Comparison
ReplyHey vs GummySearch
GummySearch was the research tool for Reddit, and then on November 30, 2025 it closed. This page is for the people still typing its name.
GummySearch details read from their site in August 2026. Pricing moves — check theirs before you decide.
What GummySearch is
GummySearch called itself “The Research Tool for Reddit”, and for years it was the default answer when a founder asked how to find their audience there. Its pitch — “your customers are talking on Reddit” — covered four jobs it names on its own site: ideating startups, validating demand, inspiring content, and finding sales leads. You picked audiences, browsed and searched their conversations, and drew your own conclusions.
It shut down on November 30, 2025. The site stays up as a goodbye, and — to its credit — routes former customers to alternatives by category: cross-platform research tools, pain-point miners, Reddit lead-generation products, and a full-service agency for people who would rather hand the channel off entirely. It does not dwell on reasons, and neither will we.
ReplyHey overlaps with exactly one of those four jobs, and it is the one most GummySearch tabs were actually open for: finding the threads where someone is asking for what you sell. It starts from your URL instead of from audience browsing, sweeps daily, and hands you a scored lead with the evidence quoted, the subreddit’s live rules already checked, and the reply drafted. The research is still in there — it just arrives as a decision instead of a reading list.
Where GummySearch is better
- Research before product. GummySearch worked when you had nothing but an idea; ReplyHey needs a URL to read, so “I have not built it yet” is a job we genuinely do not do.
- Breadth. Idea validation, content inspiration and lead finding in one tool was the whole appeal, and nothing that replaced it covers all three.
- It was right early. “Your customers are talking on Reddit” was an unusual thing to build a product on back then. It is the premise of this entire category now.
Side by side
| ReplyHey | GummySearch | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Running, and answering support email | Closed November 30, 2025 |
| Starting point | Paste your URL; keywords and subreddits are derived from it | Pick audiences, then browse and search their conversations |
| Finding leads | Scored 0–100 daily, with the sentence that earned it quoted | Searches and categories you read and judged yourself |
| The reply | Drafted in your voice; you edit and post it | Not its job — research ended at the finding |
| Subreddit rules | Checked live; a no-promo sub gets a DM draft instead | Not its job |
| Posting plan | A two-week calendar per subreddit | No |
| Audience research before you have a product | No — everything starts from a URL | The core of the product |
| Price | $24.99/month, unlimited websites | Nothing left to buy |
Where we differ
Whichever you pick: nothing should post to Reddit as you. That is the line the account bans are on.
ReplyHey vs GummySearch: questions
Why did GummySearch shut down?+
Their site announces the closing date and moves on to helping people find alternatives; it does not give a public reason, and speculating on their behalf would not make this page better. What matters for you is simpler: it is gone, and the jobs it did have to live somewhere.
Is ReplyHey a full GummySearch replacement?+
No, and distrust anything that claims to be. ReplyHey replaces the lead-finding job completely — arguably does more of it, since the reply and the rules check come attached. It does not replace open-ended audience research for a product you have not built. Their own alternatives page routes that job to research tools, and that routing is correct.
Can I import my GummySearch audiences or keywords?+
There is nothing to import from anymore, and with ReplyHey you would not need to: paste your URL and the keywords, negative keywords and subreddits are derived fresh, then edited under Signals if you disagree. Your old audience list survives in the one place it ever really lived — your memory of which subreddits mattered — and adding those takes a minute.
I used GummySearch mostly for pain-point research. Should I still try ReplyHey?+
Only if you also sell something today. The leads ReplyHey surfaces quote the sentence where someone describes their problem, so a daily stream of them is decent pain-point evidence as a side effect — but it is a side effect. If research is the whole job, use a research tool.
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