Everything PodSwap does on Instagram
The complete index of what PodSwap does on Instagram — five engagement exchanges, the free analytics tools, the shadowban and follower-bracket references, and the research. All free, all live.
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 an honest account of which exchanges cannot be verified.
- 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, ghost queue, 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 6 creators. Publicly verifiable.
- Shares Opens at 8 creators. Self-reported.
- Saves Opens at 8 creators. Self-reported.
- Followers Opens at 10 creators. Publicly verifiable.
- Stories Opens at 12 creators. Self-reported.
- 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.
- Top 50 niches The categories with the most creators on the platform, ranked.
- 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
A TikTok side is written and tested and is not open — no TikTok account can be connected and every room is closed. The TikTok pages describe exactly what exists, what was deliberately not built, and why there is no date.