# ShareThis review (2026): is it any good? > Free share, follow and reaction buttons for publishers Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. ShareThis offers inline, sticky, image and video share buttons for more than 40 channels, plus follow buttons, reaction buttons, a consent management tool and a privacy policy generator. The site describes it as free to start, with sharing analytics included in every product. - **Category:** Popups & Website Widgets - **Made by:** ShareThis - **Website:** https://sharethis.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you care about who gets visitor data: ShareThis also runs a data business. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, ShareThis is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** Share buttons and other tools are described as free; Sharing Intelligence analytics is included at no cost. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Inline, sticky, image and video share buttons, follow and reaction buttons, and Sharing Intelligence analytics. | Read from https://sharethis.com/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with ShareThis before buying. ## Key features - **Share buttons for 40+ channels:** Inline and sticky bars, image buttons shown on hover, and video share buttons. - **Sharing Intelligence:** Share counts per page and network, channel analytics and top shared content, included with every product. - **AI assistants as share targets:** Share buttons can include ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity beside social networks. - **Follow and reaction buttons:** Follow buttons for your social profiles and one-tap reaction buttons on articles. - **Consent and privacy tools:** A consent management platform for GDPR and US privacy notices, and a privacy policy generator. - **API and MCP server:** A REST Headless API and an MCP server at mcp.sharethis.com manage properties and tools without the dashboard. ## Good for - Publishers who want free share buttons with per-page share counts - WordPress, Shopify, Angular, React or Cloudflare sites using a ready plugin - Sites that also need a free consent notice or privacy policy tool ## Worth knowing - ShareThis also runs a data business, and the site shows an advertising-partner consent notice and an opt-out link. - The pages read show no paid plan, so what the free tools cost in data terms is covered by its privacy policy, not by a price. - Some tools, such as the consent platform, are separate products with their own pages that were not read here. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 3.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. ShareThis offers share, follow and reaction buttons for more than 40 channels, free to start. It also runs a data business, and the site shows an advertising-partner consent notice with an opt-out link. - **Value for money: A.** Free, with no paid plan shown on the pages we read. - **Free plan and trial: A.** Free outright, with analytics included at no cost. - **Features: C.** Share, follow and reaction buttons, analytics, consent tools, an API and an MCP server. The consent platform is a separate product we didn't read. - **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record. Paste in a snippet or use a plugin and the buttons appear. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with WordPress, Shopify, React, Angular and Cloudflare, plus an API. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from ShareThis's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among popup and widget tools - ShareThis's GPA of 3.2 is higher than 53 of the 54 other popup and widget tools we grade, and level with 1. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 53 of 54) and worst on features (C, above 0). - ShareThis has no paid plan. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/popups ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** ShareThis is free, so making your own would save you nothing. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.2 is higher than 53 of the 54 other popup and widget tools we grade. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, Shopify and ReactJS among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, Shopify, ReactJS, Angular, Cloudflare, ChatGPT **Tags:** Public API, Reports ## Alternatives - [AddToAny](https://toolgpa.com/tools/addtoany): Free share buttons for websites and WordPress. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/addtoany-vs-sharethis) - [Social Snap](https://toolgpa.com/tools/social-snap): WordPress plugin for social sharing, follow and auto-posting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sharethis-vs-social-snap) - [Elfsight](https://toolgpa.com/tools/elfsight): Library of 90+ website widgets, from popups to reviews and feeds. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/elfsight-vs-sharethis) - [POWR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/powr): Library of 60+ website widgets, from popups and forms to feeds. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/powr-vs-sharethis) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://sharethis.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/sharethis Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).