ShareThis Vs. Social9

Social9 is now positioned as an AI-powered social media content and tools platform. It focuses on helping marketers and creators discover tools, compare schedulers, and work with agencies, rather than providing a dedicated social share button solution.

ShareThis, by contrast, is built specifically to give publishers free, lightweight share and follow buttons (plus related website tools) that you can easily add to any site with a small code snippet.

With Social9, you browse an AI-powered tools collection and directories for social media tools, schedulers, and agencies. The platform is designed to help you research and select third-party tools for managing and growing your social media presence.

ShareThis works differently: you configure your share (and follow) buttons in a simple web dashboard, then paste one snippet of code into your site. From there, you can change design, placement, and networks from the ShareThis platform—no need to reinstall plugins or touch your site code every time you want to update your buttons.

Social9’s business model today centers around its tools directory, comparisons, and partner offerings. Pricing depends on the specific third-party tools or services you choose through their platform, rather than a simple “Social9 share button” plan.

ShareThis offers share buttons, follow buttons, and more website tools — with configuration, customization, and analytics included at no cost.

Most current discussion around Social9 focuses on it as a social media tools and agency discovery platform, not as a share-button plugin. Historically, when Social9 offered a share widget, users often liked the basic “plug-and-play” approach, but more advanced setups reported limitations and bugs in some configurations.

If you primarily want reliable, easy-to-manage share buttons for your website, ShareThis is generally viewed as the more direct option: purpose-built for sharing, privacy-conscious, and maintained as a dedicated publisher tool rather than an add-on to a broader marketplace.

The main difference is focus:

• Social9 today
  • AI-powered platform centered on social media tools, schedulers, comparisons, and agencies
  • Helps marketers evaluate and connect with third-party tools and services
  • Not primarily positioned as a share-button provider anymore
• ShareThis
  • Free, dedicated share and follow buttons for websites
  • Simple script-based installation that works across CMSs and custom sites
  • Centralized web dashboard for design, placement, networks, and behavior
  • Extra tools like image share, reaction buttons, analytics, and a consent management solution

If your goal is specifically to add or improve social share buttons on your site, ShareThis is the more focused, out-of-the-box solution, while Social9 is now geared more toward broader social media tooling and agency discovery.