The GummySearch alternative built after they shut down.
You were paying $29 to $199 a month for Reddit audience research. Then in November 2025 Reddit denied GummySearch's commercial API license and the whole thing went dark in a week, campaigns, tracked subs, saved pain-point buckets, all gone.
Heardley is the closest like-for-like replacement. Same Reddit-native workflow. Two-thirds cheaper. Operated by an indie founder accountable to actual paying customers, not VC ROI deadlines.
What GummySearch did, Heardley does.
The two GummySearch workflows people miss most: pain-point bucketing (sorting threads into solution-request / switching-from / pricing-rant / advice-seek) and subreddit discovery (give me a description, suggest where my buyers actually hang out). Both ship in Heardley today.
What we don't replace (yet).
GummySearch had seven years of indexed Reddit history. If your workflow depended on "show me every thread mentioning my competitor in 2021," we can't match that. We index from the day you start a project forward.
What we ship instead: live monitoring with sharper filtering. GummySearch's intent buckets surfaced everything matching a pattern; our 0-3 intent score plus an AI-generated "why this score" sentence per thread means you triage faster. Most ex-GummySearch users tell us they read 70% fewer threads to find the same number of leads.
Questions former GummySearch users actually ask.
What happened to GummySearch?
Reddit denied their commercial API license in November 2025 at the $0.24/1k calls rate. The whole service went down within days. No migration path was offered.
Does Heardley work the same way?
For audience research, subreddit discovery, intent tracking, and pain-point bucketing: yes. We use Reddit's public JSON endpoints (no commercial API license needed) so we're not exposed to the same shutdown risk.
Why is Heardley $9/month?
Because you bring your own OpenRouter API key. We charge for the software, you pay OpenRouter for the AI calls directly, typically $2-$5/month. Other tools bake $20-$60 of LLM markup into their subscription.
What if Heardley shuts down too?
All your data is exportable as CSV/JSON from Settings at any time. If we ever wind down, we give 90 days notice and a one-click full data export. No vendor lock-in.
Can I import my GummySearch data?
No direct importer (their export format wasn't documented before shutdown) but you can paste your tracking keywords, watched subreddits, and competitor names into Heardley's onboarding wizard in 90 seconds.
Is there a free trial?
No free trial. The first scrape on every account is included so you can preview the dashboard before deciding. $9/month or $54 lifetime.
Set up in 90 seconds.
Step 1. Open the dashboard and paste your company description into the onboarding wizard. Heardley auto-suggests tracking keywords, subreddits to watch, and competitor names to monitor.
Step 2. Get a free OpenRouter API key at openrouter.ai (Google or GitHub login, no credit card) and paste it into the yellow banner. Validation runs against OpenRouter's auth endpoint before saving.
Step 3. Hit Scrape now. The first triaged batch lands in the dashboard within a minute. The daily digest emails by 9 a.m. the next morning.