# Kicksta Reviews **Vendor:** Kicksta.co **Category:** [Other Social Media Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-social-media) **Average Rating:** 2.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 17 ## About Kicksta We provide brands and influencers who are struggling to grow on Instagram with a growth tool to connect them with real followers and improve their social proof. ## Kicksta Reviews ### 1. Effortless Instagram Growth with Kicksta **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2026 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** I appreciate that Kicksta automates my Instagram and helps with engagement by ensuring the accounts followed are real and not fake. It supports my organic growth by finding a target audience related to my account, which I find beneficial. Also, the initial setup was very easy. **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** I would improve their customer support since it's a little slow, but still not much complains regarding that. **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kicksta automated my Instagram, helping with engagement and organic growth by finding and engaging with my target audience. It ensures followed accounts are real, not fake. ### 2. Absolutely garbage! **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hossam F. | Marketing Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** I signed up for Kicksta hoping for genuine, organic growth on my Instagram. Instead, I was flooded with followers who were clearly fake accounts – no posts, no profile pictures, and no real engagement. It was obvious that these weren’t genuine followers interested in my content, making the whole service feel misleading. For the price they charge, I expected real people, not bots or fake profiles that do nothing for my page. Plus, customer support was slow to respond and offered no real solutions to fix the issue. If you’re looking for true growth, I’d recommend avoiding Kicksta – it simply doesn’t deliver on what it promises. **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** Everything it's all a lie based on what they promise **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** Nothing ### 3. FAILS RANDOMLY > customer service promises a fix> no attempt whatsoever to restore service **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris S. | Marketing **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** WHEN IT'S WORKING (almost never)- it's very effective and delivers on promises to acquire real followers. It's an impressive and creative way to work and fairly priced. To be clear, this is not a scam, when it works it's great. **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** The product fails repeatedly, with no notice, and until you notice you've been charged for time it was not working. Tech team seems to be completely negligent. Huge waste of time and energy. Avoid. **Recommendations to others considering Kicksta:** Avoid. I'm not even saying this because it's functionality is a scam. It just fails all the time and no effort is made to restore it. **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** To say I'm "solving" problem is not accurate. I'm REQUESTING resolution and just plan NOTHING IS DONE to resolve it. My service has been down I am still getting charged. This is the second time this has happened. ### 4. kicksta review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sheffy B. | Masters Student in Cloud Computing, Consulting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** Kicksta helps to increase your reach on Instagram by gaining more followers and that too organicly. It is an automated system to like your recent posts, help understand what page and hashtag is useful to follow and which has more reach. **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** Kicksta is a system tool and not an actual person to speak to in case of any issue. The target audience is automatically decided by the Kicksta and not manually. The ads are not targeted at Kicksta. It targets and generates reach in general and not specifically as account to account. **Recommendations to others considering Kicksta:** It is good to have such a tool to boost your growth and approach on Instagram. You can use Kicksta to gain followers and influence more people. **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to reach more people, accounts and increase the followers, likes is something that Kicksta helps most in. Having approached more people increases the account visibility and alos kinds influences people. ### 5. Kicksta is an evolving tool that establishes growth and replicates the functionality of instacart. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Giridhar P. | Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** Kicksta is a social connection establishment tool similar to instacart. An organization could market its brand by enrolling in Kicksta and look for users to get connected. The connected users eventually become the followers of your organization's brand and promote it if it deserves. The tool tries its best to establish connections with the right contacts who have a similar profile in the market. The business of your brand grows with the right set of followers and contacts. **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** The enrollment fee is quite pricey. It's not easy to get followers as many of them may continue to be only on Instacart. The process of establishing the followers list and targeting a business growth could be a bit long in terms of time. The individuals have to decide for themselves on whether or not to follow your brand, which means that you need to perform your due diligence on your brand before getting enrolled. The number of followers who you would get for your organization cannot be assessed beforehand. They slowly get added to the list based on what the brand depicts. **Recommendations to others considering Kicksta:** Consider Kicksta if you are a small business organization looking to promote your brand for broader outreach, evaluate this tool. Clearly define the capabilities of your brand and the values that the organization brand has to offer before advertising it on kicksta. Set both short term and long-term goals to promote so that you could attract followers from both these categories. **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** The brand of our organization was advertised on Kicksta. The list of right followers was able to promote the brand name and business values. The business took off with the right partners, and the right clients were identified to support the business. Followers who run similar nature of business in their organizations are able to collaborate their insights and that's a huge benefit. We were able to identify organizations of similar brands and values, and also who our competitors were. Eventually we also could identify the consumers of our products and learned about their product experience(s) on kicksta. ### 6. Poor performance and results **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** The best part of Kicksta was the user dashboard where you could see performance and select options for the tool/service. It was easy to navigate and well laid out for a good user experience. **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** Their explanation around what they do and how they do it is vague, and it was unclear whether any of the change I made to our account led to different results. It was a huge waste of time to try to learn how to use the tool and understand what was and wasn't working when ultimately there was very little evidence of anything positive happening on our social media accounts after using the tool. It wasn't clear that the tool did anything at all, and it was also impossible to tell whether any of the hashtags features worked. **Recommendations to others considering Kicksta:** They may have improved the tool since we used it, but based on my experience I would recommend bypassing this tool. **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kicksta didn't solve any problems. We tried it as a tool for organic social media engagement and thought it would help find and connect with new social media audiences more quickly, but it led to very little growth or engagement. In fact, it was impossible to tell whether the growth and engagement we had during that period was due to the tool or our own organic efforts. ### 7. Wanted This to Work! **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicholas D. | Chief Marketing Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** Ease of sign up, mixed reviews at best but a decent site and dashboard. **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** Unfortunately just didn't do anything, as in nothing. I reached out to support after a week of no activity and received a fast response with an apology and $25 credit, which is cool, however a working service would be better. After another week of nothing, I decided to stop, cancel the account. Unfortunately can't recommend the service. **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gain some initial traction on the socials, starting with Instagram. No benefits were realized, aside from responsive and friendly customer support. ### 8. Does not drive growth **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** It was easy to sign up and get connected **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** Unfortunately, the software never logged into my account to try to drive growth. Contacted customer service and was assured on multiple occasions that it would start within 24 hours. It never did. Further, I was not able to resolve this despite almost daily contact with customer service. Their only resolution was to give me credit on next month's fee. But given they have not driven any growth, I will not be renewing my subscription. **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am not solving any problems with Kicksta. For me, Kicksta has resulted in creating work, not alleviating it. ### 9. Its a scam, total scam **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jorge C. | Chief Marketing Officer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** it gives the feeling of being legit but its not. In my case they double charge me. **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** You cant remove yourself and they keep your credit card info. **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** Non. ### 10. Scam - stay away **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** Nothing it does not work. They keep saying that there is a 4 week waiting period and ramp up. Absolute rubbish. **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** False promises. poor support, unsecure login. **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** Insta growth ### 11. These clowns are just after your money and when issues arise they won't help **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** J.D. S. | Realtor® at RE/MAX Estate Properties, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** The fact that I canceled their service!! **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** These clowns are just after your money and when issues arise they won't help. I asked for local followers (in the Los Angeles, CA, USA area) & they ended up getting me a lot of followers in the country of Brazil?!?! Then they started adding a lot of Realtors which I told them I did not want. Basically they caused more harm than good to my Instagram account. But if you ask for a refund, they will try to hide behind their very strict cancellation policy (even when they are doing a horrible job)! Do not do business with this company!!! **Recommendations to others considering Kicksta:** Avoid Kicksta!!t **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was supposed to get me quality Instagram follower growth but totally failed! ### 12. The Best Automation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** Every username you choose is ranked on a scale to let you know what account you are pulling your followers from. The more you pay on subscription, the more accounts you're allowed to target. This had me converting at least 100 followers a week to my profile if you know how to target your audience (profiles) correctly. **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** The pricing is a bit expensive and can deter from long term use **Recommendations to others considering Kicksta:** Try this before any other cheaper services, interphase is super professional **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gaining a following on instagram is hard these days without running advertisements or consistently releasing content. ### 13. Great Product and Great Client Support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alicia C. | Creative Director, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 06, 2019 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** We love that Kicksta lets us optimize our followers and grow organically without us having to spend tons of time one our account growth. The dashboard is easy to use and breaks down information into tabs - targets, posts, analytics, filters, etc. **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** We can't say there is anything we dislike about Kicksta - they are great and always adding new features. We'd love to see the 'automatic likes' feature added to the Kicksta service. **Recommendations to others considering Kicksta:** This is a great platform for businesses running multiple client accounts. The dashboard is easy to navigate and very user friendly. It allows us to keep track of each audience and see how well it's converting, turn individual targets on and off, and track post performance etc. Lots of features, all easy to use. **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organic, targeted Instagram growth, engagement, and conversions. It allows us to save tons of times as we have multiple Instagram client accounts on this platform. It helps our clients grow a targeted audience with great attention from us while allowing us to spend time targeting versus having to do manual engagement - Kicksta does that for us! ### 14. Adds great value to our creative & marketing agency **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suited M. | Owner & Principal Designer, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** That I can login and track growth progress, easily edit 'targets', and manage multiple client accounts. **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** That there is no 'export report to PDF/link' type feature; hard to really call this a dis-like, but it's the only area that makes selling/visualizing this added charge to clients. I know Kicksta said they are working on it, though! **Recommendations to others considering Kicksta:** Get a good idea of which 'targets' really make sense for your/a clients' brand in terms of other accounts' audiences- that's the key. You're looking for where your brand will get the most traction that it is not currently, and then be ready to 'work it' continually- there is no set-it-and-forget-it with these things. **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving SOME kind of service to Instagram, for brands that we refresh and manage. Before this, we would create styleguides, pair clients w/photographers in their erea, or even create seasonal graphics for posting, but we are just simply not a social media house. Really, to 'manage' an Instagram, takes many hours, photography, copywriting, brand knowledge, hashtag savvy, and more- we cannot do the work of 'running' our clients' Instagram. But... now we can take ONE major 'task' off their plate by offering 'Growth Management' and every client that has opted-in to this service is over the moon about the results. ### 15. A Good Service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben T. | Freelance Writer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** I gained Twitter followers and a steady and consistent rate, and they were good quality and relevant. **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** Some active suggestions of which accounts to select for target followers would be a good addition. **Recommendations to others considering Kicksta:** It's good to complement Kicksta with a solution for automating regular Instagram posts. **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gathering some consistency in growing an Instagram following. ### 16. Kicksta **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Veterinary | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** It increased the number of followers on my account and engagement, and saved me a lot of time. **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** There was nothing I disliked, the dashboard is easy to use and I'm still using this service. **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** The time that I'd be spending with trying to engage with other accounts and getting new followers to look at my page, I'm spending on other things. There's a lot more traffic to my page and it's helping me develop the business I'm starting ### 17. Helps me to gain more exposure from Instagram **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Kicksta?** Helps me to get more exposure from Instagram and grows my Instagram following **What do you dislike about Kicksta?** There’s nothing that I dislike about it **What problems is Kicksta solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to grow my Instagram following and gain relevant exposure through targeting followers of other relevant brands and influencers of my choosing ## Kicksta Discussions - [What are Kicksta targets?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-kicksta-targets) - [Is Kicksta a bot?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-kicksta-a-bot) - [What is better than Kicksta?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-better-than-kicksta) - [Will Kicksta get you banned?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/will-kicksta-get-you-banned) - [View Kicksta pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/kicksta/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-13+17%3A22%3A04+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=6c4772b9-e3bc-4b37-b95e-cf7a8f11dc9e&secure%5Btoken%5D=2f8ba4a3fe6b060237a2dc241d848d881ccac332594edb5e1e9aa56d5e2081f8&format=llm_user) ## Top Kicksta Alternatives - [Combin](https://www.g2.com/products/combin/reviews) - 3.0/5.0 (11 reviews) - [Predis.ai](https://www.g2.com/products/predis-ai/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (103 reviews) - [tagembed](https://www.g2.com/products/tagembed/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (89 reviews)