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Notches is a distributed platform for reviews.

We provide reviews technology, data and an ecosystem of applications and tools to allow partners to outsource their reviews. Our mission is to develop an impartial review system that can be integrated across the Internet.

We are dedicated
to openness.

Free. Notches is free to both consumers and partners.


Open Licensing. All reviews are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.


Open APIs. Multiple APIs that give access to all of our data over standard REST and SOAP interfaces.


Open Standards. We fully support OpenID (as both a consumer and provider), OAuth and the hReview standards.

See how Notches
can help you.

For consumers: get better reviews you can trust and tools to make sense of it all. Learn more.


For businesses: increase sales with reviews that are portable and not tied to a single provider. Learn more.


For partners: save development time and money, increase traffic to your site and make your users happy. Learn more.


Why does it matter?

Reviews have the potential to be one of the most helpful resources on the web, but they are not nearly as useful as they could be.


Reviews are sparse, fragmented, inconsistent, untrustworthy, and spam-ridden.


Learn how Notches can solve these problems.

 

Get reviews contextually as you browse the web. Read more.

Read reviews that your friends have written and ask for recommendations. Read more.

Every item and every review in our network can be found on Notches Meta.

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Featured Partners

URDB.org
URDB, the open book of world records, uses Notches technology to power its ratings.
City Dusk
CityDusk is using Notches to power reviews of their community experiences.

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