⚡ Social Widgets in South Africa

Social widgets and tools allow users to share and integrate web content from 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 widget tools are used on 7.2% of websites from South Africa.

Statistics based on 19K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Facebook Share with an impressive share of 44.8%, followed by Tweet with 43.4% and Pinterest Save with 25.1%.

Facebook Share 44.8%
Tweet 43.4%
Pinterest Save 25.1%
AddToAny 13.2%
ShareThis 12.8%
Submit to Reddit 10%
Facebook Like 9.9%
Tumblr Share 6.7%
Metricool 4.3%
Social Warfare 1.6%
Hubbub 1.3%
SociableKIT 1.3%
Shareaholic 1.3%
Simple Social Buttons 1.1%
LinkedIn Share 1%

🚀 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)
6. Submit to Reddit ^(-1)
10. Social Warfare ^(-1)
12. SociableKIT ^(-14)
13. Shareaholic ^(-5)
14. Simple Social Buttons ^(-6)
18. Weibo Share ^(-11)
19. WP Social ^(-8)
20. LinkedIn Follow Company ^(-5)

✨ Best Social Widget Tools

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 29 social widget 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.	44.8%
2	Tweet Bastrop, Texas, United States The Tweet button or link that allows site visitors to share content on X.	43.4%
3	Pinterest Save San Francisco, California, United States Allows visitors to save content they like on a site to Pinterest with a single click.	25.1%
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	13.2%
5	ShareThis Palo Alto, California, United States A social bookmarking service that provides free website widgets such share, follow and reaction buttons. Free	12.8%
6	Submit to Reddit San Francisco, California, United States A hyperlink for submission of a URL to Reddit.	10%
7	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	9.9%
8	Tumblr Share San Francisco, California, United States Allows users to post content to Tumblr.	6.7%
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	4.3%
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	1.6%
11	Hubbub Santa Monica, California, United States A social sharing plugin for WordPress that supports 19 social networks in the Pro edition. Free$49+/year	1.3%
12	SociableKIT Quezon City, Philippines A website widget that allows you to add customized social media content to your website. Free$20+/source/month	1.3%
13	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	1.3%
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	LinkedIn Share Mountain View, California, United States The LinkedIn Share Plugin allows users to easily share content to their LinkedIn network.	1%
16	SnapWidget Pretoria, South Africa Helps you display Instagram, X, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube on your website to increase your followers. $8+/month	0.9%
17	Baidu Share Beijing, China The Baidu Share button.	0.9%
18	Weibo Share Beijing, China The share button for the Chinese social network Weibo.	0.6%
19	WP Social Dhaka, Bangladesh Lets you add social login, social counter, and share buttons of different styles to your WordPress website. Free$29+/year	0.6%
20	LinkedIn Follow Company Mountain View, California, United States The LinkedIn Follow Company Plugin allows users to follow your company page on LinkedIn.	0.5%
21	Google +1 Button Mountain View, California, United States The sharing button code for the discontinued Google +1 service. Legacy	0.4%
22	QZone Share Shenzhen, China Allows users to share content directly to their Qzone.	0.4%
23	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	0.4%
24	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	0.2%
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 Widgets in other countries

🗃️ 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 19,494 websites from South Africa.
We currently track the presence of 49 social widget tools across the web.
Of these, 29 were detected on websites from South Africa.
Statistics were last calculated on August 20, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.