ViewRank AI is a free Chrome extension that ranks a creator’s videos on Instagram and TikTok, plus paid plans with a Viral Tracker for 2 or 5 creators and AI tools that transcribe, analyse and write scripts. Statly tracks the public accounts you choose every day across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X, and scores every video against its own account’s median, with no account limit. It is built for agency owners, social media managers and growth operators who monitor competitors and niches they do not own.
No card needed · 500 videos · 3 days
Choose ViewRank AI if you are a solo creator who wants a free extension to rank profiles as you browse, a low monthly price, and AI that breaks down videos and writes ideas and scripts. Choose Statly if you research competitors for clients or a team and want many accounts tracked every day across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X, with seats for your whole team, from €39 a month.
| Feature | ViewRank AI | Statly |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Solo creators who rank profiles in the browser and want AI ideas and scripts | Built for agencies, social media managers and growth operators monitoring the competitors and niches they don’t own, every day |
| Platforms | Instagram and TikTok; YouTube Shorts can be saved to the workspace by URL or upload, but not tracked | Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X |
| How winners are found | Click Rank Now on an Instagram or TikTok profile, or let the Viral Tracker check your tracked creators | You add public accounts and group them into niches; Trend Finder ranks their videos |
| Outlier score | Views ÷ the average of the middle 60% of each batch of 50 videos. Badge at 2x; pinned videos excluded; videos under 48 hours not judged | Views ÷ the account’s median views, on every video |
| Data refresh | Viral Tracker re-checks each account about every 3 days; the average is refreshed monthly | Every 24 hours, ready by a time you choose Faster refresh is coming soon. |
| Free Chrome extension | Free forever on Instagram and TikTok profiles: sort by views, likes, comments or newest, with outlier badges | Optional and free, for quick scans of Instagram, TikTok, X and Reddit profiles, with daily limits |
| Pricing model | Monthly allowances of transcriptions, ideas, scripts and visual analyses, with no rollover | Plans by videos kept fresh: 2,000, 5,000 or 10,000 |
| Entry price | $12.99/month (Starter), or $99/year | €39/month (Starter), or €390/year |
| Tracked accounts | 2 creators on Starter, 5 on Pro ($29.99/month) | No account limit on any paid plan |
| Team seats | Not published | 5 on Starter, 10 on Scale, unlimited on Agency |
| AI visual analysis | Yes: scene by scene, 30 a month on Starter and 100 on Pro | No |
| Transcription | Yes: 200 a month on Starter and 600 on Pro | No |
| AI ideas and scripts | Yes: 300 scripts a month on Starter and 600 on Pro | No |
| Alerts | Optional weekly email with up to 5 breakouts | Telegram, Discord and Slack updates on paid plans |
| Exports | An Only Outliers export from the extension, for a spreadsheet | CSV from every table |
| API and MCP | Not published; the API key links the extension to your workspace | API and MCP on Scale (€89/month) and Agency |
| Try it | 7-day free trial with full access | Free preview: 500 videos for 3 days, no card |
ViewRank AI is built for a creator working alone: rank a profile as you browse, keep an eye on a few creators, then let AI turn a winning video into ideas and a script. Statly is built to track: you choose every account that matters and it re-reads them all every day.
ViewRank AI uses AI to help you make the next video. Statly is built for the step before: catching what is taking off in your niche, every day. Writing scripts, hooks or ideas for you is not what Statly is for. AI copy built from the same viral videos tends to sound generic and promise more than the video delivers, and the creative call should stay yours.
Statly does the reading every day. You decide what to make next.
Each account gets a baseline: its median views. A video’s outlier score is its views divided by that median, so a small account’s breakout is as visible as a big account’s.
Trend Finder shows what is growing fastest since the last daily scan, the top outliers and the top sounds across your niches. Save the winners to your Library with tags and folders.
Yes, if you need to track many public accounts every day. Statly has no account limit on paid plans and re-reads every account every 24 hours, while ViewRank AI tracks 2 or 5 creators about every 3 days. If you mainly want AI visual analysis, transcriptions and scripts, ViewRank AI covers that and Statly does not.
No, not at entry. ViewRank AI Starter is $12.99 a month with 2 tracked creators, and Statly Starter is €39 a month with no account limit, 2,000 videos and 5 seats. If you track more than a few accounts or work as a team, Statly gives you more for the price.
Both divide a video’s views by the account’s usual views. ViewRank AI uses the average of the middle 60% of each batch of 50 videos and badges videos at 2x. Statly divides views by the account’s median views and shows the score on every video.
ViewRank AI covers Instagram and TikTok, and lets you save YouTube Shorts to its workspace by URL or upload. Statly tracks Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X.
Yes. ViewRank AI’s extension is free forever and ranks Instagram and TikTok profiles. Statly’s optional free extension gives quick scans of Instagram, TikTok, X and Reddit profiles, with daily limits, while the web app does the daily tracking.
No. Statly finds and scores the videos that won and leaves the creative work to you. On Scale and Agency, Statly MCP lets Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor read your workspace and answer questions about it.
Statly is for agency owners, social media managers and growth operators who monitor competitors and niches they do not own. It never posts, needs no social media logins and tracks any public account on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and X every day.
Yes. ViewRank AI offers a 7-day free trial with full access. Statly has a free preview: 500 videos from as many accounts as you like, scanned daily for 3 days, with no card.
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