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Shoutout.io vs Boast: which is the better testimonial collection tool?

Shoutout.io and Boast both collect testimonials and put social proof on your site, but they're built for different budgets and jobs. Shoutout.io is a focused, low-cost tool that embeds imported tweets and testimonials, priced at $15/month or a $199 one-time lifetime license. Boast is a video-first collection platform built for larger and multi-location teams, priced by how many responses you collect per year. This page lays both out honestly.

Devanuj Nath · Founder, CollectMonial

Updated June 17, 2026·10 min read

Shoutout.io vs Boast, compared by CollectMonial

People compare Shoutout.io and Boast because both collect testimonials and show social proof on your site. But they sit at very different price points: one is a focused, budget tool built around embedding imported tweets and testimonials, the other is a video-collection platform built for teams and metered by volume.

Shoutout.io keeps it cheap and simple. It's $15/month with branding already removed, or a $199 one-time lifetime license, and it's strong at putting imported tweets next to your collected testimonials in one wall. The trade-offs: no free plan, a three-site cap, and display stays inside fixed templates. Boast is a video-first platform with staff accounts, multiple locations, AI testimonial generation, and review-request automations, priced by how many responses you collect each year.

That difference in scope and price is the whole story. If a cheap, no-fuss unbranded wall is the job, Shoutout.io is the lighter fit. If you're a larger or multi-location team that wants video collection at scale, with seats and automations, Boast is built for that, and priced for it.

This page walks through pricing, the collection and display experience, what real users say, and the one thing both tools leave on the table.

Quick overview

	Shoutout.io	Boast	CollectMonial
Starting price (paid)	$15 / mo	$50 / mo	$25 / mo
Pricing model	Monthly or one-time	Metered usage	Flat monthly
Brand-level design control	Limited	Limited	Yes

Full breakdown further down.

The 30-second verdict

A quick summary.

Shoutout.io

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Shoutout.io is the cheapest route to an unbranded wall. It is $15/month with branding included, or a $199 one-time lifetime license, both covering up to three sites, and it's strong at embedding imported tweets and testimonials side by side. The trade-offs: no free plan, removing branding on the lifetime deal is a separate $50 add-on, and display stays inside fixed templates.

Best for: Founders who want the cheapest unbranded widget each month, prefer paying once over subscribing, and mainly want to embed imported tweets and testimonials.

Boast

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Boast is a video-first collection platform for larger and multi-location teams, with staff accounts, locations, AI testimonial generation, and review-request automations. It's capable, but metered by yearly responses (600 / 1,800 / 6,000), caps the number of forms, watermarks everything during the trial, and starts at $50/month billed annually.

Best for: Larger or multi-location teams that collect a lot of video, want staff seats and automations, and will use the platform beyond a simple testimonial wall.

Shoutout.io asks: “How do we get your tweets and testimonials embedded unbranded for the lowest price, even as a one-time purchase?”

Boast asks: “How do we help a team collect video at scale, across seats and locations, with automations?”

Both are reasonable questions, but they're not the same question. The answer that fits you depends on whether you want the cheapest simple wall or a team video-collection platform.

Pricing

What do they actually cost?

The pricing models differ in kind. Shoutout.io is flat and cheap: $15/month with branding removed, or a $199 one-time lifetime license, both covering up to three sites. Boast meters collection by responses per year and caps the number of forms, so the more you gather, the higher the tier, and everything is watermarked until you leave the trial.

Feature	Shoutout.io	Boast
Starting paid price	$15 / month	$50 / month (annual)
One-time lifetime license	$199 once (up to 3 sites)	Not offered
Free option	No free plan	14-day trial (watermarked)
Pricing model	Monthly or one-time	Metered by yearly responses
Remove platform branding	$15/mo plan, or +$50 on lifetime	Paid plan (trial watermarked)
Yearly response cap	None	600 / 1,800 / 6,000
Video testimonials	Included	600 / year (Basic)
Sites / forms	Up to 3 sites	5 / 20 / 50 forms
Money-back guarantee	7-day (on lifetime)	None (no refunds)

Pricing as listed on Shoutout.io and Boast in June 2026. Shoutout.io's $199 license is a one-time purchase; Boast's plan prices are the annual rate, and month to month they are $59, $119, and $249. Both vendors change pricing and plan limits without notice, so check their sites before committing.

In practical terms: for a testimonial wall, Shoutout.io is by far the cheaper entry. It's $15/month with branding already removed, or $199 once if you'd rather not subscribe, and there are no yearly response caps. Boast's entry plan costs $50, caps you at 600 responses a year and five forms, watermarks everything until you subscribe, and offers no refunds.

Boast earns its price only if you're a team that genuinely uses the seats, locations, and automations. The one thing to weigh on Shoutout.io is the lifetime deal: the $199 license needs a separate $50 add-on to go unbranded, while the $15/month plan includes branding removal from the start.

Collection

How the experience feels for your client

Both tools collect video and text, and let a customer respond in the browser without an account. The difference is that Shoutout.io frames collection around a cheap, simple wall of imported tweets and testimonials, while Boast frames it around team video collection metered by yearly responses.

Shoutout.io's collection flow

Collects video and text. Clients leave a written testimonial or record a video in the browser, and it lands in your dashboard ready to publish.
Built around imported proof. Shoutout.io's heritage is pulling in tweets and reviews, so importing the proof you already have is a first-class part of the flow.
Paid from the first testimonial. There's no free plan, so collection starts on the $15/month plan or the $199 lifetime license rather than a free tier.
Three-site cap. All plans cover up to three sites, which is plenty for most founders but worth knowing if you run many separate properties.

Boast's collection flow

Video-first request forms. Boast's signature is interactive video request forms, with in-browser recording or uploads, plus AI testimonial generation and auto-transcription.
Built for teams. Staff accounts, multiple locations, and automations are aimed at larger organizations collecting video at scale.
Metered by responses. Each plan includes a yearly response allowance (600 / 1,800 / 6,000) and a form cap (5 / 20 / 50), so volume is tied to your tier.
Watermarked trial. The 14-day trial watermarks videos, widgets, and forms until you subscribe to a paid plan starting at $50/month.

If your goal is a cheap, simple wall that mixes imported tweets with a few collected testimonials, Shoutout.io's flow is lighter and starts at $15. If you're a team collecting a lot of video and want seats, locations, and automations, that's exactly what Boast is built for.

Display

Getting testimonials on your website

Both tools give you embeddable widgets and a wall. The big practical differences on display are branding and what each one is built to show: Shoutout.io drops its branding from the $15/month plan and is built to embed tweets and testimonials together, while Boast watermarks everything until you pay and is built to showcase the videos you collect.

Shoutout.io: what you get

Tweet and testimonial walls. Shoutout.io is strong at embedding imported tweets next to collected testimonials in one wall, with a no-code snippet.
Single async embed. The wall loads from one lightweight script that runs asynchronously, so it doesn't block your page from rendering.
Template-bound customization. You work within Shoutout.io's preset widget styles; color and layout choices stop where the templates do.
Unbranded from the entry plan. The $15/month plan includes branding removal, while the $199 lifetime license needs a separate $50 add-on to go unbranded.

Boast: what you get

Customizable video widgets. Display widgets are built to showcase the video testimonials you collect, with transcripts and subtitles for accessibility.
Watermarked until you pay. During the 14-day trial, videos, widgets, and forms carry a Boast watermark until you subscribe.
Form count is capped. Plans limit how many forms you can run (5, 20, 50), which constrains how many separate walls you set up.
Template-bound customization. You work within Boast's widget presets, made to display video rather than to be designed to your brand.

For a public testimonial wall on a budget, Shoutout.io's widgets are simple and cheap, and its branding comes off from the entry plan. Boast's display is solid for video specifically, but the watermarked trial and form caps are real constraints to factor in.

See the difference

A stock embed vs a widget that looks like yours.

Same testimonial. The one on top is frozen and watermarked, the kind of embed most tools hand you. The one below is live, so go ahead and change the edge, color, and font.

Generic widget

What most tools give you out of the box

Marcus B.

Verified Customer

“Great product! Would definitely recommend to anyone looking for a testimonial solution.”

★ Powered by ReviewWidgetGet this widget

Your widget on CollectMonial

Live

Card edges

Brand color

Font

Maya Roberts

Founder, Tidewell

Our wall finally looks like part of the app — customers can't tell it's a widget, and that's exactly the point.

Live render — the same component your customers embed.

Real use cases

What each one is actually for

Shoutout.io works well when…

You want the cheapest unbranded widget. At $15/month with branding removal included, it's one of the cheapest ways to get an unbranded wall on your site.
You'd rather pay once. The $199 one-time lifetime license suits people who dislike recurring subscriptions, as long as you factor in the $50 branding add-on.
Your proof lives in tweets. Shoutout.io is built around importing and displaying tweets and reviews next to your own testimonials.
Three sites is enough. If you run one to three properties, the site cap won't get in your way.

Boast works well when…

You collect video at scale. If video is the core of your proof and you gather a lot of it, Boast's video-first forms and automations are built for volume.
You're a larger or multi-location team. Staff accounts, multiple locations, and seats are aimed at organizations, not solo sites.
You'll use the platform features. The price makes sense when you're using AI generation, automations, and seats, not just embedding a wall.

Roughly: pick Shoutout.io if you want the cheapest simple unbranded wall or a one-time purchase, and Boast if you want a team video-collection platform with seats and automations. Different tools for different jobs.

What real users say

What people who've used them say.

Both tools have thin independent review footprints, so there's no reliable aggregate score to quote for either, and the notes below come from different sources, so they aren't directly comparable. Treat both as encouraging signals rather than verdicts, and use each tool's trial or guarantee before relying on it.

Shoutout.io · public reviews

Limited data

Shoutout.io has minimal presence on the major software review sites, so there's no reliable aggregate score to quote. What you'll find tends to be positive notes about its low price, the one-time lifetime option, and how easy it is to embed imported tweets, but the sample is too small to read as a verdict. Try it against their 7-day money-back guarantee before relying on it.

Boast · public reviews

Limited data

Boast has limited presence on the major software review sites (a single public Capterra review, for example), so there's no reliable aggregate score to quote. What you'll find tends to be positive notes about the video-collection flow, ease of use, and transcription, but the sample is too small to read as a verdict. Use the free trial before relying on it.

The shared blind spot

What both tools miss

Shoutout.io and Boast both get testimonials onto your site, one cheaply and one at team scale. But if you've put real care into how your site feels, the type, the colors, the shapes, both run into the same wall.

They hit it from opposite directions. Shoutout.io is built to embed imported tweets and testimonials in its own wall styles, so you recolor and rearrange but the card form stays the platform's. Boast's widgets are built to display the videos you collect, so customization stops at what's needed to show a clip cleanly. In both cases the card itself is theirs, not yours.

For a founder whose site carries the product's first impression, a testimonial block that's slightly off brand reads as imported. The proof still counts, but it lands with less force than something that clearly belongs on the page, drawn to match the rest of your site.

Making it clearly belong is what CollectMonial is for.

The third option

CollectMonial: testimonials that
belong on your site.

Most testimonial widgets break your brand. CollectMonial is the alternative to Shoutout.io and Boast that gives you total design control, so the wall reads like part of your product instead of a third-party embed, with unlimited video and branding off from day one.

Design control that actually moves

8+ widget types, from masonry and grid walls to carousels, floating popups, and rating badges. Card edges (rounded, sharp, pill, or stamp) and full per-campaign color and font theming, so the widget reads as part of your site, not a third-party embed.

Per-campaign branding

Run separate campaigns per product or service. Each gets its own collection link, its own widget, and its own theme, so testimonials from three offerings don't end up in one undifferentiated pile.

Import the social proof you already have

Pull existing testimonials from X and LinkedIn, so the mentions and replies you've already collected stop sitting unused.

One flat price, branding included

$25 / month, everything included, with unlimited video. No per-seat pricing, no metered widget views, no watermarked trial, no three-site cap, and a 7-day money-back guarantee.

Nine widget layouts

One pool of testimonials, shown nine different ways. Switch the layout anytime without collecting again.

One testimonial. Three different looks.

The same testimonial in three different customized styles.

Sarah Chen

Founder, Lumen Studio

Honestly the cleanest tool I've used for collecting client video testimonials. The widget looks gorgeous and works everywhere we've embedded it.

Minimal · white + green

rounded · sans · white surface

Sarah Chen

Founder, Lumen Studio

Honestly the cleanest tool I've used for collecting client video testimonials. The widget looks gorgeous and works everywhere we've embedded it.

Editorial · pastel blue

stamp · mono · pastel-blue surface

Sarah Chen

Founder, Lumen Studio

Honestly the cleanest tool I've used for collecting client video testimonials. The widget looks gorgeous and works everywhere we've embedded it.

Bold · pastel orange

pill · serif · pastel-orange surface

Sample testimonial, live-rendered in the same component your customers embed.

Pricing

$25 / month, branding included.

Shoutout.io starts cheaper at $15 and offers a $199 lifetime license, and Boast starts at $50 metered by responses. CollectMonial includes unlimited video, full card-level design control, unlimited campaigns, and branding removal at a flat $25, unbranded from day one with no watermarked trial and no site cap. Cancel anytime.

Try CollectMonial

Side-by-side

All three tools, in one table.

No winner badges or scoring, just the same set of questions answered side by side. CollectMonial doesn't win every row (Shoutout.io is cheaper to start), so read across and decide for yourself.

Feature	Shoutout.io	Boast	CollectMonial
Built for testimonials	Yes	Video-first collection	Yes
Pricing model	Monthly or one-time	Metered (yearly responses)	Flat monthly
Cheapest paid price	$15 / month	$50 / month	$25 / month
One-time lifetime license	$199 once	No	No
Free option	No	14-day trial	No
Unlimited video	Included	Enterprise only	Yes
Collects video + text	Yes	Yes	Yes
Yearly response cap	No	Yes	No
Remove platform branding	$15/mo, or +$50 lifetime	Paid (trial watermarked)	Yes
Import from other platforms	X, LinkedIn	Limited	X, LinkedIn
Custom card edge styles	No	No	Yes
Responsive masonry layout	No	Limited	Yes
Full color control per campaign	Partial	Limited	Yes
Webflow / Framer / WordPress embed	Yes	Yes	Yes
7-day money-back guarantee	On lifetime	No	Yes

Decision guide

So which one is right for you?

Choose Shoutout.io if…

An unbranded widget on a budget is the priority. It's the cheapest unbranded wall at $15/month, there's a $199 one-time lifetime license, and it's strong at embedding imported tweets. Just plan for no free plan, a three-site cap, and the $50 lifetime branding add-on.

Choose Boast if…

You're a larger or multi-location team that collects video at scale and wants staff seats, automations, and AI generation. Just plan for usage-based pricing metered by yearly responses, form caps, a watermarked trial, no refunds, and a $50/month entry price.

Choose CollectMonial if…

Your priority is a testimonial widget that looks like it was designed to live on your site. Custom card edges, masonry, per-campaign theming, unlimited video, and flat $25 pricing, unbranded from day one with no watermarked trial and no site cap.

FAQ

Frequently asked.

Shoutout.io is a low-cost testimonial tool: you collect text and video, embed imported tweets and testimonials in one wall, and it costs $15/month or a $199 one-time lifetime license, both covering up to three sites. Boast is a video-first collection platform built for larger and multi-location teams, with staff seats, locations, AI testimonial generation, and review-request automations, priced by how many responses you collect per year, starting at $50/month billed annually. Shoutout.io is the cheaper, simpler way to get an unbranded wall live. Boast makes sense when video collection at team scale, with seats and automations, is the point.

Shoutout.io, by a wide margin. Shoutout.io is $15/month with branding already removed, or a $199 one-time lifetime license, while Boast's cheapest plan is $50/month billed annually ($59 month to month) and caps you at 600 responses a year with five forms, watermarked until you subscribe. If you would rather pay once than subscribe, Shoutout.io's lifetime license has no equivalent on Boast, and Boast states it does not offer refunds.

Shoutout.io has no free plan. It is $15/month or a $199 one-time lifetime license, and both cover up to three sites. The $15/month plan includes branding removal. On the $199 lifetime plan, removing Shoutout.io branding is a separate $50 add-on. There is a 7-day money-back guarantee on the lifetime purchase.

Boast is priced by responses collected per year. Billed annually, Basic is $50/month for 600 responses a year and 5 forms, Team is $100/month for 1,800 responses and 20 forms, and Premium is $208/month for 6,000 responses and 50 forms; month to month those plans are $59, $119, and $249. There's a 14-day free trial, but videos, widgets, and forms are watermarked until you subscribe, and Boast states it does not offer refunds. Unlimited collection is only on a custom Enterprise plan.

Yes. Boast meters collection by responses per year: 600 on Basic, 1,800 on Team, and 6,000 on Premium, with unlimited only on a custom Enterprise plan, and it also caps the number of forms (5, 20, 50). Shoutout.io doesn't meter by yearly responses; its limit is sites (up to three on every plan) rather than how much proof you gather. CollectMonial is unlimited at a flat $25/month, so neither rations how much proof you collect by year.

Yes. Both collect text and video, with in-browser recording so customers don't need an account. The difference is scope and price: Shoutout.io is a focused, low-cost tool where video is included on the $15/month plan, built around embedding imported tweets and testimonials, while Boast is a video-first platform with staff seats, multiple locations, AI testimonial generation, and automations, metered by yearly responses and starting at $50/month. If video collection at team scale is the job, Boast leans into it; if you want a cheap, simple unbranded wall, Shoutout.io is lighter.

Yes. Shoutout.io keeps you inside its tweet-and-testimonial wall templates, and Boast's widgets are built to display the videos you collect, so on both the design stops where the preset stops. CollectMonial is built around the card itself: custom edge shapes (rounded, sharp, pill, or stamp), a responsive masonry layout, an optional carousel, and full per-campaign color and font theming, so the wall reads as part of your site rather than a third-party embed, at a flat $25/month with no view caps and branding off from day one.

You've done the work.
Your testimonials should show it.

CollectMonial gives you a testimonial widget that looks like your brand, not like everyone else’s.

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Sources

Where the numbers came from

Pricing, feature claims, and review notes were pulled from the following public sources as of June 2026. Both Shoutout.io and Boast change pricing and plan limits without notice, so verify on their sites before deciding.

This comparison is provided for general information. CollectMonial publishes it; we've aimed to keep competitor descriptions accurate and verifiable, but we're not a neutral third party. Cross-check anything that matters to your decision.

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