The blog
Reviews, comparisons and post-mortems of the growth services that came before us. Written because we had to research this market ourselves.
F4F
2026-10-23
S4S means shoutout for shoutout on Instagram and Snapchat, and sub for sub on YouTube, where it's banned by name. Both meanings, with the rules quoted.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
Automatic Viral stopped taking new customers in 2019, was selling again in 2020, then closed again. Its prices, its claims and what to use now.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
Crowdfire went offline on May 15, 2025 and deleted user data on June 30. In 2026 its site came back as a news brand. The full timeline.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
Follow Adder's site sold its Instagram bot until late 2024. What the archived pages show, what it cost, where followadder.com goes now, and what replaced it.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
FollowLiker never announced a shutdown. Its bot pages are still listed under a 2021 copyright line, and its domain was renewed in 2026. What we found, dated.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
GetInsta.com is a parking page with the domain listed for sale. We checked every GetInsta domain on September 9, 2026: what's left of it, and what to use.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
Gramista, the Instagram bot, has no website left: gramista.com doesn't resolve. When it stopped, what it did and cost, and what you can do now.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
Gramto shut down in spring 2023 and promised paid users a refund of their last month. What it automated, and what's on gramto.com now.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
IGTools shut down permanently in October 2022 and the domain no longer resolves. We checked on September 9, 2026: the goodbye note, and what to use now.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
Instazood still sells an Instagram bot at $9.99 a month. Why users said it stopped working, what it promises, and what Instagram's terms say.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
Jarvee, the Windows tool that automated Instagram and eight other networks, shut down in September 2022. Its site now says it's permanently closed.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
Klout scored your social influence from 1 to 100. Lithium bought it for $200 million in 2014 and closed it on May 25, 2018. The timeline, dated.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
Latergramme renamed itself Later on April 13, 2016, partly because Instagram didn't want 'gram' in brand names. What came next, and what latergramme.com is now.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
Mass Planner closed in May 2017, citing a request from Instagram. What it automated and cost, what its domain is now, and how Jarvee fits in.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
MassRoot8 took Facebook logins to scrape friends' data. Facebook sued in 2020 and settled in 2021. Today massroot8.com shows a slot gambling page.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
Facebook sued MGP25 Cyberint in Madrid in June 2020, and the court ordered it to stop its fake engagement service. What's left at mgp25.com today.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
MyInstaFollow's site began redirecting in October 2025 and had no DNS answer by October 2026. FameViso says it's the same company. The dated timeline.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
Robolike, the hosted Instagram auto-liker that cost $7.77 a month in 2017, became a desktop app in 2025 and is now billed as a free Instagram auto liker.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
Socifan, checked October 23, 2026: socifan.com now forwards to Famety's site. The dated timeline, what Socifan sold, and where its users stand.
Gone but not forgotten
2026-10-23
Twitter sued TweetAdder in 2012 and settled in 2013, and the software sold on until an API cutoff it reported in 2016. Where tweetadder.com points now.
Questions
2026-10-23
What happens if Instagram catches you buying followers? The signals it describes, from removed follows and 'Try again later' to warnings and Account Status.
Guides
2026-10-23
Threads is Meta's text app, built by the Instagram team, with 500 million monthly users. How it works, what's new, and how to delete or deactivate it.
Questions
2026-10-23
Instagram came out on October 6, 2010. Who created it, who owns it, the first post, the $1 billion sale, and every big change since, with dates.
Questions
2026-10-23
Instagram publishes no best time. What decides it is delivery and the refill window. Five common timing tips, checked against the record.