Kestero vs Elfsight
Elfsight has been at this since 2012 and ships far more widgets than we do. Two things work differently enough to decide on, and every claim below links to where it came from.
What Elfsight does better
- Ninety-six widgets against twelve templates here. If you want a specific one — an Instagram feed, a Google reviews wall, a booking form — they probably have it and we probably do not.
- Listed inside the Shopify, Wix and Squarespace marketplaces, so installing is a click rather than a paste.
- Thirteen years of edge cases found and fixed. We are newer than that and it shows in places.
When to choose Elfsight
If you want a widget we do not have, choose Elfsight. Twelve templates plus your own code is not ninety-six widgets, and no amount of anything else makes up for the one you actually need not existing.
Side by side
Every claim about Elfsight links to where it came from and the date it was read. Prices and limits change; the link is so you can check rather than trust us.
| Kestero | Elfsight | |
|---|---|---|
| What happens when a page gets popular | No view limit. A widget does not switch off because a page got popular. | Views are metered monthly. Their help centre: “If you exceed the view limit, the widget on your website will be deactivated. It will no longer be visible to your site visitors.” Free is 200 views a month; unlimited views is the top Enterprise tier.Elfsight Help Centre — View Limit — read 4 September 2026 |
| What one price covers | €19 a month, unlimited widgets across unlimited sites. | Priced per app, or as a 96-app pack. A single app runs $4 to $64 a month by view tier; the pack runs $12 to $192.Elfsight pricing — read 4 September 2026 |
| Running it on more than one site | Unlimited sites on one subscription. | Their Shopify apps are “limited to 1 Shopify domain only” and each additional store needs a separate licence. Shopify and Cloud subscriptions are separate instances and cannot be merged.Elfsight Help Centre — Shopify and Cloud apps — read 4 September 2026 |
| What the free plan is for | Free forever: 1 widget on 1 site, every feature, no card. | Free forever, one app, 200 views a month.Elfsight pricing — read 4 September 2026 |
| Cookies | 0 cookies, counted from the shipped files by a test. | They publish a cookie-notice widget, which tells you what their own position is. We have not audited what their widgets set and do not claim to know.Elfsight cookie consent widget — read 4 September 2026 |
Questions
- Does Kestero limit how many views a widget gets?
- No. There is no view metering on any plan. The only limit on the embed path is a per-IP burst guard against a client in a loop, which ordinary traffic does not reach, because ordinary traffic arrives on many different addresses.
- Does Kestero have as many widgets as Elfsight?
- No, and it is not close: twelve templates against ninety-six apps. What is here instead is a code block, so anything the templates do not cover you can write yourself and it still runs sealed off in its own frame.
- Is Kestero on the Shopify App Store?
- Not yet. Installing is a paste into your theme rather than a click in the marketplace — see the Shopify install page for the four lines it takes.
Try it against your own page
The editor opens without an account. Make one, paste it into your site, and see which of the two you would rather live with.