The best Boostgram alternatives, now that Boostgram is gone
Is Boostgram still running? No: the Instagram growth tool closed itself. Its last archived page on boostgram.com, captured 22 April 2021, reads "Boostgram website is closed, we are no longer accepting new customers", and the domain does not answer at all (checked 8 September 2026), so there is no pricing left to compare. Since 2013 it had worked as connect-your-account software, with a three-day free trial, interacting with the audiences you chose as you. Its draw was hands-off growth. Copying it today means the same pattern Instagram's terms prohibit. The live alternatives are ranked below, with Virallized first.
The Boostgram alternatives, ranked by real reviews
People still search for it because the offer it made, growth without the daily work, is still what people want. The list below is every real alternative still standing, ranked by the same public Trustpilot record, and none of them is automation, because none of the automation tools reached 2026 with a record worth ranking.
Ordered by each service's public Trustpilot score, a number none of us control, including us. We only call an alternative worth considering when its own customers rate it 4.0★ or better, and most of this market does not clear that bar. Three of the biggest names currently have no rating at all — Trustpilot suspended them in August 2026 after removing fake reviews — so they sit last, unranked. Every score here was re-read by hand on the profile itself on the date above; no scraping, no cached feed. The full ranking shows the methodology and every service we track.
Worth considering, rated 4.0★ or better by their own customers
- Virallized (that's us) — Managed growth — Trustpilot 4.8★ from 93 reviews
- Social Boost — Managed growth — Trustpilot 4.0★ from 393 reviews
The rest, with their public record, listed for honest comparison rather than recommended
- Gainsty — Managed growth — Trustpilot 3.6★ from 80 reviews
- Social Sensei — Managed growth — Trustpilot 3.1★ from 92 reviews
- AiGrow — Managed growth — Trustpilot 2.5★ from 377 reviews
- Ampfluence — Managed growth — Trustpilot 2.4★ from 6 reviews
- Kicksta — Managed growth — Trustpilot 1.9★ from 628 reviews
Software tools, a different product
You operate these yourself rather than having the account grown for you, so they are listed with their full scores but not ranked against the services above.
Rating suspended by Trustpilot
Each of these profiles shows "This company's rating is unavailable due to a breach of our guidelines", with Trustpilot's reason quoted on each row. Listed unranked — a service without a score cannot hold a position.
- Path Social — Managed growth — no current rating; Trustpilot's notice: "We've removed a number of fake reviews for this company." 82% of the 1311 reviews still visible are 1-star
- Plixi — Managed growth — no current rating; Trustpilot's notice: "We've removed a number of fake reviews for this company." 94% of the 354 reviews still visible are 1-star
- UpGrow — Follower packages — no current rating; Trustpilot's notice: "We've removed a number of fake reviews for this company." 45% of the 3298 reviews still visible are 1-star
What Boostgram sells — and the record to weigh
Every fact below was read by hand on 8 September 2026, on the company's own site and its Trustpilot page, and is quoted so you can check it in place.
What boostgram.com says today
- Nothing: the domain does not respond to a request at all, checked 8 September 2026. No redirect, no successor product.
- The last capture the Wayback Machine holds, dated 22 April 2021, is a single-line closure notice: "Boostgram website is closed, we are no longer accepting new customers." The capture before the closure, from 6 December 2019, sold itself as "Buy Real Instagram Followers | Instagram Likes from Boostgram" and asked users to "connect your Instagram account to Boostgram", set targeting by gender and location, press "Save & Start", and "sit back, and enjoy your new organic fans and engagement". The footer said copyright 2017; the earliest capture is from October 2013.
The record to weigh
- Boostgram was software acting as its customers: connect the account, set preferences, let the tool like and follow automatically. That is the pattern Instagram's Terms of Use prohibit (accessing or collecting information in an automated way without permission) and the pattern its enforcement dismantled tool by tool between 2017 and 2021. A closure notice with no reason given is how that era usually ended.
- Any replacement that offers the same three clicks is selling the same activity to the same detection systems. The only alternatives that reached 2026 with a public record are the ones where people, not software, do the work through your account.
The market-wide receipts — every seller's public record in one place, and the full audit of removals, pivots and redirects.
How to choose between them
Three checks separate the credible services from the rest. Check the live Trustpilot score, not the rating badge on the provider's own site: the two disagree surprisingly often, and only one of them is written by customers. Check the refund terms: a service confident in its results states a money-back window in plain words on the pricing page. Check what the price includes: growth only, or the content you will need to convert the new visitors too.
Then match the mechanism to your tolerance: automation tools are cheaper and riskier, human-run services cost more and hold up better, and follower vendors are a different product entirely, a number, not an audience. The comparison hub puts every service side by side, and the rankings keep the whole market in one sourced table.
Common questions
What happened to Boostgram?
It closed. The last archived page of boostgram.com, from 22 April 2021, reads "Boostgram website is closed, we are no longer accepting new customers", and the domain no longer answers at all (checked 8 September 2026). No reason was published.
What does Boostgram cost now?
Nothing, since it cannot be bought: boostgram.com stopped answering (checked 8 September 2026) after a closure notice archived on 22 April 2021 said it was "no longer accepting new customers". When it ran, it opened with a three-day free trial and offered multi-account management. Any price quoted for Boostgram today belongs to a product that has been closed for years.
What did Boostgram do?
Automation. Its 2019 site asked users to connect their Instagram account, choose gender and location targeting, and press Save & Start, after which the software would "automatically interact" with the chosen audiences as them, with a three-day free trial and multi-account management. It sold the result as "real organic engagement"; the method was a bot running on your login.
What is the best Boostgram alternative?
By public record, Virallized: 4.8★ on Trustpilot, and the structural opposite of an automation tool: real people running conservative, targeted engagement through your own account, no software acting as you, plans from $99 to $299 a month with a 7-day money-back guarantee. The full ranking lines up every live option on the same measure.
Are there still Instagram automation tools like Boostgram?
A few, and they come and go the same way: Instagress has shown a goodbye page since 2017, Jarvee is permanently closed, Instamacro went dark in 2021, and the tools still running carry the worst public records in the market. If your reach looks throttled from a previous tool, the shadowban checker walks through what is measurable.