MentionWatch vs Social Searcher

MentionWatch is a web service for monitoring social media mentions and analyzing sentiment to help businesses track brand reputation. Its listed networks are YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X/Twitter, and Facebook. It can also track competitor mentions. Users can filter results by platform, sentiment, or keyword and download CSV data. Notifications include instant email alerts and webhooks for Slack, Discord, or custom integrations; alert rules can use sentiment and reach thresholds such as account impact, views, or followers. The 14-day trial includes 80 mentions, one keyword or hashtag, and three months of history. Starter costs $29 a month, billed monthly, with up to 3,000 mentions a month, three keywords or hashtags, a 24-hour scan cycle, and three months of history. It covers YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. Growth costs $79 a month, billed monthly, and includes up to 16,500 mentions a month, eight keywords or hashtags, and a 12-hour scan cycle, adding Facebook. Each cycle captures up to 20 latest TikTok videos and 35 latest posts on other supported platforms.

Social Searcher is a web tool for searching publicly available social content and monitoring mentions. It covers Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, Reddit, Flickr, Dailymotion, and VKontakte, and can return profiles, posts, mentions, images, and conversations. Results can be filtered and sorted or ordered by relevance and date. Search options include exact phrases, excluded terms, and OR; users can also search images and hashtags. Users Search finds public profiles by name or username, while Trending Hashtags follows viral tags across platforms. Social Listening monitors brand mentions and awareness; the service also lists web and news monitoring, sentiment analysis, and email or RSS alerts. It says it uses publicly indexed data from major search engines. The free plan is listed at free, with 100 real-time searches per day, one monitoring, and 500 saved posts per month. The service also describes searches as uncapped and available without registration, while plan details specify daily limits. Social Searcher is made by a Berlin-based company founded in 2011.