Whoosh vs Yottaa: what the free plan does

The shirt photo is waiting on your other apps

Yottaa’s free plan watches your store and tells you which apps are holding up the product page. It does not make those apps wait. That is the paid part, and how you pay for it is the real difference between Yottaa and Whoosh.

Picture someone tapping your ad on their phone and landing on the page for your linen shirt. They came to see the shirt. While the page opens, your chat bubble, your review stars, and your email popup start loading too, and each one is a small program from another company. If those programs run first, the shopper stares at an empty box where the shirt should be.

Whoosh and Yottaa both work on that empty box. Each can tell the extra apps to wait until the shirt photo is on screen, which is what people call app sequencing. We make Whoosh, so keep that in mind when you read the table. The job is the same. The bill is not.

The free plan watches, and the add-on moves the apps

Let’s start with the free part, because it’s what most people install first. Yottaa Insights records how fast the shirt page opens for real visitors, and it lists the apps loading alongside the photo. That list is handy. It tells you the chat bubble’s name, and it leaves the chat bubble exactly where it was.

So what makes the chat wait? A paid add-on, called Optimize on the App Store. Yottaa’s pricing page calls the free part RAPID inSITE and the paid part RAPID CTRL, so expect either name on the invoice. Yottaa’s Shopify page says it changes that order without code changes, and it describes splitting visitors to test a change.

Whoosh has no free screen. You install it, it spots the apps it knows, and it holds them back until the shirt photo is up. It also fetches that photo early and starts opening the page the shopper is likely to tap next, though never the cart, checkout, or account pages.

To show you whether it helped, Whoosh runs a 50/50 test on your own store, where half the visits get Whoosh and half don’t, and you compare sales. TileCloud ran that test and published a 10% conversion lift. That’s one store’s result, and it is not a promise for yours.

Every visit to the shirt counts on Yottaa’s bill

Here’s the catch with the add-on. It is billed by page views, and a page view is one person opening one page. A shopper who looks at the shirt, then some pants, then the cart counts three times.

On Yottaa’s pricing page, the add-on is US$300 a month for the first 150,000 page views, then US$0.002 for each one after that. Using that same rate, a month with 200,000 page views puts 50,000 over the line, which adds US$100 to the US$300. Past 1.5 million page views a month, that page asks you to request a quote.

So the Yottaa bill rises in your good months, when a sale or a post sends more people to the shirt. Whoosh’s price in the table does not move with visits, so a busy month costs what a quiet one does. That flat bill is the thing Yottaa’s add-on does not give you.

Yottaa is the better buy in three places, and they’re worth saying plainly. If you’re not sure apps are the problem, Insights lets you look for free, and Whoosh has no free plan. Optimize comes with a longer trial than ours on the App Store listing. And a very large store gets a person and a custom quote, which Whoosh does not publish.

I know what you’re thinking. Why not keep the free screen and add Whoosh? You can, because Insights watches and Whoosh does the moving, so they are not doing the same job. What you shouldn’t do is turn on Optimize and Whoosh together, because two apps both holding back the same chat bubble makes a broken popup very hard to trace.

Pick one app to own the waiting. Then open the store on your phone and tap the popup, the chat, and add to cart, so you know each one still works.

Check one product page before you pay for either

Before you pay anyone, find out what the shirt photo is waiting on. Open the live product page, the link a shopper gets, rather than the theme editor, which can hide your apps. In Chrome, right-click the page and choose Inspect to open a panel of tools, then click Network, which is the list of every file the page downloads.

Tick Disable cache, so the page loads fresh the way it would for a first-time shopper, and reload once. Find the shirt photo in that list, then look for files from other companies, like the chat or the review stars. If one of them finishes before the photo, write its name down. That’s the app worth making wait.

If you already run Insights, its screen should name that same app, and that’s the free plan doing its whole job. Once Optimize or Whoosh is on, reload the page the same way. The file you wrote down should now start after the photo. If it hasn’t moved, you are still only watching.

Then pick your row in the table. If you want to look before you spend anything, start with Yottaa’s free screen and add Optimize when you need it. If you want the waiting done at one price every month, including the busy ones, that’s Whoosh.

If the app in front of your photo turns out to be the email popup, the Klaviyo walkthrough does this same check for that one file. If you’re weighing other speed apps as well, the wider comparison covers the ones that rewrite the theme or shrink photos instead. The FAQs cover what changes when you install or remove Whoosh.