Contestit vs KickoffLabs

Contestit is web-based software for creating and managing giveaways, aimed at e-commerce brands, agencies, and growing businesses. Campaign formats include giveaways, sweepstakes, photo contests, trivia, spin-wheel campaigns, and referral or viral campaigns. Participants can enter through comments, email sign-ups, custom forms, likes, follows, tags, shares, referrals, quiz answers, or photo submissions. Listed social networks include Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter/X, and Twitch. Engagement options include daily spin wheels, points, leaderboards, viral sharing, and photo contests. Creators can pick winners randomly, weight selection by points, or choose top performers. Reporting tracks engagement, with participant data exportable as CSV on plans that include exports. A free plan allows one giveaway and 500 participants per month, with a basic spin wheel and random winner selection. Creator costs $15 per month and includes up to 3,000 monthly participants; Pro costs $39 per month and includes unlimited participants. New users can try Pro for seven days. Creators remain responsible for legal compliance, prize delivery, winner communications, and participant disputes.

KickoffLabs provides referral programs, giveaways and product-launch campaigns for businesses seeking to grow an audience. Campaign formats include pre-launch waitlists, milestone rewards, newsletter referrals, lead magnet opt-ins, and giveaways with leaderboards or bonus entries. Campaigns can appear as embedded widgets, popups, connected forms or hosted landing pages on a custom domain. Unique links track who referred whom, top influencers and leads generated through referrals. Other tools include reward milestones, winner selection, fraud prevention, A/B testing, campaign emails, customizable actions and lead scoring. Listed integrations include Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, WordPress, Shopify, Mailchimp, Klaviyo, Salesforce, HubSpot CRM and Zapier, with webhooks and API access for custom integrations. The free plan provides a mini-campaign for 100 uniques per month. Paid plans start at $13 a month when billed annually, or 19.00 USD month to month; paid plans have monthly lead limits and may upgrade automatically when usage exceeds the limit. All plans include community and email support. Enterprise adds priority support and a one-to-one setup meeting. KickoffLabs is available on the web and via API.