Side-by-side comparison · 24 data points
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| Essential Trust Badges & Icons | Friends2a PDF FlipBook | |
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| Description | ||
| Screenshots | images | images |
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Turn PDFs into interactive flipbooks on your store with a smooth, no-code viewing experience.
| Metric | Essential Trust Badges & Icons | Friends2a PDF FlipBook |
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| Rating | 5.0 ★ | 5.0 ★ |
| Total reviews | ★ 1.2k | 1 |
| Free plan | ★ Yes | — |
| Pricing | ★ Free plan available | $1/month |
| Built for Shopify | ★ Yes | — |
| Pricing tiers | ★ 4 tiers | 1 tier |
| Listed features | 5 | 5 |
| Languages | 20 supported | 1 supported |
| Listed since | Jun 2023 | Jan 2026 |
Essential Trust Badges & Icons and Friends2a PDF FlipBook are evenly matched on rating (5.0★ vs 5.0★) — the differentiator comes down to pricing fit, feature breadth, and which app's interaction pattern suits your team's workflow.
On pricing, Essential Trust Badges & Icons offers a free tier (Free plan available) while Friends2a PDF FlipBook starts at $1/month. For early-stage teams validating fit, the free-tier path lets you run the app on real workloads before committing budget.
Essential Trust Badges & Icons has the larger user base (1,162 reviews vs 1), which usually maps to broader integration coverage, faster bug-fix cadence, and a deeper bench of community workflow patterns. Friends2a PDF FlipBook's smaller cohort can be an advantage for niche workflows where the bigger app has accumulated bloat.
Recommended evaluation path: install both apps' free tiers (where available) and run them in parallel on a small cohort for 7-14 days before committing. The data tables below show the per-feature breakdown — for most merchants the deciding factor will be a single integration or workflow detail that's hard to compare from listing pages alone.
This verdict is generated from the live marketplace data on this page — rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position all refresh from the canonical Shopify App Store listing every 24 hours. AppRanks does not accept payment to influence comparison outcomes; the methodology is documented on the About page and applies identically to every pair on the site.
Read each app's audit: Essential Trust Badges & Icons audit • Friends2a PDF FlipBook audit
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| Keyword | Essential Trust Badges & Icons | Friends2a PDF FlipBook |
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| badge and icon | #1 | Not ranked |
| trust badges and | #2 | Not ranked |
| payment trust icons | #2 | Not ranked |
Essential Trust Badges & Icons is the cheaper option — it offers a free plan (Free plan available). Friends2a PDF FlipBook starts at $1/month. Both publish their pricing on the Shopify App Store; AppRanks mirrors what's listed on each refresh cycle.
Essential Trust Badges & Icons (5.0★, 1,162 reviews) and Friends2a PDF FlipBook (5.0★, 1 reviews) are essentially tied on rating. Look at review velocity and individual reviewer quotes — both visible on each app's detail page — to differentiate.
AppRanks cannot separate these two on rating — both sit at 5.0★. Essential Trust Badges & Icons does carry the larger published review base (1,162 vs 1). Read both apps' detail pages for the feature breakdown and recent listing changes.
Both apps are one-click installs from the Shopify App Store. Essential Trust Badges & Icons has the deeper published review base (1,162 vs 1), which often — though not always — accompanies better-tested setup docs. AppRanks doesn't measure setup time directly: read the recent reviews on each app's detail page for user-reported install experience.
Essential Trust Badges & Icons typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (1,162 reviews). Friends2a PDF FlipBook typically suits early-stage and growth-mode teams based on its published review base (1 reviews). A larger review base generally means the app has been exercised at scale — relevant if you are processing high volume or handling enterprise compliance requirements.
Migration support varies by app and category. Essential Trust Badges & Icons and Friends2a PDF FlipBook both publish their export options on their marketplace listing pages (or in their support docs); some apps offer one-click import from competitors, others require CSV. The fastest check: search "import from Friends2a PDF FlipBook" in each app's help center. AppRanks does not track migration tooling directly — this is a category-specific capability worth verifying before commitment.
