One list
Every source, one list
Reddit and X, where B2B buyers actually talk, with LinkedIn coming soon. One list instead of two tabs nobody keeps open.
Add your keywords. We check every day and email you the posts that mention them. Everything else stays quiet.
We notify you. Free Social Listening sends no messages on your behalf, and collects no email addresses or phone numbers.
Reddit and X under one list, only the posts that use your keywords, and an email you will actually read.
Reddit and X, where B2B buyers actually talk, with LinkedIn coming soon. One list instead of two tabs nobody keeps open.
You only see posts that contain a keyword you added. No trending feed, no suggested topics, nothing to wade through.
A daily email on every plan. On paid plans, Slack or a webhook as well, after every check. Each has the author, the quote, and a link straight to the thread.
The post, its author, and a link to the original, held as history so you can see what's heating up, and exported to CSV whenever you want it.
Set it up once, then forget it until it has something worth saying.
Pick Reddit or X (LinkedIn is coming soon) and the phrases that signal intent: a renewal coming up, a competitor complaint, a team outgrowing its tools.
The free plan checks once a day. Starter checks every 6 hours and Pro every hour, so you hear sooner.
A daily email with every new match, or on paid plans a Slack or webhook alert after each check: the author, the quote, and a link to the original thread. Every match is kept in your mention history.
Every subreddit and the whole of X. On either plan, the trial includes 50 keywords, 6-hour scans, Reddit and X. Pro's hourly scans and unlimited keywords start after your first charge. LinkedIn is coming soon.
Where buying intent shows up first and rawest: someone asking which vendor to pick, or complaining about the tool they already have.
Keyword search with author context: who's talking and what they said, checked for you rather than whenever you happen to look.
The trigger events worth knowing about: role changes, funding posts, hiring sprees, competitor announcements. LinkedIn has no native keyword alert. This one is coming soon.
Tried any other listening tool before? Here's what changes.
| Other listening tools | Free Social Listening | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Priced per seat, or quoted after a sales call. Listening is often a paid add-on. | Less than most: $49 or $99 a monthOne flat price, published on the page, plus any applicable tax. No seats to count. |
| Setup | Often starts with a demo and an onboarding call. | Running in a few minutesSign up, add your keywords, and we start checking. No demo, no onboarding call. |
| Keywords | You usually start from a blank box and work out what to track yourself. | Keywords suggested for youWhen you sign up, share your website or a sentence about what you do. We suggest keywords and competitors, and you pick the ones you want. |
| Signal | Trending topics and suggested feeds, in a dashboard someone has to remember to open. | Only your keywords, in your inboxA daily email of the posts that use a keyword you chose, each with the author, the quote, and a link to the thread. |
| Contract | Annual contracts are common, so leaving can mean waiting for the renewal date. | Month to monthCancel any time from your account. No annual term to sit out. |
| Cancelling | Cancel and your access usually stops. | You are not locked outCancel at least 30 minutes before the trial ends, or any time after, and you move to the free plan: Reddit or X, 3 keywords, and a daily email. Nothing is deleted. |
Social listening tools watch public conversations (Reddit threads, X posts, LinkedIn updates) for the keywords that matter to you, and tell you when someone says them. A good one does three things: match your phrases across the sources your buyers actually use, apply a rule so you only hear about it when it matters, and deliver the mention with enough context to act on it. Free Social Listening covers Reddit and X, with LinkedIn coming soon. It sends a daily email on every plan, and Slack or webhook alerts on the paid plans.
The best LinkedIn monitoring tool is the one that alerts on the trigger events your reps sell into (role changes, funding posts, hiring sprees, competitor announcements) rather than reporting on your own page. Paid suites like Octolens and Brand24 do this on a per-seat bill. LinkedIn keyword alerts are coming soon here.
Start with the keywords: your product name, common misspellings, your domain, your founders, and your top two or three competitors. Add the sources where your buyers talk. Reddit and X cover much of the B2B conversation, with LinkedIn coming soon. Keep the list tight so routine mentions do not flood you, and route alerts to the person who will reply: support for complaints, founders for comparisons, sales for intent. Then review the mention history weekly to see which topics are heating up.
LinkedIn has no native keyword alert, so monitoring means checking search on a schedule, or letting a tool do it. LinkedIn keyword alerts are coming soon here. Until then, Reddit and X work the same way: enter the phrases that signal intent, and each alert arrives with the author, the post context, and a link to the original.
Reddit is where buying intent shows up first and rawest: someone asking which vendor to pick, or complaining about the tool they already have. You can monitor keywords by hand with saved searches, or add Reddit as a source here and let it watch every subreddit for your phrases. Reddit keyword alerts arrive with the author, the quote, and a link straight to the thread, so you can reply while it is still open.
Add X as a source and enter the keywords you want tracked: your brand, a competitor, or the problem you solve. We check X once a day on the free plan (every 6 hours on Starter, hourly on Pro) and send you every post that matches, with the author context and the post itself. The same keywords work on Reddit, so social media monitoring stops being two tabs and starts being one list.
There is a free plan, and you reach it by cancelling. You start a 7-day trial with a card and choose a plan, then $49 or $99/month, plus any applicable tax, unless you cancel at least 30 minutes before the trial ends. On either plan, the trial includes 50 keywords, 6-hour scans, Reddit and X. Pro's hourly scans and unlimited keywords start after your first charge. LinkedIn is coming soon. If you cancel, the free plan covers one channel (Reddit or X), three keywords, checked once a day, with one email digest of everything new. No seat minimums. Faster checks and Slack alerts are on the paid plans.
No. Free Social Listening is a monitoring tool, not an outreach tool. It notifies you by email, Slack or webhook when a public post matches your keywords, and that is the only message it sends. It does not contact post authors, does not send email, direct messages or connection requests on your behalf, and does not look up or supply email addresses or phone numbers. Using it to build contact lists for unsolicited outreach is against our terms.
It is. As an F5Bot alternative it adds X monitoring, a dashboard, and CSV export. As an Octolens alternative it keeps the core keyword notification workflow free.
Social listening is the practice of watching public conversations for the words that matter to you (your brand, your competitors, and the problems you solve) so you can answer while the conversation is still going. Most social listening tools price that on seats and dashboards nobody opens. This one is free social listening: pick your keywords, pick your sources, and get an email when someone says them.
Reddit is where buying intent shows up first and rawest. As a Reddit listening tool, this watches every subreddit for your phrases and sends Reddit keyword alerts with the author, the quote, and a link straight to the thread. If you have been using F5Bot and wanted a dashboard, history, and export, this is the F5Bot alternative that keeps the part you liked: it's free, it's quiet, and it just emails you when your word shows up.
LinkedIn is where the trigger events live: role changes, funding posts, hiring sprees, competitor announcements. LinkedIn monitoring here will mean LinkedIn keyword alerts on posts and mentions, so a rep will hear about a new VP of Sales the week they start rather than the quarter after. Teams looking at paid suites usually land here as an Octolens alternative: the same keyword-to-alert workflow, without the per-seat bill.
Brand monitoring is the defensive half of the job. Somebody names your product in a comparison thread, posts a complaint, or reviews you somewhere you don't control, and you find out three weeks later. Used as a review tracker, this catches those mentions the day they publish, so support or founders can reply while it still counts. The same keywords work across X, so social media monitoring tools stop being three tabs and start being one list.
The difference between social listening and a feed is focus. You only see posts that use a keyword you chose: nothing trending, nothing suggested. That turns raw mentions into signals your team actually trusts: every alert arrives with context, and every match is stored in your mention history, which you can read, search, or export to CSV.
It listens and it notifies you. It does not send email, messages or connection requests on your behalf, it does not look up or supply email addresses or phone numbers, and it does not build contact lists. What it stores is the public post, its author name as published, and a link back to the original: the context you need to decide whether to join a conversation that is already happening in public.
RevOps and marketing operators who configure the signals once and let alerts flow to the team. Founders who want to know the day their product gets named. Support teams who'd rather find the complaint than be forwarded it. If your job depends on hearing something early, this is the quiet instrument for it. Set it up in a few minutes, then forget it until it has something worth saying.
Quiet by default. Loud exactly when your keywords show up.
Card required. $49 or $99/month after 7 days, plus any applicable tax, unless you cancel.