# What pairs well with Loops > Loops is a ESPs tool, and a team running it still has 6 neighbouring categories to staff. The pick in each is Carrd for landing page builders, Hello Bar for lead capture & popups, Tally for forms & surveys, Textedly for SMS marketing, Creem for subscription billing and Judge.me for testimonials & social proof, each the leading tool in that category on published criteria. - Profile: https://saastracker.org/products/loops - Category: Email Service Providers (https://saastracker.org/categories/email-service-providers) - Web version: https://saastracker.org/products/loops/stack ## The stack, category by category | Category | Ideal pairing | Because | Benefit | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Landing Page Builders | [Carrd](https://saastracker.org/products/carrd) (Best Value) | Loops sends buyers elsewhere for enterprise procurement artifacts today. Carrd adds Pro Plus offers downloadable sites. | A campaign page ships the same afternoon without waiting on an engineer. | | Lead Capture & Popups | [Hello Bar](https://saastracker.org/products/hello-bar) (Ease of Use) | Loops is built for ESPs, not lead capture. Hello Bar adds six unit types including the original top bar. | Traffic already on the site turns into addresses, rather than leaving without a trace. | | Forms & Surveys | [Tally](https://saastracker.org/products/tally) (Best Value) | Loops is built for ESPs, not forms. Tally adds unlimited free tier. | Answers arrive structured and routed, rather than as free text somebody has to read and retype. | | SMS Marketing | [Textedly](https://saastracker.org/products/textedly) (Best Value) | Loops is built for ESPs, not SMS. Textedly adds every feature on every plan. | The urgent message gets read within minutes, on the one channel almost nobody ignores. | | Subscription Billing | [Creem](https://saastracker.org/products/creem) (Best Value) | Loops is built for ESPs, not billing. Creem adds global tax collection and remittance covering more than 50 countries with handling. | Recurring revenue bills, retries and reconciles itself, including the tax nobody wants to calculate. | | Testimonials & Social Proof | [Judge.me](https://saastracker.org/products/judge-me) (Best Value) | Loops is built for ESPs, not social proof. Judge.me adds unlimited reviews on a permanently free plan. | Real customer proof sits on the pages where people decide, not only on a review site. | ### Carrd for Landing Page Builders Loops sends buyers elsewhere for enterprise procurement artifacts today. Carrd adds Pro Plus offers downloadable sites. A campaign page ships the same afternoon without waiting on an engineer. Price and metering model are structurally different from the rest of the category: $19 a year for ten sites, with no per-visitor or per-pageview charge to fear when a page succeeds. Unbounce holds Category Leader here, and is worth weighing if that is closer to the problem Loops leaves open. ### Hello Bar for Lead Capture & Popups Loops is built for ESPs, not lead capture. Hello Bar adds six unit types including the original top bar. Traffic already on the site turns into addresses, rather than leaving without a trace. Priced on views rather than subscribers, so a large existing email list costs nothing extra to keep growing. ### Tally for Forms & Surveys Loops is built for ESPs, not forms. Tally adds unlimited free tier. Answers arrive structured and routed, rather than as free text somebody has to read and retype. Flat workspace pricing with unlimited collaborators, so team growth does not create a bill the way per-seat tools do. Typeform holds Category Leader here, and is worth weighing if that is closer to the problem Loops leaves open. ### Textedly for SMS Marketing Loops is built for ESPs, not SMS. Textedly adds every feature on every plan. The urgent message gets read within minutes, on the one channel almost nobody ignores. Toll-free and 10DLC numbers are included and carrier registration is handled for you, which removes the most common launch blocker for small businesses. Postscript holds Category Leader here, and is worth weighing if that is closer to the problem Loops leaves open. ### Creem for Subscription Billing Loops is built for ESPs, not billing. Creem adds global tax collection and remittance covering more than 50 countries with handling. Recurring revenue bills, retries and reconciles itself, including the tax nobody wants to calculate. A modern developer surface with a TypeScript SDK and a Next.js adapter, matched to the stack most of its target market actually ships in. Paddle holds Category Leader here, and is worth weighing if that is closer to the problem Loops leaves open. ### Judge.me for Testimonials & Social Proof Loops is built for ESPs, not social proof. Judge.me adds unlimited reviews on a permanently free plan. Real customer proof sits on the pages where people decide, not only on a review site. Direct importers from Yotpo, Loox, Amazon, Etsy, and AliExpress, making migration away from a metered competitor a genuinely easy move. Trustpilot holds Category Leader here, and is worth weighing if that is closer to the problem Loops leaves open. ## Not a substitute for A buyer chooses between these and Loops rather than running both, so nothing here is paired across them. - **Marketing Automation** (https://saastracker.org/categories/marketing-automation): Marketing automation platforms trigger messages and campaigns from customer behavior, moving people through lifecycle stages across email, in-app, SMS, and push without manual sends. ## FAQ ### What is the best stack to run with Loops? Loops is a ESPs tool, and a team running it still has 6 neighbouring categories to staff. The pick in each is Carrd for landing page builders, Hello Bar for lead capture & popups, Tally for forms & surveys, Textedly for SMS marketing, Creem for subscription billing and Judge.me for testimonials & social proof, each the leading tool in that category on published criteria. ### What do I pair with Loops for Landing Page Builders? Carrd. Loops sends buyers elsewhere for enterprise procurement artifacts today. Carrd adds Pro Plus offers downloadable sites. A campaign page ships the same afternoon without waiting on an engineer. ### How many tools do I need alongside Loops? Loops sits next to 6 other categories in a working ESPs stack, and its own profile names the gap each one fills. Most teams staff the first two or three and add the rest as the motion grows. ### Do I need Marketing Automation as well as Loops? No. Marketing Automation is a category a buyer chooses between rather than alongside Loops, so pairing across it would mean buying both halves of a decision already made. ### Is Judge.me worth adding alongside Loops? Loops is built for ESPs, not social proof. Judge.me adds unlimited reviews on a permanently free plan. Real customer proof sits on the pages where people decide, not only on a review site. --- Source: SaaSTracker (https://saastracker.org), an independent editorial project. Pairings are the leading tool in each complementary category, chosen on published criteria: https://saastracker.org/methodology. Placement cannot be purchased.