What does shareware mean?

shareware (noun): A type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. As a hashtag, #shareware carries this topic across social platforms.

How popular is #shareware?

#shareware has no measured public activity on the open social web in the last 7 days. It is currently wide open.

What hashtags are related to #shareware?

No related hashtags with measured usage were found for #shareware.

How much does it cost to own #shareware?

#shareware is available as a #name from $51.02 per year. You can claim it by card at https://hashtag.org/checkout/portal-name?name=shareware or with tokens on hashtag.space at https://hashtag.space/#shareware.

#shareware

Name: #shareware — a #name on hashtag.org
Brand: hashtag.org
Price: 51.02 USD
Availability: InStock

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #shareware from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

hashtag.org network · sponsored

Own #shareware

This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.

$51.02/ year · 9-character #name

Claim #shareware — $51.02/yr→Buy on hashtag.space (web3)

card via hashtag.org · tokens via hashtag.space

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Day-by-day usage

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-09 22:47 UTC

No measured public usage for #shareware in the last 7 days. That is a real result, and a good one to know: this hashtag is wide open right now. We show a dash before we ever show a made-up number. Browse the trending index for tags with live measurements.

Related hashtags

measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-09 22:47 UTC

No related tags with measured usage found for #shareware.

Live pulse

measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-10-09 22:47 UTC

No recent public posts found for #shareware on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.

What “shareware” means

Wiktionary · Wikipedia

shareware

nounA type of software that is distributed without payment but is limited in any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience.

Full entry on Wiktionary →

Shareware is proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost. Often the software has limited functionality or incomplete documentation until the user sends payment to the owner. Shareware is often offered as a download from a website. Shareware differs from freeware, which is fully-featured software distributed at no cost to the user but without source code being made available; and free and open-source software, in which the source code is freely av

“Shareware” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →

#shareware across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #shareware straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.

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Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/shareware