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Viral Loops
Referral and rewards campaign platform with a pre-launch referral waitlist template for early-stage products.
Key facts
- Starting price
- From $49 per month
- Free plan
- No free plan listed
- Free trial
- 14-day free trial
- Update activity
- Low
- Market presence
- Established
- Last checked
Overview
Viral Loops is a referral and rewards campaign platform with a pre-launch referral waitlist template, sold on self-serve plans from $49 a month (Start-up, monthly billing) with a 14-day trial and a contact-only Enterprise tier.
Viral Loops is a referral and rewards campaign platform. In this directory it is listed in the pre-launch category because of its pre-launch referral waitlist template, which collects signups and shows who referred the most people. Documentation also covers a leaderboard template, booster emails sent to campaign participants, an embeddable form with a JavaScript snippet, an API and multi-language settings. The data records industries such as startups, ecommerce, fintech and newsletter creators.
Pricing is published and self-serve, with a monthly and an annual view. Start-up, the lowest plan that includes the pre-launch template, is $49 a month on monthly billing ($35 a month billed annually) for up to 1,000 participants. Plus is $139, Growing $229 and Power $399 a month, with limits that rise to 25,000 participants. Enterprise, for 25,000 or more participants, is quoted on request. There is no free plan, but a 14-day trial of Growing is offered for up to 10 participants.
Listed integrations are Zapier, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Salesforce, Stripe and Shopify. SMS notifications are not confirmed. The pricing page lists full API access from the Plus plan, so API availability on Start-up is not confirmed.
What the data shows
- Update activity: Low. 0 changelog entries in the last 12 months; the last update was 2025-07-30. Only the first page of the product-updates list was read.
- Market presence: Established. Tranco rank 182,556, Chrome UX Report field data present, domain registered in 2015.
- Buying style: Self-serve (public pricing; sign up without talking to sales; a custom or enterprise plan through sales).
- Status page: the vendor links a status page at status.viral-loops.com; no incident count was recorded.
- Apps: no iOS or Android app is recorded.
- Company: Emerge Brands Inc., Canada, per the vendor’s terms. A founding year is not stated.
- Pricing was checked against the live pricing page on 2026-10-01.
Pricing
- Starting price
- From $49 per month
- Free plan
- No free plan listed
- Free trial
- 14-day free trial
- Buying style
- Self-serve
- Contract
- Monthly or annual
Source: vendor pricing page
Features
| Feature | Supported | Source |
|---|---|---|
| SMS notifications | Not recorded | None recorded |
| Public API | Yes | source |
| Multi-language guest messages | Yes | source |
| Referral tracking | Yes | source |
| Email broadcasts | Yes | source |
| Embeddable signup form | Yes | source |
| Referral leaderboard | Yes | source |
Who it's for
Best for
- Product teams that want a referral waitlist with a leaderboard and a referral dashboard on a published monthly price source
- Teams that want to connect waitlist signups to tools such as HubSpot, Mailchimp, Salesforce, Stripe, Shopify or Zapier source
- Launches that need a multi-language signup page and an embeddable form on their own site source
Pros and cons
Pros
- Plan prices for Start-up, Plus, Growing and Power are published, with participant limits per plan source
- Referral tracking, a leaderboard, booster emails, an embeddable form and an API are documented source
- Six integrations are listed, including Zapier, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Salesforce, Stripe and Shopify source
- The vendor runs a status page source
Cons
- No free plan; the trial covers 14 days of the Growing plan for up to 10 participants source
- Start-up is capped at 1,000 participants, and full API access is listed from the Plus plan, so API use on Start-up is not confirmed source
- No changelog entries were found for the last 12 months source
- Whether a card is needed to start the trial is not stated source
Update activity and company
- Update activity
- Low
- 0 changelog entries in the last 12 months
- Last update 2025-07-30
- Market presence
- Established
- Tranco rank 182,556
- Has Chrome UX Report field data
- Domain registered 2015
- Buying style
- Self-serve
- Public pricing
- Sign up without talking to sales
- Custom or enterprise plan through sales
How these labels are calculated
Company and platform
- Website
- viral-loops.com
- Headquarters
- CA
- Integrations
- Zapier, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Salesforce, Stripe, Shopify
- Status page
- Public status page
- Domain registered
- 2015
Frequently asked questions
How much does Viral Loops cost?
Start-up, the lowest plan with the pre-launch waitlist template, is $49 a month on monthly billing for up to 1,000 participants. Plus is $139, Growing $229 and Power $399 a month. Annual billing lowers Start-up to $35 a month. The pricing page opens on the annual view, so the monthly figure is the one recorded here. Enterprise, for 25,000 or more participants, is quoted on request.
Is there a free plan or trial?
There is no free plan. A 14-day trial of the Growing plan is offered for up to 10 participants. The pricing page does not say whether a card is needed to start it.
Does Viral Loops send SMS notifications?
Not confirmed. A 2025 product update mentions an SMS integration with a third-party service, but the data does not record SMS notifications as a feature.
Is it suitable for a restaurant walk-in queue?
No. The data records referral, leaderboard, email and form features for pre-launch campaigns and nothing for queues or tables.
Alternatives to Viral Loops
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Waitlistr From $6 per month
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- KickoffLabs From $19 per month
LaunchList From $29 per month
Sources
- https://viral-loops.com/pricing
- https://viral-loops.com/templates/prelaunch-referral-waitlist
- https://viral-loops.com/product-updates
- https://viral-loops.com/integrations
- https://viral-loops.com/terms
- https://documentation.viral-loops.com/en/
- https://documentation.viral-loops.com/en/articles/2173606-the-startup-prelaunch-template-tutorial
- https://documentation.viral-loops.com/en/articles/2083532-booster-emails-tutorial
- https://documentation.viral-loops.com/en/articles/2083542-the-leaderboard-giveaway-template-tutorial
- https://developers.viral-loops.com/docs/setting-up-your-site
- https://status.viral-loops.com/