Comparison
A free Yelp alternative for collecting reviews
The complaint about Yelp is rarely the reviews — it is the recommendation filter hiding real ones, and competitors' ads running on your own page.
| Yelp | VouchHaven | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free profile; ads sold against it | Free, and we never sell ads against a specific competitor's profile |
| Review filtering | Recommendation software hides many reviews | Published reviews stay visible; moderation is for abuse, not tone |
| Asking for reviews | Against Yelp's guidelines | Encouraged — that's what the review link is for |
| Owner responses | Included | Included |
| Imported reviews | n/a | Labelled as imported, with the original author name |
Where Yelp is the better choice
Yelp's audience is real and, in food and nightlife especially, enormous. Nothing here replaces that reach; this is about owning a second profile you control.
Common questions
- Should I stop using Yelp?
- No. Yelp sends real traffic in some categories. Treat VouchHaven as the profile you control and can actively ask customers to use, since asking is allowed here.
- Why does my business already have a page here?
- We seed profiles from public listings so customers can find businesses that haven't signed up yet. Any review carried over is labelled with where it came from, and you can claim the profile by verifying your website.
Takes about a minute
Put your business on VouchHaven
Name and website — we fetch your logo and build the profile.