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Sweep! Sweepstakes Organizer

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The Bottom Line

Sweep! is a decent program to help you organize your sweepstakes entry - if you have the patience to search for each sweep, and then painstakingly set it up by hand.

Pros

  • Organizes all of your sweepstakes in one place
  • Tracks entry time
  • Opens sweepstakes forms pre-filled
  • Save sweepstakes by category
  • Free to use

Cons

  • Sweepstakes setup is extremely time-consuming
  • No longer offers sweepstakes downloads
  • Difficult to store information for more than one person

Description

  • Organizes your sweepstakes and tracks your entry times to prevent duplicate entries.
  • Gives you total freedom to set up categories to match your entry style.
  • Opens sweepstakes forms already pre-filled with your information.

Guide Review - Sweep! Sweepstakes Organizer

Sweep! is a small, free-to-download program that helps organize your sweepstakes entry. Good organization is vital to helping you to avoid disqualifying yourself due to duplicate entries, and Sweep! can certainly do the job.

Using Sweep! you can organize your sweepstakes into groups, which is a handy feature. You can set up folders for daily, weekly, monthly, one time, and ongoing sweepstakes to keep track of what you've entered and when to enter again. You could set up a group of "must enter" sweepstakes that you enter without fail, even when you are short on time.

You are also able to store the official rules right alongside your sweepstakes, which is handy if you win the giveaway.

The problem with Sweep! is that it takes a painfully long time to set up the sweepstakes. In earlier times, you could download a list of sweepstakes to enter into your Sweep! program, which saved a lot of time. Today, however, you still have to find your own sweepstakes to enter and put the information by hand into the program. You then have to set up the information in the form so that Sweep can fill it in for you. This is also a time consuming process.

Once you have your sweepstakes set up, it is quick and easy to actually enter. But every time you want to add new sweepstakes to the list, you have to go through the entire chore again.

Some other services, such as a premium membership at Online-Sweepstakes.com, offer similar tracking abilities while Roboform helps you fill in the entry forms. Each of these programs are easier to use and have a more elegant design, but they charge a fee to do so. If you are looking for a free program, Sweep! asks for donations but doesn't require any payment.

Many people love the Sweep! software. Since the program is free to use, it is worth downloading and trying out the features for yourself.

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