Why AutoReplied
- ✓You want to reply to Google reviews, not replace your phone system, SMS and payments.
- ✓You want a displayed price, without a quote or annual contract.
- ✓You are an independent business and $400 per month is not realistic.
COMPARATIF
AutoReplied vs Podium
Podium is primarily a messaging and conversion tool for service businesses. Review management, with AI replies from the mobile app, is one module of a much broader platform sold by quote with an annual contract.
Podium at a glance
- Publisher
- United States
- Audience
- Service SMBs and multi-location businesses
- Public price
- Quote-based (≈ $399 to $599/month according to third-party sources)
For the same price
Podium costs in one month what AutoReplied costs in six years.
AutoReplied
€59.99/year
everything included, no commitment, no sales demo
Podium
≈ $4,800/year
Core plan according to third-party sources, up to 2 listings, annual contract, AI sometimes extra
About eighty times cheaper for the need that brought you here: replying to Google reviews.
Criterion by criterion
AutoReplied: €9.99/month or €59.99/year (about €5/month), 7 days free with the annual plan, up to 500 reviews per month, about €0.01 per review. Information about Podium is dated 2 septembre 2026.
Criteria
AutoReplied
Podium
Review platforms
Google Business Profile only
Multiple platforms within an SMS, inbox, payments and telephony suite
AI-generated replies
✓A ready reply for each review, enabled with your consent
✓AI Review Reply, including in the mobile app
Publishing a reply
✓Publish, ignore or postpone from the iPhone app or the web
✓Web and mobile app
Automatic mode
✓Included, off by default, for new reviews only
~Automation through the AI Employee; details not public
Multiple locations
✓Multiple locations under one Google connection
✓Plans based on listing count
Statistics
✓Rating, visibility, calls, directions, bookings
✓Platform reporting
iPhone app
✓Native iPhone app
✓iOS and Android
Web access
✓Web app with the same account and subscription as on iPhone
✓Web
Review collection
–No review collection (QR, SMS)
✓Review invitations by SMS
Public pricing
✓€9.99/month or €59.99/year (≈ €5/month), 500 reviews/month included, ≈ €0.01 per review
Not published; third-party sources: Core ≈ $399/month (up to 2 listings), Pro ≈ $599 (up to 5), AI sometimes extra
Free trial
✓7 days free with the annual plan
–Sales demo
Commitment
No commitment, through the App Store
Annual auto-renewing contract according to third-party sources
When Podium still makes sense
- You want to centralize all customer conversations (SMS, chat, calls) and take payments.
- You run a service business with a team and several sites.
- An “AI employee” that answers prospects interests you beyond reviews.
What to take away
Podium sells a growth platform in which reviews mainly feed conversion. The mobile app is solid, but it carries the whole platform and its price.
AutoReplied isolates one need—replying to reviews—and solves it for €9.99. If that is the need that brought you here, you do not need Podium.
Sources and mentions
Informations relevées le 2 septembre 2026 sur les pages publiques de l’éditeur ; elles peuvent avoir changé depuis. Podium est une marque de son propriétaire, sans lien avec AutoReplied ni Dolvia. Une inexactitude ? Écrivez à support@dolvia.com.
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