ShareThis Vs. Shareaholic

Shareaholic is a content marketing and audience-growth platform that bundles several tools into one plugin—social share buttons, related posts, content analytics, and monetization features like affiliate links and sponsored content. It’s designed for publishers who want an all-in-one dashboard to manage engagement and revenue.

If you don’t need built-in monetization or related content, and mainly want fast, reliable share buttons, a focused solution like ShareThis can be easier to set up and maintain.

Shareaholic works as a suite of “apps” you enable from a single dashboard. After installing the plugin, you can turn on floating or in-content share buttons, image share buttons, social follow buttons, related content recommendations, analytics, and different monetization options. Each app has its own settings for things like which networks to show, where buttons appear, and how ads or sponsored content are displayed.

By contrast, ShareThis concentrates on plug-and-play share, follow, reaction, and image/video share buttons. You add your code once, customize your design, and your buttons are ready—without needing to manage multiple modules.

Shareaholic offers a free plan with access to its core tools, plus paid plans for sites that need more advanced analytics, monetization, and support. Pricing typically scales from entry-level packages up to enterprise options.

ShareThis takes a different approach: our share, follow, reaction, and image/video share buttons are free to use. You can add social tools to your site without worrying about upgrading a plan just to keep basic sharing features.

Reviewers often appreciate that Shareaholic combines social sharing, related posts, analytics, and monetization in one plugin. For some publishers, that “all-in-one” model is convenient and reduces the number of plugins they need to manage.

Others point out that enabling many modules can add complexity, and they prefer to keep sharing separate from advertising or content-recommendation networks. Those users often choose ShareThis when they want a dedicated sharing layer that stays lightweight, focused on UX, and independent from monetization settings.

Both ShareThis and Shareaholic offer social share buttons, but they focus on different priorities:

• ShareThis
  • Always-free share, follow, reaction, image and video share buttons
  • Supports 40+ social channels with mobile-optimized designs
  • Simple setup across platforms like WordPress, Shopify, and more
  • Lightweight, asynchronous code designed not to slow down your site
  • Straightforward, brand-friendly customization without extra monetization layers
• Shareaholic
  • Social share buttons plus related posts, analytics, and monetization tools
  • Options to insert affiliate links, sponsored content, and additional ads
  • Central dashboard to manage multiple “apps” and placements from one place

If your main goal is to give visitors an easy, fast way to share your content with fully customizable, always-free buttons, ShareThis is often the cleaner fit. If you specifically want to combine sharing with on-site monetization and related content in a single plugin, Shareaholic may be worth testing alongside ShareThis.