Every GummySearch feature, mapped to a replacement
GummySearch closed on 30 November 2025, and no single tool does everything it did. The best GummySearch alternative depends on the job: MediaFast for subreddit research and posting, F5Bot plus Reddit Pro Trends for a free setup, Syften for monitoring Reddit, RedShip for leads, Octolens for B2B intent and SparkToro for cross-channel audience research.
Below: what happened, a feature-by-feature replacement map, the 9 tools with prices we checked on each vendor's site in October 2026, the best free option, and a migration checklist. Lifetime deal holders lose access on 30 November 2026, so the checklist is worth doing this month.
60-second answer
Find your main job and start with that tool. Most former users end up with two: one for research, one for alerts.
Audience and subreddit research
MediaFast
Picks subreddits for your product from 4,200+ communities and finds threads to reply under.
Best free GummySearch alternative
F5Bot + Reddit Pro Trends
F5Bot emails you 5 keywords for free. Reddit Pro Trends is free for businesses.
Monitoring Reddit for keywords
Syften
Filtered alerts by email or Slack from $29.95/mo, with a 14-day free trial.
Leads and reply suggestions
RedShip
Daily lead opportunities and AI reply suggestions from $29/mo.
B2B buying intent
Octolens
Tags each mention by relevance and buy-intent across Reddit, X, LinkedIn and more.
Cross-channel audience research
SparkToro
Shows the subreddits, podcasts and sites your audience uses. Free plan with 3 previews.
What happened to GummySearch
Straight from the founder's closing note. Who keeps access, and until when.
Closed for business
Nov 30, 2025
Announced by the founder in a closing note.
Users it served
140,000+
Founders, marketers and investors, per the closing note.
Lifetime deal access ends
Nov 30, 2026
The last group with full access.
"The TLDR is that we're shutting down to comply with Reddit's API policies, which forbid commercial applications."
Fed, maker of GummySearch, in the closing note dated 30 November 2025. See also Reddit's Data API Terms.
| If you were on | What you can do now |
|---|---|
| Free tier | Log in only to download an export of your account data or delete the account. |
| Paid subscription | Access until the end of your billing period (one year at most). |
| Lifetime deal | Access until 30 November 2026. |
| Day passes | You can still activate passes you bought earlier. |
Free tier
Log in only to download an export of your account data or delete the account.
Paid subscription
Access until the end of your billing period (one year at most).
Lifetime deal
Access until 30 November 2026.
Day passes
You can still activate passes you bought earlier.
The reason matters when you pick a replacement: any tool that depends on Reddit data can face the same question. Ask vendors how they get their data before you move a whole workflow onto them.
Feature by feature
Feature names come from GummySearch's own product page. Pick the rows you used, ignore the rest.
Grouped subreddits into saved audiences, one per customer type.
Paid replacement
Pointed you to breakout niches inside an audience.
Paid replacement
Free replacement
Sorted threads into Pain Points, Solution Requests, Money Talk, Hot Discussions and Seeking Alternatives.
Free replacement
Notified you about category requests, pain points, competitor complaints and brand mentions.
Paid replacement
Free replacement
Searched one audience or all of Reddit, with filters and a visual view of the results.
Paid replacement
Free replacement
Kept your audiences, searches and tracked keywords in one account.
Paid replacement
Free replacement
Not on GummySearch's product page. You found the thread, then wrote everything yourself.
Free replacement
If research was your main GummySearch job
GummySearch showed you the communities. MediaFast picks them for your product, finds threads to reply under, and drafts posts that follow each sub's rules. Run it yourself, or have us run it for you.
Side by side
Prices checked October 2026 on each vendor's own pricing page. Plans change, so confirm before you pay.
| Tool | Best for | Replaces from GummySearch | Free option | Starting price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MediaFast | Subreddit research plus posting | Audiences, subreddit discovery, finding threads to reply under | Free tools, no signup | $39/mo or $129 once |
| F5Bot | Free keyword alerts | Track what matters (alerts on brand, competitor and category keywords) | Yes, 5 keywords | Free, paid from $12.99/mo |
| Syften | Monitoring Reddit and communities | Alerts and advanced search | 14-day trial, no card | From $29.95/mo |
| RedShip | Leads and reply suggestions | Alerts, Seeking Alternatives and Solution Requests style leads | No free plan, $12 7-day pass | From $29/mo |
| Reddit Pro Trends | Free first-party keyword trends | Breakout niches, keyword tracking | Yes | Free for businesses |
| Redreach | Threads that rank on Google | Alerts, finding threads to reply to | 3-day pass, 48-hour refund | Not listed on its site |
| Octolens | B2B buying intent | Alerts, conversation themes (buy-intent tags), export | 7-day trial, no card | From $159/mo (billed yearly) |
| SparkToro | Cross-channel audience research | Audiences | Yes, 3 previews a month | Free, Business $150/mo |
| Brand24 | Brand monitoring on every channel | Brand and competitor mention tracking | 14-day trial, no card | From $199/mo yearly, $249 monthly |
Best for: Subreddit research plus posting
Replaces: Audiences, subreddit discovery, finding threads to reply under
Free option: Free tools, no signup
Best for: Free keyword alerts
Replaces: Track what matters (alerts on brand, competitor and category keywords)
Free option: Yes, 5 keywords
Best for: Monitoring Reddit and communities
Replaces: Alerts and advanced search
Free option: 14-day trial, no card
Best for: Leads and reply suggestions
Replaces: Alerts, Seeking Alternatives and Solution Requests style leads
Free option: No free plan, $12 7-day pass
Best for: Free first-party keyword trends
Replaces: Breakout niches, keyword tracking
Free option: Yes
Best for: Threads that rank on Google
Replaces: Alerts, finding threads to reply to
Free option: 3-day pass, 48-hour refund
Best for: B2B buying intent
Replaces: Alerts, conversation themes (buy-intent tags), export
Free option: 7-day trial, no card
Best for: Cross-channel audience research
Replaces: Audiences
Free option: Yes, 3 previews a month
Best for: Brand monitoring on every channel
Replaces: Brand and competitor mention tracking
Free option: 14-day trial, no card
Prices checked October 2026. USD, before tax.
The shortlist
Ranked by how much of GummySearch's job each one covers for a founder. Every card has an honest limit, ours included.
Replaces from GummySearch: Audiences, subreddit discovery, finding threads to reply under
What it does
You describe your product and the Subreddit Picker hand-picks communities from 4,200+ subs where your buyers ask for products like yours. Comment Finder surfaces threads to reply under, the Post Generator drafts posts that follow each sub's rules, and a Ban-Safe Playbook with a Daily Action Plan says what to post, where and when. Our free Find My Subreddits tool returns 12 matched subreddits with no signup.
Honest limit
No keyword email or Slack alerts and no brand monitoring dashboard. Pair it with F5Bot or Syften if alerts were your main GummySearch job.
Replaces from GummySearch: Track what matters (alerts on brand, competitor and category keywords)
What it does
Emails you when a keyword shows up in a new post or comment on Reddit, Hacker News or Lobsters. It has run since 2017 and says it sends 430,000+ alerts a day. Silver costs $12.99/mo for 20 keywords with alerts within 5 minutes, and Gold at $49.99/mo adds 200 keywords plus Slack and Discord webhooks.
Honest limit
The free tier is 5 keywords, 20 alerts a day, alerts up to 2 hours late, and personal use only. No audiences, no themes, no dashboard.
Replaces from GummySearch: Alerts and advanced search
What it does
Watches Reddit, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, GitHub, Product Hunt, forums and more, and sends matches by email, Slack, RSS, API or webhook. Entry is $29.95/mo for 3 community filters and a 7-day archive. Standard at $49.95/mo adds 20 filters, Slack and AI filtering. PRO at $119.95/mo searches the full history.
Honest limit
It finds mentions you define, it does not suggest subreddits or group them into audiences. It does not monitor LinkedIn.
Replaces from GummySearch: Alerts, Seeking Alternatives and Solution Requests style leads
What it does
Tracks your product, keywords and competitors and hands you daily lead opportunities, competitor tracking, weekly SEO opportunities, weekly AI citation tracking and unlimited AI reply suggestions. Founder is $29/mo (1 product, 10 keywords, 3 competitors, email and Slack alerts). Company is $49/mo for 3 products and 30 keywords.
Honest limit
Built around tracking a product you already have, less around exploring an audience you are still researching. No free plan.
Replaces from GummySearch: Breakout niches, keyword tracking
What it does
Reddit's own free business suite added Trends on 7 January 2025. You track a brand, product, category or trend keyword and see a chart of conversation volume, a list of the communities mentioning it, and a feed of the posts. The data comes straight from Reddit.
Honest limit
It tracks keywords you choose. It does not sort threads into pain point or solution request themes, and you work inside Reddit's dashboard.
Replaces from GummySearch: Alerts, finding threads to reply to
What it does
Finds Reddit threads that rank in search results, pulls keywords from your site and competitors, filters out off-topic posts, tracks brand and competitor mentions, and drafts reply suggestions you post from your own account. Alerts go to email, Slack, Telegram or a webhook, and there is an API and an MCP server.
Honest limit
Plan names (Startup, Growth, Professional) are public, but prices were not shown on its homepage when we checked, so confirm before you budget.
Replaces from GummySearch: Alerts, conversation themes (buy-intent tags), export
What it does
Monitors Reddit, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Bluesky, Hacker News, GitHub, Stack Overflow, DEV and app reviews. Each post gets a high, medium or low relevance score, sentiment and tags like buy-intent. Pro covers 10 keywords and 15,000 mentions a month with hourly refresh, plus email, Slack, webhooks, API, MCP and CSV export.
Honest limit
Priced for teams, and the listed price assumes annual billing. It does not suggest subreddits for a new audience.
Replaces from GummySearch: Audiences
What it does
Audience research that shows where a group of people spends time online, including the subreddits where they ask the questions they won't ask elsewhere. Business is $150/mo for 25 reports. Personal is sold yearly only.
Honest limit
Research reports, not monitoring. No alerts and no thread-level conversation views like GummySearch's themes.
Replaces from GummySearch: Brand and competitor mention tracking
What it does
A social listening suite that lists Reddit among its mention sources. Individual covers 3 keywords and 2,000 mentions a month. Team ($299/mo yearly), Pro ($399) and Business ($599) are the larger plans.
Honest limit
Built for brand and PR teams. The entry plan costs more than most Reddit-only tools, and it does not do subreddit discovery.
Sources: F5Bot tiers, Syften pricing, RedShip pricing, TechCrunch on Reddit Pro Trends, Redreach, Octolens pricing, SparkToro pricing, Brand24 prices. All checked 28 October 2026.
And which one is free?
No free tool does all of it. These four, used together, cover most of what GummySearch's free and paid tiers did.
5 keywords on Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters, up to 20 alerts a day, delivered within 2 hours. Personal use only. Our F5Bot review covers setup.
Free for businesses. Track a keyword and see its conversation volume, the communities mentioning it and a feed of posts, straight from Reddit.
Our free Find My Subreddits tool turns a one-line product description into 12 matched subreddits, no signup. Check timing in the Subreddits Analyzer.
Free and unlimited. Use the theme phrases below to rebuild Pain Points, Solution Requests and Seeking Alternatives by hand.
Want to test a paid tool before you pay? Syften (14 days) and Brand24 (14 days) have free trials with no card, Octolens has a 7-day trial with no card, and SparkToro's free plan gives 3 audience previews a month. RedShip sells a $12 pass for 7 days if you only need a one-off research sprint.
Paste these into Reddit search inside a subreddit, or into Google as site:reddit.com plus the phrase. Swap the brackets for your category, competitor or task.
"frustrated with" [your category]"I hate" [competitor]"so annoying" [task]"is there a tool" [job]"any app that" [job]"what do you use for" [job]"how much do you pay" [category]"worth paying for" [category]"too expensive" [competitor]"alternative to" [competitor]"switching from" [competitor]"replacement for" [competitor]Sort a subreddit by Top, past weeksite:reddit.com/r/[sub] [topic] in Google, past monthFor monitoring Reddit
If GummySearch's Track feature was what you opened every morning, pick by speed, budget and where you want the alerts.
| You need | Pick | Cost | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| A free safety net for a few keywords | F5Bot free | Free | 5 keywords, alerts up to 2 hours late, personal use only. |
| Fast alerts for a solo founder | F5Bot Silver | $12.99/mo | 20 keywords, alerts within 5 minutes. Silver is for personal, non-commercial use, Gold ($49.99/mo) is the business tier. |
| Filtered alerts in Slack with search history | Syften Standard | $49.95/mo | 20 filters, Slack alerts and AI filtering. Entry is $29.95/mo for 3 filters. |
| Leads plus reply suggestions | RedShip Founder | $29/mo | 10 keywords, 3 competitors, daily leads, email and Slack alerts. |
| B2B intent across many networks | Octolens Pro | $159/mo yearly | 10 keywords, 15,000 mentions, relevance and buy-intent tags. |
| Official Reddit data, no budget | Reddit Pro Trends | Free | Keyword volume, communities and post feed inside Reddit Pro. |
A free safety net for a few keywords
F5Bot free
Free5 keywords, alerts up to 2 hours late, personal use only.
Fast alerts for a solo founder
F5Bot Silver
$12.99/mo20 keywords, alerts within 5 minutes. Silver is for personal, non-commercial use, Gold ($49.99/mo) is the business tier.
Filtered alerts in Slack with search history
Syften Standard
$49.95/mo20 filters, Slack alerts and AI filtering. Entry is $29.95/mo for 3 filters.
Leads plus reply suggestions
RedShip Founder
$29/mo10 keywords, 3 competitors, daily leads, email and Slack alerts.
B2B intent across many networks
Octolens Pro
$159/mo yearly10 keywords, 15,000 mentions, relevance and buy-intent tags.
Official Reddit data, no budget
Reddit Pro Trends
FreeKeyword volume, communities and post feed inside Reddit Pro.
Setting alerts up for the first time? The Reddit monitoring tools comparison has a 5-step alert setup, the query patterns worth tracking, and alert speed and coverage by tool.
Do it before your access ends
Most of what GummySearch held for you is a list of subreddits and a list of phrases. Save both, then load them into the new tools.
GummySearch's closing note says free users can still log in to download an export of their account data. Lifetime deal holders keep access until 30 November 2026, and paid subscribers until the end of their billing period (one year at most). Copy every audience and saved search before your date.
One row per subreddit: the audience it belonged to, why you tracked it, and whether it allows promotion. This list is the most valuable thing GummySearch held for you.
Use the theme phrases above with your category and competitor names. That gives you 10 to 20 keywords that bring back what Pain Points and Solution Requests used to show.
Start with your brand, your top two competitors and your best Solution Request phrase. F5Bot's free 5 keywords is enough to begin, move to Syften or RedShip when you need more.
Run your product description through Find My Subreddits and compare the 12 results with your old audiences. Add the new ones, then check activity in the Subreddits Analyzer.
GummySearch closed over Reddit's API policies. Before you rebuild a workflow, ask how a tool gets its data and what happens if that access changes.
Before you commit
GummySearch closed over Reddit's API policies. Ask the vendor directly and prefer tools that answer clearly.
Keep audiences and keywords in your own spreadsheet. Tools with CSV export, like Octolens, make the next move easier.
F5Bot's free tier can lag 2 hours, Silver is within 5 minutes. Early replies get seen by more of the people reading the thread.
Check the feature map. Paying for brand monitoring when you only used Audiences is the most common overspend.
Watch
Recorded while the product was live. Note which screens you used most, that is the shortlist of jobs your replacement needs to cover.
Tool Clash on YouTube, published September 7, 2025, before the shutdown.
GummySearch did four jobs in one tab: audiences, theme views, alerts and search. In 2026 the practical replacement is two tools. One finds the right communities and threads, one tells you when your keywords come up. If money is tight, F5Bot, Reddit Pro Trends and free Reddit search get you most of the way.
For the research half, tools like MediaFast pick subreddits for your product and draft posts that fit each community's rules. For a closer look at how the two products differ, read GummySearch vs MediaFast.
Keep going
Best Reddit monitoring tools
Reddit monitoring tools compared by alert speed, price and coverage.
F5Bot review
Free Reddit keyword alerts, what the free tier covers and where it stops.
RedShip alternatives
If RedShip is on your shortlist, the tools it gets compared with.
Redditlist alternatives
Subreddit discovery tools compared, if you used Redditlist to find communities.
Best Reddit marketing tools
The 2026 comparison across research, posting and monitoring.
What former GummySearch users ask most, including which alternative is free.
GummySearch closed for business on 30 November 2025. Its founder, Fed, wrote: "we're shutting down to comply with Reddit's API policies, which forbid commercial applications." The closing note says more than 140,000 founders, marketers and investors had used it.
Only partly. Free users can log in to download an export of their account data or delete the account. Paid subscribers keep access until the end of their billing period, one year at most. Lifetime deal holders have access until 30 November 2026. Day pass holders can still activate passes they bought earlier.
Yes. The 9 alternatives to GummySearch on this page were all live when we checked them in October 2026: MediaFast, F5Bot, Syften, RedShip, Reddit Pro Trends, Redreach, Octolens, SparkToro and Brand24. None copies GummySearch one to one, so pick by the job you used it for. Some people spell it Gummy Search, the closure and the alternatives are the same.
No single free tool replaces all of GummySearch, so use a free stack. F5Bot's free tier covers alerts for 5 keywords. Reddit Pro Trends is free for businesses and shows keyword volume and the communities talking about it. MediaFast's Find My Subreddits returns 12 matched subreddits with no signup, and SparkToro's free plan gives 3 audience previews a month. Reddit search with theme phrases covers pain points.
For a free start, F5Bot (5 keywords). For filtered alerts in Slack with search history, Syften Standard at $49.95/mo. For leads with reply suggestions, RedShip from $29/mo. For B2B buying intent across many networks, Octolens Pro at $159/mo billed yearly. Prices were checked on each vendor's site in October 2026.
Not today. GummySearch combined audiences, theme views, alerts and search in one product. Most former users now pair a research tool (MediaFast or SparkToro) with an alert tool (F5Bot, Syften or RedShip). Use the feature map on this page to see which tool covers the jobs you used most.
GummySearch's closing note says free users can still log in and download an export of their account data. Lifetime deal holders should export before their access ends on 30 November 2026. If you cannot export, write your audiences down as subreddit lists and your saved searches as keyword lists, then load them into the new tool.
From free to a few hundred dollars a month. F5Bot, Reddit Pro Trends and SparkToro have free plans. Paid entry prices we checked: F5Bot $12.99/mo, RedShip $29/mo, Syften $29.95/mo, MediaFast $39/mo or $129 once, SparkToro Business $150/mo, Octolens $159/mo billed yearly, Brand24 $199/mo billed yearly. Redreach did not list prices on its site.
Any tool that depends on Reddit data carries that risk, which is why GummySearch closed. Ask each vendor how it sources Reddit data, keep your subreddit and keyword lists in your own spreadsheet, and avoid building a workflow you cannot move to another tool in an afternoon.
It replaces the research side: picking subreddits for your product, finding threads to reply under, and drafting posts that follow each sub's rules. It does not send keyword alerts or track brand mentions, so pair it with F5Bot or Syften if alerts were a big part of how you used GummySearch.
Octolens is built for B2B teams. It tags mentions by relevance and buy-intent across Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Hacker News, GitHub and more. If your budget is smaller, RedShip's daily lead opportunities from $29/mo cover Reddit leads for one product.
Describe your product and MediaFast picks subreddits from 4,200+ communities, finds threads to reply under, and drafts posts that follow each sub's rules.
No time to do Reddit yourself?
