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Every tool on this site

Blog Pricing

TikTok

The comment exchange is open

Blog Pricing

Exchanges

Give engagement by hand, receive it from real creators.

Premium Instagram Pods The exchange itself, and how a room opens. Pods, Kind by Kind Comment pods, save pods, share pods, follow pods, story pods — explained. Everything Free Every free exchange on both platforms, in one place. The Comment Exchange Real comments, written by hand. The Share Exchange The highest-weighted signal Instagram has. The Save Exchange The retention signal, from real accounts. The Follower Exchange Followers who arrive from your niche. The Story Views Exchange Views on the stories you already post. PowerSwap Every exchange in one session, at a better rate.

Free tools

Point these at your own account. Free, no sign-up.

Growth Protocols Every free tool and service in one index. Shadowban Scanner Is your reach being throttled? Account Insights Deep analytics other platforms charge for. Content Performance Which of your posts actually travelled, and why. Viral Predictor Distribution forecasting for a post. Podscore The published rubric, applied to your caption. Pre-flight Checklist Account health and post hygiene, before you publish.

Research

What our own corpus shows about the algorithm.

Algorithmic Insights Reverse-engineered reach, published monthly. Hashtag Density Metadata saturation, month by month. Shadowban Signals The seven signals, and what each one costs. Follower Brackets Nano to mega, and why matching uses them.

Community

Find creators to collaborate with.

Everything on Instagram Every exchange, tool and guide in one index. Creator Directory Find and collaborate with verified creators. How the Directory Works The ten weighted signals behind the ranking. Shoutouts (S4S) A collaboration format, not a points exchange. Growth Guides Free strategies, by niche. Engagement Leaderboards Five monthly boards, with free points to win.

Learn

How PodSwap works, and who is accountable for it.

How PodSwap Works Matching, Live Rooms and the points economy. The AI Growth System The agent that designed, built and runs PodSwap. The AI Operator A ledger of what the agent actually did. Methodology What we measure, exclude and cannot know. Glossary Every term this site uses, defined. Trust and Safety Verification, disputes and what we refuse to build. AI FAQ What the agent does, and what it never touches.

Niches

Growth guides for every niche, on seven platforms.

The Niches Hub Guides for every niche, on seven platforms. Most-read Niche Guides The niche guides creators open most often.

Help

How to use it, what changed, and who decides what is next.

Help Centre Step-by-step guides to every part of the product. Changelog Every release, dated, with what changed. Community Members vote on which exchange opens next.

Exchanges

One of the four is open. Each row says which.

The Comment Exchange Open. A matched creator writes a real comment, by hand. Free TikTok Comments What you get, what it costs (nothing), how to start. The Watch Exchange Built, not shipped. Members vote on what opens next. The Save Exchange Built, not shipped. Only ever paired with a watch. The Deep Dive Built, not shipped. A profile visit, not a post. PowerSwap on TikTok Offered. One session, a better rate, open whatever the hour.

Mechanics

How matching, rooms and the safety limits work.

How the TikTok Side Works The index of every mechanism. Getting Started Eight steps from sign-in to your first comment. Rooms The headcount each one opens at, and why. Matching Bracket first, subject second. Safety Rails Every limit, with the key that sets it. Points and Pricing What each action costs, and why.

Questions

Answered in TikTok's own published vocabulary.

All the Questions Answered in TikTok's own vocabulary. Engagement Groups What they are, and what PodSwap runs instead. Is This Against the Rules? What the guidelines actually prohibit. Why My Views Dropped The five states behind a drop. Am I Shadowbanned? TikTok never uses the word. Check Your Account Status Where the platform tells you itself.

Learn

How PodSwap works, and who is accountable for it.

How PodSwap Works Matching, Live Rooms and the points economy. The AI Growth System The agent that designed, built and runs PodSwap. The AI Operator A ledger of what the agent actually did. Methodology What we measure, exclude and cannot know. Glossary Every term this site uses, defined. Trust and Safety Verification, disputes and what we refuse to build. AI FAQ What the agent does, and what it never touches.

Niches

Growth guides for every niche, on seven platforms.

The Niches Hub Guides for every niche, on seven platforms. Most-read Niche Guides The niche guides creators open most often.

Help

How to use it, what changed, and who decides what is next.

Help Centre Step-by-step guides to every part of the product. Changelog Every release, dated, with what changed. Community Members vote on which exchange opens next.

Get the app

The native shell for the growth system. Free, and the same account as the web app.

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Follower brackets

The follower brackets

The ten audience bands PodSwap publishes data for, what engagement typically looks like in each, and why matching within a bracket matters more than matching a niche.

Newcomers

Under 500 followers

The widest bracket in practice, and the one where engagement rate is least meaningful — a single post reaching one extra person moves the percentage several points.

Community Builders

500+ followers

The point at which posting patterns start to show up in the data rather than being lost in noise.

Nano-Influencers

1,000+ followers

The band most brand marketplaces call "nano". Engagement rate is typically at its highest here across the whole ramp.

Micro-Influencers

2,500+ followers

Where content format starts to separate accounts more than posting frequency does.

Rising Voices

5,000+ followers

A common plateau. Reach stops tracking follower count and starts tracking whether individual posts earn distribution.

Mid-Tier

10,000+ followers

Engagement rate normally begins its long decline here — that is expected, not a fault.

Power Players

25,000+ followers

Reciprocal exchange gets harder simply because fewer accounts sit in the bracket.

Macro

50,000+ followers

Distribution is dominated by whether a post travels beyond your followers at all.

Verified Voices

100,000+ followers

Sample sizes in the PodSwap corpus thin out sharply above this point.

A-Listers

250,000+ followers

The highest bracket PodSwap publishes a page for. Above this the corpus is too small to say anything honest.

The matching engine uses seventeen brackets; ten are published here. PodSwap has no meaningful number of users above roughly 250,000 followers, so a page about the higher bands could only contain invented figures. See the methodology.