pricing —
It's free.
For everyone. Forever.
Capture forms, walls, embedded widgets, imports from Twitter and LinkedIn, hand-picking your favorites. All of it is free. There's no Pro tier to upgrade to and nobody to call about pricing.
every account —
$0/mo
free forever · no credit card · no per-widget fee
collect —
- ✓ Capture forms (text · video · audio)
- ✓ In-browser video / audio recording
- ✓ Import from Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
- ✓ Manual upload of any testimonial
- ✓ Background picker · brand styling
- ✓ Unlimited submissions
manage —
- ✓ Approve / unapprove · one click
- ✓ Hand-pick which proofs go where
- ✓ Pin favorites to the top
- ✓ Multiple projects · multiple brands
- ✓ Save any proof as an image
- ✓ Export your data anytime
share —
- ✓ 25+ embed widgets
- ✓ Walls of Love (full-page hosted)
- ✓ Floating toast / badge widgets
- ✓ Lightbox · auto-scroll · likes
- ✓ Schema.org SEO markup
- ✓ Custom domain (coming soon)
calculator —
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your current monthly stack —
Pricing is approximate as of 2026
today, you'd pay —
$0.00
$0/yr
on shosay —
$0.00
what's the catch —
No, really. There's gotta be a catch.
- ·No "contact sales". If you want support, you need to do it by email.
- ·There is a small "Powered by Shosay" pill at the bottom of widgets and walls. If a paid plan ever happens, removing it would be one of the things it buys. Until then it's how strangers find Shosay.
how Shosay stays up —
Every dollar, itemized.
where every quarterly dollar goes —
total cash to keep running —
$579/qtr
a note from the maintainer —
I've been helping people who are just getting started for about as long as I've been working. 10th hire at Eventbrite in 2008, then founding engineer at Reforge, then I started Casting Call Club for aspiring creators (about 3M of them now), then Closing Credits to help those same people level up. Shosay is more of the same: a way for small operators and creators to show the work they've already done.
It's free because the pricing in this market is genuinely strange. Trustpilot wants $3,000 a year before they'll let you embed a star rating. Senja's top plan is $99/mo for what is mostly static HTML. Yotpo puts the actual reviews behind a $799/mo "Premium" tier. None of it is hard software. It's a database table and some HTML. It's worth like 10 buckaroos, max.
I think sharing what you've made, imperfect or not, is a beautiful thing, and that the world needs a lot more of it to feel connected and supported, so therefore, Shosay is free.
Maintainer · also runs CCC & Closing Credits
keep it free —
Sponsor a month of hosting.
faq —
Quick questions.
Really, no monthly fee? +
Really. Build the widgets and walls, embed them wherever you like, collect testimonials for as long as you want. None of it is billed.
Then how do you keep it running? +
Donations, plus my spare time. Shosay doesn't need to turn a profit, it needs to cover the budget table above. That's the real number.
Is there a widget cap or a testimonials cap? +
No. Make as many widgets and walls as you want and collect as many testimonials as you can. There's no hard cap, though I'll get in touch if an account starts behaving like a botnet.
Does the widget have a 'Powered by Shosay' on it? +
Yes, a small white pill at the bottom of every widget and wall. It's how strangers find Shosay. If a paid plan ever happens, removing the pill would be one of the things it buys. Until then it stays.
Can I export my testimonials and leave? +
Yes. Everything you've collected belongs to you. There's an export option in your account, and I'll add JSON or CSV if you ask.
Do you take a cut of anything? +
No. Nothing on widget views, nothing on testimonials collected, nothing on traffic. The only money moving through Shosay is donations.
What happens if you can't pay for hosting? +
You'll hear from me before anything changes.
Can I cancel a monthly donation any time? +
One click, in your account. Nobody will phone you or email you an offer to stay.
Do you sell my testimonials or my visitors' data? +
No. The widget is a single iframe with no analytics scripts and no fingerprinting in it. The only thing it sends back is the heart-click count, and only if you turn that on.
What's the catch with Trustpilot at $3k/year? +
Trustpilot runs the review-collection invitations and puts the on-page widget behind a paid tier. They're a marketplace, and widget access is one of the things they sell. It's a different business to this one. I just don't think the widget is worth $3,000.