Bottom line: Elfsight is a sensible way to add a reviews badge, a contact form or an FAQ to a site you don’t want to code yourself. On 5 November 2026, a single app on Basic cost $5 a month billed yearly ($60) or $6 billed monthly, and the 96 Apps Pack started at $15 a month billed yearly. Every paid plan works on unlimited websites. The catch is the view limit. Each page load counts as a view, the limit is per app and per month, and when you go over it the widget is switched off until the next refresh date.
Best for: a bakery, a tutor or a plumber who wants Google reviews, a contact form or an FAQ on a Wix, WordPress or Squarespace site in an afternoon.
Think twice if: your site gets heavy traffic on the free or Basic tier, you need more than three collaborators, or you tend to forget renewal dates.
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Updated 5 November 2026. This Elfsight review rests on what we read that day: the pricing page, the help centre’s pricing guide, the views limit article, the refund policy and its help summary, the terms of service, the cancellation guide, the discounts page, the FAQ widget page and the Shopify App Store listing for its Google Reviews app. We haven’t bought a plan or run tests, so we describe what Elfsight publishes and what customers report.
Elfsight review at a glance
| Checked | Published (5 November 2026) |
|---|---|
| What it is | Embeddable website widgets: reviews, forms, FAQ, chat, galleries and more |
| Plan families | Single App (one app) or 96 Apps Pack (all apps) |
| Free plan | Yes: 200 views a month, 1 widget, Elfsight branding, no card |
| Cheapest paid | Basic single app: $5/mo billed yearly ($60), $6 billed monthly |
| Cheapest pack | Basic pack: $15/mo billed yearly ($180), $18 billed monthly |
| Websites | Unlimited on every plan |
| Over the view limit | Widget deactivated until the next refresh date |
| Money-back | 14 days, “no questions asked” |
| Renewal | Automatic, at the end of each billing cycle |
| Shopify rating | 4.3 from 27 reviews (Google Reviews app) |
What Elfsight does
Elfsight sells small, ready-made pieces of website: a Google reviews feed, a contact form, a form builder, an FAQ accordion, a photo gallery, a WhatsApp chat button, a countdown timer, an event calendar and dozens more. You pick a template, adjust it in a visual editor, then paste a line of code into your site. The homepage puts it as “Upgrade Your Website Without Coding” and says you can “Paste a single line of code, or let our team install it for you.”
The catalogue size depends on which page you read. The homepage says 97 widgets, its footer says 94, and the pricing page sells “All 96 Elfsight apps + upcoming apps”. The gap is small, and honestly it doesn’t change any buying decision, but it shows the list moves. Elfsight lists 113 supported platforms, naming Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, WordPress, Elementor, Shopify, Google Sites, Weebly and BigCommerce among them.
The FAQ widget is a good example of the depth you get. Its page lists three layouts, including an accordion “revealing the answer on click”, more than 30 category icons, HTML formatting in answers, and says Elfsight “doesn’t impose a strict limit on question count.” Some apps also carry AI options, such as review translation on Pro and above; we mention them only so you know they exist.
The one thing most people miss: views are page loads, per app
Most people miss how quickly views add up. The pricing page defines a view as “the number of times a widget loads on a webpage or via a share link”. The help article is blunter: “A view is counted each time someone loads the page with your widget.” Most people miss this: it’s every page load, not each unique visitor, and not only when someone scrolls down far enough to see the widget.
So think about where you place it, because when you choose a spot you’re also choosing a monthly bill. Put a reviews badge in the site footer and every page of your site now spends views. A small bakery site where 40 people a day open three pages each creates about 3,600 views a month from a footer widget. That’s eighteen times the free plan’s 200, and most of Basic’s 5,000.
What happens at the limit is the part that hurts. The help article says: “If you exceed the view limit, the widget on your website will be deactivated.” It adds that the widget “will no longer be visible to your site visitors, appearing as though it was never installed.” You get “several email notifications” first, and the widget comes back “on the next refresh date” or when you upgrade. Nothing says Elfsight charges overage fees, which is good news when you’re on a tight budget. In practice, though, a contact form that vanishes in the third week of a busy month costs you enquiries, and you may not notice.
Don’t forget the limit is per app. On the 96 Apps Pack, the pricing page says “Each app has its own monthly view limit according to its plan.” A pack doesn’t pool views across apps, so a heavy Google Reviews widget can run out while your FAQ still has plenty.
Elfsight plans and prices
| Plan | Monthly | On a yearly plan |
|---|---|---|
| Free Testing one widget |
Free | Free |
| Basic (single app) One app on a low-traffic site |
$6/mo | $5/mo |
| Pro (single app) Growing business, one app |
$12/mo | $10/mo |
| Premium (single app) High-traffic site, one app |
$24/mo | $20/mo |
| Basic 96 Apps Pack Three or more apps |
$18/mo | $15/mo |
USD, read 5 November 2026 on elfsight.com/pricing and the help-centre pricing guide. Yearly totals: Basic $60, Pro $120, Premium $240 per single app; packs $180 (Basic), $360 (Pro), $720 (Premium). Enterprise single apps run $30-$80/mo billed yearly ($42-$112 monthly). Social Feed and All-in-One Reviews cost about double. Billing may be in GBP, EUR or CHF by country. Subscriptions auto-renew; a 33% welcome coupon covers the first annual payment only.
Prices checked Nov 5, 2026 on Elfsight’s own pricing page. Intro prices usually rise at renewal, so check the live page before you buy.
Elfsight sells two families. A Single App plan upgrades one app, for example Google Reviews, while “All other apps stay on the Free plan”. The 96 Apps Pack raises the limits on every app at once. The help guide calls the pack “96+ apps for the price of just 3”, which matches the sums below.
Single App plans, read on 5 November 2026 (USD):
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly | Per year | Views/month | Widgets | Collaborators |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0 | $0 | 200 | 1 | None |
| Basic | $6 | $5/mo | $60 | 5,000 | 3 | None |
| Pro | $12 | $10/mo | $120 | 50,000 | 9 | 1 |
| Premium | $24 | $20/mo | $240 | 150,000 | 21 | 3 |
| Enterprise T1 | $42 | $30/mo | $360 | 300,000 | 50 | 3 |
| Enterprise T4 | $112 | $80/mo | $960 | Unlimited | 400 | 3 |
96 Apps Pack, same date (limits apply per app):
| Pack | Billed monthly | Billed yearly | Per year | Views/month per app | Widgets per app |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $18 | $15/mo | $180 | 5,000 | 3 |
| Pro | $36 | $30/mo | $360 | 50,000 | 9 |
| Premium | $72 | $60/mo | $720 | 150,000 | 21 |
| Enterprise T1 | $126 | $90/mo | $1,080 | 300,000 | 50 |
| Enterprise T4 | $336 | $240/mo | $2,880 | Unlimited | 400 |
Enterprise T2 and T3 sit between those rows ($40 and $60 a month billed yearly for a single app, $120 and $180 for the pack). The pricing page itself only shows the yearly-billed rate, with the monthly price as a struck-through “old” figure; the help guide lists both. Yearly billing is “17% cheaper for Regular plans and 29% cheaper for Enterprise.”
Don’t forget that two apps cost more. The help guide says “Social Feed and All-in-One Reviews apps cost more because they combine content from multiple platforms”, and its overview table puts those at $12 a month on Basic, about double. If you want reviews from one source only, the plain Google Reviews app keeps you on the regular price. Also note that billing may be in pounds, euros or Swiss francs depending on your billing country.
A worked example: a bakery, then a five-person agency
Say you run a bakery and want a Google reviews widget on the homepage only. With around 1,500 homepage loads a month, Free’s 200 views won’t last a week, so Basic fits. Monthly billing costs 12 × $6 = $72 for the year. Yearly billing costs $60. When you pay yearly you save $12, which matches the page’s “You save $12 a year”.
Now say you’ve added a contact form and an FAQ. Three Basic single apps cost $180 a year, exactly the same as the Basic pack at $180. Turns out the pack is the better buy at three apps because a fourth costs nothing extra. One wrinkle: the discounts page offers 30% off a second single-app subscription, valid for 24 hours after your first purchase, and it applies to renewals too. With that coupon, three single apps run $60 + $42 + $60 = $162 a year. That beats the pack by $18, but only if you buy the second app within the day and never want a fourth.
New accounts also get a Welcome Deal. The pricing FAQ says the 33% coupon is available “within 24 hours of signing up”, while the discounts page says “valid for the first 48 hours after registration”. Two Elfsight pages, two windows. It applies only to the first payment of a first annual subscription, not to renewals, so year two is back at list price.
For a five-person web agency managing client sites, collaborators are the constraint. Pro allows 1 collaborator and Premium 3; no plan we read lists more than 3. A Premium pack costs $720 a year billed yearly against 12 × $72 = $864 billed monthly, a $144 difference. If you’ve got five people who all need their own login, don’t skip the question: ask Elfsight before buying, because the pricing page doesn’t cover it.
Limits that matter
Views. 200 on Free, 5,000 on Basic, 50,000 on Pro, 150,000 on Premium, per app, per month. Exceed it and the widget disappears until the refresh date.
Widgets. One widget per app on Free, then 3, 9 and 21. “Single app subscription allows you to have only 1 widget” on Free. Want a contact form on two pages with different fields? Turns out that’s two widgets, not one.
Branding. The Free plan lists “Elfsight Branding”; paid plans list “100% Ad Free”. Honestly, for a business site that alone may push you to Basic.
Support level. Free gets “Only bug fixes”. Basic gets “Basic support”, Pro “Priority support”, Premium “Priority support & live chat”, and Enterprise an “Account manager”. If you’ve come to Elfsight for live chat support, it starts at $20 a month billed yearly.
Projects and collaborators. None on Basic. Pro has 3 projects and 1 collaborator; Premium 9 projects and 3 collaborators.
Websites. Unlimited on every plan, including Free. The help FAQ says: “we don’t limit the number of domains.” That’s generous, and it’s why an agency can run one subscription across several small client sites, as long as the views hold out.
The terms
The 14-day money-back guarantee
The refund policy says “Elfsight offers a 14-day 100% money back guarantee with no questions asked”. Within 14 days you can cancel and ask Support for a full refund. After 14 days, refunds are offered only if your use case “is no longer supported due to the changes on the side of the app” or a bug can’t be fixed “in less than two weeks.”
The exclusions matter more. Refunds are not offered after day 14 when a customer “didn’t cancel the subscription before it was renewed”. The policy says the “customer is solely responsible for cancelling their recurring subscription” and ends with: “In order to treat everyone equally, no exceptions will be made.” The terms of service agree in shorter form: “Fees paid by you are non-refundable, except as provided in these Terms or when required by law”, and payments run through Paddle, which “handles returns.”
Auto-renewal and price changes
Section 5.2 of the terms says “Your Subscription will automatically renew at the end of each billing cycle unless you cancel auto-renewal”. Section 5.3 lets Elfsight change fees, effective “only at the end of the then-current billing cycle”, with “reasonable prior written notice”. So a yearly plan can renew at a new price, though not mid-year. In practice, read any price email that arrives in the month before renewal.
How to cancel
The cancellation guide gives two routes: Billing in the Elfsight dashboard (“Cancel Auto-Renewal”), or the Paddle Customer Portal. Either way, “You’ll keep access to all paid features until your billing period ends”, then the account drops to Free. Widgets stay on your site, but Free’s 200 views and 1 widget per app then apply, and anything over that is deactivated. If you’ve bought through Shopify, Weebly or Wix, you cancel by uninstalling the app there, and many people forget that step.
What customers report
We couldn’t read Trustpilot, G2 or Capterra on 5 November 2026: Trustpilot returned an error for our region and the other two showed bot checks we didn’t get past. Elfsight’s own pricing page claims a “4.8” rating “from thousands of reviews”, which we couldn’t verify.
What we could read was the Shopify App Store listing for Elfsight Google Reviews: 4.3 stars from 27 reviews, 24 of them five-star and 2 one-star. Recent ones, newest first:
- 24 July 2026, 5 stars (Switzerland): “Great support and help to change layout and design of the integration.”
- 15 May 2026, 5 stars (Mexico): “Simple to use. Great support.”
- 26 February 2026, 1 star (Switzerland): a short review, in Czech, saying the app wouldn’t connect, after 33 minutes of use.
- 12 December 2024, 5 stars (Canada): a store said its conversion rate improved and support “has also been great”.
- July 2023, 4 stars after an edit (US): first complained of “zero customer support” after paying $60, then edited to say Elfsight fixed its email issue and set the app up.
Honestly, support comes up in almost every review, mostly with praise and named staff. That’s one app on one marketplace, though, and 27 reviews is a small sample. The same listing prices that app at $5.99 a month or $59.88 a year with a 7-day free trial, billed through Shopify, which differs a little from elfsight.com.
Elfsight vs other form and widget tools
We didn’t price Elfsight’s direct widget rivals for this review, so we won’t compare numbers. If all you need is a form, our Bit Form and Deftform reviews cover form builders sold as one-time deals, each priced on its own page. Elfsight’s case rests on breadth: reviews, FAQ, forms and chat from one dashboard and one embed method. Browse the productivity section or all software reviews for the rest.
Common mistakes when buying Elfsight
- Putting a widget in the footer on the free plan. Every page load spends a view, so 200 can go in days.
- Assuming the pack pools views. Each app has its own monthly limit on the 96 Apps Pack.
- Buying three single apps when the pack costs the same. At three apps, the Basic pack equals three Basic singles at $180 a year.
- Forgetting the renewal. No refund is offered after day 14 if you didn’t cancel before it renewed.
- Counting on the welcome coupon at renewal. It covers only your first annual payment.
- Picking All-in-One Reviews by default. It costs about double; a single-source reviews app may be enough.
Who Elfsight suits
It suits small businesses and freelancers who want a working widget today without touching code: a tutor’s FAQ, a plumber’s contact form, a bakery’s Google reviews. If you’ve got modest traffic and one or two apps, Basic at $60 a year is cheap. An agency running several small client sites gets real value from unlimited websites on one plan.
Skip the paid plans if your pages get heavy traffic and you can’t afford a widget going dark, or if you need a larger team inside one account. Honestly, sites with big traffic should price Premium or Enterprise from day one, not discover the limit later.
How to try Elfsight without getting stuck
- Start on Free. It needs no card and has no time limit, so skip the upgrade until you know your traffic. Build the widget, embed it, and watch the view counter for a week.
- Pay monthly first. $6 a month on Basic costs $12 more over a year than yearly, but you learn your real view count before committing.
- Note the renewal date. Put it in your calendar on the day you buy, and cancel auto-renewal in Billing if you’re unsure.
- Check what the refund excludes. You have 14 days, no questions asked. After that, a forgotten renewal isn’t refunded.
- Keep your content elsewhere. Save your FAQ answers and form fields in a document, so leaving never means retyping them.
What we couldn’t check
- Trustpilot, G2 and Capterra ratings, which wouldn’t load for us.
- Whether the Welcome Deal window is 24 or 48 hours; two pages disagree.
- Exactly what the 33% coupon is calculated on, since the discounts page says it “includes the 17% yearly discount”.
- How many people can share one account beyond the 3 listed collaborators.
- Load speed or accuracy of any widget. We ran no tests.
FAQ: Elfsight questions
How much does Elfsight cost?
On 5 November 2026, a single app on Basic cost $6 a month billed monthly or $60 a year. The 96 Apps Pack started at $18 monthly or $180 a year. Prices are in USD before tax.
Is the Elfsight free plan really free?
Yes, with no card and no time limit. It allows 1 widget per app and 200 views a month, shows Elfsight branding and gets “Only bug fixes” support.
What happens when I go over the Elfsight views limit?
The widget is deactivated and disappears from your site until the next refresh date, or until you upgrade. Elfsight emails you before that happens.
Can I get a refund from Elfsight?
Within 14 days, yes, for any reason. After that, only for an unfixable bug or a use case the app no longer supports, and never for a renewal you forgot to cancel.
The verdict
Elfsight makes widgets cheap to start with. Unlimited websites on every plan, a visual editor, free installation help on paid plans and a 14-day no-questions refund are fair terms, and the Shopify reviews we read praise its support. That’s why it scores 7.6 on our five criteria.
What holds it back is the view model. Page loads, counted per app, with the widget switched off at the limit, mean the cheap tiers suit small sites only. Go in with your traffic numbers, start on Free, and pick the pack once you need three or more apps. Read how we score for the method.
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