Comparison
A GummySearch alternative for Reddit audience research
GummySearch closed to new users in November 2025, and its shutdown date is December 1, 2026. Here is what KissMyPost does in its place, what it doesn't do, and what it charges.
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Short answer
GummySearch stopped accepting new sign-ups after November 30, 2025, and shuts down completely on December 1, 2026, when its accounts and data are deleted. KissMyPost is a Reddit audience research tool that covers most of what people used GummySearch for: finding subreddits by who writes in them, saving them as audiences, reading a subreddit's rules, removal rate, best hours and post formats, and searching posts and comments back to 2005. It has no keyword alerts and no AI summaries. Plans start at $39 a month, and any plan can be tried for $1 for one day.
What happened to GummySearch
GummySearch was an audience research tool for Reddit, used by more than 140,000 founders, marketers and investors by its own count.
- GummySearch announces it will close.
- Last day for new sign-ups and payments.
- GummySearch shuts down entirely; user data is deleted.
Paid customers keep access until their current billing period ends, and subscriptions don't renew. Free accounts can still log in to download or delete their data. If your audiences live in GummySearch, download your account export before December 1, 2026.
Sources: GummySearch's own announcements, The final chapter and Closing time, checked October 23, 2026.
GummySearch vs KissMyPost, feature by feature
Each row is something people used GummySearch for. Of these 11, KissMyPost covers 5, covers 3 in part and doesn't do 3. The last column says what's missing, row by row.
| What you used it for | GummySearch | KissMyPost | Not in KissMyPost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Find subreddits | Search subreddits by keyword, see similar ones, browse trending and fast-growing lists. | YesFind Subs: search subreddits by who writes there (country, age, gender, job) and by topic, with similar subreddits and sorts for Trending now and Members growing fastest. | No keyword box inside Find Subs. To see where a phrase comes up, use Historical search. |
| Audiences | Save subreddits into named audiences, start from curated ones, see combined numbers. | YesAudiences: build your own or start from a catalog of prepared ones. Each shows its subreddits side by side, the topics they talk about and who writes there. | No public share link, and no bulk import of a subreddit list. |
| Keyword search | Search posts and comments across Reddit, with filters for subreddits, authors, words and dates. | YesHistorical search: one phrase across posts and comments back to 2005, with a timeline, the subreddits where it comes up and how it was received. | Fewer filters: you can't exclude words or authors, or filter by flair. |
| Subreddit analytics | Members and growth, activity, top posts, topics, and a report on the best post type and time. | YesA report for each subreddit: growth, monthly activity, all 168 hours of the week, which formats and lengths do well, the words it uses far more than Reddit does, the brands it names and how harsh the comments get. | No top posts list by score, no flair breakdown, no trending keywords. |
| Rules and moderation | Removal rates and moderation rules, on the higher plan. | YesHow many posts the moderators actually remove, plus allowed post types, flair, link rules and account checks such as minimum karma or account age, read from the subreddit's own settings. | Nothing major. |
| Themes and pain points | Posts tagged by theme across an audience: pain points, solution requests, advice requests, money talk and more. | PartlyEach subreddit report shows the intents behind its threads. Find Subs has a Topics view: what's growing, what comes back every season, what spikes with the news. | No feed of tagged posts across a whole audience. |
| Products and brands | Product categories and brands discussed in an audience, with AI-written reviews. | PartlyBrands: who mentions a brand on Reddit, where, and how the talk moves. Each subreddit report lists the brands and sites it names. | No brand view for a whole audience, no AI reviews or star ratings. |
| Top contributors | Named lists of the most active users in a subreddit. | PartlyHow much of the conversation the most active writers carry, without names. | No named lists, on purpose: we don't single out people. |
| Keyword tracking and alerts | Saved searches that watch for new mentions and send them by email, Slack, Discord or webhook. | NoReply Radar finds fresh posts worth replying to in your subreddits or an audience, while its page is open. | No alerts. Nothing watches in the background, and there are no email, Slack or Discord notifications. |
| AI summaries, patterns and Ask | AI summaries of threads, pattern clusters across posts, answers to questions with sources, and sentiment. | NoNo AI writing on top of the data. Copy for AI copies a page, posts included, ready to paste into the chat assistant you already use. | No AI summaries, Ask or AI sentiment, on purpose (see below). |
| Saved lists and shared reports | Save posts into lists, keep past analyses, share an audience or a report by public link. | NoYour audiences and projects are saved in your account. | No saved post lists and no public links to reports. |
What KissMyPost doesn't do, and why
- No AI layer. We don't put a model's summary between you and the threads. A summary reads well and hides what it left out, and on Reddit the part left out is often the one that matters: the comment that explains why a post was removed, or the thread where people say what they'd pay for. Every number in KissMyPost is counted from posts and comments in the archive. If you want a model to read along, Copy for AI puts the page on your clipboard for the assistant you already use.
- No background alerts. Reply Radar looks for fresh posts while its page is open and stops when you leave. We'd rather say that than sell a monitor that watches nothing. If keyword alerts in your inbox or Slack were the main thing you used GummySearch for, a dedicated monitoring tool will serve you better.
- No lists of named users. We report on subreddits and on Reddit as a whole. We don't list, rank or profile individual people.
What else you get
- The whole archive. 3.8B posts and 27.7B comments from Jun 2005 to Sep 2026. The data comes from public Reddit archives back to 2005 plus our own collection for recent months. Removed posts stay in the archive, which is the only way a removal rate can be measured at all.
- Who writes there. Country, age, gender and jobs of the people who write in a subreddit, each with a note on how sure the estimate is. Lurkers leave no signal, so everything about people is measured from accounts that write.
- Post Lab. Paste an idea or a draft and see the topics where it already lives: real posts and comments, where to post it, the rules there, and when.
- Topics over time. Topics that come back at the same time every year, and topics that spike with the news, so a content calendar can follow the subreddit instead of a guess.
- Free without an account. Playground builds fact cards about subreddits, and KissMyPost Research publishes data studies about Reddit with the numbers as CSV.
Moving over from GummySearch
- Download your account export from GummySearch before December 1, 2026, while you can still log in.
- Rebuild each audience in KissMyPost: add its subreddits one at a time, find them in Find Subs and save the set as an audience, or start from a prepared audience.
- Open the report for each subreddit you post in: its rules, removal rate, best hours and the formats that do well there.
- Search your product or keyword in Historical search to see where it's discussed, and open Reply Radar on the audience for fresh threads worth answering.
KissMyPost pricing
Every plan includes every tool. Plans differ in how many kisses, the credits you spend on searches and reports, you get each month.
| Plan | Price | Kisses a month |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $39 / month | 500 |
| Pro | $99 / month | 2,000 |
| Max | $249 / month | 6,000 |
Any plan can be tried for $1 for one day. After 24 hours it continues at the plan's full monthly price unless you cancel, which takes one click. Full pricing
Questions about switching from GummySearch
Is GummySearch shutting down?
Yes. GummySearch stopped accepting new sign-ups and payments after November 30, 2025, and shuts down entirely on December 1, 2026, when user data is deleted. Paid customers keep access until their billing period ends.
What can I use as a GummySearch replacement?
For Reddit audience research, KissMyPost works as a GummySearch replacement for the core of it: finding subreddits, building audiences, subreddit analytics with rules and removals, and keyword search back to 2005. If you mainly used GummySearch for keyword alerts or AI summaries, KissMyPost doesn't do those.
Does KissMyPost have keyword alerts?
No. Reply Radar finds fresh posts worth replying to while its page is open, but nothing runs in the background and there are no email, Slack or Discord notifications.
Does KissMyPost use AI?
Not to write answers for you. Machine learning groups posts into topics and intents, but nothing in a report is generated text: the numbers are counted from posts and comments. Copy for AI lets you paste a page into your own assistant.
Can I import my GummySearch audiences?
Not automatically. Add the subreddits to a KissMyPost audience one at a time, or find them in Find Subs and save the whole set as an audience.
Where does KissMyPost get its data?
From public Reddit archives back to 2005 plus our own collection for recent months. Removed posts stay in the archive, which is how removal rates are measured.
How much does KissMyPost cost?
Starter $39, Pro $99 and Max $249 a month. Every plan includes every tool; plans differ in how many kisses (credits) you get each month. There's no free plan, but any plan can be tried for $1 for one day, and Playground and KissMyPost Research are free without an account. See pricing.
Check a subreddit you already know
Open its report and see whether the rules, the removal rate and the best hours match what you've seen yourself.
From KissMyPost Research: The em dash and ChatGPT: what ten years of Reddit posts show