Socialrunner.net has a pretty website but fails most of our trustworthiness and transparency checks. Social Runner is an Instagram growth service offering a basic software bot plan for $79 per month. For this type of service with no obvious guarantees, you will be better off paying for a competitor
Social Runner offers one plan for $79 per month. They reveal very little about this offering buy guarantee consistent growth, customer targeting, and real followers.
Since this is a basic software service, “custom targeting” is easy to offer. “100% real followers,” however, are not able to be guaranteed. The followers could be bots–you have no way of knowing when you sign up.
Service Details
The service is basic and expensive considering it’s an automation service with no special features.
Some other features that could be offered include geo-targeting, personalized targeting assistance, and blacklisting.
Integrity & Reputation
The business has no social media presence whatsoever, no live chat, and no reviews outside of their main website. The website contains curated reviews which cannot be trusted at all.
We see no reason to trust this business especially when there are more transparent, cheaper alternatives.
Conclusion
It’s a shame that they’ve put so much effort into creating a pretty website while doing nothing to prove that the business is trustworthy and the service actually works. Skip Social Runner!
AI Grow is A basic bot solution that rebranded as a “team of human experts.” There is a ton of deceiving activity surrounding this business, aside from blatant contradictions in the site promotional materials, there are an insanely high number of fake reviews on Trust Pilot.
Frankly, the pricing page is overwhelming. It is difficult to understand what you’re actually buying or what the difference between the pricing plans are.
Service Details
Though the service provides many tools that may be helpful, we believe it is ultimately a software service. Reviews complain about awful customer service and a product that is ineffective. We are willing to side with those reviewers since AIGrow hasn’t responded to any of the reviews.
The signup process is very complicated and we received an alert that our password was sent in an unsafe manner when we attempted to sign up.
Even if this is a viable managed service, you should just use Ampfluence.
Integrity & Reputation
The business does very little to build trust. There is no registered business or LinkedIn presence whatsoever. They purchased what appears to be hundreds of fake reviews on Trustpilot. This is obvious because people in these foreign countries definitely can’t afford to pay $150 per month on Instagram growth.
Come on Jenny!
They also claim implausible amounts of users and growth.
Conclusion
This is likely a scammy single-owner service. You can be assured that the customer support will be awful, and the service is most likely not what it claims to me. AiGrow hides way too much to have earned our trust.
FanBump was a successful and respected Instagram growth service that had thousands of concurrent customers at its peak. I will say it’s a bit ironic that the self-proclaimed “safest” service ended up shutting down for “safety reasons.”
FanBump’s main plan professional cost $99 per month.
Service Details
FanBump was an organic Instagram growth service using software automation methods that were widely accepted at the time
Integrity & Reputation
This was a reputable service run by a highly-visible CEO. Though there were a fair number of bad reviews, most were responded to be the owner himself and his replies were convincing
Conclusion
This was a good service at the time, though a bit expensive compared to others that were growing accounts in the same way.
This was a small Instagram growth provider that operated for a short time. Head Copilot claimed to help users get more followers while being 100% compliant with Instagram’s rules. They were unique in that they did some promotion on Reddit via an official Reddit account.
We are unsure of this service’s pricing structure.
Service Details
This was likely a SaaS service, but it is also possible that Head Copilot was a desktop automation service.
We have very little to investigate, but based on the language used on Reddit, it is likely that this service was maintained by someone in India.
Integrity & Reputation
There are few traces of this company remaining on the internet. Most notably is a customer complain shared on Reddit, where the company’s Reddit account responds and makes quite clear that customer relations is not their strong suit.
Conclusion
This service was most likely a scam and it likely shut down due to a large amount of chargebacks from customers. We are happy that this service is no longer operating.
If you had an experience with Head Copilot while it was operating, leave a comment below!
Socivy is a Turkish Instagram growth service provider that has been around since mid-2018. They provide a dashboard from which you can run a bot on your account.
While their website is generic and their web presence is minimal, there are very few red flags. Further, their pricing is very competitive.
This service is competitively priced. These rates are among the cheapest we’ve seen. This service hasn’t raised their prices very much since opening (the basic plan used to be $30 per month).
Service Details
Socivy gives you access to a dashboard from which you can trigger automated activities for your account. Services like this aren’t the safest and you can be subject to interruptions with platform updates. For the price, it’s really hard to beat.
Integrity & Reputation
The only thing this business doesn’t have going for it is great reviews on an outside review site. It also doesn’t have any reviews claiming it’s a scam. The website is also somewhat generic (but, to be honest, they all start to look the same after a while).
One thing that probably causes this business to be overlooked is the name, which just isn’t memorable and looks childish, almost as if it was a typo. This is a minor nitpick.
It appears to be a two-person operation located in a time zone very far outside of the United States, so customer support most likely does not measure up to US-based services.
Conclusion
This service is absolutely worth a try. If it works well, there are very few that can compete at this price point.
Polished Agency only roused my suspicions because the name doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. It struck me as an obvious case of a business created by a shady overseas provider.
However, in reviewing the website and dispelling the common “red flags,” this seems like a totally legitimate marketing agency built around a human-managed Instagram growth service. Since there’s no subscription model and they don’t post pricing on the website, it’s definitely not a scam.
For the record, services like this don’t fit well into our review criteria, but I think it’s useful to highlight a service that is conducting business in an honest way.
Pricing is by request only and this is a no-commitment non-subscription service. This significantly builds trust because you must correspond with a human in order to sign up. There is no chance you’d just be tossing your money into a black hole here.
Service Details
Sounds great! The only bad news here is that their claims may be a little inflated. Guaranteeing “loyal fans” is outrageous. It just doesn’t happen even if you’re customizing every interaction.
Further, there’s no guarantee that the growth/engagement aspects of this aren’t simply outsourced to a SaaS service. Because this offering is bespoke, it’s impossible to tell. But you can be guaranteed that they don’t have a person sitting there clicking all day like Ampfluence does.
Integrity & Reputation
This is a full-service agency. The team is verifiable and the business has an office location and a phone that works. Due to the way the website is structured, you can rest assured that this isn’t a high-volume scam business.
The business provides believable case studies and on-site testimonials (which I usually ignore).
Conclusion
If you have a large budget, a service like this can be great for you. You should always prioritize content quality over raw follower numbers. You’ll just never truly have the peace of mind in knowing exactly how they’re growing your account.
Easy Get Insta / Get Insta is a coin-app service and bulk like provider. Coin apps allow you to grow your account for free, and their app seems legitimate. There are a lot of reviews across Apple and Google app stores and the developer responds to many reviews.
Coin apps are initially free. You “pay” by participating yourself, liking photos and following users who are also signed up. Though they are often regulated by Instagram and they can’t be described as “organic,” they get you raw numbers that are higher quality than totally fake accounts.
With coin apps, you can also pay premium amounts to get even more likes. It’s unclear whether services in this category are safe. But the quality of the likes being sold by this service are likely higher than fake accounts, because they’ll probably just be sourced from users of the coin app.
Service Details
There are several facets of this service. There main storefront is where all the services are sold: on the EasyGetInsta website.
The coin apps that underpin the service are on Google Play, Windows Apps, and the Apple App Store.
The problem with coin apps is that all of the interactions you’ll gain will be guaranteed to be other people using the same circular growth method. Once they earn their coins, it’s likely that they’ll unfollow you. In this sense, completely fake bot followers may be better.
Integrity & Reputation
The review distribution is somewhat suspicious. Do I think that customers using low-cost Instagram growth services would rush to give thousands of five star reviews? Absolutely not.
Looking at the more recent reviews, there are tons of complaints. The complaints greatly outnumber extremely positive reviews. I definitely don’t consider this service to be a scam, but it’s clear that there are serious limitations.
Conclusion
Coin apps can be a cheap and viable way to grow your Instagram. Coin apps depend on large user bases to be useful, and it does seem that this company has a large amount of customers.
This would be an incredibly click-intensive way to grow, so it’s better suited for individuals looking to explore different methods rather than businesses looking to maximize a marketing budget. As soon as you’d have to pay someone to use your coin app for you, it kind of defeats the purpose.
A1 Republic, though it sounds like the name was conceived in a fraternity basement, the company is a unique fully-featured social media agency that specializes in software solutions.
See Service Details section for pricing. Our opinion is that the offerings are diverse enough for there not to be much of a benchmark for the price.
Service Details
Am I ever going to look at an ugly Squarespace website like this one and then turn around and hire you to design a website for me? Hell no.
Other than that, there are a ton of services here: Instagram Growth, Youtube Growth, Tiktok Growth, Facebook Ads, and Google Ranking.
We care most about Instagram so that’s what we’ll focus on.
This is different from the traditional SaaS offering. Do Loop Giveaways work? Yes–but they’re not being forthcoming about how many followers you’ll lose, so that’s a red flag.
Instagram Ad service, that’s actually a great idea and since you see the product, there’s a very low chance of getting scammed.
Real Auto Likes / Real Auto Comments for $80/$100 per month? It’s an oxymoron through and through. If they’re real, they can’t be auto. Engagement groups, generally, are not “real,” they’re super spammy and the actions don’t stick.
Manual IG Growth can be tricky, and at $250 per month, I’d prefer Ampfluence. But you never know.
MSV — we’ve asked around and we actually don’t know what this is. Regardless, it’s for verified accounts only.
This is a diverse enough offering that something might work. We’re willing to give them the benefit of the doubt here and say that some of these services might be worth a try.
Integrity & Reputation
The business doesn’t have any active content or independent reviews. The team is identifiable which builds trust significantly. They might be a good choice, but they’re unproven at this point. A single bad review would bring this service to the C tier.
Conclusion
A1 Republic is a unique service with an awful name and website that just might have one of the most diverse service offerings in the industry. I’d recommend contacting this business before buying any services.
Tree Frog Social has been in business since 2017, predating nearly every other managed growth provider. It’s one of the few operators in this space that has personality and a brand that is memorable. The customer service team has a reputation of being stern but the results speak for themselves. The team is considered one of the best in the business.
Tree Frog Social is known to have cheap prices. In our opinion, it’s the best bang for your buck in the space. A long time ago, $30 per month seemed to be the benchmark for all services, but when you consider that Tree Frog hasn’t seemed to increase their prices since they opened, and still offer a $1 first month with the code treefrog1, it’s too good too ignore.
They also offer discounts for longer-termed plans, though we don’t recommend these unless you’ve already had a pleasant experience with a trial plan.
Service Details
The main focus with their plans is that they guarantee exposure rather than pure follower numbers. This is good. It means that they aren’t promising something they can’t deliver. The rest of the features in the more expensive plans can be useful for those with larger budgets, but the real value is the $29.99 per month plan.
Tree Frog Social has been described as a “Hybrid” service. Our experiences have been positive and the results generally beat out services that cost five or even eight times as much. Though the targeting isn’t always precise, we are in agreement that the quality of followers beats out other services. We think the business employs a variety of methods including growth specialists, engagement groups, and influencer marketing.
The main negative is that Tree Frog’s cancelation process, though automated and instant, can be annoying to deal with. They also can take up to 72 hours to set up accounts. Tree Frog doesn’t offer a user dashboard either, but targeting updates can be processed elsewhere.
We talk about value here a lot. Why would you pay $100 or $200 per month when Tree Frog is going to do the same thing for $29.99?
Integrity & Reputation
Tree Frog seems to do everything right. There are no ridiculous promises or outlandish claims on their website. The business is traceable and the website has only changed slightly from when they first opened.
They have an active blog, Facebook, and Twitter with content writers who all seem to be real people, which is unheard of.
There are some negative trust pilot reviews, but I noticed that each and every one was responded to nearly immediately with an extremely detailed response. The business does have a reputation of being terse with customers, but they claim they’ve responded to 100% of all support tickets and Facebook chat messages over the last four years.
We messaged the company via Facebook and even called them on the phone number listed on their website. They responded to the chat fairly quickly. What really impressed us was that they were the only business that actually picked up the phonewhen we called.
Conclusion
Tree Frog Social is one of the leaders in the growth space. The prices are excellent, the service is safe, the customer support seems to be effective, and the results are on par with most of the more expensive services.
We recommend this service but have landed on an A- rating. If you have had a personal experience with Tree Frog, feel free to contact us. We don’t suppress comments like other review sites.
The Efficient Social not only has an awful name, but it also has an awful website. The business provides a hodgepodge of services, offering instant growth and power likes alongside organic growth. Pitched this way on such a basic website at such cheap prices, it’s hard to see the value.
The prices are cheap. However, the descriptions leave a lot to be desired. “Real niche followers” can’t be guaranteed by anybody. The only difference between the plans is the estimated number of followers, which strongly suggests a basic automation service.
What could they possibly do to offer so many followers on their most expensive plan? Hint: they probably send you some fake activity, since they sell that too.
They also claim that they’ll beat any competitor’s price, which gives away that it’s a bot service.
Service Details
In addition to “Organic Growth” services, The Efficient Social also offers separate “Instant Growth” and “Superlikes” services.
Frankly, if you’re going to stoop so low as to buy fake activity, you should use a trusted provider. Likewise, if you’re going to use an organic growth provider, you should use an established one with respectable reviews.
Integrity & Reputation
It’s hard to trust a website that seems slapped together. It’s a very generic website with no identifiable team members or owner or even a business location. It’s a basic Wix site which causes our suspicions to grow.
Conclusion
Though some hybrid service providers might be highly effective, this isn’t one we can get behind. If it’s maintained at all, it’s staffed by a small team who can’t possibly offer quality of service in line with some of the more major players.
There are more, ahem, efficient ways to allocate your marketing budget.
