Fakespot Alternatives: What to Use Now

The short answer

Fakespot no longer exists — Mozilla discontinued it on 1 July 2025 to refocus on Firefox. If you relied on it, you have three realistic options today: Review Radar for Amazon, a browser extension that analyses each individual review with AI and marks it with a trust indicator (free tier of 100 review scans a month, paid plans from £15/year); ReviewMeta, the other long-standing review analyser, if it still meets your needs; or doing it by eye using Amazon's own signals, which costs nothing but takes practice. We build Review Radar, so read that recommendation knowing where it comes from — the comparison below is as even-handed as we can make it.

What happened to Fakespot?

Fakespot was acquired by Mozilla in 2023, and its analysis powered Firefox's built-in Review Checker. On 1 July 2025 Mozilla shut the service down — the website, the extensions and the Firefox integration all stopped working — as part of refocusing on the browser itself. There is no official successor, which is why searches for a replacement remain so common.

What should a replacement actually do?

Fakespot's core idea was a letter grade for a product's review section as a whole. When comparing replacements, it's worth asking for more than that:

• Per-review analysis beats a single grade. A product can have hundreds of genuine reviews and a batch of planted ones; a single aggregate score hides which is which. Knowing which reviews to distrust is more useful than knowing the overall section is "a B".
• Marketplace coverage. If you shop on amazon.co.uk or amazon.de rather than amazon.com, check the tool actually works there.
• The business model matters. A tool funded by affiliate commissions earns money when you buy, whatever the reviews say. A tool funded by subscriptions only survives if its analysis is genuinely useful. Neither model is dishonest by itself — but you should know which one your advisor is on.

Option 1: Review Radar for Amazon

Review Radar for Amazon is our extension, built specifically to replace Fakespot after the shutdown. On any Amazon product page it analyses each review with AI and marks it with a colour-coded trust indicator, with a written explanation of why a review was flagged — suspicious timing, incentivised language, coordinated patterns.

• Works across all 20+ Amazon marketplaces (US, UK, Germany, France, Japan, Canada, Australia and the rest).
• Free tier: 100 review scans a month. Paid: £15/year for 1,000 scans a month, £45/year for unlimited. Funded by those subscriptions, not affiliate commission — deliberately, for the reason above.
• Runs on Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave and Opera.
• The honest limitations: it's desktop-only (mobile browsers barely support extensions), and heavy shoppers will exhaust the free tier and need a paid plan.

Option 2: ReviewMeta

ReviewMeta is the other name people remember from Fakespot's era — a website (not an extension) where you paste an Amazon product link and get an adjusted rating with the suspect reviews filtered out. Its statistical approach was well regarded. We honestly can't vouch for how actively it's maintained these days, so before relying on it, run a product you know through it and judge the freshness of the results yourself.

Option 3: check reviews yourself

No tool, no cost, and worth doing even alongside a tool:

• Read the negative reviews first — they're harder to fake at scale and tell you the failure modes.
• Be wary of bursts of five-star reviews in a short window, especially soon after launch.
• Discount reviews that don't describe actually using the product, read like ad copy, or review a different product entirely (a sign the listing was hijacked).
• Prefer Verified Purchase reviews, while remembering the label isn't proof — refunded and incentivised purchases still earn it.

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