# ShareThis Share Buttons Reviews **Vendor:** Predactiv **Category:** [Content Distribution Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/content-distribution) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 21 ## About ShareThis Share Buttons ShareThis website tools, plugins, and apps are used by over three million websites to drive consumer engagement and traffic, capturing the widest and deepest sentiments of people across the internet. These sentiments and signals are observed in real-time and processed daily to better understand people, making social data actionable for any business that requires a holistic view of people or customers. ShareThis Share Buttons is a free, easy, to install, tool that enables one-click sharing across 40+ social channels. They empower publishers to expand the vitality of their content, grow their audience, and drive engagement. Try share buttons: sharethis.com/platform/share-buttons/ Interested in more ways to amplify your website? Check out our suite of website tools including Follow buttons, Reaction buttons, Consent Management Platform, and Social Feed. ## ShareThis Share Buttons Reviews ### 1. Fast Sharing, Needs Better Connectivity **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sajan D. | Call Centre, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2026 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** I like the speed for sharing with ShareThis Share Buttons because it doesn't lag. It helps me send something to another person efficiently, managing the time period of sharing well. The initial setup was good, and I'd rate it a 9 out of 10 for recommending to others. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** Sometimes it takes time to share, which could be improved. Also, there is a concern about properly connecting to the person we are sharing with. **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use ShareThis Share Buttons to send things to others quickly without lag, which helps manage the time period of sharing. ### 2. Works as it should! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan M. | Digital Marketing Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2024 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** Ease of use makes this one a no-brainer. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** Would like a bit more options to customize. **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to share website content on the socials ### 3. I have seen my traffic grow almost immediately after installing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandon W. | Quilter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2022 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** They are easy to install on my website super easy for customers to use. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** Nothing I would change nothing I use it on every site I make. **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting my blog post out there. ### 4. Best share tool on the market. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2019 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** I really love that it helps me keep track of where and how much my content is being shared on social media. 😎 A website without this tool is really missing out. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** So far I can't find anything that I dislike about it. It's freakin' awesome...! **Recommendations to others considering ShareThis Share Buttons:** Do it...! It is the right move putting this tool on ANY website... **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me channel Where & which social media platform likes my content more. ### 5. Great for bloggers! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jennifer G. | Sales Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** I like that it's free and simple to use. I like that it rarely has issues. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** I don't like that you can't restore your counts if you change something about the layout. **Recommendations to others considering ShareThis Share Buttons:** It's easy and it's free, so give it a shot! **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's good to give people the option of sharing your blog posts to other platforms. It gets you more views, which is what this is all about. ### 6. Simple approach to expand the reach of your content **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** ShrareThis makes it incredibly easy to expand the reach of your content by allowing users with one simple click to share your articles to their social media platform of choice. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** There aren't too many things about ShareThis that I dislike, but sometimes I feel that the 'share' metrics are not entirely accurate. I have found discrepancies in my data from time to time. **Recommendations to others considering ShareThis Share Buttons:** Make sure that you have your website administrator place that code on your site for the ShareThis widget. Without proper implementation, your share button will not work properly and you will not be effectively using the tool! **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are expanding our social reach organically by allowing our readers to share the content they find most valuable. Often times posting your own content organically falls flat. Seeing an article that a friend shares or recommends has a much greater weight. ### 7. Good for blog to share the links **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sumant l. | Tech Blogger, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2018 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** I find this software useful for blogs and websites with average requirements. The best part is you get to know the number of shares and other analytical data. I have used other tools also but this one has a separate dashboard and a panel to understand how the links are shared and how much engagement are you getting. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** I did not like the user interface and the way it shows data because it is much short and not that much detailed to understand the real-time scenario. I suggest upgrading this software more of a social media specific and blog specifically to gain more users. **Recommendations to others considering ShareThis Share Buttons:** Initially when you want to use this software do not expect too much but work on your basics and keep track of the engagement that you get. This way you will notice that slowly you are progressing and are able to understand all features of SHareThis software. **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** To some extent, I found that this software helped with my initial marketing and content strategies. This way it made easy to share links to all social media platforms and get the traffic on blog in large numbers. ### 8. Share with Sharethis **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Saikat S. | Associate Vice President - Product Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 28, 2019 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** It is simple and has more than 20 channels to immediately share on **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** There are multiple bugs. Eg: trying to share something on facebook. FB share page opened but automatically the page height going on increasing. **Recommendations to others considering ShareThis Share Buttons:** Simple to implement plugin. Make use of this to shave time and make it simple for your users. **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is for personal user. Whenever, I need to share something over different channel, I use it wherever embedded. When I need to get my content shared, instead of bringing in FB, Linkedin and multiple other channel share button, i use Sharethis ### 9. share this is a fantastic tool to share with great ease of use! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** share this is a fantastic tool to share with great ease of use! business viability lies in its collection and treatment of data about its users' activities. ShareThis knows which stories users engage with--the ones they forward and save. Compared with Google, ShareThis gets more interesting data from Web surfers. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** Data collection is good but wishing there was more of it. There's great potential but room to evolve to a better data collection to a higher level will make this product one of the best if not the best. Data right now is half of the game to define whether you win or lose in any business. **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data collection is one critical component solved. Benefits realized if to have better analysis to define decisions. ### 10. Best but need improvements **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishnu V. | vishnu, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** What I like is flexibility of buttons resizing and options of more social media buttons. Admin panel and the embed code is also very easy to use. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** I feel the sharing buttons loads slowly. I feel they have to appear as fast as other local content. That's the only thing disappoints me. **Recommendations to others considering ShareThis Share Buttons:** I am now actually prefering ADD THIS for the same service. **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool actually makes my website easily sharable. I don't need to code for these buttons.These buttons also give me analytics of usage. ### 11. Convenient social integration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** ShareThis is a one stop shop for social integration across your website, allowing us to track engagement with the click of a button **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** The share buttons that end up on your website are quite slow and the interface that allows you to track engagement is quite buggy, without the option to go in and reconfigure it for yourself **Recommendations to others considering ShareThis Share Buttons:** Try it out, get started and once a pipeline is established, move on to bigger and better products **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** ShareThis helped us to get stared quickly with social integration, ensuring that the content we post is easily available on almost all major platforms without any hassle. Most of the incoming traffic is through social media and chances are, ShareThis has led to a ton of this ### 12. Pretty good for easily sharing content **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** I like the interface of ShareThis and the ease of using the features. You can share practically anything online to your website or webpage. There are analytic tools as well as follow, reaction, and share buttons. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** I don't particularly like the toolbar and I wish there were a few more opportunities for customization. **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving the problem of needing to add easy share buttons to my website. ShareThis is a good tool to solve that issue. ### 13. ShareThis Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Emily C. | Associate Digital Strategist , Marketing and Advertising, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** It enables us to reach our target audience for various clients **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** it would be beneficial to know what social platforms the user was sharing content in - for example if we tap into an audience of those who interacted with craftsmen content on social media, what platform was it in? **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** it enables us to reach audiences who are interacting with our brand and characteristics of our brand via social media ### 14. Learn how to use it to your advantage **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Divija M. | Undergraduate Student Researcher - Zenyuk Lab, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** The analytical data and statistics provide valuable information for the user interaction with your blog. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** The user interface can be tricky to use but once you know how to use it well, the advantage is all yours. **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** ShareThis has helped in understanding my blog’s user interaction and an easy platform to share links of your blog and market it on social media. ### 15. Very useful tool! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric P. | IT Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2018 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** What I like most is highly customizable sharethis is. I also like how easy it is to share online contents using the sharethis buttons. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** There's really nothing i dislike about sharethis. It works very well. **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** At work, we have the sharethis buttons on pur websites to make it easy to share content on various social networks. ### 16. ShareThis **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Paper & Forest Products | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** One quick way to share content to other people **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** doesn't have all the options for what I want to share to **Recommendations to others considering ShareThis Share Buttons:** great one use tool for sharing out data to different sources **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy and convenient way to share content ### 17. Easy to use, and necessary tak for web sites **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Relations and Communications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** Easy to use and set up, and it gets the job done **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** NOthing. It's pretty upfront and does what it's supposed to do **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** Makes it easier for people to share content ### 18. A fast and easy way to add sharing functionality to your site **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew R. | Creative Director, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2017 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** ShareThis has always made it extremely easy to add sharing buttons to my projects. The amount of social media platforms automatically included is great. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** I wish there were more ways to customize the look and styles of your buttons. **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** While I do know how to code, it's always a hassle to add individual sharing buttons for every social media platform. ### 19. Works Well! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2016 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** I love how I can share anything I find online with the ShareThis feature. It makes surfing the internet that much more seamless. For instance, when I am reading the news or surfing the net, I can easily share an article to my social networks with only a couple clicks without having to leave my current page or browser. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** I wish that the ShareThis buttons were a tad bit larger. There have been websites that I visit where I did not see the buttons right away. When someone has to look for the button then using the ShareThis feature might be underutilized. For me, I usually want to share something impulsively and, oftentimes, if I cannot find the ShareThis feature then I am less likely to use it. **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** At work, my position is a lot of community management and so I use the ShareThis feature often whenever I find things I know my networks will enjoy reading, watching, or engaging with online. I usually present LGBT news to my work platforms, and the ShareThis feature really allows me to do my work seamlessly! ### 20. Easy content management and analytics **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2015 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** I like how well it works with Wordpress! It's very easy to set up and work with. Easy to to interact with! It's nice to be able to see what articles are being shared and what social platforms are being utilized. Allows me to see a bit more into my what my blog readers are interested in. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** I have been using for a short time. Don't really have any dislikes that I have discovered so far. **Recommendations to others considering ShareThis Share Buttons:** Definitely recommend ShareThis. Great for keeping an eye on your content that you post to your blog! **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** The solution that Sharethis offers is is content management. Being able to keep an eye on my content that is posted to my blog and I can see where it is being posted to on several social platforms. ### 21. Easy share plugin for WordPress sites - and more **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2015 **What do you like best about ShareThis Share Buttons?** I like that ShareThis is pretty customizable, and will work with pretty much any type of site. For major CMSes (e.g. WordPress, Drupal), it's essentially plug and play. **What do you dislike about ShareThis Share Buttons?** Not much I dislike about the tool. ShareThis is pretty easy to use. **What problems is ShareThis Share Buttons solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've used ShareThis for share functionality on multiple websites, with multiple CMS platforms. If done right (and, of course, if the content is compelling), ShareThis will help increase your social shares. ## ShareThis Share Buttons Discussions - [What is ShareThis Share Buttons used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-sharethis-share-buttons-used-for) - [View ShareThis Share Buttons pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/sharethis-share-buttons/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+09%3A36%3A05+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=87eb7f9b-323e-48c6-9548-5d46a595da47&secure%5Btoken%5D=61b768535cb1be435ba613dafda6e7de4fc4b3f56d22322296fb346f414ce530&format=llm_user) ## ShareThis Share Buttons Features **Content Creation** - Content Curation - Content Management **Agentic AI - Content Distribution** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Optimization** - A/B Testing - ROI Reporting ## Top ShareThis Share Buttons Alternatives - [AddThis](https://www.g2.com/products/addthis/reviews) - 3.6/5.0 (17 reviews) - [ContentStudio](https://www.g2.com/products/contentstudio/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (342 reviews) - [SocialPilot](https://www.g2.com/products/socialpilot/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (835 reviews)