Judge.me’s new verification policy is a big step backward for merchants. Unless a customer clicks the exact review link in their email, their review won’t appear as “verified” — even if the purchase was made with the same email address they used to write the review. In reality, many happy customers return to the site later to leave feedback, and now those legitimate reviews are unfairly flagged as unverified. To make matters worse, Judge.me places a badge on storefronts stating that some reviews are “not verified,” which undermines trust despite the fact that these are genuine purchases. Previously, Judge.me would manually review and confirm these cases, but they’ve discontinued that process to cut costs. At the same time, they’re dropping support for platforms like WooCommerce and scaling back their dev team. What once felt like a company committed to trust and authenticity now feels like one prioritizing cost savings over its original mission. While the app itself has some strengths, the recent cutbacks and policy changes are troubling. With Judge.me holding near-monopoly status in the review space, it’s difficult for merchants to switch away — yet the company continues scaling back support and raising prices. That combination is concerning for any business relying on reviews to build credibility.

Die App versendet eigenmächtig E-Mails an Kunden!!! Bitte aufpassen!!! Der "Autopilot" ist standardmäßig aktiviert und schickt einfach ungefragt E-Mail ab, die möglicherweise noch nicht einmal konfiguriert sind! Auch wenn die App sonst keine schlechten Funktionen haben mag, haben wir uns so sehr darüber geärgert, dass wir sie vorerst nicht weiter benutzen möchten.

Application efficace et abordable, mais avec un énorme point faible que peu de marchands connaissent : quand vos clients laissent une évaluation, le texte “En envoyant votre avis, vous acceptez nos conditions et politique de confidentialité” ne renvoie pas vers vos propres pages légales Shopify… mais vers celles de Judge.me. Concrètement, vos clients découvrent que leurs données sont gérées par une application externe, ce qui casse totalement l’image de marque premium et la cohérence d’un site. C’est une obligation imposée par Judge.me (même sur le plan payant), et on ne peut ni modifier ni supprimer ces liens. Dommage, car l’application est complète, mais cette contrainte en fait une solution peu adaptée aux marques qui veulent garder une maîtrise totale de leur image et de leur relation client.

Purtroppo nonostante l'app sia a pagamento ha due diffetti importanti: 1) Molti clienti che ricevono l'email e poi recensiscono inseriscono 1 stella al posto di 5 stelle perchè per qualche strano motivo Judme ha strutturato la valutazione al contrario! 2) Il commento nelle recensioni si bugga, infatti alcuni anzichè scrivere la rencesione applicano in automatico il nome del prodotto. Sono anni che segnalo questo all'azienda ma non hanno mai risolto nulla

Die Monthly Record for Verified Reviews doesn't get updated, although we have contacted many times the support team and they promised us that the problem will be solved. Nothing changed since two months so far...

Hard to navigate. We have over 1000 GENUINE reviews from Etsy. Something you can't tamper with, yet only 800 got imported, and we have a 10% verified?! Bullsht! Every time I try to reach support, I crash into a bot.

Very basic free feature set. Something as simple as changing what product a review is associated with is not possible (requires reimporting reviews or contacting support ). A page show casing your reviews, not possible. Review import is basic and sometime delayed with when reviews actually post. As with most money hungry Shopify apps, the juice is not worth the squeeze.

Not very clean and aesthetic

The app works well, and we’ve had helpful agents in the past. But after a recent support request to fix a display issue with review stars, the Judge.me team made theme changes that created duplicate elements on our product pages. When we reached out for help, support flat-out denied touching the theme: “We haven’t made any changes to your theme code.” “This falls outside of our scope of support.” “We recommend you contact Shopify support.” These statements were repeated over and over—even though the changes had been made by another Judge.me agent two weeks earlier, which we had to prove with a chat transcript. Only after escalation did their advanced team step in... and break our live product template entirely, removing titles, descriptions, and buy buttons. We run a high-AOV business and spend heavily on ads. Losing product functionality for seven hours during peak traffic is not something a $45 refund fixes. We also asked to speak with a supervisor multiple times and were refused. A senior agent eventually apologized and promised internal changes, but the damage was already done. If you're running a store where uptime and reliability matter, be careful: Judge.me support will edit your live theme code, and if things go wrong, you may be left without real help when you need it most.

Difficult to use

The app does the basics fine, but some of the supposed features have significant bugs in them, and the support team won't acknowledge them, they just say "send in a feature request for future development". If you have one plain vanilla site this app might work fine, but anything complicated like multiple stores you want to sync reviews across you'd be better of going somewhere else...

I want to love it but its glitchy and a number of things don't work well. Changing settings does not seem to have an effect, I had to get tech help to change code to get things to work and I will have to do so again with a new theme update likely.

Integration to display reviews on Google doesn't work. Been going back and forth with judge.me and Google for a few months, judge.me says that everything is fine and Google says that's something is missing in the data.

Lädt nicht mehr

I hoped it will make it easy to import reviews from Etsy, Trustpilot and eBay (and maybe Google Shopping and Amazon too if we needed) but all I can see is some unknown integrations (for us in the UK at least) or the possibility of doing it manually via CSV. I suppose Judge.me is more like a Trustpilot competitor and not really focussed enough on bringing in reviews from other platforms and marketplaces as well, despite the customer support insisting that thats their best feature. There is a way to read Etsy reviews as long as we also install the paid Shuttle app which we don't need as we do already integrate with Etsy via Shopify Marketplace Connect. In comparison, the Fera Product Reviews App makes it fairly easy to import the JSON file with reviews we download from Etsy. Fera also imports easily our reviews from Trustpilot and Google Shopping which Judge.me claim are covered by copyright. While for eBay and Amazon, despite the same copyright excuse, the Opinew Product Reviews App UGC can also import easily our reviews from these marketplaces. It is a shame though that none of these apps can do the job fully and properly. :( The Judge.me chat support person told me that we can import the reviews manually via CSV and do it easily with their AliExpress integration. But we're not interested in AliExpress at all while apps like this are meant to help towards automating things not doing manually. I can get ChatGPT to write for me the code for my own app and do it manually... This app is not for us at all and I'm frankly disappointed given the many positive reviews but I'm taking it that most people use it the same way we use Trustpilot.