Both put a live number on your Webflow site. They differ on price, page weight, who holds the data, and what is left behind when you remove them. Below is the comparison written the way we'd want to read it — including the cases where paying for Webflow marketplace apps is the better call.
Compared against the widget category on the Webflow App Marketplace: Jetboost, Finsweet add-ons, embedded SaaS counters, chat and social-proof widgets. Prices are the typical public range at the time of writing, not a quote — check the listing you're looking at.
| FeedPulse | Webflow marketplace apps | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free forever. No tier, no card, no per-site fee. | Most add-ons run $9-$49/month per site, which is often more than the Webflow Site plan itself |
| What you install | Nothing. One <script> tag you paste once. | Authorise the app against your project, then wire its embed or attributes into the Designer anyway |
| Page weight | ~5 KB, async, loaded after your content. | Third-party bundles frequently dwarf your own CSS/JS and are the usual cause of a Webflow site losing its Lighthouse score |
| Where the data lives | Aggregate counts on our side. No IP stored, no profile built. | Lives with the vendor; your Webflow project just renders their iframe or script |
| Cookies & consent | No cookies, no fingerprinting, no consent banner needed. | Vendor-dependent, and typically unstated in the marketplace listing |
| Updates | Nothing to update. The embed URL is versioned, so it can't break under you. | A vendor outage or version bump shows up on your live site with no warning |
| Removing it | Delete the snippet. Nothing is left behind. | You remove the app and then hunt the leftover embeds by hand |
| Free-plan limits | None. Every widget and every SEO tool is in the free product. | Free tiers usually brand the widget or cap monthly views |
Webflow add-ons that touch the CMS — filtering, search, sorting, favourites — do things no embedded widget can, because they need project-level access. If that's what you're shopping for, a marketplace app is the answer, not us.
Use an app when it needs to read your CMS. Use FeedPulse when you want a live number or badge rendered on the page: one Code Embed, no subscription, and it keeps your Lighthouse score intact.
Use an app when it needs to read your CMS. Use FeedPulse when you want a live number or badge rendered on the page: one Code Embed, no subscription, and it keeps your Lighthouse score intact. Webflow add-ons that touch the CMS — filtering, search, sorting, favourites — do things no embedded widget can, because they need project-level access. If that's what you're shopping for, a marketplace app is the answer, not us.
Most add-ons run $9-$49/month per site, which is often more than the Webflow Site plan itself FeedPulse has no paid tier at all — all 18 widgets and 12 SEO tools are in the free product.
Removing the FeedPulse snippet leaves nothing behind — it is one script tag. You remove the app and then hunt the leftover embeds by hand