Shopify app comparison · refreshed

Gorgias vs Intercom Chat Box Embed

Two Shopify apps in the chat category, compared on the dimensions merchants actually weigh: ratings, review momentum, pricing, customer-support sentiment, bugs, and what reviewers uniquely call out. Built from 665 live Shopify App Store reviews.

Gorgias Inc.

Gorgias: AI, Helpdesk & Chat

Leading AI-powered conversational commerce platform for brands

Rating
4.20
Reviews
663
Δ reviews · 48d
+21
Δ rating · 48d
-0.10
Pricing
From $10/mo
Built for Shopify
No

Peter Eigenschink

Intercom Chat Box Embed

Start talking to your customers in real-time. Embed a Intercom chat box into your storefront.

Rating
3.00
Reviews
2
Δ reviews
+0
Δ rating
+0.00
Pricing
From $4/mo
Built for Shopify
No

Scorecard

The decision, by the numbers.

Each row reads directly from the live App Store listing and the observed review-stats history. No editorialising on top.

DimensionGorgiasIntercom Chat Box EmbedEdge
Rating4.203.00Gorgias +1.20
Reviews6632Gorgias 221.3×
Δ reviews · 48d+21+0Gorgias +21
App Store launch20172020Gorgias +3y
Paid plan from$10/mo$4/moIntercom Chat Box Embed cheaper
Built for ShopifyNoNotied

Trajectory

Momentum and risk profile.

Review momentum

Reviews gained since first observed snapshot · past 48d

05101520May 28Jul 15
Gorgias+21
Intercom Chat Box Embed+0

Star distribution

Share of reviews at each star tier — wider 1- and 2-star bands read as a fatter tail of negative experiences.

Gorgias

663 reviews

81.4%5.0%1.1%1.7%10.9%

Intercom Chat Box Embed

2 reviews

50.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%50.0%
5★4★3★2★1★

Feature footprint

How similar are these apps, really?

Every capability tag both apps list on the Shopify App Store, mapped into shared ground and side-specific edges. Same taxonomy on both sides — Shopify’s own.

Gorgias only

49

Shared

0

Intercom Chat Box Embed only

0

0% of the larger app’s capability tags are shared with the other. Niche overlap — these solve different shapes.

Capabilities by Shopify category

54 · 0 total

Workflow automation

Helpdesk

13
0

Real-time messaging

Chat

11
0

Automated responses

Chat

10
0

Customization

Chat

10
0

Channels

Helpdesk

10
0
GorgiasIntercom Chat Box Embed

Gorgias only

49

  • AI chatbots
  • Live chat
  • SMS
  • Email chat
  • Voice support
  • Social media
  • File upload
  • Real-time translation
  • Behavior tracking
  • Agent analytics
  • Customer insights
  • Cart recovery
  • Discounts
  • FAQs
  • Greetings
  • Product recommendations
  • Quick replies
  • Review requests
  • Order updates
  • Cross-sell
  • Upsell
  • Color and font
  • Emojis and stickers
  • Chat window
  • Business hours
  • Welcome messages
  • Chat buttons
  • Tagging
  • Chat assignment
  • Chat flows
  • Agent avatar
  • Email
  • Chatbot
  • Phone
  • Self-service
  • Help center
  • Contact form
  • Auto-reply
  • Response templates
  • AI responses
  • AI summaries
  • Ticketing
  • Unified inbox
  • Auto-assign
  • Rule-based triggers
  • Spam detection
  • Order tracking
  • Multi-store
  • Analytics

Shared

0

No capabilities listed by both apps yet.

Intercom Chat Box Embed only

0

No capabilities Intercom Chat Box Embed lists that Gorgias doesn't.

Side-by-side by axis

What merchants actually say.

Semantic search across the review corpus, bucketed by sentiment, with the strongest positive and negative quotes per side.

customer support

Gorgias

100 mentions

92% positive · avg rating 4.67

Customer support was top-notch! They gave solutions to the problems we're experiencing. Keep up the amazing job!
TopFoxx · 5★ · 2023-05-22
terrible customer support! nobody answers!!! it is not working properly and it's been a week and I am yet to get any help at all!!!
QuietLab · 1★ · 2024-03-04

Intercom Chat Box Embed

0 mentions

0% positive · avg rating

No standout quotes yet — corpus is still warming.

pricing

Gorgias

0 mentions

0% positive · avg rating

No standout quotes yet — corpus is still warming.

Intercom Chat Box Embed

0 mentions

0% positive · avg rating

No standout quotes yet — corpus is still warming.

ease of use

Gorgias

7 mentions

100% positive · avg rating 5.00

Really simple to use. The staff is great at answering any and all questions and open to feedback from the people who use the service. Confident that this will only get better.
Tykables · 5★ · 2017-07-24

Intercom Chat Box Embed

0 mentions

0% positive · avg rating

No standout quotes yet — corpus is still warming.

onboarding

Gorgias

5 mentions

100% positive · avg rating 5.00

Great onboarding and customer support. Very useful to organise and automate customer support tickets. 'Convert' is going to be very interesting too for boosting CVR and AOV.
HILTS · 5★ · 2024-12-17

Intercom Chat Box Embed

0 mentions

0% positive · avg rating

No standout quotes yet — corpus is still warming.

bugs

Gorgias

0 mentions

0% positive · avg rating

No standout quotes yet — corpus is still warming.

Intercom Chat Box Embed

0 mentions

0% positive · avg rating

No standout quotes yet — corpus is still warming.

performance

Gorgias

0 mentions

0% positive · avg rating

No standout quotes yet — corpus is still warming.

Intercom Chat Box Embed

0 mentions

0% positive · avg rating

No standout quotes yet — corpus is still warming.

What each is known for

Themes reviewers raise.

The topics that surface most across reviews — the shared backbone and what each app is uniquely known for.

Gorgias

  • customer-support92
  • pricing33
  • ease-of-use26
  • onboarding14
  • performance10
  • integrations10
  • bug8
  • missing-features8

Uniquely ease-of-use · onboarding · performance · integrations · bug · missing-features · billing-issues · missing-feature

Intercom Chat Box Embed

  • pricing1
  • customer-support1
  • misleading-marketing1
  • functionality-issues1

Uniquely misleading-marketing · functionality-issues

Shared themes

customer-supportpricing

Same Shopify categories

Chat

Methodology

Where the numbers come from.

Ratings, review counts, pricing, and the “Built for Shopify” flag come from the live Shopify App Store listing — refreshed daily. Trend deltas compare the snapshot from 365 days ago against today. Sentiment counts and quotes are derived from semantic search across the live review corpus, bucketed by rating sign — every quote on this page is a real review, not a paraphrase. Snapshot generated .

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