The “Good, Better, Best” Format Taking Over UGC

A new StudyTok format has been gaining traction in April, and it is already starting to spread beyond the category.
What makes it interesting is how little it asks from the creator.
It’s all in these three words: Good. Better. Best.
One of the clearest early examples came on April 10, when ambassador @sofieestudies posted an Instagram video that reached 441K views and 12K bookmarks.
She placed study-related categories in the middle of the screen, things like organization, memorization, and notes, then quickly ranked different apps based on how strong they were in each one.
The app being promoted was positioned as the best inside the category with the strongest demand.
The format also (obviously) lets the promoted app “win” in the most commercially useful category, while the others fill out the comparison and make the video feel more balanced.
A few days later, on April 14, the same structure showed up in another niche.
@career_cleo used it for a job application app and reached 212K views and 10.5K bookmarks with:
“Good, better, best, Job Application Edition”
This version was slightly longer and used only one category: job applications.
Instead of cycling through multiple use cases, she kept the whole comparison inside the niche of the app being promoted, then explained why that product deserved the top spot.
That is what makes the format so versatile.
It can work in education, jobs, productivity, finance, or almost any other category where comparing tools feels natural.



