Cool Tabs vs. Sprout Social

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cool Tabs
Score 8.5 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Cool Tabs is a social media marketing platform that is designed to help users increase their online audience and get qualified leads by creating simple interactive content for apps, social networks, microsites, mobile devices and websites. Users have more than twenty different types of dynamics to choose from: Paths (Choose Your Own Adventure), Trivia, Personality Tests, Instant Win, sweepstakes, competitions, coupon codes, and more. Cool Tabs enables users to create interactive content…
$49
Per User per Month
Sprout Social
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Sprout Social provides social media management, marketing, customer care, data and intelligence, and employee advocacy solutions for brands and agencies, including Ticketmaster, Chipotle, Grubhub, Subaru, and Zendesk. Sprout’s platform is used to simplify social publishing, engagement, reviews, analytics and listening for customers. Sprout also provides customer success and technical support, to deliver consistent value to all users. Any organization, regardless of size or industry, receives…
$249
per month per user
Pricing
Cool TabsSprout Social
Editions & Modules
Stone
$49
Per User per Month
Gold
$199
Per User per Month
Diamond
$399
Per User per Month
Diamond with Unlimited Campaigns
$499
Per User per Month
Diamond with Paths
$499
User per Month
Diamond with Paths and Unlimited Campaigns
$699
User per Month
Standard
$199 annual / $249 monthly
per user/per month
Professional
$299 annual / $399 monthly
per user/per month
Advanced
$399 annual / $499 monthly
per user/per month
Free Trial
Free
for 30 days
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cool TabsSprout Social
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$49 per planNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Cool TabsSprout Social
Features
Cool TabsSprout Social
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Cool Tabs
-
Ratings
Sprout Social
7.4
110 Ratings
3% below category average
Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings7.177 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings7.192 Ratings
Sentiment analysis00 Ratings7.274 Ratings
Broad channel coverage00 Ratings8.186 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Cool Tabs
-
Ratings
Sprout Social
8.3
138 Ratings
3% above category average
Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings9.2138 Ratings
Audience targeting00 Ratings7.4105 Ratings
Content optimization00 Ratings8.2121 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings8.4120 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Cool Tabs
-
Ratings
Sprout Social
8.0
125 Ratings
1% below category average
Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings7.880 Ratings
Customer interaction histories00 Ratings8.1110 Ratings
Bulk actions00 Ratings8.2109 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Cool Tabs
-
Ratings
Sprout Social
7.1
92 Ratings
8% below category average
Lead generation00 Ratings7.066 Ratings
Content marketing00 Ratings8.288 Ratings
Paid media management00 Ratings6.23 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings7.24 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Cool Tabs
-
Ratings
Sprout Social
8.4
137 Ratings
0% above category average
Twitter00 Ratings8.9121 Ratings
Facebook00 Ratings8.8136 Ratings
LinkedIn00 Ratings8.8124 Ratings
Google+00 Ratings7.745 Ratings
Instagram00 Ratings8.7126 Ratings
Pinterest00 Ratings8.345 Ratings
YouTube00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Cool Tabs
-
Ratings
Sprout Social
8.3
139 Ratings
7% above category average
Campaign success analytics00 Ratings8.7131 Ratings
Real-time tracking00 Ratings8.2127 Ratings
Competitor analysis00 Ratings8.1115 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Cool Tabs
-
Ratings
Sprout Social
8.0
131 Ratings
1% above category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings8.5125 Ratings
Mobile access00 Ratings7.5118 Ratings
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Enterprises
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
Cool TabsSprout Social
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(15 ratings)
8.4
(176 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(8 ratings)
9.5
(65 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(2 ratings)
8.6
(103 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(8 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
4.8
(38 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(11 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(27 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cool TabsSprout Social
Likelihood to Recommend
Cool Tabs
In general, it works as some kind of manual on how the particular baseline of your social networks can be improved, and it provides the right assessment at the same time so that I can analyze my data based on my results. Also, they count on excellent technical assistance. Earlier it was hard to go search hashtags on my Instagram but after using this I can get more deep analytics, geotag research, and profile analytics to get great information about the keywords I want to know about. The pricing is great, as well as the support team which replies very quickly.
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Sprout Social
Sprout Social is a great tool, but it comes with a high per-seat price. In my opinion, this tool is great for a well-established brand, but for any start-up or multi-person agency, the cost can add up quickly and make or break your decision to use it. The reason for the lower recommendation score is a recent and ongoing issue I am facing with getting out of our current agreement. In our experience, Sprout Social makes it impossible to do, and the way they get you to agree to a year-long contract is a little shady. No contract is renewed after a year; just a simple email asking if you want to make any changes. In my experience, if you are not fully aware of what you agreed to a year ago, they will get ya, and you will be in the position we are in now. After experiencing this, I see that it is common among Sprout Social users looking for a more cost-effective option. Big bummer considering the monthly price users are paying.
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Pros
Cool Tabs
  • It provides a wide range of settings options to your social media promotions.
  • Is easy to use for developing and managing promotions.
  • It offers an very complete tool to extract information about your promotions.
  • The support service is highly advisable: fast and adequate to satisfy users' needs.
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Sprout Social
  • Social Scheduling: Sprout Social makes it easier than any platform I've used to schedule posts with each, and to batch-schedule the same post to run on multiple dates. The scheduling platform is intuitive and easy to understand.
  • Social Reporting: With just a few clicks of the button, you can easily export reports that are easy for both social media experts and complete novices to understand. I like how you can get a report within 60 seconds or so if needed.
  • Customer Service/Help: Whenever I've had a question, both my Sprout Social rep and the Help Center have been extremely easy to contact and quick to reply. Problems are solved very fast and it's made easy to understand.
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Cons
Cool Tabs
  • Interface is a bit difficult.
  • Management if the tool is not intuitive.
  • More filters for analyzing would be great specifically in the demographics region.
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Sprout Social
  • I would like for Personal Instagram Accounts to be able to integrate with Sprout Social's Employee Advocacy platform. You are able to connect personally accounts to Sprout Social itself, which is great, but for employee re-sharing internal stories, this is not possible unless it is with a Business Instagram account.
  • I would like for the left hand tool bar to be more user friendly. There are so many tools and settings that are available, and I would like for it to be simplified in a way that makes it less cluttered.
  • An improvement can be made with the Sprout Social Mobile App. The user friendliness of the app does not allow as much autonomy as the regular webpage.
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Likelihood to Renew
Cool Tabs
I have a good relationship with the customer service and I love to help them to promote their service.
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Sprout Social
Sprout Social is the best platform out there for social-media management, and now that I have all my clients using Sprout Social, it would be sort of silly for me to walk away format at this juncture. The only cloud on the horizon would be if Salesforce bought it (as has been rumored) and put it inside its walled garden.
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Usability
Cool Tabs
Because it lacks customization options for its aesthetics. We did a specific adaptation for registering entries and participants, and it worked perfectly. It's a very comprehensive tool for launching viral campaigns for all types of businesses. We will continue working on campaigns in collaboration with Cool Tabs. Porque le falta capacidad de personalización de la estética.En su momento, hicimos una adaptación concreta para el registro de participaciones y participantes y sale todo genial. Es una herramienta muy completa para lanzar campañas virales para todo tipo de empresas. Seguiremos trabajando las campañas en colaboración con Cool Tabs.
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Sprout Social
Sprout Social is straightforward to use - built for anyone regardless of tech experience to be able to navigate. It integrates pretty seamlessly to the native platforms and brings a lot of things together to make a seamlessly experience for seasoned social media managers.
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Reliability and Availability
Cool Tabs
No answers on this topic
Sprout Social
Uptime was OK, but given the fact that we are in Europe, there were some specific problems: They tended to take the system down for maintenance during the night in the US, which was during our workday. This was definitely problematic and hard to explain to our clients.
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Performance
Cool Tabs
No answers on this topic
Sprout Social
It is quick to post, however you have to refresh the page every time you add a new scheduled item.
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Support Rating
Cool Tabs
No answers on this topic
Sprout Social
The chat and online resources are great. The managers are too. They go through account reps pretty fast. Also, not a lot of onboarding once a product or service is sold. The ticket request system is terrible, they have too many people switching off roles, they take a long time to get back to you and don't plan on anything being fixed over a weekend - even if you have a problem. Their customer service via tickets is the worst.
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Online Training
Cool Tabs
No answers on this topic
Sprout Social
Their training is good, but the promotion of it is even better. I don't need or have the time for training, but I was always happy to know it was there. They did a great job sending updates out and making me aware when there was a new feature that I may want training for. As for the training I never used it, so I can't comment on that
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Implementation Rating
Cool Tabs
No answers on this topic
Sprout Social
Make sure you do it all the way. Do not break it into phases. Pour yourself a coffee, start it in the morning and you'll be done before you finish that coffee.
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Alternatives Considered
Cool Tabs
Easypromos is one of the best tools you can use to run your contests. The application allows you to create contests for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube.You can choose the objective of your campaign, whether it is to increase followers, improve your brand awareness, etc., and you can run various types of promotional initiatives, including giveaways, games, and quizzes.
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Sprout Social
Takes the best of all of these and puts them in one place. I am yet to find a feature that these have that are not on Sprout Social, while there are many missing features on these platforms that come with Sprout Social as standard.
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Return on Investment
Cool Tabs
  • Cool Tabs allows us to tweak our social media pages to suit the customers' interaction.
  • When the customer is engaged, they are more likely to share and or inquire about what we do.
  • Since we have been using this, we have had a 10% increase in customer engagement, which in return, helps us deliver quality information.
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Sprout Social
  • One positive impact has been a huge time saver for our team. Where we once had multiple systems and delays from producing content to approval to publishing, now everything is seamless.
  • Another positive impact is streamlining the onboarding process for new team members. Sprout Social is user-friendly and intuitive, making it easy to study even for someone completely new to social media.
  • One negative impact has been the time it takes to wade through irrelevant social listening posts. The filtering is not effective enough to eliminate the noise.
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ScreenShots

Cool Tabs Screenshots

Screenshot of Page Performance DashboardScreenshot of Stats DashboardScreenshot of Instagram hashtag analysis: top potential contributorsScreenshot of Instagram hashtag analysis: words analysisScreenshot of Twitter Hashtag Analysis: Main StatsScreenshot of Campaign Stats Dashboard

Sprout Social Screenshots

Screenshot of Sprout’s social media publishing tools, used to schedule and post messages to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn simultaneously from a single Compose window.