ShareThis is the all-in-one solution to grow and engage your audience

ShareThis social sharing tools are used by over 3 million sites and publishers to make it easy for visitors to share content and grow traffic. Our share, follow, reaction, and image share buttons are free to use, lightweight, and quick to install on platforms like WordPress, Shopify, and popular CMSs. They’re designed to match your brand with flexible layout, sizing, color, and language options, so your sharing experience feels native to your site.

ShareThis is also a product-focused organization with an engineering culture at its core. We process large volumes of behavioral data and use those insights to build smarter tools—like optimized share buttons and consent management—so publishers can boost engagement while staying ahead of privacy and performance expectations.

There are several alternatives to ShareThis, and each one focuses on slightly different needs—some lean more into email capture or monetization, while others primarily handle basic sharing. If you’re exploring options, some well-known names you’ll come across include:

• ShareThis vs. AddThis
• ShareThis vs. AddToAny
• ShareThis vs. Elfsight
• ShareThis vs. Shareaholic
• ShareThis vs. Social9
• ShareThis vs. Sumo

You can use the comparison pages above to see how each tool handles features like customization, performance, privacy, and pricing—and to understand why so many publishers choose ShareThis as their preferred way to power social sharing across their sites.

ShareThis is built to be simple, powerful, and accessible:

• Always free: Share, follow, reaction, and image share buttons are free to use, with no upgrade required just to keep basic sharing features.
• Fast and lightweight: Our code is designed to load asynchronously, so your share tools don’t slow down your pages.
• Highly customizable: You can control alignment, size, colors, labels, and which networks to show, making it easy to match your brand and layout.
• Global and multi-language: ShareThis supports dozens of popular social channels and multiple languages so your tools work for international audiences.

Many alternatives offer sharing features, but few combine always-free tools, strong customization, privacy-focused consent management, and an easy installation experience the way ShareThis does.

Yes. ShareThis provides customizable share and follow buttons that are designed to feel like a natural part of your site:

• Share buttons let visitors share your content across 40+ of the most popular social channels, including Facebook, WhatsApp, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
• You can place buttons inline near your headline or product, or as sticky/floating buttons that stay visible as visitors scroll.
• You can customize the alignment, size, color, and labels, and choose from more than a dozen languages so the buttons feel local to your audience.

ShareThis follow buttons make it just as easy for visitors to follow your social profiles, with bold, clickable designs you can tailor to your brand and embed in just a few steps.

hareThis goes beyond simple share and follow buttons to give publishers a full set of engagement and privacy tools that still stay easy to manage:

• Reaction Buttons – Invite visitors to instantly react to your content (love, laugh, wow, etc.) and turn passive readers into active participants, while capturing quick feedback on what resonates.
• Image Share Buttons – Let people share images directly from your pages to their favorite networks with one click.
• Privacy & Consent Tools (CMP) – A free Consent Management Platform that helps you manage cookie consent, track user preferences, and stay aligned with GDPR and other global privacy regulations—without needing a separate paid CMP.
• Privacy Policy Generator – Quickly generate a privacy policy that aligns with how you use ShareThis tools, helping you communicate clearly with visitors.
• Plugins & Integrations – Official plugins and integrations for platforms like WordPress, Shopify, React, and Angular make it easy to add ShareThis tools without custom development.

All of these tools are designed to be free to use, fast to install, and simple to customize—so you can spend less time configuring plugins and more time creating content and serving your audience