Here we will compare the two Shopify product reviews apps Junip and Rapid Reviews. We will evaluate each app according to the following: page speed and rendering performance, ease of use, features, and price.
Rapid Reviews outperforms Junip in several important product categories, including page load speed and rendering speed, ease of use, and deep search. Rapid Reviews provides its core features like deep search, questions and answers, photos and videos, and email/SMS reviews requests.
Junip is slower than Rapid Reviews with a higher price.
Junip is not the best choice for your Shopify theme's page speed performance.
Rapid Reviews dramatically outperforms Junip on page load speed, rendering, and performance. With just a single request of 12K and 0.4 seconds to rendering, the total data loaded to the page is far less with Rapid Reviews, making it faster, more consistent, helpful to Google Page Speed Insights scores, conversion, customer engagement, and more.
Junip lacks the important feature of deep search. Junip is approximately double the price of Rapid Reviews.
Rapid Reviews outperforms Junip in all feature areas. Rapid Reviews features is the more performance oriented solution, with fast review experience, deep search, questions and answers, and email/SMS review request prompts.