Comparison

Hippo Chat Support vs The Plug Merchant

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Hippo Chat Support

Manage customer conversations and contacts on the go. This app offers a flexible solution for businesses to instantly exchange messages anywhere, improving customer response rates and making clients feel prioritized.

Highlights
  • Remote conversation monitoring and management
  • Share messages and notes across teams
  • Start new or continue old conversations
  • Instant notifications for customer messages
  • Analyze customer behavior and profiles
  • In-app messaging for websites and social media
Features
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Manage customer conversations wherever you go In-App messaging made easy as you can now access your customer conversations and contacts from the comfort of your Phone. Whether it’s sales, marketing or complaints, hippo will help you better manage your business dealings by providing enterprises with better solutions to customer response rate and every customer now can finally feel prioritized. The concept is similar to mobile messaging applications and will offer flexibility for enterprises to instantly exchange messages anywhere, in-app, on your website and through social media. Why use hippo? With hippo customer mobile app you can: Monitor and Manage conversations remotely You can scroll through your chats, share messages and notes across teams, see when a customer mentions your business, also to monitor and manage customer trends. Start a new conversation or continue an older one Resolve queries quickly by sending and receiving new messages to customers, receive instant notifications via the in-app messaging capabilities Analyse Customer Behaviour Capabilities to resolve customer queries, access contacts and search for customer profiles to improve the way you do business.

About

The Plug Merchant

Manage your store from your mobile device with this comprehensive business tool. It offers features like order acceptance, employee management, and detailed analytics to give you full control over your operations.

Highlights
  • Accepting orders
  • Employee directory and limitations
  • Analytics dashboard
  • Full store control
  • Mobile management
Features
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The Plug Merchant allows store owners the full capability to run there store in their hand. The app has many functions such as accepting orders, employee directory and limitations, Analytics and much more to fully control your store

Screenshots

Hippo Chat Support4 screens
The Plug Merchant4 screens

Verdict

The call

Hippo Chat Support and The Plug Merchant both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of The Plug Merchant's written reviews are positive against 50% of Hippo Chat Support's. Hippo Chat Support's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Hippo Chat Support against 5.0 for The Plug Merchant. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Hippo Chat Support's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Plug Merchant's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hippo Chat Support ships an update every 2 months, The Plug Merchant every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Hippo Chat Support versus The Plug Merchant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHippo Chat SupportThe Plug Merchant
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better13.5
Further details — not scored
Size130 MB19 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperClick LabsD Plug Software Inc

Customer experience

Hippo Chat Support

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

The Plug Merchant

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Hippo Chat Support

No in-app purchases

None

The Plug Merchant

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hippo Chat Support free?
Hippo Chat Support is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Plug Merchant free?
The Plug Merchant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hippo Chat Support or The Plug Merchant?
Hippo Chat Support and The Plug Merchant are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Hippo Chat Support or The Plug Merchant have ads?
Neither Hippo Chat Support nor The Plug Merchant shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hippo Chat Support or The Plug Merchant?
Hippo Chat Support ships an update every 2 months, and The Plug Merchant every 8 months. Most recently, Hippo Chat Support was updated on November 2, 2026 and The Plug Merchant on November 3, 2026.

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