viral.app vs. Archive

With Archive

• Strong UGC capture and listening
• AI creator and content discovery
• Demo-first pricing
• Best for finding content already posted
• Payout-rule workflow less public

With viral.app

• Creator tracking and campaign analytics
• Flexible campaign management
• Powerful payout rules
• API, agent, and chat workflows
• Payouts and invoices on autopilot

Archive captures UGC and social mentions. viral.app runs the campaign.

Archive is strong at capturing brand mentions, discovering creators, tracking content performance, and turning community UGC into usable assets. Its public story includes AI creator search, Radar, super search, campaign reporting, and shoppable UGC.

viral.app is stronger when the work is not only capturing content, but operating the performance UGC program: creators, campaigns, payout rules, invoices, alerts, API workflows, and reports.

The real problem starts after the first creator says yes

Finding every mention is valuable. Performance UGC teams also need to know which creators are in the program, what they are owed, and how each post ties back to campaign goals.

That work gets brittle in a spreadsheet because the data has to move between people:

• Growth wants to know which hooks, creators, and formats are worth scaling.
• Creator ops needs a clean view of who posted and who needs follow-up.
• Finance needs payout numbers that are not rebuilt from screenshots.
• Leadership wants a campaign report without asking five people for context.

The feature difference that matters

Most comparison pages try to win every row. This one is simpler: Archive is a capture and activation layer. viral.app is the operating layer for managed performance UGC.

Feature
Analytics
Public Account Tracking	Included	Included
TikTok, Instagram, YouTube	Included	Included
UGC Capture	Included	Included
Campaign Performance Tracking	Included	Included
Competitor Tracking	Included	Included
Performant Charts & Dashboards	Included	Available with caveats
App Store Revenue Integration	Included	Not included
Creator Hub
Creator Onboarding	Included	Available with caveats
UGC Campaign Management	Included	Included
Powerful Payout Rule Engine	Included	Not included
Payouts & Invoices on Autopilot	Included	Not included
Integrated with Payment Processors	Included	Available with caveats
Monitoring & Reporting
Free AI Agent Skill	Included	Not included
Powerful API & Integrations	Included	Available with caveats
Slack and Discord Integration	Included	Available with caveats
Real-time Alerts	Included	Available with caveats
Permissions & Roles	Included	Available with caveats
Public Dashboards	Included	Available with caveats
Content Library
Viral Video Discovery	Included	Included
UGC Creator Database	Included	Available with caveats
Security & Compliance
Built & Hosted in Germany	Included	Not included
Extended Data Privacy	Included	Available with caveats
Enterprise Reliability	Included	Available with caveats
Backups & Redundancy	Included	Available with caveats
Priority Customer Support	Included	Available with caveats

Choose Archive if...

Choose Archive if your biggest gap is detecting, collecting, searching, and repurposing UGC that customers and creators already post.

If that is the only job, Archive belongs in the conversation. You may not need a dedicated performance UGC operating system yet.

Choose viral.app if...

Choose viral.app if your team needs to run creators proactively, track campaign performance, and automate payout operations.

That is the point where analytics, creator management, payout math, and reporting need to live together. The workflow needs memory.

Archive pricing vs. viral.app pricing

Archive is powerful for capture and discovery, while viral.app is easier to evaluate as the operating layer for payouts and performance programs.

Archive Growth Plan

Custom

For teams evaluating Archive as a UGC capture and social listening platform.

Public pricing routes to demo. Help-center materials describe credit-based Startup, Growth, Enterprise, and Agency plans.

• UGC capture and mention detection
• AI Creator Search
• Radar and Super Search
• Campaign reporting
• Rights and whitelisting workflows
• Demo-first pricing
• Payout rules not prominent
• API/MCP depth unclear

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Last reviewed: May 22, 2026

viral.app Ultra Plan

$229/mo

For teams scaling creator programs with tracking, campaigns, payouts, and reporting.

Billed annually. Includes $10 migration discount.

• Unlimited tracked accounts
• 5,000 tracked videos
• 12-hour refresh rate
• 10 team seats
• Campaign management
• Automated creator payouts
• API access & AI Agent

  Included
• Historical data retention

  Included
• Viral video library

  Included

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What customers say after switching to a campaign OS

These are real viral.app customer quotes from teams running creator programs, agency workflows, and performance UGC at scale.

We handle the switch

Switching tools should not mean rebuilding account lists, tracking rules, and onboarding notes by hand. viral.app gives teams a white-glove migration path, a personalized onboarding call, a 7-day free trial, and a satisfaction guarantee before the switch becomes permanent.

One more thing: how we handle your data

viral.app keeps customer environments separated. Your tracked accounts, videos, creator rosters, payout rules, prompts, search queries, and campaign data are not used to generate results, insights, or AI content for another customer.

We also do not sell your private campaign data. The boring version is the right version here: your workspace data is used to provide the product, support the workflows you asked us to run, and meet legal or payment obligations. For the full policy language, read the viral.app privacy policy.

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