews.
• A free plan with no review count. Formgong does not count reviews or review sites, and photo and video reviews are on Free.
• The whole picture, not the best part. Elfsight's FAQ says its filter can show only positive feedback. Formgong has no such switch on purpose: hiding bad reviews breaks the US FTC rule on fake reviews.
• Markup Google accepts. Google's review snippet guidelines say a business's own pages are not eligible for stars when they show reviews of that business through an embedded third-party widget, and that markup should not aggregate ratings from other websites. Formgong's plain widget adds no markup for that reason; our WordPress plugin adds the rating to WooCommerce's product data.

What Formgong does not do: it does not show your Google, Facebook or Yelp reviews, and it has no chat, gallery or calendar widgets. It does have contact forms and an AI help chat in the same account.

Until 31 December 2026: an account that connects reviews gets every paid reviews feature free for 6 months: the AI summary, mood tags, translation and AI moderation. Your reviews and settings stay when the 6 months end.

How to move your reviews from Elfsight

Nothing to export from Elfsight

Elfsight shows reviews that stay on Google, Facebook and the other platforms, so there is no file to move. Keep those profiles and the widget if you like them. Start collecting reviews on your own pages with Formgong's review link and widget. If you also have reviews from a review app, import its export file.

Then import it into Formgong

1. Create a free Formgong account, open Reviews and add your site.
2. Open the site's Import / Export tab, choose the file, pick the language of the reviews and press Import. A CSV of your own needs a rating from 1 to 5 and a date; text, name, product, title and reply are optional. Download the CSV template gives the column order.
3. Everything arrives pending, with its original date. Press Publish … imported reviews, or Undo this import.
4. Put the widget on your pages (code below). Reviews show on the page whose data-product matches their product.

One file can hold 5 MB and 5,000 rows, and you can run 20 imports a day, on every plan. Photos, videos and reviewer emails do not come across.

<!-- Shopify: a Custom Liquid section on the product template -->
<div data-formgong-reviews="fk_your_access_key" data-product="{{ product.handle }}"></div>
<script src="https://formgong.com/reviews.js" defer></script>

<!-- Any other site: set data-product to the product handle from your export -->
<div data-formgong-reviews="fk_your_access_key" data-product="blue-teapot"></div>
<script src="https://formgong.com/reviews.js" defer></script>

What Formgong Reviews includes for free

• Unlimited review sites and reviews. Text, photo, video and voice reviews on Free.
• A widget with no view limit. The review widget, carousel, badge and stars in product lists load as often as your pages do.
• Review emails in your store's name. Sent after each order with your logo and colours, replies to you, no email service to set up; buyers can rate inside Gmail without leaving the email, and get one reminder (how it works).
• Bring your old reviews. Import from Judge.me, Yotpo, Loox, Shopify Product Reviews, WooCommerce, Etsy or a CSV.
• You decide what shows. Approve each review or choose a publishing mode, reply in public or in private, and let shoppers ask the author a question.
• Google. A Merchant Center review feed, and product rating markup through the WordPress plugin.
• Reviews from your form. People who filled in your contact form can get a review request automatically.
• One account for the rest. Contact forms with Telegram and Google Sheets, an AI help chat, and free website templates.

Tell us what we got wrong

If you moved from Elfsight to Formgong, or tried and went back, we want to know what broke. If a fact on this page is out of date, or the import skipped rows it should have kept, write to support@formgong.com. We read every message and correct this page when we are wrong.