GummySearch replacement guide
GummySearch was built for Reddit audience research and officially closed on November 30, 2025. MentionLeads is a practical replacement when your next job is finding active buyers, preparing a useful reply, and measuring what happens after they visit.
Choose a research product when you mainly need historical audience themes and subreddit exploration. Choose MentionLeads when you need a recurring lead workflow: monitor live conversations, prioritize purchase intent, draft a contextual response, and connect the resulting visit to a goal or payment.
Best for acting on demand
Best for broad live listening
GummySearch is closed, so this table compares its former center of gravity with what MentionLeads provides today.
| Decision factor | GummySearch | MentionLeads |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Reddit audience and niche research | Find and convert active buyer conversations |
| Current availability | Closed November 30, 2025 | Active web app and browser extension |
| Sources | Reddit, X, and Hacker News | |
| Intent prioritization | Research and content insights | Buyer fit, intent, urgency, and reasoning |
| Reply workflow | Not the core product workflow | Contextual draft with human review before posting |
| Pipeline | Not the core product workflow | Potential-customer stages, notes, and exports |
| Outcome measurement | Research output | Visits, goals, journeys, Stripe revenue, and AI referrals |
| Starting price | No longer available | Free plan; paid plans from $19/month |
First separate research from acquisition. Audience research helps you understand recurring pain, vocabulary, subreddits, and content themes. Acquisition work starts later: it finds a person describing that pain now and helps your team respond while the conversation is still useful.
MentionLeads covers lightweight market discovery through its strategy and demand tools, but its main advantage is operational. It turns matching discussions into a ranked queue and explains why each conversation may represent a potential customer.
The workflow begins with public conversations from the sources enabled for a project. MentionLeads evaluates relevance, buyer fit, intent, urgency, and safety signals. It then prepares a value-first draft that the user can edit and approve rather than posting automatically.
When the visitor reaches your site, Growth Analytics can connect the source and landing page to a signup goal, product event, journey, or payment. That closes the gap between “we replied on Reddit” and “this conversation influenced revenue.”
MentionLeads is not a clone of GummySearch. If you need a large historical Reddit research archive, deep theme clustering, or research-only exports, choose a dedicated audience-research product. If you need the broadest possible media-monitoring coverage, evaluate a general social-listening suite or Syften.
It is strongest for founders, SaaS teams, and agencies that want to turn public buying signals into a disciplined, human-reviewed acquisition workflow.
Short answers for buyers comparing monitoring, research, and lead-generation workflows.
No. GummySearch states on its official alternatives page that it closed on November 30, 2025. Its public research and pricing pages may still be accessible, but the product is no longer available as an active subscription.
MentionLeads is a strong fit when you want live buyer-intent discovery, assisted reply drafting, a lead pipeline, and revenue attribution. Syften is a stronger fit when broad cross-community keyword monitoring is the priority.
No. MentionLeads discovers public conversations across Reddit, X, and Hacker News. Plans differ by source access and scan frequency.
No reply is published without the user. MentionLeads prepares a contextual draft; the user reviews, edits, and approves it before posting.
The permanent Free plan does not require a card. The 7-day Pro trial does require a card through Stripe, and billing starts on day 8 unless you cancel first.
Try the complete MentionLeads Pro workflow free for 7 days. A card is required; cancel before day 8 to avoid being charged.