Reviewshake vs Local Clarity

Let’s see how Reviewshake compares to Local Clarity.

Local Clarity is a solid review management platform that offers a comprehensive solution for keeping track of your reviews from an array of websites. It also offers good review analysis tools that allow you to monitor reviews and ultimately improve them over time.

However, having used and tested out both Reviewshake and Local Clarity, Reviewshake comes out on top in a few areas.

Where Reviewshake has Local Clarity beat is in the review generation and marketing areas. Reviewshake helps users generate written and video reviews. It also has drip campaigns to automatically remind customers who haven't left a review yet, increasing the number of reviews you have overall to improve your rating. Reviewshake also has more review marketing tools, like sharing your reviews on social media and your website.

Pricing

The pricing structures for Local Clarity and Reviewshake are very different. Local Clarity isn’t clear on its pricing for enterprises and agencies, but its small business plans start from $10 per location — so the price depends on the size of your business.

Reviewshake offers plans suitable for a range of businesses — from small businesses to enterprises and agencies. You can get started with Reviewshake for as little as $31 per month.

Generate Reviews

Local Clarity links to your Google My Business Page to manage reviews customers have left about your business. It is currently working on a review generation platform that will allow users to request reviews, but this isn’t available yet.

Reviewshake sends review requests to your customers, and it also has a drip campaign to follow up with customers who haven’t left a review yet. This will increase the chances of customers leaving a review and will improve your overall ratings.

With Reviewshake, your customers can also leave video reviews. Video reviews can feel much more authentic to potential customers and can increase the chances of a customer doing business with you.



Manage Reviews

Reviewshake and Local Clarity both allow you to manage reviews from 85+ websites. You can also use the white label feature to resell the software to your clients. However, Local Clarity’s white label feature is only available for agencies with 20+ client locations.

With Reviewshake and Local Clarity, you can reply to reviews from a range of review platforms directly from the platform, so you have complete management over your reviews from one space.

Analyze Reviews

Both Reviewshake and Local Clarity offer comprehensive review analysis tools. They create reports that compare business locations and your business’ reviews against your competitors side-by-side. This way, you can easily see where improvements are required for specific locations or how you compare to your competitors.

Since you don’t need to waste time creating reports, you get straight to implementing solutions.



Market Reviews

Reviewshake beats Local Clarity when it comes to marketing your reviews. While Local Clarity focuses on improving your presence on Google and tries to help potential customers locate you through searching, it doesn’t market your reviews to any other platforms that could help your business be found by people not directly looking for your business by name.

On the other hand, Reviewshake automatically shares your best reviews on your social media to help improve your reputation and can get leads from customers who haven’t searched for you. You can also showcase your best reviews on your website so that you can build trust with potential customers.