⚡ Social Sharing

Social sharing tools are online widgets and plugins that allow users to easily share web content on social media platforms, including buttons to post, like, or save to networks such as

Facebook,

X, and

Pinterest.

According to our research, social sharing tools are used on 6.6% of all websites.
61.6% of these sites use only one social sharing tool, 21.8% use two, and 16.6% use three or more simultaneously.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the leading social sharing tools in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Facebook Share with an impressive share of 37.5%, followed by Tweet with 37.3% and Pinterest Save with 16.7%.

Facebook Share 37.5%
Tweet 37.3%
Pinterest Save 16.7%
AddToAny 14.6%
Facebook Like 13.2%
ShareThis 11.3%
Submit to Reddit 7%
Tumblr Share 4.7%
Metricool 4%
Hubbub 2.3%
Social Warfare 1.6%
Google +1 Button 1.5%
Baidu Share 1.3%
SnapWidget 1.2%
Hatena Bookmark Button 1.1%

You can also drill down by country:

🚀 Country Highlights

Here is a list of tools that are especially popular in certain countries.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

Tweet is #1 in Japan ^(-1)
Metricool is #1 in Spain ^(-8)
VK Group is #1 in Russia ^(-16)
Baidu Share is #1 in China ^(-12)
Facebook Like is #1 in Poland ^(-4)
ShareThis is #1 in Nepal ^(-5)
Pinterest Save is #2 in Iran ^(-1)
AddToAny is #2 in Taiwan ^(-2)
Submit to Reddit is #5 in Germany ^(-2)
Hubbub is #9 in the United States ^(-1)

✨ Best Social Sharing Tools

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 42 social sharing tools we detect, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Facebook Share Menlo Park, California, United States Lets people add a personalized message to links before sharing on their timeline, in groups, or to their friends via a Facebook Message.	37.5%
2	Tweet Bastrop, Texas, United States The Tweet button or link that allows site visitors to share content on X.	37.3%
3	Pinterest Save San Francisco, California, United States Allows visitors to save content they like on a site to Pinterest with a single click.	16.7%
4	AddToAny San Francisco, California, United States A universal sharing platform that can be integrated into a website and makes it easy for visitors to share content on any of the 80+ supported services. Free	14.6%
5	Facebook Like Menlo Park, California, United States A social plugin that allowed websites to embed a button for visitors to like and share web pages on Facebook. Legacy	13.2%
6	ShareThis Palo Alto, California, United States A social bookmarking service that provides free website widgets such share, follow and reaction buttons. Free	11.3%
7	Submit to Reddit San Francisco, California, United States A hyperlink for submission of a URL to Reddit.	7%
8	Tumblr Share San Francisco, California, United States Allows users to post content to Tumblr.	4.7%
9	Metricool Madrid, Spain A social media management and analytics tool that allows you to analyze, schedule, and manage social media content. Free$22+/month	4%
10	Hubbub Santa Monica, California, United States A social sharing plugin for WordPress that supports 19 social networks in the Pro edition. Free$49+/year	2.3%
11	Social Warfare Harbor Springs, Michigan, United States A social sharing plugin for WordPress with a popular posts widget, click to tweet quotes and premium sharing options. FreeOpen source$29	1.6%
12	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	1.5%
13	Baidu Share Beijing, China The Baidu Share button.	1.3%
14	SnapWidget Pretoria, South Africa Helps you display Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube on your website to increase your followers. $8+/month	1.2%
15	Hatena Bookmark Button Kyoto, Japan The share button for the Japanese social service Hatena Bookmark.	1.1%
16	Shareaholic Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Enables marketers, publishers and site owners to personalize how relevant content is discovered, consumed, engaged with, and shared. Free$10+/month	1.1%
17	VK Group Moscow, Russia Embeds the latest posts from a VK group and allows you to follow it without leaving the page.	1.1%
18	Juicer Las Vegas, Nevada, United States A social media aggregator that allows you to display content from up to 18 different social media channels in a customizable feed on your website. Free$25+/month	0.8%
19	Simple Social Buttons Sialkot, Pakistan A WordPress plugin that allows you to add social sharing buttons to your website. Free$49+	0.7%
20	Curator Sydney, Australia A social media aggregator platform that lets you collect and embed content from Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, and more. Free$25+/month	0.6%
21	LinkedIn Share Mountain View, California, United States The LinkedIn Share Plugin allows users to easily share content to their LinkedIn network.	0.6%
22	EmbedSocial Skopje, Macedonia A social media aggregator that enables brands to collect and embed social media posts or reviews published by other people. Free$29+/month	0.6%
23	UpToLike Limassol, Cyprus A Russian service providing social sharing widgets. Free	0.5%
24	Mashshare Butwal, Nepal A WordPress social media sharing plugin with share count aggregation. Free$39+/year	0.5%
25	LinkedIn Follow Company Mountain View, California, United States The LinkedIn Follow Company Plugin allows users to follow your company page on LinkedIn.	0.4%

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 3,629,123 websites.
We currently track the presence of 42 social sharing tools across the web.
Statistics were last calculated on August 13, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.