Can I monitor Reddit for free?

Yes. FishOut’s free plan covers Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, GitHub and Google News hourly with 10 keywords, and includes the REST API, MCP server and webhooks. F5Bot and KWatch also have free Reddit tiers; Google Alerts cannot see Reddit at all.

Does it monitor comments as well as posts?

Both, across every public subreddit — and a matched comment arrives with its parent post and the surrounding replies, which is usually the only way to tell whether it matters.

Will replying get my account banned?

Not if a person sends it. FishOut never posts: it writes a draft that discloses who you are, and you send it from your own account. The accounts that get banned are the ones posting automatically from pooled identities.

How quickly are Reddit mentions collected?

Every hour on every plan, and every 15 minutes for keywords you mark Fast on a paid plan (5 on Plus, 50 on Pro, 150 on Business). A Reddit thread’s useful life is a few hours, so cadence matters more here than on most platforms.

Platform

Monitor Reddit

Reddit is where people ask strangers what to buy, and where they say what went wrong afterwards. It is the highest-intent source in social listening and the one every tool in the category starts with.

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[01] WHAT FISHOUT COLLECTS/ REDDIT

What gets collected

Posts and comments across public subreddits, with the subreddit name and the author’s public handle attached.

And the conversation around it

A Reddit comment is often meaningless alone. FishOut links a matched comment to the post it answers when that post is in your project too, because one of your keywords matched it, so “same, we moved off them last month” reads under the question it answers.

Who is on Reddit

Founders in r/smallbusiness and r/SaaS, engineers in r/devops and r/selfhosted, buyers in r/sales and r/marketing, and a long tail of subreddits for every category. If your buyers ask each other for recommendations anywhere, it is here.

Worth knowing

Reddit is strict about self-promotion, and the accounts that get banned are the ones that post automatically from a pool. FishOut drafts a reply and stops — you send it from your own account, disclosing who you are.

[02] WHAT YOU FIND THERE/ TRIAGED

Real Reddit mentions, as FishOut reads them

Every post is read against your project's Brief: a relevance from 0 to 100 with Why chips saying what drove it, and labels such as Asking for recommendations or Complaint. Posts below the threshold go to Filtered with a reason and never count toward your plan. The examples here are illustrative.

r/smallbusiness96

Two of us, 400 emails a day, and I am the bottleneck. What I actually want is something that reads them and tells me which fifteen.

Asking for recommendations

r/sales93

Notchmail just raised our renewal by 60% with two weeks notice. Nine seats. Actively looking now.

Complaint

[03] WHAT TO TRACK/ KEYWORDS

Keyword shapes that work on Reddit

The same three keywords do not work everywhere. What finds buyers on Reddit is different from what finds them on Reddit or in the trade press, and getting this wrong is the most common reason a listening tool goes unread.

Your product name, plus the subreddits it lives in

Reddit's value is the subreddit attached to every match. Track your name broadly, then filter the inbox by source — r/smallbusiness reads very differently from r/programming, and the same phrase means different things in each.

"looking for" + your category

The highest-intent phrasing on Reddit is someone describing a problem, not naming a product. “Looking for a shared inbox that” finds people who have never heard of you, which your brand keyword never will.

Competitor name + “alternative” or “vs”

Reddit is where the switching conversation happens in public. A competitor keyword with a Complaint label or negative sentiment is exactly what the built-in Switchers view collects.

[04] WHO ELSE COVERS IT/ CHECKED

10 of 11 tools monitor Reddit

Read from each tool's own materials on 5 September 2026, across the ten competitors we track. Coverage changes — a platform can restrict its API without warning — so each comparison page carries the date its facts were checked. Reddit-only tools compared: Redship, Redreach, Subreddit Signals, HotMention.

Also covers Reddit

Does not

Google Alerts

Questions

What to watch Reddit for

The keyword shapes, relevance floors and routing differ by what you are looking for, so each of these is its own setup rather than a filter on this page.

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