11 best Widewail alternatives
Widewail is a managed service for car dealers, where a person writes every reply for you. At $500 a month per rooftop it is the most expensive thing we reviewed. Compare it against the hours it saves rather than against software, then look at these.
Written by the team at FiveStariz. We make 1 of the 11 products below and we say which. Every price was read on that company's own website on 18 October 2026.
Widewail alternatives compared
Widewail itself is $500 a month per location.
| Tool | Cheapest price | Review sites | Review filtering |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. FiveStariz | $19 a month | 17 sites | None found |
| 2. ReviewTrackers | No published price per location | 100 or more | Publicly against it |
| 3. Birdeye | No published price per location | not published | None found |
| 4. Reputation | $80 per location | not published | None found |
| 5. Podium | $399 a month | Google and Facebook | None found |
| 6. GatherUp | $99 a month | 100 or more | Publicly against it |
| 7. Chatmeter | No published price per location | not published | None found |
| 8. LocalClarity | About $16 per location | 50 or more | None found |
| 9. Grade.us | $99 a month | unlimited | Gating in the product |
| 10. pulseM | No published price | not published | Not explained |
| 11. ServiceTitan | No published price | Google and Facebook | Gating in the product |
"Review filtering" means asking a customer how it went before showing the review buttons. Google's policy forbids it. "Not explained" means the vendor names a filter and never describes it.
The limits Widewail publishes itself
Taken from our Widewail review, where each one is sourced to their own pages.
- $500 a month per rooftop, which is about 26 times our Solo plan.
- No free plan and no trial is mentioned.
- "Private Customer Surveys" and "review routing" are both listed without explanation, so we cannot say whether anything is filtered.
- No review site count and no named platforms beyond Google Business Profile.
- If you are not a car dealer, the product is not built for you.
11 alternatives, in order
1. FiveStariz
$19 a month. free plan, email asks.
Ours, at $19 a month. You write your own replies, and we read your reviews back from 17 sites so nothing is missed. There is no person doing the work for you, which is the whole point of Widewail.
2. ReviewTrackers
No published price per location. none mentioned.
They sell managed response services as an add on, so you can keep the human element without the dealership specific pricing.
3. Birdeye
No published price per location. none mentioned.
They publish no price, so expect a form and a call. It bundles listings, social, surveys and webchat into 1 platform.
4. Reputation
$80 per location. none mentioned.
A fraction of what Widewail costs. It scores and benchmarks reputation across a large estate.
5. Podium
$399 a month. none mentioned.
Undercuts Widewail and still publishes every figure. It runs webchat, texting, phone calls and payments from 1 inbox.
6. GatherUp
$99 a month. 14 day trial.
This is the big saving on the page. It adds surveys and keyword tagging, and watches 100 or more sites.
7. Chatmeter
No published price per location. none mentioned.
They publish no price, so expect a form and a call. It reports sentiment from local manager up to the board.
8. LocalClarity
About $16 per location. trial, no length.
Far cheaper than Widewail for the same core job. It reads reviews across a lot of branches for very little.
9. Grade.us
$99 a month. 14 day trial, 3 seats.
This is the big saving on the page. It runs white label on your own domain, with client dashboards.
10. pulseM
No published price. none offered.
No price anywhere on their site, which is worth knowing first. It fires the ask from your dispatch system, naming the technician who did the job.
11. ServiceTitan
No published price. none mentioned.
They publish no price, so expect a form and a call. It matches each review to the technician who did the work.
How we picked these
- We read the price on each company's own website on 18 October 2026 and wrote down the date. Nothing came from a blog or a comparison article.
- Where a company publishes no price, the list says so instead of repeating a figure from somewhere else.
- We checked each one for review filtering, and we quote the vendor's own words rather than guessing.
- We left in the tools that beat us, and said what they do better.
- We put our own product on the list and labelled it, because hiding that would make this an advert.
Prices change. Check the vendor's own page before you decide anything.
Widewail alternatives, answered
How much does Widewail cost?
Core is $500 a month, Pro $750 and Customer Clarity $1,200, all per month for a single rooftop. We read these on their pricing page on 18 October 2026. Dealer group pricing is configured per group.
Is there a cheaper way to get replies written?
ReviewTrackers sells managed response services. Thryv includes a review acknowledgement service on its higher packages. Most tools now draft a reply with AI for you to approve, which costs a fraction of a person.
Does Widewail do review gating?
We cannot tell. Their packages include "Private Customer Surveys" and "review routing", neither of which the page explains. A private survey running before the review ask would be gating, so ask them the order of the steps.
See what we charge
$19 a month for 1 location, $5 a location from 10, and the price is on the page.