PodSwap is free.
It stays free.
Every exchange, every Live Room and every free tool, on both platforms, with no card and no trial. Four features are reserved for a paid tier and they are named below rather than discovered. The AI that runs the system is what makes that possible: there is no content team, no agency and no sales floor to pay for.
Standard
The whole app. It's always going to be there.
- No card, no trial, no expiry
- Every exchange and every Live Room, on both platforms
- Every free tool: shadowban scanner, Podscore, viral predictor, pre-flight checklist
- Monthly algorithm reports and the whole niche corpus
- Desktop and mobile apps included
Nothing on this list ever moves behind a paywall.
What's inside
Available to every member
- Five engagement exchanges: comments, shares, saves, followers and story views
- PowerSwap: every shipped exchange in one session, at a better rate, open whatever the hour
- Account insights, and content performance analytics on a paid tier
- Shadowban scanner, viral predictor, Podscore, pre-flight checklist
- Reel and bio optimizers
- Niche growth guides, research and the creator directory
- The comment exchange: a matched creator writes a real comment, by hand
- Watch, save and deep-dive exchanges: built, with members voting on what opens next
- PowerSwap on TikTok, open now against the comment exchange
- Rooms and bracket-first matching
- Safety rails on every TikTok action, each published with the setting that sets it
- Points and pricing you can read before you spend one
Both platforms come with the same account. Connect Instagram, TikTok or both. Every engagement is performed by a person, by hand, inside the app — no automation, no password and no API. Every free tool has its own page in the growth protocols index.
Free is the product, not the trial
There is no clock, and nothing on the free list expires or shrinks.
Nothing gets taken away
What is free today will still be free when paid tiers exist.
Why we can afford it
The system runs itself. There is no agency and no sales floor to pay for.
Later
Paid tiers are coming. Free isn't going anywhere.
They will exist for people who want more speed and more priority out of the app. They add on top of Free. They never carve into it.
Pro
Coming later- Growth Accelerated
- Queue speed and engagement priority Higher
- Per-post scoring, wider directory reach, 25 comment groups, 20 collaboration requests a day
Max
Coming later- Growth Maximum
- Queue speed and engagement priority Highest
- Everything in Pro, unlimited collaboration requests, and the best earn rate
Prices are indicative and may change before launch. Nothing listed under Free moves into these tiers.
Everything included in PodSwap
Core Account Management
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Multi-Account SupportConnect and manage multiple social media profiles from a single dashboard.
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Account VerificationSecure ownership confirmation and account synchronization.
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Native Cross-Platform AppsDedicated desktop applications for Windows, macOS, and Linux, plus a native Android app.
Growth Intelligence
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Viral PredictorA self-assessment rubric you fill in yourself, scored by a fixed weighted sum. It makes no prediction and reads nothing from your account.
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Algorithm Reverse-Engineered ReportsMonthly strategic insights into Instagram's latest ranking factors and hidden rules.
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Pre-Flight ChecklistA strategic step-by-step guide to follow before every post to ensure optimal performance.
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Bio SEO Optimizer & ToolkitAI analysis of your name and bio for the terms people search, plus keyword research. It suggests; it never edits your profile.
Engagement Accelerator
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Comment ExchangeDrive early comment velocity on your posts from a network of niche-relevant creators — signalling authority to the algorithm.
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Shares ExchangeObtain genuine shares from real accounts, one of the most powerful signals to Instagram's distribution engine.
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Saves ExchangeAccumulate saves — the #1 quality signal Instagram uses to determine if your content deserves broader reach.
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Followers ExchangeGrow your follower count with real, niche-matched accounts that genuinely care about your content.
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Stories ExchangeBoost story views and interactions to stay active in your followers' feeds and increase your reachable audience daily.
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Priority MatchingSmart algorithmic matching across all exchanges based on niche category, tone, and account size.
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Engagement Truth BombsAI-drafted "voting" and "hook" comments that invite a reply. It writes the suggestion; you post it yourself, by hand, like every other engagement here.
Content & Analytics
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Podscore AI Audit & Virality GenThe full 100-point caption score, including the 30 hook points only a language model can grade, plus AI-written caption rewrites.
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Smart Hashtag HygieneAutomatic selection of exactly 5 hyper-relevant hashtags, avoiding shadowbans.
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Identity & Health ScoreMeasure your account's authenticity and trust level within the algorithms.
Will PodSwap always be free?
Yes. Every engagement exchange, every Live Room, every free tool, the monthly algorithm reports, the whole niche corpus and the native apps are free, with no card. 4 features are reserved for a paid tier, and they are listed in full below rather than left to be discovered.
The Pro and Max tiers shown above have no billing integration, so they cannot be bought today and are waitlist-only. What is free now stays free: the reserved features are additions, not things carved out of the free tier.
Reserved for a paid tier
The 4 things that are not free
Every exchange, every Live Room, every free tool and the whole niche corpus are free, with no card and no sign-up for the tools. 4 features are reserved for a paid tier, and they are listed rather than discovered. There is no billing integration, so Pro and Max cannot be bought today and are waitlist-only.
| Feature | Free | Pro | Max |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per-post Podscore and content-performance scoring The job returns early for a Free account and is only dispatched for a paid one, so posts are never scored rather than scored more slowly. The Podscore rubric itself, and the grader you can paste a caption into, stay free. | Not scored | Scored | Scored |
| Creator directory Reach mode Widens the follower brackets the directory will show you. Free is not blocked from the directory, only from reaching further up it. | One bracket either side | Three down, two up | Three down, two up |
| Saved comment groups A cap on saved groups in the comments manager, not on comments you may write. | 10 | 25 | 25 |
| Collaboration requests a day A spam rail first and a tier perk second. Ten a day is more than most members send. | 10 | 20 | Unlimited |
Rate, not access
| Everyone gets it, at a different rate | Free | Pro | Max |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engagements given per point earned | 7 | 6 | 5 |
| Engagements given per point in a PowerSwap session | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| Daily streak target | 7 | 6 | 5 |
| Points per streak milestone before day 100 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Queue priority is not one number and is not mainly a tier feature. What a paid tier buys depends on the exchange. On comments the boost is 20 against a bracket term of 100,000, so it never outranks a closer bracket. On saves and shares it is 500,000, which does. On follows and stories there is no subscription term at all — position there is bought with unspent points and a completed profile. See every weight →
Frequently Asked Questions
Is PodSwap safe?
Yes, PodSwap is built with safety as our absolute highest priority. Every interaction is performed by hand by a real person inside the Instagram app, with no automation and no script. PodSwap never asks for your Service.
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