Influenster: Try free products Reviews

by Myahr5

I’ve been using this app for a couple years now. I’ve gotten many good boxes/products from them. Last December (2020 before Christmas, during the pandemic), I did my first Cashback challenge. You have to purchase the items and provide screenshots of your receipt, so I did exactly that. I purchased three pet products, submitted my receipts, and was told to wait two weeks for my money to be returned. After that two weeks, I received my money back for one item. I contacted them to see why I hadn’t gotten the rest of the money, and they told me I’d just have to wait again. That was fine. I had to email them nonstop to finally receive my second payout TWO MONTHS LATER. Again, whatever, at least I got that money. I’ve been fighting with them for six months now (they simply ignored me for two out of six months) because I haven’t received the third payout. I spent over $100 on this product because they GUARANTEED I’d be given the money back. To this day, they continue to tell me to wait two weeks. I wait, I do not receive the money, and I email them again. It’s been this never ending cycle for six whole months. I’m just disappointed because I thought they were an amazing company. I don’t enjoy being the annoying person emailing every other day, but it’s just awful that they’re not trustworthy anymore. I will never do another Cashback challenge from them.

by Lilpammi

I’ve been using this app for years now and the website and app were amazing went on it all the time to find products I want to try out next but as time went on the website and Influenster just kept getting worse and worse at first it was how when you go into the categories you can’t see all the products that are actually in that category they just showed a few pictures of products kinda how it looks now so I would just have to search the category I’m looking for and for some reason all the products showed up there but now I can’t do either so the I realized I could do it with the filter menu where you filter the type of products your looking for forget that you guys took that off and not to mention the products weren’t numerically ordered to what the top 100 they were all scattered around but now it’s like I can’t find products for the life of me on the website and app I don’t what happened I use to love this site but now I barely even go on it cause it’s hard to manage

by ItsNikaDuh

update: this issue is still not fixed, and the renew voxbox campaign ends this week. i have two that are affected by this issue.
I love this app. I love the concept and the experience I have had with this app has been so great.
But, unfortunately, they don't request a rating for the actual app developer or the company itself, rather they request a rating of Influenster . Influenster , I have not been pleased with, as of late. It has been super laggy and slow. If I spend time TRYING to do reviews via Influenster , once I get to about three reviews, Influenster slows wayyy down and will not load. Even after closing Influenster and reopening it. Even after giving it 5 minutes to rest, although that shouldn't be necessary. It doesn't work anyone.
But yea, so Influenster has some major buggy problems. It also will not save my social media activity for the badge tasks. It acknowledges that I complete a task, but if I leave the page with that specific task and I return, it does not save that acknowledgement. This is a major problem as it plays a role in not being able to receive brand badges.
Again, I do love this app. But I do not love the this app app. Please, fix the bugs!

by JHof76

I have been a faithful reviewer for this app for at least 4 years. I followed through with reviews and thoroughly enjoyed using the products and following through with the tasks for each badge. Influenster has become very glitchy and not user friendly. It’s happened countless times where I was uploading a picture and then using this app’s phrases and picture frames and Influenster would crash. I’d start over again only to have it crash again. Linking to Instagram, Twitter and Facebook is often complicated when trying to upload reviews/posts through Influenster. I have gotten errors so many times that I have given up on leaving a review. This is very frustrating because due to these app issues I am now no longer receiving VoxBoxes as I did for years. Or maybe this app has now just gotten too big and there isn’t enough to go around. I don’t know. Maybe I’m extra frustrated because I’m a developer, myself. There is work to be done here.

by Emp2789

The concept of Influenster is great. But Influenster itself is truly terrible. There are so many glitches in Influenster even when updated. The badges never update appropriately, I am constantly getting kicked off Influenster when I’m in the middle of doing something and the surveys take me forever to complete because they go so slow. I also go on every day just to try and build up my streak but then randomly it will restart my streak even though I have continued to use Influenster on a daily basis. In addition, there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to their methods of choosing the people who receive products to review. I was originally spending several hours a day for months posting my own and reading other people’s reviews, asking questions, making polls and answering other people’s questions and polls and always being told that I was perfect for their campaigns but never receiving anything. I had all of my social media linked, I was building likes and followers quickly, I did literally everything that I was supposed to and It was all a waste. Very disappointed!

by Kelxoxox

I love Influenster so much! I have benefited a lot from it, from receiving VoxBox’s too being able to come to Influenster to get different peoples opinion of a certain product. I love the scan feature as well. While shopping I can pull up Influenster , scan the product, and it takes me right to the page where all of the reviews are, SO helpful! I also enjoy reading the different articles that this app posts. I use Influenster probably every single day! My only issue is that it takes FOREVER to load certain pages. When clicking on a article or a product, it will load for a good 20 seconds or Influenster will just completely crash. I’ve made sure to do all the updates and even deleted Influenster and reinstalled it, and it remained the same. Which will sometimes result in me closing Influenster and looking elsewhere on the internet for what I need, which is frustrating. Hopefully they can get it resolved. Other than that, this is a wonderful tool if you’re into trying different beauty products, or even household, food, clothing; they have reviews for almost everything you could think of!

by Ae007

I like this app a lot. I have received three Vox Boxes in the last two years with minimal contribution on my part, and supposedly we “middle aged” ladies don’t get love from this app. Not true. You just need to fill out your questionnaires and do your snaps here and there, as well as consistently use it for what it was meant: looking up reviews on prospective products. However, Influenster is super glitchy and irritating. If you want to scroll your feed for entertainment purposes or to get some ideas about products, forget it, you can only see the same 3 or 4 posts over and over again for at least half a day. Also, part of how you get chosen for campaigns is your activity on Influenster , unfortunately, it constantly looses track of your activity. You can be on it for four days straight, looking up products or leaving reviews, but on the fifth day, it says you’re on a one-day streak. It’s petty, but extremely irritating, and defeats part of the purpose of engaging Influenster . I was hoping the update today would change this. If these could be fixed, Influenster would get all the stars from me.

by Edrizzle3_

Just like my title says, what Influenster is about is SO cool and really helps you out when you want to know what other people think about a product! But Influenster itself is not great.
It takes so long for certain parts to load, even when you have full service AND wifi. When I’m doing a review and go to a different application real quick and then go back my review is gone and I have to start all over. My impacts don’t ever load completely so I hardly know if it’s accurate. When I’m scrolling through my feed it’ll start showing the posts I was just seeing. It’s not like an ongoing feed, I can’t just sit and scroll and see new things like instagram. It’ll just show me things I just saw. Also it would be great if we could suggest products that aren’t listed in what Influenster gives us. I have a handful of things I own that I want to review, but there aren’t any products listed.
I say all those things because it’s what I see every time I’m on Influenster BUT I LOVE what it’s all about. It’s an asking concept and I think it would be even better if some things were enhanced/changed!

by Illogical Logics

Influenster is great to review products and learn about products that you may want to try but it asks that you connect social media accounts to raise your impact score and there have been issues for a long time with doing that. You need social media connected to have a better chance at their campaigns. The mobile app hardly ever works correctly to allow you to connect your social media accounts. I deleted Influenster previously due to this issue and honestly it’s not gotten any better. The support article addressing this issue just says to make sure that you are connecting to your specific account or that it’s not connected with any other this app accounts, which is not helpful. It’s feedback meter says that 20 of 240 people found it helpful so at least I know that I am not the only one with this issue. Now it is affecting my ability to complete the vox box campaign. I don’t know why this app has this issue but no matter how many bug fixes they push through, this one is never solved on my end.

by Erotichotx3

this app in itself is awesome and I really enjoy the things they have to offer but Influenster freezes up, crashes, and glitches so much at times it can be frustrating. It’s also a mystery on how to level up on a badge at times. I’ve left a review in one category and got the badge but left dozens of reviews in another and still don’t have the badge. I’ve also made 11 lists and still don’t have that one. Influenster could use a lot of improvement but it’s still usable for the most part.

I’m giving it an additional star since the recent updates. Some things have improved and I can see they are always working to make Influenster better. One thing that currently bothers me is I can’t go back to the question forum where I left off; it takes me back to the top of the list. Influenster is getting better about crashing and some of the things are becoming more useful. I hope they finish fixing the kinks!

by Ajayeg27

this app is a great app to use to get free products in exchange for your reviews. The only thing that stops me from giving it 5 Stars is they will give tons of stuff to one person that doesn’t put in the work but has tons of friends. I have 6000 friends and I’ve only received 1 vbox in 2 years. In I just recently received the box after contacting them about it. I have almost 400 reviews, 90 discussion, 120 followers just on this app and I am not getting items like I should. They claim also Jason items out based on your area you live in your demographic but I live in one of the most largest cities in the United States so that also makes no sense why I’ve only received one Vbox. They should not be giving one person box after box after box when that person isn’t putting in the work and they definitely should be giving boxes to people that actually help boost their business do the reviews correctly and they’re always on Influenster ! this app needs to stop playing favorites and make it equal for everyone else!

by Nosubject

I love Influenster but suddenly the voxbox’s & surveys stopped arriving. I wish there was some type of meter that shows how far or close you are to qualifying for the next survey/box. Instead we are left to wonder what we did wrong or if we are doing too little or too much of an activity. The help desk is OK but a live chat help would be better even if it’s a chat bot in off hours. The zendesk is not an immediate response and the campaigns are time sensitive. Overall I think it’s a wonderful service for brands to get word of mouth advertising as well as feedback and focus group type suggestions in the the campaign discussions section. I’ve seen very high quality feedback left for brands. It might also be great to have a rep. From the brand in the campaign to answer product use questions. Another feature that might be helpful is a date stamp on questions sometimes I can’t tell if it’s an old or new post. Hope this feedback is helpful to someone! Thanks :)

by Sydneerella

I love Influenster because I’m a beauty guru and I love reviewing my own products plus having reviews from people who have actually tried products right at my fingertips. The thing I’ve become sad about are the Voxboxes. I got a PrepVox right away because I was on top of reviews and snaps and all of these things, but nothing else has come after that, and I’ve stayed just as active. I won a MegaVoxbox on this app’s Twitter party over three months ago from my reviews in the PrepVoxBox that I was super psyched about, but it still isn’t here and I’m beginning to think it won’t ever be :/
That’s honestly the only negative thing about Influenster other than a few times when my posted reviews on Facebook and Instagram can’t be found even when I’ve used all the hashtags and things, so then I don’t get points for my badges either. Maybe that contributes to lack of VoxBoxes but I’m not sure.
It’s a fun app, I love the product reviews and challenges, I just wish I didn’t feel teased with my first box and nothing to follow :/

by Lietfan

In the long while I’ve done this app, I’ve received a decent amount of boxes. The community is so engaging and really feels helpful to look through and consult before buying something. Not to mention, the quality of every box is amazing and I feel it’s catered to my likes so much more than similar sites.

However, Influenster itself.

As others have said, my app often times just shows me the same posts I just saw and only changes after hours to a full day. I want to interact with other people’s content, but it’s hard to do so when the interface isn’t showing most content.

Not to mention, there’s a major glitch with the Hypster badge. I’ve unlocked it and have even leveled it up, but it’s not showing up for me to display on my profile.

Finally, surveys. In order to receive boxes, you need to do surveys to tell what you’re okay with testing. Which is fine, they’re so short and simple, however, half the time my surveys load prehistorically slow, or not at all. Sometimes I have to close and reopen Influenster repeatedly to do one survey. This has been an ongoing issue for me.

All in all, I love Influenster for all the potential and goodies there are to offer. I’d recommend giving it a try, even with the minor issues.

by Kitty_Wilson27

I absolutely love Influenster and spend so much one on it! Super helpful when you are interested in trying new brands and new products... reviews and pictures can really help you to know if the product will be right for you.

My only complaints are (1) it’s so buggy! Incredibly annoying... I’ve been sitting here trying to upload a picture of a product into one of my lists and Influenster just keeps crashing 😞 (2) and not all products are available to review or add to lists. It would be cool if you would make it possible to have the option that says “product not found? Add your own pic of the product to continue with review/photo upload to list” or something like that. Then people could add products you don’t have available in your data bad and help you grow it.

Keep making updates and keep fixing things and Influenster will continue to be amazing and get better 😊 I do really love Influenster though!

by JalaBlack

I’ve been a member of this app for almost 2 years now and I love what it’s all about! I’m on Influenster almost everyday and enjoy reading the interesting articles, reviews and pictures that are posted daily. I like writing reviews and giving insight on the different products that I have enjoyed or kind of frowned upon lol. I’ve been lucky enough to be selected for several campaigns and testing out the different products in my voxboxes. It’s an honor to be selected for a campaign because I really enjoy doing them. I love Influenster because it’s easy to maneuver around, explore and complete my campaign tasks. The only problem that I have is when I first press on Influenster from my home screen it pops up all black, so then I have to close it out and reopen it again then Influenster ’s main page appears. I don’t know if I’m the only one experiencing that. Should I just uninstall/reinstall to fix the glitch? Thanks!

by Loourah

For people who “hate” on this app, you’re not using Influenster correctly. The more time you put into Influenster the more things you will be sent. Don’t hate on an app that sends you things for free, all they want from you is an honest review and opinion, if you are lazy with your reviews then don’t expect frequent boxes as the best reviewers get the boxes. It’s also important to visit Influenster frequently and take part in their hashtags. I love this app, at first they sent me a pro activ set which didn’t really suit my skin but I was still super grateful as I had always wanted to try pro activ and Influenster allowed me to do that for free. I have recently received my second box which is a shampoo and conditioner set. They’re actually worth $77 on Sephora and so I was sooo grateful when they sent this to me. The set has really helped my hair as it is made for itchy scalps for which I am a sufferer. I will always use and love this app and I always recommend Influenster to all my friends as well as my social media following!

by Love2dancetoo

Ever since discovering this app a little over a year ago, I have become obsessed with Influenster and website. I have received numerous Voxboxes by completing surveys that they send to me via email. I’ve received anything from mascara, to moisturizer, to perfume in the mail. Every box I receive is completely free and all that’s required of me is to truthfully and honestly review the products I receive and occasionally post on social media. It took me about two months to get my first box but once I did I’ve received over 11 boxes in the past year. I recommended this app to my friend and she’s also received many boxes as well. this app is a great option for consumers to try new products and for companies to get their products into the hands of consumers.

by Ali3nchildr3n

Iv been with this app for a number of years now and I’ve gotten soo many vox boxes I’m impressed! When I first started I thought I’d never get one and it was just a gimmick but I was absolutely blown away at how man Iv received so far! I honestly think I get around 3-6 a year maybe even more? All for free to use to test out and give honest feed back! It’s really easy to give feedback with Influenster and i always review everything i use. Anything you could think of product wise is on Influenster to review and even ask or answer questions about! It does make it a lot easier to get vox boxes if you sign into your social media and show your range of followers through your accounts. However Iv seen Influensters get boxes with very minimal followers so it’s definitely not a requirement in anyway it just helps! The best thing to do is just review everything you currently use or try in an honest way! They also have a great community of people who are all super nice!

by Katte30

AMAZING I like it because in this application I can see the quality of a product. Influenster is primarily For reviewing products you own or have
used. You can view other's reviews and use that information to determine what products might work for you. Everyone complains that they sont get free stuff. Yes, we all want those expensive brands for free. But theres more that goes into it . You have to be active, link your social media, etc. I'm 44. I've gotten a box. I've never been hacked. If you dont do your profile and stay active, you limit your chances of getting a #voxbox. And no, the big influencers dont get first dibs and no, you can leave any review you want. I've left one star reviews for products I have purchased myself and used. You dont have to buy anything, they do have campaigns where you can buy something and submit your receipt for cashback for an honest review. But those are not common and they are limited to very specific items.

by Aamamommie

I have spent countless hours writing, honest,and thorough reviews. I was finally chosen to receive a box box, which arrived after approximately 2.5 months. It had a few items, none of which I use; however, based on the agreement, my daughter and I tried them. Before I actually received the voxbox, I was badgered daily regarding the review agreement.
A. How do you write a review without the products?
B. How do you write a well thought out review without giving the products a solid month, to see what the effects are ?
I don’t know the answers to those questions- clearly those at this app must.
The greatest disappointment was that, I wrote numerous reviews for household products. That is what I wanted to try. I am a retired stay at home mom( still have a child in high school) and spend the majority of my time, cooking, and cleaning. For some reason, keeping house has become my passion. Another unanswered question: Why did I not receive household products, when I made that known to this app ?
Influenster itself is awful. I have tried every which way to let this app know that I relicsted to another state, as they reached out to me well before I moved to let me know that another box box was on omits way- more unwanted cosmetics.

If there is any human being ou there working at this app, I would live to connect, and find a way to receive household products to review. If not, please unsubscribe me. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

by Noafinken

I want to start by saying that I absolutely love the opportunities that this app provides! I’ve received several VoxBoxes, and it was super easy to qualify! I get them quite frequently, as well. The fact that I am able to give my opinion on virtually any product and recommend them to others is amazing! I love all of this, but Influenster is SO SLOW AND FUSSY!! I almost can’t stand using it. A lot of times I have to hit the back arrow and try loading something again because it just won’t load! It’s painful to use Influenster for this reason. I’ve never had problems anywhere near this bad when using other apps. The website works just fine, which is why I know it’s Influenster that’s the problem. Please please please fix it, as I love the idea of this app & enjoy participating in the this app community and campaigns. I will update my review as soon as Influenster works better.

by #1Chymama

I absolutely love love this app because I get to write reviews about products I have used and hoping it will benefit others. I also get to read others reviews which benefits me as well. It also has many prize perks. this app is always giving away samples, full sized items and many more gifts for influencers to try and review. It’s easy and it’s FUN!!! There’s always something new for you to try out and review. You can also review items you already have. You can invite family and friends, earn points and post pics to win mega prizes. You can chat with other this app’s to get advice/info on products and give your personal opinions/thoughts on on products as well. It’s just plain fun. I love it!!! I’m always excited to find out what’s next at this app. #influensterismyworld

by Eliyanave

I don’t really write reviews, but I felt I needed to after receiving my third beauty Voxbox :). Seriously, Influenster is awesome. I love the idea; it’s really quite a genius way to get users interested in brands and review products. I’ve been a part of both campaigns and Voxboxes and have loved being able to get cash back and free beauty products in exchange for my honest reviews. I love using Influenster to research the products I want to buy as well. It is important to mention that some users who receive free stuff tend to review higher than the product is actually deserving of, which isn’t Influenster ’s fault, but it’s good to watch out for when reading reviews.
There are quite a few complaints online about people being on Influenster for years and never getting a Voxbox. There seems to be a specific type of user they target when sending out products, and I am one of the lucky ones they like. Influenster is definitely not a scam; I can testify to that (I’ve received over $100 in free stuff so far). It can be kind of hard for some people to get chosen though, no matter how much you review. Influenster is worth a download to try your luck! And you can always look up tips to get better chances to be chosen for a Voxbox. Writing long reviews and uploading pictures is always helpful :)

by Lpkprincess

this app is a wonderful way to learn about products you may have heard of but have never tried. Based on your interests, this app will send you out products for free, by mail, for you to try and give your honest review. I have received various products for my family and I, and some of those products I have liked so much that I have even repurchased. In addition, other Influensters will also rate other products and you can get honest opinions to make up your mind on whether you want to purchase a certain product or not. this app is completely free and they do not ever attempt to sell anything. It is just an online forum where you can read opinions on products and give your own. I absolutely love this app. It’s completely amazing!