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Gorilla vs GummySearch.

GummySearch is the best-known Reddit research tool for founders. It surfaces subreddits, tracks themes, and helps you read the room before you build. Gorilla covers the same Reddit signal and adds X, YouTube and TikTok in one $0.99 run. If you only ever needed Reddit, GummySearch was a great fit. If you want to compare signal across the four platforms your buyers actually use, Gorilla is built for that.

The 30-second answer

Pick GummySearch if Reddit is your only channel and you want a long-running subscription dashboard for theme tracking. Pick Gorilla if you're still figuring out which platform your users live on, want pay-per-run pricing, and need to see Reddit + X + YouTube + TikTok side by side.

Heads up: founders on Reddit have flagged that GummySearch may be winding down. If you're shopping right now because of that, we built this page for you.

Side by side

Gorilla compared with GummySearch across platforms, pricing, and features
	Gorilla	GummySearch
Platforms	Reddit, X, YouTube, TikTok	Reddit only
Pricing	$0.99 / run · $3.99/wk Pro · $149.99 lifetime	Subscription ($29+/mo)
Time to first lead	under two minutes	Setup, then continuous
Lead scoring	✓ AI intent score	✓ AI summaries
Subreddit discovery	✓ Auto from idea	✓ Browse + filter
Always-on monitoring	✗ Run on demand	✓ Saved searches
Multi-platform export	✓ CSV / JSON	✗ Reddit only
MCP integration	✓ Yes	✗ No

When each tool wins

GummySearch is better when

You already know Reddit is your channel. You want to live inside a Reddit dashboard, browse subreddits by theme, and watch the same communities for months. You're fine paying a monthly subscription for that depth.

Gorilla is better when

You haven't picked a channel yet. You want to test an idea across Reddit, X, YouTube and TikTok in a single run, get a ranked list of intent posts, and stop paying when you stop searching. One dollar per run, no contract.

Why we don't ship a Reddit-only dashboard

Most solo founders don't have one channel. They have a hypothesis. The fastest way to validate it is to run the same idea against four platforms in parallel and see which one lights up. A Reddit-only tool answers half the question. If your buyers are reviewing competitors on YouTube or complaining on TikTok, a Reddit dashboard never tells you. Gorilla shows you the platform first, then the posts.

The 4-platform argument

If your idea is something a creator might review on YouTube, or something people complain about on TikTok, or something your audience announces a tool switch about on X, Reddit-only tools miss that signal entirely. Gorilla pulls all four in parallel and shows you which platform has the highest concentration of buying intent for your idea. For more on this read where your first 100 users actually hide.

If you're migrating from GummySearch

Reddit signal in Gorilla is sourced through the same kind of intent-phrased queries you wrote by hand inside GummySearch. The big shift is that you no longer pick subreddits up front. You paste your idea, Gorilla expands it into 20+ phrasings, scopes the search to relevant subreddits, and ranks every match. If you want to keep monitoring afterward, plug Gorilla into your stack via the MCP server and re-run on a schedule.

Test your idea across Reddit + X + YouTube + TikTok in one run.

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