ReviewMeta Is Down: 5 Free Alternatives That Actually Work

If you've tried visiting ReviewMeta lately, you've probably noticed the site won't load. It's been this way for months now.

ReviewMeta was a solid tool. Its signature feature was the "adjusted rating," which stripped out reviews it flagged as suspicious and recalculated a product's star rating. A product listed at 4.5 stars might drop to 3.8 after the adjustment. That was genuinely useful information.

But tools come and go. Here's what's still working.

What Made ReviewMeta Good

Before looking at alternatives, it helps to know what you're replacing:

• Adjusted ratings that recalculated star scores after removing suspicious reviews
• Report cards with Pass/Warn/Fail grades across multiple review quality signals
• Chrome extension that showed adjusted ratings right on the Amazon page
• Detailed breakdowns explaining which reviews were flagged and why
• Free to use for basic analysis

The adjusted rating concept was ReviewMeta's killer feature. No other tool did exactly this. But several tools cover similar ground.

5 Working Alternatives (February 2026)

1. RateBud - Best Overall

RateBud gives you a trust score (0 to 100%) and a letter grade (A through F) for any Amazon product. Paste a URL, wait a few seconds, done.

It analyzes review timing, language patterns, reviewer behavior, and verified purchase ratios. The analysis tells you exactly which factors contributed to the grade. If reviews clustered suspiciously in one week, you'll see that. If the language looks templated, it flags it.

Two things RateBud does that ReviewMeta didn't: it detects AI-generated reviews specifically, and it supports 20+ Amazon country domains (ReviewMeta was US-only).

Free, no signup, browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox.

Check it out →

2. TheReviewIndex

TheReviewIndex creates a summary breaking down what reviewers liked and disliked about a product. It also flags reviews that look unreliable.

It doesn't do the adjusted rating thing that ReviewMeta did, but the summary is useful for quickly understanding a product without reading 500 reviews yourself.

Available as a Chrome extension. Works on Amazon and some other retailers.

3. Keepa (for Price History Context)

Keepa isn't a review checker, but it fills an important gap. It tracks price history, Best Seller Rank, and review count over time. If you see a product that suddenly gained 200 reviews while its price dropped 80%, that's a pattern worth investigating.

ReviewMeta users often paired it with Keepa, and that combination still makes sense with any review checker.

Free tier available. Chrome extension works well.

4. CamelCamelCamel

Similar to Keepa in purpose. CamelCamelCamel tracks Amazon price history and lets you set price alerts. It won't analyze reviews, but the pricing data adds context that review checkers miss.

A product with wild price swings and sudden review bursts is more suspicious than one with steady pricing and gradual review growth.

5. Your Own Eyes

I know. But honestly, after years of using these tools, the most reliable "detector" is learning what fake reviews actually look like:

Red flags in individual reviews: - Generic praise with no product-specific details - Perfect grammar and structure (most real reviews are a bit messy) - Reviewer has 50+ reviews all posted within the same month - Every review from that account is 5 stars across completely unrelated categories

Red flags at the product level: - Most reviews come from the past 30 days despite the product being listed for a year - Rating distribution is heavily skewed (95%+ five-star with barely any 3-star) - Review text is lengthy and reads like marketing copy

The Adjusted Rating Gap

None of these tools replicate ReviewMeta's adjusted rating feature exactly. That's a real loss. But here's the thing about adjusted ratings: they gave a false sense of precision.

Recalculating a star rating to 3.83 after removing 47 suspicious reviews sounds scientific. But the detection itself was probabilistic. Some flagged reviews were probably legitimate. Some unflagged reviews were probably fake. The adjusted rating felt precise but wasn't.

Trust scores and letter grades are more honest about this uncertainty. A "Grade B" or "78% trust score" communicates roughly the same information without pretending to know the exact star rating a product deserves.

What to Do Right Now

If ReviewMeta was your go-to tool, here's a practical transition:

1. Install RateBud's browser extension to get the closest experience to what you had 2. Keep Keepa or CamelCamelCamel for pricing context 3. Develop your own review-reading habits, because no tool catches everything

The fake review problem affects roughly 30% of all online reviews as of 2025. No single tool solves this. Using a combination of automated analysis and your own judgment is the most reliable approach.