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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AppFollow

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAppFollow in Helsiki offers their software for app store optimization (ASO), as well as replying to app user reviews and ratings.N/A

    Podium

    Score7 out of 10
    N/APodium, formerly Repdrive, is a ratings and review management platform from the company of the same name in Provo, Utah.N/A
    Pricing
    AppFollowPodium
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AppFollowPodium
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AppFollowPodium
    Considered Both Products
    AppFollow
    No answer on this topic
    Podium
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    58%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    58%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    64%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    52%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    59%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    AppFollowPodium
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of AppFollow and Podium
    Feature
    AppFollow
    10.0
    3 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    Keyword analysis10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitive analysis10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of AppFollow and Podium
    Feature
    AppFollow
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    Local SEO8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile SEO10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global SEO9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of AppFollow and Podium
    Feature
    AppFollow
    10.0
    2 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-domain support10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    AppFollowPodium
    Small Businesses
    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
    Affinity CRM
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Yoast
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Hunter
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    AppFollowPodium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    6.9
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AppFollowPodium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    AppFollow
    AppFollow is well suited if you only operate in a few app store countries and don't have a high volume of keywords that you are looking to rank for. This is, of course, the free plan. Besides that AppFollow is well suited for communication with other apps - they have an open API and other connections to a ton of third-party analytical tools.
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    Podium is well suited for several types of businesses. If you are an entrepreneur or small business owner, Podium would be a great way for you to ask that customers leave you a review online sharing their awesome experience. For medium to large businesses, Podium review invites can be automated through the company's customer management system, allowing the use of Podium to be simple and not timely, even with a large customer base. It may not be appropriate for a large company to manually send out individual review invites
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    AppFollow
    • Imports reviews to Zendesk.
    • Provides date specific reporting.
    • Allows you to quickly see positive and negative reviews.
    • Allows you to track how your responses are affecting your review score.
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    • Maintains conversations indefinitely, so we are able to go back to confirm details from conversations.
    • Provides the ability for our company to have a 'team' messaging platform where we can communicate with one another via single person to a single person, groups where we can add/subtract members of the group... this is invaluable to our organization.
    • Until today(!), we could 'share' or forward a message to one another; oddly, that feature disappeared just today, so I'm hoping it's a glitch!
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    Cons
    AppFollow
    • Analytic tool for organic traffic
    • Add more countries
    • App Featuring for Google Play
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    • Account manager communications: I had been asking my Podium account manager for integration with our CRM tool for over 8 months before my account manager fell silent. After another 6 months, I proactively reached out only to find out that the integration had been in Beta for months and 8 other companies had already integrated. It was frustrating that my account manager did not remember a key request and make the Beta available to me the minute that it was open.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    AppFollow
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    Again, Podium has been so wonderful in the year and a half we have been using it, we are able to integrate it with our CRM and use alot of the available features. The most helpful has been getting TONS of reviews on MULTIPLE sites through Podium!
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    AppFollow
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    While giving our clients the ability to leave a review was there, we had much worse results and got fewer reviews through the Podium portal than we did by sending our clients simple email requests, or simply having our service staff ask for a review while still on the clients' job sites.
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    Reliability and Availability
    AppFollow
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    We haven't had any outages or issues whenever we need it over the last few years of use
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    AppFollow
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    It moves quickly and has no issues with delays. Performance is good as it is a web-based tool
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    AppFollow
    Fast and supportive feedback from support. They usually answer the same day. They have webinars and updates about new features for their clients.
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    I have to send an email to get information. They have a chat system but I end up having to go through my rep for account questions. It was a little frustrating to not have a direct phone number to call with questions. I would like to see a helpline added.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    AppFollow
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    We only had a hard time getting our technicians to remember to send the review invites.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    AppFollow
    While App Annie is extremely robust and pulls in data from acquisition channels, app stores, and elsewhere, it can be quite overwhelming at times. If you are looking for more simple and just keyword positioning then definitely look at AppFollow. Apart from the two platforms themselves, I've had numerous contact experiences with both AppFollow and App Annie. The winner is definitely AppFollow with a less aggressive approach and a higher willingness to go above and beyond to make sure all questions are answered. With App Annie I was bombarded with a ton of sleazy, sales emails to purchase their product.
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    We use Digital Air Strike at our two GM dealerships because it is one of a small list of reputation management companies authorized by GM as part of their SFE program. Digital Air Strike surveys our customers and invites them to write a review about our dealership. It is not as effective or flexible as Podium so we have been using Podium at those dealerships alongside Digital Air Strike. We also recently started a trial use of ReplyPro which is a service that monitors review sites and writes customized responses to positive reviews and suggested responses to negative reviews. I'd like to see Podium add this as part of their service so we can consolidate 3rd party vendors and manage every aspect of online reputation management from one place.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    AppFollow
    No answers on this topic
    Podium
    Its easy to scale to different departments as needed. We initially began using it to solve one problem and as new features became available it was easy to scale this and include other departments who could benefit from its tools
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    AppFollow
    • Increased efficiency.
    • Allows us to respond to reviews faster.
    • Allows us to target negative reviews when an update is made.
    Incentivized
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    Podium
    • I am glad there are card readers now, sales team members too often try to just send a request instead of taking payment onsite.
    • It's made capturing messaging leads much easier.
    • It's worth the cost but if it did a few more things it would be worth a lot more to us. Document signatures, surveying after jobs, even geotagging of photos/reviews for SEO
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