SocialProof vs Tally

Beautiful form. Then what?

Tally makes gorgeous forms — but after a customer submits a testimonial, it lives in Tally's inbox. SocialProof takes it further: approve it, embed it, done.

Free

SocialProof — collect + display

$29/mo

Tally Pro (remove branding)

Try SocialProof free →

Side-by-side comparison

Feature	SocialProof	Tally
Primary purpose	Testimonial collection + display	General form builder
Free plan	Free forever — 1 widget, no branding	Free — with Tally branding on forms
Embeddable testimonial widget	Yes — copy one script tag	No — responses stay in Tally
Testimonial approval before publish	Yes — built-in	No — no approval workflow
Structured star ratings	Built-in, automatically formatted	Manual opinion scale field
Remove branding on free plan	Yes	$29/mo Tally Pro required
Display on your website	Yes — automatic	Requires Zapier or custom code
Purpose-built testimonial UX	Yes — guided, conversion-optimized	Generic form experience
Pricing for small businesses	$0–$9/mo	$0 (branded) or $29/mo

Tally is great at forms. Testimonials need more.

Tally has a genuinely lovely form-building experience — minimalist, fast, Notion-inspired. For collecting survey responses or contact forms, it's excellent. But a testimonial system needs more than a collection endpoint:

Curation: You need to review and approve what shows publicly
Display: The testimonials need to actually appear on your site
Context: Name, photo, star rating, company — structured automatically
Continuity: New testimonials auto-populate as you approve them

None of these are in Tally's scope. They're exactly SocialProof's core.

✅ Choose SocialProof when you need to…

Show testimonials on your website automatically
Approve before anything goes public
Start for free without your tool's branding in the form
Skip the Zapier / custom code setup

📋 Stick with Tally if you…

Need complex multi-step forms beyond testimonials
Love Notion-style minimal form UX for other uses
Already use Tally for other forms and want consistency
Have a developer who can build the display layer

💡 Free vs free — but for different things

Both Tally and SocialProof have free plans. The difference: SocialProof's free plan includes the display widget. Tally's free plan collects data but keeps it in Tally — and charges $29/mo to even remove their branding. If you want testimonials on your website, SocialProof's free plan does more.