Looking for the best social media contest app? Whether it’s a simple Facebook sweepstakes form or an Instagram photo contest, here are the paid and free tools for social media giveaways marketers are using.
A social media contest can be a great way to reward loyal customers and attract new ones. There are several tools you can utilize to implement your giveaway once your objectives and prizes have been decided upon. These best-in-class tools will help you create a landing page, manage your contest, and maintain the database of entries. Our list of top ten social media contest apps includes platforms, pricing (always check the provider for the most current), and case studies where available.
Wishpond
Wishpond is a best-in-class contest platform that uses smart AI-powered marketing tools. The intelligent AI-powered marketing hub streamlines ideation, automates execution, and enables smarter scaling. It offers goal-driven solutions to capture quality leads, boost reach, grow followers, or customer engagement. AI analyzes various data points, including user interactions with your promotions(entries, shares, etc.), form submission details, and campaign performance metrics to provide actionable insights.
Compatible Platforms
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X), Pinterest, Website
More than contests. Wishpond is an all-in-one marketing platform to generate sales and leads.
Wishpond emphasizes that you can publish contests anywhere, including:
- Your website or landing page
- WordPress/blog
- Mobile
- A Wishpond-hosted page
- Facebook pages
Campaign Types
Sweepstakes, Viral Giveaways, UGC Contests (Photo & Video), Shopping, Leaderboard, Vote Contests, Essay Contests, Photo Caption Contests, Group Offers, Hashtag Contests, Coupons, Referral Promotions
Pricing
Plans scale to your business. Schedule a demo for pricing details.
Customer Case Studies
Walmart, Lululemon, Diamond Candles, YYoga, Blue Cross, CBS, and other various types of businesses.
Our Notes
- The app installs on your Facebook page prior to publishing live campaign.
- Can integrate with Shopify, Salesforce, MailChimp, AWeber, Eventbrite, SurveyMonkey, Slack, Infusionsoft, Highrise, Constant Contact, and other tools
- Landing pages or embeds to your website
- Templates available
- White Label plans are available
Also on our blog: Learn how to run a contest with Wishpond
Heyo
Heyo is a goal-oriented platform geared to grow leads and engagement. In addition, it can help grow your email list and social followers.
Compatible Platforms
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X), Website
Campaign Types
Viral Sweepstakes, Giveaways, Coupons, UGC Contests (Photo & Video), Multiple Format Contests, Quiz
Heyo Pricing
Low cost single campaign monthly plans, annual discounts, and agency plan. Free trial available.
Customer Case Studies
Client list includes Petsmart, Soutwest, Pink Victoria’s Secret, with examples available from various businesses.
Our Notes
- Landing pages with drag and drop builder and embed to your web page or Facebook.
- Templates available
- Moderation tools
- Email marketing integration with several services: Mailchimp, Madmimi, Constantcontact, Aweber and more
- Visual and easy to design, without designing or coding
Wyng
Wyng (formerly Offerpop) focuses on promotions that collect email addresses. It’s ideal for retailers and brands looking to run regular and recurring promotions.
Compatible Platforms
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X), Website
Campaign Types
Sweepstakes, Instant Win, Shoppable Experiences, Receipt-Based Activations, UGC Contests (Photo & Video), Voting, Countdown Calendars, Loyalty Code, Unlock Deals, Fan Faves, Caption Contests, Meme Contests, Trivia, Sampling, and Gamification
Pricing
Pricing not published. Contact for details. Full service with fulfillment available.
Customer Case Studies
Disney, TripAdvisor, Annie’s, LG, Spotify, SoulCycle, McCormick, and more.
Our Notes
- Cannot explore the platform without scheduling a sales demo
- Build customizable entry policies
- Nice UGC gallery and guided shopping journey
- Embeds to your web page
- Scalable across sites, brands, or regions
- Geo-targeting for multiple countries and regions, plus translate campaigns with one click (supports 17 languages)
WooBox
WooBox offers a single platform for all your interactive content experiences. It leverages AI to design the experience exactly the way you imagine it. Woobox runs the platform behind it — hosting, forms, leads, analytics, and the complete dashboard. It’s ideal for creating a splashy landing page.
Compatible Platforms
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X), Tumblr, Website
Campaign Types
Sweepstakes, Instant Win, Coupons, UGC Contests (Photo & Video), Hashtag Tracking, Quizzes, Polls, Brackets, Instant Win, Leaderboard, Lead Capture
Woobox Pricing
Woobox offers a free plan to start with tiered pricing plans to fit the size of your community.
Customer Case Studies
Live Promotions available to preview what brands are currently doing under each promotion category.
Our Notes
- Free AI campaign builder
- Tons of templates to choose from
- Translation options for any language
- Embeds to your web page or Facebook page
- White label plans are available
Shortstack
ShortStack focuses on goal-based social media strategy. Whether you’re looking to grow your followers, email list, or brand engagement, they have a format for everything.
Compatible Platforms
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Website
Campaign Types
Sweepstakes, Giveaways, UGC Contests (Photo & Video), Hashtag Tracking, Engagement Tracking, Voting Contests, Instant Win, Games, Referral, Instagram Promotions, Product Launches, Polls
Shortstack Pricing
Free plan available with limited campaign views. Monthly or discounted annual plans to fit the size of your business. Free trial available.
Customer Case Studies
Examples are available from various types of industries.
Our Notes
- Specify hashtag with or without mentions to qualify entry
- UGC galleries with voting
- Content moderation tools
- Built-in email collection
- Embed to your web page with popup options
- Templates available
- Integrate with YouTube, WordPress, MailChimp, Constant Contact, Vimeo, and AWeber
Votigo
Votigo (formerly Binkd) helps you turn social media participation into real brand engagement. Votigo makes it easy to launch and manage social media and hashtag activations. Plus, they offer end-to-end program management.
Compatible Platforms
Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter (X), Reddit, BeReal, Website, Instagram
Campaign Types
Sweepstakes, Comment-to-enter, Hashtag Tracking, Chatbot Auto-DM Promos, UGC Contests (Photo & Video), Instant Win Games, Purchase Loyalty & Rewards, Receipt-Based Activations
Votigo Pricing
Monthly or discounted annual plans to fit the size of your business. Full service with fulfillment available.
Customer Case Studies
Modelo, Accuwether, M&M’s, GoPro, and other examples are available.
Our Notes
- You can try a basic contest for free with no commitment
- No coding skills are necessary to see the app
- Developer API
- AI sweepstakes
- Landing page creator that can embed to your website
- UGC gallery
- Self-service and full-service options
Tradable Bits
The Tradable Bits platform is custom-built to help sports, music, and entertainment brands get their data off third-party platforms and turn casual followers into devout superfans.
Compatible Platforms
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Spotify, Website
Campaign Types
Comment-to-enter, Hashtag Tracking, Chatbot Auto-DM Promos, Photo Polls or Contests, Quiz, Instant Win, Promotion, Slideshow, Downloads, Reviews
Tradable Bits Pricing
Pricing not published. Contact for details.
Customer Case Studies
Live Nation, TicketMaster, sports teams, and more.
Our Notes
- Vast array of integrations, including eCommerce, Livestreaming, Ticketing, SMS, POS, Advertising, CRM
- Visual examples provided for each app offered
- Geared to sports, music, and entertainment for promoting ticket sales
- There is a free do-it-yourself option
- 50+ digital and in-venue engagement templates
- Embeds to your web page
- Integrates with Slack
- Rich media response and quick replies enabled
- Special rates for non-profit organizations
Iconosquare
Iconosquare is first and foremost a social analytics platform. And an excellent one. Go beyond basic metrics with Iconosquare’s unified analytics and reporting tools. Turn raw data from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), Pinterest and YouTube into actionable strategies to boost engagement, refine content, and prove ROI.
Compatible Platforms
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), Pinterest, YouTube
Campaign Types
Our favorite for Instagram hashtag photo contests.
Iconosquare Pricing
Must login to reveal pricing. Monthly or discounted annual plans to fit the size of your business. Free trial available.
Customer Case Studies
Open and Closed contests are available for viewing.
Our Notes
- See their free tool, “random comment picker,” useful for selecting a random winner on Facebook or Instagram.
- This app is Instagram-focused, but there are options to participate via Facebook, Twitter, and direct photo upload.
- Engagement is made easy with the ability to like and comment on entries within the platform.
- Embeds to your web page.
- UGC Photo gallery.
- Analytics, hashtag monitoring, and post scheduling.
More Top Social Media Tools
A contest app is one important tool of many that marketers need in their toolbox. While these apps will get your giveaway up and running, they stop there. For example, they do not provide comprehensive social media monitoring and post scheduling. For this, we like Sprout Social. Get more recommendations in our top 10 social media tools article. Need help designing and developing your contest? Contact Press Wizards for a free quote.
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Launchpad6 offer an extremely configurable and customisable contest platform for video, images, sound recordings and almost any type of document format you can think off. It provides a flexible web CMS for designing your own microsite designs as well as standard templates for creating branded sites in minutes. The solution also supports public voting and judging panels. It integrates seamlessly with all social platforms and you can even integrate and manage YouTube video contests. This is particularly interesting for YouTubers wanting to increase user generated content for their channels. The system seamlessly uploads entrants content to the contest owners YouTube channel. The status and category is also automatically set by the contest platform administrator.
Another neat capability is to create engagement scores for your entries. So instead of just judging entrant winners by votes or judging scores you can create complex scores that take a range of engagement actions into consideration such as likes, social shares, video progress views, votes, comments, etc.
Hi Andrew, Thank you for such a detailed response. I contacted Launchpad6 and am currently waiting for a response. I must mention as well that I contacted all 10 companies listed in this Blog and only WooBox offered a telephone number where one has the opportunity to speak to a live person. Although WooBox does not provide the capabilities to integrate and manage YouTube video contests (in which I really need) if Launchpad6 does not provide all that you have stated I will go with WooBox just because they were more than willing to take the time to discuss what the company does bring to the table.
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