Alternatives To Instagress?

At this moment I use Instajool.com and enjoy it. Super user friendly, reasonably priced, and great customer support
 
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Im just trying instaplus trial and no problem so far, but instagress still much easier to use. Is massplaner easy to use as Instagress? Or anyone have recommendation? Thankyou
 
UPDATE ON NOWORRIESBOT

On my last day of the NoWorriesBot trial now.
TLDR: Not the best, but price point is reasonable and workable (one or two accounts).
Also they seem to be adding new features all the time. Just today, I noticed them adding username blacklist/whitelist.

The Bad:
  • The bot seriously needs a schedule section. In it's place is an option that allows you to choose to 'sleep' the actions for 3-4 hrs, but it's seriously too short and the bot ends up working too often. On my first day, I did 500 follow actions a day while my previous bot was doing 100 a day. I've since resorted to turning it off and on manually when I wake. Sure, I set my daily limits in the bot, but I would have preferred that I could schedule actions as well.
  • Server maintenance seems to occur very often. However, it goes away after a short while. When it does happen, you can't access the dashboard and the bot stops working. It's annoying, but nothing too serious. Even with this, I reckon the bot can still achieve the maximum 50 of each action (follow/unfollow/like) an hour. Not tempted to push the limits on my accounts though.
  • They really need alerts or email notifications when errors occur on the bot. For example, I set maximum following to 1200 before switching to unfollow cycle, but the bot did not start unfollow cycle and there were no alerts issued. I thought it was a system error, so I tried manually switching to unfollow cycle, but that stopped as well. I had to figure out by myself that it was due to me setting 'Min. Following Days' to 3, and so the bot, not seeing any accounts that were followed for 3 days or longer, did not unfollow anything. If there were alerts issued, it would probably have saved me the headache of having to figure it out myself. (Note: when unfollow failed, the system switched back to follow cycle)
  • Their definition of the start of a day is 'the very first activity by the bot'. I'm left guessing when I actually started it. Would have preferred if the system told me what time the start of a day is, so I don't have to wonder why the bot exceeded the daily limit when it actually didn't and it was actually a new 'day'.
  • I wish it let me like the posts of my own followers/following to boost engagement. I've remarked to the developer/customer service and they said they have this feature planned. Right now i'm resorting to a workaround of placing my own account as a source and only activating liking actions.
  • 'Slow' speed is too fast for new accounts I reckon. Averaging 27 follows/unfollows per hour, slightly more for likes. Needs a setting to customize this speed, cause otherwise you can't go slower than this.
The Good:
  • Cheap for one or two accounts, especially when buying in bulk (potentially USD$8.3/mth when purchasing for 15 months, $8.75/mth if purchasing for 4 months. Usual price $10/mth). It's not so cheap that I would question how they survive, so I reckon it's a pretty reasonable price. You'll be better off using FL/MP if you were scaling up the amount of accounts though. Take note also that these prices for the basic package do not include dm-ing and commenting on your own post functions; those are separate purchases at $10/mth each, which i feel is too expensive. You can still automate comments in the basic package though, just not reply to anyone. I don't need commenting or dm-ing functionality tbh, but to each their own.
  • Stats. I love the stats. I'm not sure how some services (*ahem* Instagress) can work without stats. This bot takes actions divided by successful follows and produces an overall success percentage. I usually kill off sources that have less than 10% success rate.
  • Schedule post function. I haven't tested this though, cause they do not have commenting after posting (for hashtags) so I might as well post it myself. Also it doesn't seem to support portrait or landscape, just square. So probably never using it until they fix that. Also no tagging.
  • It's basic functions works as a bot should work.
So far I haven't found any other bot that has the analytics function and can beat NWB's price (except MP). I'll probably be sticking to this until a better alternative comes along.
 
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Following for this weekend. I am switching some of my clients from Instagress to another platform.
 
@coitza is MP using Instagram's API or is it emulating phone usage like the bot that @rootjazz is providing?

I would love some clarificarion here, thanks :)
 
VaporGold said:
UPDATE ON NOWORRIESBOT

On my last day of the NoWorriesBot trial now.
TLDR: Not the best, but price point is reasonable and workable (one or two accounts).
Also they seem to be adding new features all the time. Just today, I noticed them adding username blacklist/whitelist.

The Bad:
  • The bot seriously needs a schedule section. In it's place is an option that allows you to choose to 'sleep' the actions for 3-4 hrs, but it's seriously too short and the bot ends up working too often. On my first day, I did 500 follow actions a day while my previous bot was doing 100 a day. I've since resorted to turning it off and on manually when I wake. Sure, I set my daily limits in the bot, but I would have preferred that I could schedule actions as well.
  • Server maintenance seems to occur very often. However, it goes away after a short while. When it does happen, you can't access the dashboard and the bot stops working. It's annoying, but nothing too serious. Even with this, I reckon the bot can still achieve the maximum 50 of each action (follow/unfollow/like) an hour. Not tempted to push the limits on my accounts though.
  • They really need alerts or email notifications when errors occur on the bot. For example, I set maximum following to 1200 before switching to unfollow cycle, but the bot did not start unfollow cycle and there were no alerts issued. I thought it was a system error, so I tried manually switching to unfollow cycle, but that stopped as well. I had to figure out by myself that it was due to me setting 'Min. Following Days' to 3, and so the bot, not seeing any accounts that were followed for 3 days or longer, did not unfollow anything. If there were alerts issued, it would probably have saved me the headache of having to figure it out myself. (Note: when unfollow failed, the system switched back to follow cycle)
  • Their definition of the start of a day is 'the very first activity by the bot'. I'm left guessing when I actually started it. Would have preferred if the system told me what time the start of a day is, so I don't have to wonder why the bot exceeded the daily limit when it actually didn't and it was actually a new 'day'.
  • I wish it let me like the posts of my own followers/following to boost engagement. I've remarked to the developer/customer service and they said they have this feature planned. Right now i'm resorting to a workaround of placing my own account as a source and only activating liking actions.
  • 'Slow' speed is too fast for new accounts I reckon. Averaging 27 follows/unfollows per hour, slightly more for likes. Needs a setting to customize this speed, cause otherwise you can't go slower than this.
The Good:
  • Cheap for one or two accounts, especially when buying in bulk (potentially USD$8.3/mth when purchasing for 15 months, $8.75/mth if purchasing for 4 months. Usual price $10/mth). It's not so cheap that I would question how they survive, so I reckon it's a pretty reasonable price. You'll be better off using FL/MP if you were scaling up the amount of accounts though. Take note also that these prices for the basic package do not include dm-ing and commenting on your own post functions; those are separate purchases at $10/mth each, which i feel is too expensive. You can still automate comments in the basic package though, just not reply to anyone. I don't need commenting or dm-ing functionality tbh, but to each their own.
  • Stats. I love the stats. I'm not sure how some services (*ahem* Instagress) can work without stats. This bot takes actions divided by successful follows and produces an overall success percentage. I usually kill off sources that have less than 10% success rate.
  • Schedule post function. I haven't tested this though, cause they do not have commenting after posting (for hashtags) so I might as well post it myself. Also it doesn't seem to support portrait or landscape, just square. So probably never using it until they fix that. Also no tagging.
  • It's basic functions works as a bot should work.
So far I haven't found any other bot that has the analytics function and can beat NWB's price (except MP). I'll probably be sticking to this until a better alternative comes along.
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Thanks so much for the update!

I might try this after I try the instaplus trial.

Wolfgar said:
Following for this weekend. I am switching some of my clients from Instagress to another platform.
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Let us us know what you end up doing!
 
dgusic said:
@coitza is MP using Instagram's API or is it emulating phone usage like the bot that @rootjazz is providing?
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considering what happened to instagress i hope you'll understand when I won't reply to that question, all you need to know is it works :) nothing else, it's safer for everybody
 
Check out https://peerboost.com... I've been using it since Instagress got shut down and it's basically the same thing. It has been working great for me so far. They need to add some features, such as blacklisting, but other than that it suits my needs perfectly and I've got a bunch of new followers, etc.
 
https://peerboost.com... link didn't work in my last post for whatever reason.
 
Swan60 said:
Check out PeerBoost... I've been using it since Instagress got shut down and it's basically the same thing. It has been working great for me so far. They need to add some features, such as blacklisting, but other than that it suits my needs perfectly and I've got a bunch of new followers, etc.
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Cheers mate, I have been looking for this very thing. Great suggestion
 
I also used to promote my Instagram with Instagress. But I have great news for Instagress-users. You'll get 50% discount on zen-promo.com if you have proofs of using Instagress before. I just sent to zen-promo support screens of my instagres payments and bought 1 month promotion for 5$!
 
I see someone switched to zen-promo.com too. I was looking for alternatives after Instagress shouting down and saw that they offer discount to ex-users of Instagress. It seemed attractive for me and I tried. You know I used this app not for long time but it's really good. Sad that Instagress is closed but good that I can keep going as I did before.
 
I can't believe it's closed. What am I gonna do? I got used to this app so much...
 
Odd, peerboost couldn't find my instagram user name and Zen kept telling me that my email didn't exist lol.
 
I have been using Instajool.com and it is fantastic plus compared to similar software on the market it is very competitive starting at $2.99 per month. Plus you can schedule posts with Insta Jool a feature which Instagress lacked.
 
IMO I will suggest Mass Planner, you can do almost whatever you want. Very important is to find good Proxy to avoid bans.
 
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