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Free Google review check

Find your business and see your Google rating and review count straight away, with plain facts on what customers look for. No email, no sign-up. Want more? The full report adds your Google Maps ranking and the competitors around you.

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Our Reviews plan texts or emails your review link after each visit, sends one reminder and drafts a reply to every review. 14-day free trial: card needed, cancel before day 14 and you pay nothing.

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What does the Google review check show?

Your Google star rating and your total number of Google reviews, read from Google when you run the check. If your business is listed in the Flexi Local directory at reviews.flexilocal.com, you also see how many of your latest Google reviews have a reply from the owner, about how many new reviews you get a month and the date of your latest review. Where we have enough businesses in your trade and your city or state, each figure sits next to the local average.

Every finding is a plain fact worked out from those numbers. Where we add context, it's a named survey figure with its date, listed under Sources below.

What is a good Google rating?

Customers set their own cut-offs. In BrightLocal's Local Consumer Review Survey 2026 of 1,002 US consumers, 68% said they'd only use a business rated 4 stars or more, 31% only 4.5 or more, and 10% only 5 stars. The Google rating calculator estimates how many 5-star reviews it would take to reach your next step, such as 4.5.

How many Google reviews do you need?

In the same survey, 47% of consumers said they won't use a business with fewer than 20 reviews, and only 9% would use one with five or fewer. Beyond that, the number that matters is the one held by the businesses you compete with in your area. The review gap calculator works out how many reviews you need to catch the one ranked above you.

How recent your reviews are counts as well: 74% of consumers said they look at reviews written in the last three months, and 32% look for reviews from the last two weeks. A steady flow of reviews keeps that window full.

How do you get more Google reviews within Google's rules?

Ask every customer, soon after the visit or job, and send a direct link or QR code so they don't have to search for you. Google's own tips page suggests asking customers to visit a Google link or scan a QR code. Make yours with the Google review link generator or the Google review QR code generator.

Google's Maps content policy says businesses must not:

offer incentives such as payment, discounts or free goods for a review, or for removing a negative one;
ask only the customers they expect to leave a positive review;
discourage or prohibit negative reviews.

Our guide to getting more Google reviews has scripts and timing for each channel, and the rules on fake and paid-for reviews in each country. UK and Australian owners: see Google reviews in the UK and Australia for the DMCC Act and ACCC rules. Not sure about an idea? Try the Google review rules quiz.

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Questions about this tool

Something else? Ask us directly.

Do I need to give my email to see my results?

No. Search for your business, pick it and your results show on this page. The full report, with your Google Maps ranking and nearby competitors, is the only part that asks for your details, because it's emailed to you.

Where do the rating and review count come from?

From Google, through Google's Places API, when you run the check. The results screen shows when the figures were fetched.

Why does my review count differ from what I see on Google?

The check shows what Google's Places API returns at that moment. If the numbers don't match what you expect, check you picked the right location: businesses with several branches have one Google listing per branch.

Why don't I see reply rate or reviews a month?

Those figures come from our directory at reviews.flexilocal.com, which reads the latest Google reviews of the businesses it lists. If your business isn't listed there, or has fewer than 10 recent reviews, the check shows your rating and count only. The full report covers replies and how recent your reviews are.

Do you save what I search?

No. Your search is sent to Google to find the business, and we don't save it in our database. Our analytics count how many checks are run, without the business name.

Is it really free?

Yes. No card, no sign-up and no call. The full emailed report is free too.