Head to head

GummySearch vs PainOnSocial

GummySearch is a audience research tool: Built for Reddit audience research: finding communities, themes and pain points. PainOnSocial is a audience research tool: Scans chosen subreddits for recurring complaints, ranks pain points with AI and suggests startup ideas, from $19 a month with a 7-day trial.

GummySearchPainOnSocial
PriceClosed to new customers; shuts down 1 Dec 2026$19/mo Starter, $49/mo Professional, 7-day trial
What it watchesRedditReddit
AI buyer-intent scoringNo, keyword matchingNo, keyword matching
CategoryAudience researchAudience research

Details read from gummysearch.com and painonsocial.com, last checked October 2026. Check the vendor sites before you subscribe.

Choose GummySearch if

Built for Reddit audience research: finding communities, themes and pain points.

Watch out: It closed to new customers in November 2025 after failing to reach a commercial Reddit API deal, and shuts down entirely on 1 December 2026.

Choose PainOnSocial if

Scans chosen subreddits for recurring complaints, ranks pain points with AI and suggests startup ideas, from $19 a month with a 7-day trial.

Watch out: It is built for idea validation, not sales: scans are on demand (20 a month on Starter, 2 subreddits each) with a weekly topic email, so it does not alert you when a buyer posts today.

The short version

Useful for understanding an audience. For catching buyers in the minute they post, you need an alerting tool. Great for finding what to build. To find who to sell to right now, you need continuous monitoring with buyer-intent alerts.

Or skip both

If what you want is the posts where someone is asking to buy, Leadhoot scores every new post on Reddit, X and Threads 0–100 for buyer intent and sends only the high scorers to email, or Slack on Agency, within a minute.

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Common questions

Neither wins outright. GummySearch: Useful for understanding an audience. For catching buyers in the minute they post, you need an alerting tool. PainOnSocial: Great for finding what to build. To find who to sell to right now, you need continuous monitoring with buyer-intent alerts.

GummySearch: Closed to new customers; shuts down 1 Dec 2026. PainOnSocial: $19/mo Starter, $49/mo Professional, 7-day trial. Vendor pricing changes, so check before you subscribe.

Leadhoot watches the subreddits you pick and searches X and Threads for your phrases, scores every new post 0–100 for buyer intent, and sends only the high scorers to email (Slack on Agency) within a minute. It never posts or DMs for you.