AllReacts is a tidy little MIT-licensed tool: it lets you send any emoji as a reaction on a Facebook Story. Web Reactions is a different shape entirely — a community-driven emoji reaction layer, everywhere on the web.
AllReacts focuses on one job: custom emoji for Facebook Stories. That is useful if Stories are exactly what you need, but it also ties the extension to a narrow platform flow that can change under it.
Web Reactions doesn't ride on top of a target site's reaction system. It runs an independent community counter so that you can leave a reaction where the platform offers none.
| Web Reactions | AllReacts for Facebook Stories | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Community reaction counts under public content | Add custom emoji to Facebook Stories |
| Sites covered | Facebook, GitHub, Amazon — and growing | Facebook Stories only |
| Reactions stored where? | On the Web Reactions server | On Facebook, as a real Story reaction visible to the recipient |
| Depends on the target platform's private API? | No — we observe DOM only; adapters ship with the extension | Yes — depends on a platform-specific Story reaction flow. |
| Login model | One-time email verification | Uses your existing Facebook login session |
| License | GPL-3 | MIT |
| Public reach | Brand-new | ~23 Chrome users, ~12 Firefox users (store cards) |
AllReacts is, by design, Stories-only. Posts, comments, reels, messages, GitHub repos, Amazon products — all out of scope. If your goal is to leave an emoji where the platform doesn't offer one, Web Reactions's surface is much wider.
Depending on a target platform's internal reaction flow is a practical tradeoff for a Story-only tool, but it can be fragile when that platform changes. Web Reactions avoids that model by keeping its own reaction layer separate from the target site's native reaction system.
Web Reactions never calls a target site's private API. The extension reads the DOM, finds public anchors (a post, a star button, a buy-box), and renders a separate picker. If a supported site tweaks markup, we update the bundled adapter and ship a focused extension release.
AllReacts doesn't aggregate counts at all — each reaction goes into the recipient's Story inbox, that's where it lives. Web Reactions is the opposite: every reaction contributes to a public count visible to other Web Reactions users. For that count to mean something we tie each vote to a verified email, so it isn't just a sum over anonymous installs.
AllReacts is the right tool if your friend's Story deserves a 🦖 reaction and Facebook only offers six emoji. It does that job well for its narrow Stories use case. Web Reactions is the right tool if you want reactions on the rest of your browsing day. They don't fight; they just don't overlap.
Pick AllReacts if your single use case is sending non-default emoji as native Facebook Story reactions, and you're comfortable with a Story-only extension.
Pick Web Reactions if you want a maintained, cross-site reaction layer with verified accounts behind the counts. How it works on Facebook posts and Reels is shown on Web Reactions for Facebook.
