GummySearch is gone. Here is what each replacement actually replaces.
GummySearch did three jobs. No single tool replaces all of them. Here is which one replaces which, with prices checked on each vendor's site.
GummySearch stopped taking new customers in November 2025 and shuts down completely on December 1, 2026. Most "alternatives" lists treat it as one product with one replacement. It wasn't. It did three different jobs, and the tools still standing each cover one of them.
Prices and features below were checked on each vendor's own site on October 10, 2026. If you are reading this much later, check again.
What happened to GummySearch
GummySearch was built on Reddit's Data API. Its founder tried to get a commercial license from Reddit and the two sides could not agree on terms. In the announcement of November 6, 2025, he wrote that the company "must become a non-commercial product by the end of November or shut down." The closing notice puts it plainly: GummySearch is "shutting down to comply with Reddit's API policies, which forbid commercial applications."
- November 30, 2025: new signups, sales and renewals ended.
- Until the end of the billing period: existing subscribers keep access.
- December 1, 2026: the product shuts down and user data is deleted. Lifetime-deal holders have access until November 30, 2026.
If you still have an account, export your data before December.
The three jobs GummySearch did
- Find the communities. Which subreddits your audience is in, how big they are, how fast they grow.
- Find the conversations. Search and alerts for keywords, competitors, "looking for a tool that…" posts.
- Understand what people are saying. Group posts into themes: pain points, solution requests, opinions about products.
Decide which of these you actually used. That decides what you need now.
The alternatives at a glance
| Tool | Mainly replaces | Starts at | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| F5Bot | Job 2: keyword alerts | Free; paid from $9.99/mo | Reddit, Hacker News, Lobsters |
| Syften | Job 2: keyword monitoring and archive search | $29.95/mo | Reddit and many other communities |
| Reddinbox | Jobs 2 and 3: AI research agent plus monitoring | $39/mo | Reddit, X, Bluesky, Hacker News, Facebook |
| PainOnSocial | Job 3: ranked pain points from chosen subreddits | $19/mo | |
| Valtaris | Job 3: evidence from specific threads you pick | Free trial; analysis from $25/mo | Reddit threads you export |
F5Bot
Emails you when a keyword appears on Reddit, Hacker News or Lobsters. The free plan is enough for a handful of brand and competitor names. Paid plans add more keywords and filtering: Silver is $9.99/month for 20 keywords, Gold $49.99/month for 200 keywords, AI filtering and Slack or Discord delivery.
Use it if you used GummySearch mostly to catch mentions. It won't tell you what the mentions add up to.
Syften
Keyword monitoring across Reddit and a long list of other communities (Hacker News, Indie Hackers, GitHub, Product Hunt, Stack Exchange, forums, newsletters and more). The main difference between plans is how far back you can search: Entry ($29.95/month) covers 7 days, Standard ($49.95) 30 days, and PRO ($119.95) the full available history.
Use it if you need monitoring beyond Reddit, or want to search past conversations. It won't summarise them for you.
Reddinbox
An AI research agent: you describe what you want to understand, it searches several platforms and returns structured insights, plus monitoring and "Market Briefs". Starter is $39/month (about 100 agent conversations), Pro $99/month (about 266). It also has a few free utilities, including a thread downloader, limited to five uses a day without an account.
Use it if you want one tool that both finds conversations and interprets them, across more than Reddit.
PainOnSocial
Pick subreddits and a 7, 30 or 90-day window; it returns pain points scored by frequency and intensity, each with quotes and Reddit links, plus AI-generated solution ideas. Starter is $19/month (20 scans, up to 2 subreddits per scan), Professional $49/month (300 scans, up to 5 subreddits).
Use it if you used GummySearch's pain-point themes to look for product ideas.
Valtaris (ours)
We should be upfront: Valtaris does not replace jobs 1 or 2. It has no subreddit discovery and no alerts. It does one thing: you choose a thread (or several), export every comment with our Chrome extension, and get a report of what the discussion actually concluded. Every finding comes with the original quotes, links, how many different people said it (deduplicated by author), and who disagreed. Quotes are checked word for word against the source.
That is useful when you already know where the conversation is, a 400-comment thread comparing your product to a competitor, say, and need something you can cite in a doc or a deck rather than a vibe. You can see the approach worked through on a real thread in How to read a Reddit thread without fooling yourself.
Free accounts get 2 analyses (top 200 comments each). Analysis plans start at $25/month for 30 credits; about one credit per 100 comments.
Enterprise options
If you have an enterprise budget, social-listening suites such as Brandwatch, which has had a Reddit data agreement for years, cover all three jobs at a very different price point. They are not realistic for most indie and small teams.
How to choose
- You mostly watched for mentions: start with F5Bot's free plan; move to Syften if you need history or more sources.
- You looked for problems worth building for: PainOnSocial or Reddinbox.
- You needed to understand specific discussions and show your evidence: Valtaris.
- You used all of it: expect to combine a monitoring tool with an analysis tool. There is no one-for-one replacement.
One question to ask any vendor
GummySearch did not fail because the product was bad. It closed because of how it got its data. Other tools in this space have closed since (PulseFox's site now simply says it has shut down). Before you commit to an annual plan, ask how the tool gets Reddit data and what happens to your saved work if that changes. Monthly billing is the safer default.