Yes, we're affiliates. No, that doesn't affect our rankings. Here is the full breakdown - every dollar, every partner, every safeguard.
GoomView Hub is a reader-supported affiliate publication. When you click an outbound link to one of the Instagram viewer tools we review - and then sign up, subscribe, or convert in some way - the tool's affiliate program pays us a small commission.
This is the only way GoomView Hub makes money. We do not run display ads. We do not sell newsletters. We do not take sponsorships.
An affiliate link is just a regular URL with a tracking parameter that tells the destination tool "this visitor came from GoomView Hub." If the visitor takes a paid action, we get credit. The cost to the visitor is exactly the same as if they had typed the URL directly - there is no markup, no surcharge, and no special treatment based on the source.
We have active affiliate relationships with all 15 tools we rank. Full list:
Tools that decline an affiliate relationship are still reviewed if they meet our editorial criteria. We have reviewed and ranked tools we earn nothing from. Affiliate status is never a precondition for a review.
This is the most important part of this page. The rule is simple:
A tool's affiliate commission rate has zero influence on its position in our rankings.
Our #1 (GoomView) does not have the highest commission of any tool we review. We have ranked tools above their higher-paying competitors when the scores justified it. We have demoted tools that paid us well when their score dropped.
To prevent unconscious bias, we enforce these structural rules:
By choosing reader-funded affiliate commissions over display ads or sponsorships, we keep the editorial side of the site clean: no banner ads cluttering reviews, no "sponsored content" disguised as journalism, no newsletter sells. We earn only when you, the reader, decide our recommendation was worth acting on. If you ever feel that incentive is bleeding into our coverage, please email [email protected] and call us out.