Everything PodSwap does on Instagram
Everything PodSwap does on Instagram: free comments, saves, shares, followers and story views from matched creators by hand, PowerSwap, the free tools, the shadowban and bracket references.
Start here
What the system is and whether it is safe, before anything else.
- How PodSwap works Every mechanism with its real constants — the matching engine, Live Rooms, points, health score.
- Trust and safety No password, no Instagram API, no automation — and how delivery is confirmed without taking anyone at their word.
- How we measure What is excluded from every statistic on this site, and what renders nothing rather than being estimated.
- Glossary Follower bracket, match score, Live Room, instant tier — defined once.
The five exchanges
Comments, shares, saves, follows and stories. Each keeps its own points balance.
- Engagement groups explained What a pod is, how PodSwap differs from a group chat, and why matching by bracket comes first.
- Comments Opens at 7 creators. The highest-intent action on the board.
- Shares Opens at 7 creators. Your post, on someone else's story.
- Saves Opens at 7 creators. The signal that a post was worth returning to.
- Followers Opens at 7 creators. Deduped permanently — one follow per pair, ever.
- Stories Opens at 7 creators. Pairwise dedup per calendar month.
- PowerSwap All five in one session, at a better rate.
- Shoutout for shoutout The S4S mechanic, and where it differs from the exchanges.
Free tools
No account needed for most of them.
- Shadowban scanner Seven weighted signals. Instagram publishes no shadowban status, so this is an inference and never a confirmation.
- Podscore caption rubric A 100-point caption audit. The browser grader covers the four deterministic components and reports out of 70.
- Pre-flight checklist What to check before you post.
- Viral predictor Scored against the corpus, with its own error bars.
- Hashtag density Published monthly from the corpus.
- Account insights Public profile data only. No Instagram Insights, so reach and impressions appear nowhere.
- Content performance How your last posts did against your own baseline.
- All growth protocols The full list of free services in one place.
Reference
The two Instagram clusters, published in full.
Research and directories
What the corpus shows, and who else is on it.
- Growth guides Long-form guides by subject.
- Niche hub Guides across every category we have data for.
- Most-read niche guides The niche guides creators open most often on this site.
- Creator directory Public profiles that have been through the exchange.
- Creator directory guide How the directory is built, who appears in it, and how collaboration requests work.
- Engagement leaderboards Who gives the most, aggregated.
- Blog Everything else.
The other platform
TikTok is open. You can connect a TikTok account and use the comment exchange, which is the first of the four TikTok exchanges to ship. Watch, Saves and Deep Dive are written and tested and have not shipped — members vote on which opens next. The TikTok pages describe exactly what exists, what was deliberately not built, and why there is no date.