Instafollowers.co is an Instagram SMM (Social Media Marketing) panel. This is a service that sells bulk fake followers at extremely cheap prices. Generally speaking, these services are not recommended because the followers are all-but-guaranteed to disappear and the services themselves are almost never based in the US for legal reasons. These businesses tend to blatantly lie to customers as well.
Follower packages are cheap to the point of hilarity even before being slashed by perpetual sales.
The prices are telling in that there is no way they are real people. Imagine paying 10 people 5.9 cents each to follow someone. It makes no sense for anyone real to be on the other side of these deals.
Service Details
Instafollowers, though primarily offering Instagram services, also offers Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and other services.
Now, at first glance, the company is kind-of truthful about what the “high-quality” followers actually are.
Do I think that a human would have any problem immediately identifying one of these followers as a fake? Of course not. They might claim to be high quality, but there’s a low chance they are. However, the company gets bonus points for openly stating that these are “real-looking artificial followers.”
In the next sentence, back to a lie. Having more fake followers does absolutely nothing to “make your account more visible,” in absolute terms.
This is also one of those creative passages. “No risk of decrease” does not mean “we will refill your losses in six months.” No risk of decrease means exactly that, that the followers won’t disappear! Here, the company avoids the most important point–what are the risks?
Do you think the company will proactively monitor the followers for when they start disappearing? Of course not! You’ll notice and you’ll have to let the company know and hope that they “refill your losses in six months.” Or, are they saying that they’ll only guarantee the followers for six months? That sucks, too.
Integrity & Reputation
There are so few cases where it’s worth purchasing fake followers. It’s a ticking time bomb. The supplier tells some white lies about the product so for that reason we think this is one you should stay away from.
This is a low quality site where you can purchase fake activity. We don’t recommend using these services as it will most likely prove to be a waste of money.
Socialmonk is a German Instagram growth service that claims to provide you with a personal Instagram manager for an incredibly cheap price.
Seems promising! Unfortunately, we think it’s too good to be true. Socialmonk has a basic website and terrible reviews. We suspect it’s a small service just running a bot on your account.
Socialmonk offers weekly and monthly pricing options.
These monthly prices are attractive when you’re being promised “100% manual care” and a “personal account manager.” These prices are meaningless if you just have to deal with someone’s cheap bot.
Service Details
The service claims to give you a “personal” account manager. What does that mean? That each customer gets their own account manager? Even if they had a small team, tapping hundreds of times per customer per day is exhausting. You have to pay the employees something. Yet, there are no employees to be found anywhere on the site or LinkedIn.
Integrity & Reputation
I found the business registry and it just appears to be an apartment in Munich. Nothing wrong with that, but a little sketchy for a place that claims to provide personal account managers. Why wouldn’t your business be in an office somewhere?
Tracing back to the agency’s website, it’s extremely basic. It does list the three owners, two of whom share the same last name. None of them seem to be on LinkedIn and the company isn’t on LinkedIn at all. I would expect such a masterful service to have employees who were proud to list their involvement on that site.
The main reason we know they’re just running a bot is that there’s pretty much no way you could run a profitable business on $40 per month while providing every employee with phones and internet and a living wage. It’s just not possible. That’s why Ampfluence charges 5 times what these people do.
Unfortunately, most of the negative reviews are in German or other foreign languanges. I don’t think you need to be able to speak German to understand this one:
“Absolute Katastrophe”
The responses to negative reviews are very weak and whichever founder is responding to reviews does nothing to build confidence in this service not being a scam.
Conclusion
Most Americans won’t have heard of this service as it primarily serves a German audience. We recommend that everyone stays away. It’s a shabby and futile attempt to convince unsuspecting users that there is a real person managing your account, when it actuality, it’s a bot. Unfortunately, many angry customers leaving negative reviews don’t seem to grasp this, which is why sites like ours are so important! It’s not a matter of your personal, 100%-human account manager being busy or incompetent, it’s that your account manager is a German guy pressing the play button on an automation program.
Socialmeep is in the big leagues! At least, the big leagues of lying to naive Instagram users in order to get them to pay for a basic botting service. Socialmeep pulls out all the stops, including having the most saturated Trustpilot page filled with what appears to be 1000 fake reviews.
This service is relatively new, and has permeated search rankings by aggressively running Google ads.
One thing we found especially intriguing was that this service used to claim to have been “Founded by Ex-Instagressers.” Due to the legal ramifications, I highly doubt that anyone affiliated with Instagress (considered the forefather of Instagram growth) would use this affiliation to market a brand new service. Also, the name of this company is awful and is an insult to the intelligence of the Instagress folks.
Socialmeep has reasonable prices. $49 per month is pretty consistent and they’ll turn the knob a little bit in your favor if you double that and give them $99.
Service Details
This service openly admits to using software to grow your account. Though this is against Instagram’s terms, this causes us to have a higher baseline of trust for this provider. At least they’re honest… well… kind of.
I found this statement in one of their paid blog placements. Some of us here at Pretty Good Reviews have computer science backgrounds. This statement is laughable.
First of all, all Instagram bots use “artificial intelligence.” That’s the logic that allows them to run without human interaction. This term is completely overloaded and is absolutely meaningless. General rule of thumb: whenever you read “Artificial Intelligence,” there’s a high chance that someone is trying to sell you something that doesn’t strictly use AI.
Next “Computer Vision.” Tesla does computer vision. On Instagram, by definition, this isn’t possible, and would roughly translate to image processing. This usually just isn’t worthwhile to do and to conflate “computer vision” with “image processing” is just ridiculous.
We also have “Advanced machine learning.” Do I believe that any successful bot service extracts some insights about accounts and then tunes their bots? Sure. Do I think they have advanced machine learning models? No. Customers wouldn’t really benefit from this anyway.
If you put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig. This is a basic botting service that might have a few bells and whistles, but, in the best case scenario, your results won’t differ much from other services.
Integrity & Reputation
This business throws up so many red flags that we doubt we’ve identified them all.
First of all, the Trustpilot reviews. This is the most insane abuse of the platform that we’ve ever seen.
So, this company has been around for less than a year and they’ve miraculously gained thousands of gleaming reviews? This distribution is crazy! People should study this at an academic level. How can Trustpilot be allowing this to happen.
Looking at the reviews, it’s a pattern of like 1 4-star review for every 8 5-star ones. This is a nice touch, but it’s not fooling me. None of these reviews are specific, in fact, some of them contain conflicting reviews. They’re mostly just spouting completely vague stuff for 1-2 sentences, never providing any specifics.
Some more silly claims:
4500 NEW FOLLOWERS PER MONTH ON AVERAGE! Sign me up. Most services would struggle to get you 450 followers per month and that’s if you had decent content. Advertising nearly 5000 per month is insane. You can’t do 15x better than an Instagram bot. You are an Instagram bot!
Also, 55,000 users? Your service hasn’t been around for long at all. You mean to tell me you’ve generated over $300,000 (at least) and yet we still can’t find any more information about this company anywhere? If you had even 5000 customers, you’d have way more negative reviews. Not implying that the service must be awful, but I know how these things go. People complain for no reason.
Every negative review is specific and, obviously, not responded to. This business seems to be doing a surprisingly high-volume business, but it’s 100% due to the fact that they run ads.
Next, the company doesn’t exist anywhere on the internet outside of their website. It claims to be a part of “LKR Social Holding Group” yet we couldn’t find any records of that company either. We searched so deeply that we actually determined that this domain was previously used by some guys in Ghana for a totally different purpose back in 2012.
Were we able to track down the owner? Well, kind of. There’s this guy named Bryson Edgar who writes their blog posts and also features prominently in their fake blog placement articles:
Identical articles! That’s not suspicious at all…
I’ll give it to him, Mr. Edgar has one of the most complete LinkedIn profiles we’ve ever seen, and we’ve done almost 100 of these reviews now. What’s hilarious is that he doesn’t list his involvement with Socialmeep anywhere on his profile despite purportedly being authorized to speak to the media by his boss…
Hey wait, is there a chance that Bryson is the boss?
Having a background in eCommerce and marketing while now working as a programmer while getting your online STEM masters degree is a likely profile of someone more deeply involved with an Instagram growth service.
On the company’s Betalist entry, two other names appear:
We can see here that Bryson appears to be the head honcho. Alexandra, interstingly, links to Combin, another Instagram growth service, in her Twitter bio:
And Corey is actually a woman who seems to be some marketing “expert.” Definitely not a master coder behind the scenes.
At the tail end of this review, it’s hopefully clear why the owner doesn’t clearly identify himself. This service doesn’t seem to be well-liked by users and there is no way the team is able to accurately handle all of the complaints they get.
Conclusion
Socialmeep is a new Instagram growth service that makes bold claims but doesn’t deliver for customers. They company tricks people by paying for ads, fake blog placements, and hundreds of fake 5-star reviews. While we’re not against bot platforms, we are against ones that deceive customers.
Simplygram is an Instagram growth service that you’ll see mentioned in many places. Though the service claims to be US-based, they fall short on nearly every one of their claims and have spent a lot of time and effort trying to make themselves look good on review platforms.
Simplygram offers three pricing plans, for $69, $99, and $199 per week. This is one of the most expensive services on the market–their cheapest plan will cost you over $3500 per year!!
The weekly charge is clearly a tactic used to collect money from unsuspecting customers as quickly as possible before they cancel. We simply do not agree or support this type of pricing structure. It makes no sense for the consumer.
Service Details
We grow your account using the Mother/Child method. Depending on the package you choose, we will setup 25-100 Instagram accounts on your behalf. These accounts DM hundreds of people per day, sending a message along the lines of “Hi! Thanks for checking out my page. For more great content, please visit my other page @Your_Username”.
5000 followers per month gets you in the door … then 25-100 spam accounts set up on your behalf actually get you the results?
Mother and child was popular a few years ago, but it never was scalable for service providers. Think about it, even if Simplygram only had 100 customers, do you really think they’re creating and provisioning thousands of accounts to help their customers?
Hmm… if only there was an explanation for how this actually worked.
Integrity & Reputation
There’s the answer. Rather than having some elite implementation of Mother/Child, they’re just running a follow/unfollow bot! If they were actually running some different method, Simplygram wouldn’t need your password, now would they?
With this information in mind, what are some of the ridiculous claims?
That’s a strong start. No Instagram growth service can get you anywhere near this amount of followers per month. It’s technically feasible using giveaways, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. I also don’t recommend giveaways.
I doubt there’s a human aspect at all. Even if this was true and even if all the positive reviews on Trustpilot were real, why don’t any of the positive reviews mention this specifically?
Simplygram’s strategy is to completely ignore negative reviews–they haven’t responded to a single one–while flooding their page with generic fake ones.
No customer, even a satisfied one, would write a review this way. This reads like marketing copy, not a real review. Hello, Trustpilot moderators?
This is so fake! It provides no detail at all, and also uses a random emoji. Note that there is a cluster of reviews that all use similar single emojis.
Here’s an absurd fake-featured bar. Do you want to guess how many of these news articles mentioning Simplygram I could locate?
Conclusion
Simplygram gets positive mentions by some bloggers, but we don’t understand how. It’s a deceitful service pushing so much conflicting information that we question why anyone would even bother buying it. The weekly-recurring pricing scheme is nothing more than predatory, all of the good reviews appear to be fake, and the company does nothing to build consumer trust. Please look elsewhere.
Pathsocial.co is a new Instagram growth service that fails all of our trustworthiness checks. They primarily get new customers from Google ads and they make outrageous claims on their site about how the service works and what results a typical customer can expect.
Path Social offers two plans which are priced somewhat competitively amongst bot services.
Service Details
Path Social tries to win you over with an impressive website. All of their claims are generic and they don’t tell you anything specific about how the service works. Each plan offering involves running your account on their botting software. You will be eligible for action blocks and the results will probably suck. Also, there’s a high chance that your password won’t be stored securely.
Integrity & Reputation
Path Social claims to have “24,000+” individuals and brands as customers. This is plausible for services with huge numbers of clients and deep histories, but it is a boldfaced lie coming from a service that is relatively new.
The website has only been around since 2020. Before then, it was the website for “Trail Track Club” which I’d imagine had nothing to do with social media growth. You can probably guess where I’m going with this, the website launched claiming to have the trust of 24,000+ people. That’s not cool.
They also guarantee large amounts of followers and run Google ads. Not to say that running ads is awful, but if you run ads and make outrageous claims on your website, that’s a bad combination.
800-1500 followers guaranteed is untenable
Path Social has terrible Trustpilot reviews. They have not responded to any of the negative reviews, all of which provide specific testimony to bad customer experiences.
These are some of the worst reviews we’ve seen. Also, they claim to have “Los Angeles Support” which hilariously sounds like the entire city of Los Angeles will support angry customers. In reality, we can’t identify anybody involved with this service, it’s likely a single owner ordeal. All these things combined — this is a very bad service.
Conclusion
This service impressed us by how unconvincing it is. It is becoming more clear that any service running Google ads should be trusted less, since these services most likely are preying on customers who may not read reviews before they sign up.
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HypePlanner.com
At a Glance
HypePlanner is an Instagram growth service that claims to get you “up to” 1000’s of real followers per month for a cheap price. The service has good reviews all over the internet, even on Facebook! However, we believe most of these reviews are fake.
Hypeplanner costs $99 per month. We appreciate this simple price point but we don’t appreciate the illusion of a limited-time deal that exists at all times.
Service Details
This is likely a basic follow and unfollow service. You will certainly see some results while using this service, just not results worth $99 per month.
Also, the cancelation policy is bogus. You know they’re using bots behind the scenes, but they require 72 hours for cancelation?
Integrity & Reputation
First of all, the idea that any service can get you thousands of followers per month is preposterous. Things don’t work that way anymore, at least for the generic customer.
This is the only service I’ve noticed that has excellent Facebook reviews. However, if you spend a few minutes assessing these reviews, you’ll notice that they’re mostly fake.
Huh, that’s weird. What are the chances of a Stanford graduate having a bunch of friends from Africa while also having a newsfeed filled with random recommendations?
At first glance, this looks like a classic fake review distribution. Compared to all the other services we’ve looked at, would you believe that a business could have 80% of 112 reviews be 5 stars and 13% be 1 star? That seems … odd.
Let’s look at the obvious ones:
Hm, that’s an odd thing to say. An odd way to phrase it, at least. All you need to do is check this user’s history to see …
Oops, a review for a competitor! It’s obvious that this is a shill account. The language and cadence of most of the other reviews matches this. But then the negative reviews are all very specific. All you need is one like this to blow the facade–clearly it’s a follow/unfollow bot service, and apparently not a great one at that:
Conclusion
This service charges elevated prices for a basic bot growth plan. They are dishonest in that they buy fake reviews on multiple platforms and it is likely that there is a very small team behind this product. Despite the pretty branding, we can’t recommend this service.
InstaBoostGram might take the cake for awful service names in violation of Instagram’s branding. InstaBoostGram is a classic scammy SMM (social media marketing) panel which sells you bulk fake activity. If you just need bulk fake activity and don’t care if these actions disappear in a short period of time, this might fit your needs.
Instaboostgram offers fake Instagram activity as well as fake activity on other platforms for inexpensive rates.
The prices are pretty much irrelevant. It’s not worth comparing prices in this realm, as you’re likely just throwing money into the void.
Service Details
This is a panel service which means that likes and other activities are sold in bulk. Instaboostgram sells Instagram followers, likes, and video views, and youtube, Spotify, and TikTok activity.
They claim that they provide instant delivery and will “refill” the accounts when they inevitably disappear. It is possible that this service is actually re-selling a cheaper service’s activity.
Integrity & Reputation
Instaboostgram has awful reviews on Trustpilot. The few positive ones are all paid reviews from people in India and similar countries. None of the negative reviews have been responded to. This dramatically increases the likelihood of the service being a single-person operation.
The worst part is that they lie about the follower quality. The website copy gives you the impression that the followers are “real” accounts and that they’re “active.” In reality, they are low quality and owned by the service provider. They will never interact with you ever again after the first time.
Also, though this site has been around for a long time, it is worth mentioning that the branding is so old that it matches pre-Facebook Instagram layout. It isn’t a good sign that the site hasn’t seen many major updates over the last half-decade.
Conclusion
We highly advise against SMM panels as they are in direct violation of Instagram’s Terms of Service. This provider isn’t a particularly good or trustworthy service, so we’d recommend looking elsewhere.
Kenji.ai is an Instagram growth service that freely admits to running a bot. Their website is unique and, thanks to an affiliate program, they’ve enjoyed a few shill reviews on popular blogs.
At the end of the day, this service throws up too many red flags to be of interest to us.
Even for a bot service, these are decent prices! Kenji starts at $47 per month and offers a pro plan for $78 per month. If this service worked flawlessly, $47 per month would be a competitive price point.
Service Details
Kenji is forthcoming about being a bot service. To give them credit, they do have a How it Works page that explains the service in detail. In summary, they use the tried-and-true follow/unfollow method.
Integrity & Reputation
Here’s where things fall apart for what seems like an otherwise impressive service. Kenji maintains no social media presence whatsoever with no live chat feature or social proof present on the website.
Kenji claims to have 110,000 users. What?
Kenji has always claimed to have 110,000 users. By that logic, the business brings in over $5,000,000 USD per month. Huh … you would expect more of a web presence from a business of that stature. Maybe just one employee on LinkedIn?
Now the crazy thing is that Kenji probably has hundreds of customers, judging by the frequency of these awful reviews:
Of course, Kenji hasn’t responded to any of the negative reviews. And they’re all negative.
While this business might have been one of the holdouts from 2018, the suspicion seems to be that they ghosted after the updates in 2019 and now just take money from unsuspecting customers.
It is actually impressive that they haven’t been shut down by their payment provider.
Conclusion
Kenji, while poised as one of the top growth services, has failed recently customers miserably and shamefully. The business maintains no web presence and must do a lot to regain trust, if they’re even still able to offer the service.
Buzzoid benefits from a marketing effort that involves total saturation of all platforms. There are tons of glowing blog posts out there regarding Buzzoid but most of those articles are paid placements or sites that the group controls.
It’s difficult not to find yourself checking out Buzzoid, and we admit that the website does inspire confidence. However, this business runs afoul of Instagram’s rules. Buzzoid sells auto-likes, followers, and views, which is not allowed. There is no guarantee that this fake activity won’t disappear. In rare cases, your own account can be placed at risk.
Being a fake, bot service, Buzzoid offers very low prices. They sell 50 likes for as little as $1.47. Be aware–these are not “real” accounts. There is nothing “organic” about the activity.
The claim that these are “REAL likes from REAL people” is fraudulent.
Service Details
This is a fake activity provider that tries to push the illusion that the activity is real. Guarantees don’t mix with real human behavior. You can’t guarantee that real people will do anything.
Integrity & Reputation
Buzzoid is part of what was formerly an empire of Instagram growth services including AutomaticViral and Social Upgrade. Many of these services have been shut down due to blatant violation of Instagram’s rules and customer complaints.
Buzzoid has decent reviews on Trustpilot, but that website has placed a notice on their page informing users that they have detected misuse.
This operation is fairly advanced, so you really have to read into the reviews to determine if they are fake or not. For example, the below review is highly suspicious. Investigating Gabriel Patton’s profile, it is obvious that it is a shill account used to hand out fake 5-star reviews.
Conclusion
You shouldn’t ever buy fake activity, especially from a provider that claims it is real yet offers guarantees a prices starting at pennies per action.
Buzzoid is, as far as we know, the last remaining site in a network that was mostly shut down by Instagram. We’re not sure how they are still operating. We don’t recommend buying services from Buzzoid since the accounts will never again interact with you and one day the followers will surely disappear.
Instafam (not to be confused with Instafame) is a coin app / mutual engagement Instagram growth service. To use it, you download an app and take actions. If you take enough actions, other users on the app will like you in return.
The business has a dubious presence on the web which contradicts their beautiful website.
Unknown – Likely Eastern European or directly affiliated with Blast
Traceable Team
No
Functioning Phone
No
Longevity
2+ Years
Doesn’t Misuse IG Branding
False – egregious misuse of Instagram branding
Active Blog
No
External Sites
No
Dashboard / Account Management
Yes – All in app
Offsite Testimonies
No
Forthcoming About Password Handling
No – Blatant lie
Pricing
Their basic coin app is free for 21 days. The main plan costs $58 per month, and the more expensive one for “mass looking” includes up to “30,000,000 views per month. Huh?
Service Details
It’s hard to assess this service because the app, if it actually exists, is behind a signup/paywall. Similar to other coin apps, once you log in, you manually must interact with other users’ content. You are then guaranteed to receive some reciprocal actions at a higher rate than if you were to just do it on Instagram.
Services like this are against Instagram’s terms and are constantly being resurrected under different names. The quality of service will ultimately be low, because everyone using the app is just trying to promote their own page. The followers you do get might be real, but they will be poor quality. They are likely to unfollow you soon after they get their coins for performing the actions.
Integrity & Reputation
Though the website is beautiful, I’m highly suspicious of the business. There is no identifiable information provided–nothing about the team or location of the business or how this might affect customer support.
There are no independent reviews and all of the social media profiles of this business are poorly maintained with very few interactions
The name is similar to an old Instagram growth service, and is so similar to the word “instagram” that it’s nearly impossible to find this site in google search results.
What bothers me is that the business claims they don’t need your password and then proceed to … ask you for your password:
Conclusion
There’s a chance that everything works. They don’t mishandle your password. The app you download doesn’t contain spyware or a crypto-mining program. The service works flawlessly and in exchange for paying for the privilege of joining their botnet, you get something resembling the numbers that they promise.
I’ve been doing this for a while, and this service has too many unknowns to justify putting your account and computer at risk.
