⚡ Social Sharing in South Africa

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.

South Africa is an African country with a population of over 60 million people.

According to our research, social sharing tools are used on 7.3% of websites from South Africa.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Facebook Share with an impressive share of 45.1%, followed by Tweet with 43.5% and Pinterest Save with 25.9%.

Facebook Share 45.1%
Tweet 43.5%
Pinterest Save 25.9%
AddToAny 12.9%
ShareThis 12.4%
Facebook Like 11%
Submit to Reddit 10.3%
Tumblr Share 6.5%
Metricool 3.7%
Social Warfare 1.8%
Shareaholic 1.5%
Hubbub 1.5%
Baidu Share 1.1%
Simple Social Buttons 1.1%
SociableKIT 0.9%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top tools that are more popular in South Africa than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. Facebook Share ^(-1)
5. ShareThis ^(-1)
10. Social Warfare ^(-1)
11. Shareaholic ^(-4)
14. Simple Social Buttons ^(-6)
15. SociableKIT ^(-11)
18. WP Social ^(-9)
19. Weibo Share ^(-10)
20. QZone Share ^(-12)
21. WP Social Ninja ^(-7)

✨ Best Social Sharing Tools

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 29 social sharing tools used on sites from South Africa, 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.	45.1%
2	Tweet Bastrop, Texas, United States The Tweet button or link that allows site visitors to share content on X.	43.5%
3	Pinterest Save San Francisco, California, United States Allows visitors to save content they like on a site to Pinterest with a single click.	25.9%
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	12.9%
5	ShareThis Palo Alto, California, United States A social bookmarking service that provides free website widgets such share, follow and reaction buttons. Free	12.4%
6	Facebook Like Menlo Park, California, United States A widget that can be integrated into a website to enable visitors to "Like" posts on Facebook.	11%
7	Submit to Reddit San Francisco, California, United States A hyperlink for submission of a URL to Reddit.	10.3%
8	Tumblr Share San Francisco, California, United States Allows users to post content to Tumblr.	6.5%
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	3.7%
10	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	1.8%
11	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	1.5%
12	Hubbub Santa Monica, California, United States A social sharing plugin for WordPress that supports 19 social networks in the Pro edition. Free$49+/year	1.5%
13	Baidu Share Beijing, China The Baidu Share button.	1.1%
14	Simple Social Buttons Sialkot, Pakistan A WordPress plugin that allows you to add social sharing buttons to your website. Free$49+	1.1%
15	SociableKIT Quezon City, Philippines A website widget that allows you to add customized social media content to your website. Free$20+/source/month	0.9%
16	SnapWidget Pretoria, South Africa Helps you display Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube on your website to increase your followers. $8+/month	0.5%
17	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	0.5%
18	WP Social Dhaka, Bangladesh Lets you add social login, social counter, and share buttons of different styles to your WordPress website. Free$29+/year	0.5%
19	Weibo Share Beijing, China The share button for the Chinese social network Weibo.	0.5%
20	QZone Share Shenzhen, China Allows users to share content directly to their Qzone.	0.5%
21	WP Social Ninja Newark, Delaware, United States A plugin for WordPress that allows you to embed social feeds (Instagram, Facebook), reviews (Google Reviews, WooCommerce Reviews), and chat widgets into your website. Free$44/year	0.5%
22	LinkedIn Follow Company Mountain View, California, United States Allows users to follow your company page on LinkedIn.	0.4%
23	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	0.3%
24	Mashshare Butwal, Nepal A WordPress social media sharing plugin with share count aggregation. Free$39+/year	0.3%
25	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	0.2%

👉 See Also

🌎 Social Sharing in other countries
- Egypt
- Ghana
- Kenya

Data is based on the analysis of 17,795 websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.