Are these tools really free?

Yes, with no signup and no card. They are capped at 20 checks an hour and 60 a day per visitor so they stay free for everyone, and the calculators run in your browser with no limit.

What do you keep from a search?

The public results — counts, story and issue titles, links — for six hours, under a hashed key, so the same search does not hit the sources twice. Not your IP address, and nothing that ties a search to you.

Why no Reddit, X or LinkedIn?

These tools use sources with public, documented search APIs. Reddit’s public search feed ends on 13 November 2026 and is being replaced in FishOut’s collector; X and LinkedIn have no free public search. The product itself monitors all ten platforms, by plan.

How do the tools relate to FishOut?

Each one is a single check of something FishOut does continuously: it runs the search every hour, reads every match with AI for relevance and labels, and sends the ones that matter to Slack, email or your own code. The tools show the first step; the product does the rest.

Can I use the results in a report?

Yes. Each result has a share link that keeps the search in the page address, so a colleague opening it sees the same check run again.

Free tools · no signup

Free tools for finding the conversations about you

Check where a brand was mentioned this week, test whether a name is a usable keyword, work out share of voice and preview the alert a mention would send. Every tool here is one step of what FishOut does continuously, and every one runs without an account.

Live checks are not switched on yet. The result below is a real one, captured on the date shown.

“Ghostty” · last 7 daysSample · 20 Oct 2026

~3,947

mentions in the last 7 days

Counts only — relevance not judged here

Hacker Newsanswered12

whole-word, of 89 raw matches · 3 stories · 9 comments read

Blueskyanswered14

whole-word, of 21 raw matches · en 8 · ja 1

GitHubanswered3,920

whole-word, of 4,667 raw matches · 13 issues · 71 PRs · 33 open, 51 closed, of those read

Google Newsanswered1

whole-word, of 1 raw matches

See them on Google News

Threads to readnewest first

Comment on: Off-Topic: the non-technical side of Hacker NewsComment7h Show HN: Craig – A TUI for running parallel coding agentsShow HN10h

Post · 7h · en

Post · 13h · en

Images in the Ink renderer: port Slack images, then avatarsIssuenow

ghostty: install terminfo over SSH, add macOS configPull requestnow

These are whole-word matches before AI triage. FishOut counts only the posts it judges relevant toward a plan — Free covers 500 a month — and filtered noise never counts.

Watch your own keywords free

[01] TOOLS/ 7 FREE

Brand mention checkersample · live soonFour platforms, seven days, one search: whole-word counts and the threads behind them.

“Ghostty” · 7 days~3,947

Hacker News12

Bluesky14

Hacker News mention searchsample · live soonStories vs comments, Show HN launches and a four-week trend for any name.

“htmx” · 7 days~17

Hacker News17

Keyword noise checkersample · live soonA verdict on your name as a keyword, and the Means or exclude words that fix it.

“Linear” · 7 days~204

Hacker News121

Bluesky83

Share of voice calculatorPer-platform share for up to five brands, or a calculator for your own numbers.

Share of voice

Bluesky mention searchsample · live soonThe newest hundred Bluesky posts naming you, by language, with links.

“Raycast” · 7 days~36

Bluesky36

GitHub mention searchsample · live soonIssues vs pull requests, open vs closed, with titles and links.

“Turborepo” · 7 days~1,266

GitHub1,266

Alert message previewSee the Slack, Discord, Telegram, Teams or webhook message a mention sends.

#brand-watch

91Show HN: a launch that names you

Reddit mention checkerComing back once FishOut’s Reddit collection is rebuilt; Reddit’s public search feed ends on 13 November 2026. Reddit monitoring

[02] WHAT THEY SHARE/ METHOD

Counted the way the product counts

Every count is of whole words over the last seven days, the same rule FishOut’s ingest applies before anything reaches an inbox. Search engines match prefixes and typos, so the raw number from each source is shown beside ours — the gap is noise you would otherwise read by hand. A source that does not answer is shown as missing, never as zero.

[03] WHEN A TOOL IS NOT ENOUGH/ COMPARED

F5Bot, Brand24, or FishOut Free?

A one-off check answers “is anyone talking about us?” Keeping up with the answer needs a monitor. F5Bot is the fast, cheap way to get keyword alerts from Reddit and Hacker News; Brand24 covers far more of the web and media. FishOut sits between them: the developer and community platforms, with every mention read for relevance before it reaches you.

Free plan keywords: These toolsNo signup, one-offFishOut Free10, checked hourlyF5Bot / Brand245, up to 20 alerts a day [source]
Platforms: These toolsHN, Bluesky, GitHub, Google NewsFishOut FreeReddit, HN, Bluesky, GitHub, Google News; ten by planF5Bot / Brand24Reddit, Hacker News, Lobste.rs [source]
Broad web and media coverage: These toolsGoogle News countFishOut FreeGoogle NewsF5Bot / Brand24Brand24: news, blogs, forums, reviews, video, podcasts and social [source]
AI relevance on every mention: These toolsOn a sampleFishOut FreeYes, with labels and Reply call, includedF5Bot / Brand24F5Bot: match / no match, billed beyond $10 a month [source]

These tools, FishOut Free and F5Bot / Brand24, compared
	These tools	FishOut Free	F5Bot / Brand24
Free plan keywords	No signup, one-off	10, checked hourly	5, up to 20 alerts a day [source]
Platforms	HN, Bluesky, GitHub, Google News	Reddit, HN, Bluesky, GitHub, Google News; ten by plan	Reddit, Hacker News, Lobste.rs [source]
Broad web and media coverage	Google News count	Google News	Brand24: news, blogs, forums, reviews, video, podcasts and social [source]
AI relevance on every mention	On a sample	Yes, with labels and Reply call, included	F5Bot: match / no match, billed beyond $10 a month [source]

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