Several tools in this category got their customers banned, and a few were shut down themselves. The failures were mechanical and predictable, which means you can screen for them before you connect anything. Ask these ten questions of any tool, including ours.
1. Whose account posts?
If the answer is anything other than "yours, connected by you, through the platform's own sign-in," close the tab. Managed accounts, aged accounts and "we handle the accounts" are bans waiting to happen, and the ban can reach your real account.
2. Does it warm new accounts?
A tool that lets a day-old account post a link is a tool that does not know how Reddit works. Look for a warming lane with stages and the rules that go with them.
3. Does it enforce a promotional ratio at publish time?
Not "we recommend"; enforce. A promotional draft that would tip the ratio should wait.
4. Does it read subreddit rules?
Every subreddit differs on links, promotion, age and karma. The tool should fetch and apply them, and refresh them.
5. Can it post the same text twice?
It should not be able to. Duplicate text across subreddits is the fastest report.
6. Does it vote, like, follow or message?
Any yes is a no. Those are manipulation in every platform's terms and are detected well.
7. Is a person in the loop?
Every venture should start with human approval, and autopilot should be earned, per platform, and lost the moment a draft is held.
8. Does it disclose?
Replies that mention the product should say so, in words you chose.
9. Does it check account health?
Daily checks for removals, karma drops and shadowbans, with the account slowing down or pausing when health drops.
10. Is the design public?
If a tool will not explain how it keeps you safe, it does not. Ours is on the safety page; hold any tool to the same standard.
The shape of a safe tool
It reads a lot and writes little. It is slower than you would like in the first month. It says no to some of your drafts. That is what safe looks like.