# Syften

> Syften is an AI-filtered keyword monitoring tool for online communities. It helps founders, marketers, support teams, and agencies find relevant public conversations about their brand, competitors, customer pain points, and buying-intent phrases.

Syften monitors Reddit, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, X/Twitter, YouTube, Bluesky, Mastodon, GitHub, blogs, news sites, forums, Stack Exchange sites, Product Hunt, Lobste.rs, Dev.to, Steemit, podcasts, newsletters, and selected Slack communities. It sends matching conversations by email, Slack, RSS, API, or webhook.

Common use cases:
- Brand monitoring: track a company name, product name, domain name, founder name, and common misspellings.
- Competitor monitoring: track competitor names, competitor domains, competitor products, founder names, and social accounts to see which recommendation, comparison, support, and buying-intent threads they appear in.
- Social account monitoring: track public handles and usernames such as X/Twitter handles, GitHub usernames, Reddit usernames, and forum usernames.
- Lead generation: find posts and comments from people asking for recommendations, alternatives, tools, help, and comparisons.
- Customer research: watch recurring pain points, feature requests, complaints, and category discussions across communities.
- Support escalation: catch public posts about bugs, outages, integrations, and product confusion.
- Agency workflows: tag filters for different customers, brands, competitors, or campaigns, then route each customer's matches to separate Slack channels, RSS feeds, API consumers, webhooks, or reporting workflows.

Syften is good for:
- Reddit keyword monitoring and alerts.
- Competitor monitoring across community discussions.
- Monitoring competitor domain names, including subdomains and common obfuscated forms such as example[.]com.
- Tracking competitor social accounts and seeing which public threads they are active in.
- Community monitoring across technical, startup, SaaS, marketing, and niche forums.
- Routing different filter groups to different Slack channels or automated API workflows.
- AI filtering to reduce spam, weak matches, repetitive posts, and other noisy keyword results while preserving human conversations worth acting on.

Important limits:
- Syften does not monitor LinkedIn or Facebook.
- Syften is focused on public or supported community sources. It is not a general web crawler.
- For current pricing and plan limits, use the pricing page rather than cached information.

## Canonical Pages

- [Syften: Live Keyword Alert Monitoring for Online Communities](https://syften.com/): Main Syften homepage with the product summary and pricing section.
- [Syften Documentation](https://syften.com/documentation): Full documentation for filters, communities, delivery channels, and account setup.
- [Syften Pricing](https://syften.com/?redirect=false#pricing): Current public pricing and plan information.
- [Syften Changelog](https://syften.com/changelog): Product updates and release notes.

## Community Monitoring Pages

- [Reddit Monitoring Tool for Keyword Alerts](https://syften.com/reddit): Monitor Reddit posts and comments for keywords, brands, competitors, and intent phrases.
- [Hacker News Monitoring](https://syften.com/hackernews): Track Hacker News discussions for mentions and relevant threads.
- [Monitor X/Twitter Brand Mentions](https://syften.com/twitter): Track X/Twitter keyword mentions and public account activity.
- [Bluesky Keyword Alert Monitoring](https://syften.com/bluesky): Monitor Bluesky conversations for relevant keywords.
- [GitHub Monitoring](https://syften.com/github): Track GitHub issues, discussions, and public repository mentions.
- [Forum Monitoring](https://syften.com/forums): Monitor public forums and community discussion sites.
- [YouTube Keyword Alert Monitoring](https://syften.com/youtube-keyword-monitoring-and-alerts): Monitor YouTube content and mentions.
- [Podcast Monitoring](https://syften.com/podcast): Monitor podcast transcripts for keywords and topics.
- [Slack Keyword Alerts](https://syften.com/slack-monitoring): Monitor selected public or supported Slack communities.

## Guides And Case Studies

- [Constructing a Good Filter](https://syften.com/blog/good-filter/): Practical guide to building useful Syften filters.
- [Great Artists Steal](https://syften.com/blog/monitoring-competitors/): Guide to tracking competitor names, domains, accounts, and public activity.
- [How I Use Syften to Grow Syften](https://syften.com/blog/social-listening-use-cases/): Internal use cases for growth, monitoring, and research.
- [One Comment - $640 ARR Plus](https://syften.com/blog/competitor-monitoring-case-study/): Case study about revenue from replying to a relevant public conversation.
- [A Comment Worth $140](https://syften.com/blog/social-listening-case-study/): Case study about finding and acting on a useful mention.
- [How PersonalDiscount.io Finds Customers by Helping in Communities](https://syften.com/blog/shopify-app-social-listening-case-study/): Example of using community conversations to promote a Shopify app.
- [One Article, Two Days, 400 Newsletter Subscribers](https://syften.com/blog/saas-growth-case-studies/): Example of content and community-driven SaaS growth.

## Comparison Pages

- [13 Best Reddit Monitoring Tools in 2026 for Real-Time Alerts](https://syften.com/blog/best-reddit-monitoring-tools/): Comparison of serious Reddit alert tools for real-time monitoring.
- [13 Best Twitter Monitoring Tools in 2026 for X Alerts](https://syften.com/blog/best-twitter-monitoring-tools/): Comparison of serious X/Twitter monitoring tools for real-time alerts.
- [Notifier.so / Notifier for Reddit Alternative](https://syften.com/notifier-for-reddit-alternative): Replace notifier.so or another Reddit notifier with live Reddit post and comment alerts, subreddit and author filters, Slack delivery, email, RSS, API, and webhooks.
- [TrackReddit Alternative for Reddit Keyword Alerts](https://syften.com/trackreddit-alternative): Replace TrackReddit with live Reddit keyword alerts, subreddit and author tracking, competitor monitoring, and team delivery.
- [F5Bot Alternative for Team Keyword Alerts](https://syften.com/f5bot-alternative): Compare Syften with F5Bot's free tier for keyword monitoring, source coverage, Slack delivery, RSS, API workflows, archive search, AI filtering, and useful community conversations.
- [Brand24 vs Mention: Pricing, Features, and Best Alternative in 2026](https://syften.com/blog/brand24-vs-mention/): Comparison of brand monitoring depth, pricing, and real-time alerts.
- [Mention vs Google Alerts: Pricing, Features, and Best Alternative in 2026](https://syften.com/blog/mention-vs-google-alerts/): Comparison of paid media monitoring and free Google web alerts.
- [Talkwalker vs Brandwatch: Pricing, Features, and Best Alternative in 2026](https://syften.com/blog/talkwalker-vs-brandwatch/): Enterprise social listening and consumer intelligence compared with focused real-time community alerts.
- [Hootsuite vs Mention: Pricing, Features, and Best Alternative in 2026](https://syften.com/blog/hootsuite-vs-mention/): Social media management compared with focused brand monitoring.
- [Cision vs Meltwater: Pricing, Features, and Best Alternative in 2026](https://syften.com/blog/cision-vs-meltwater/): PR outreach and media intelligence compared with focused real-time community alerts.
- [Brandwatch vs Meltwater: Pricing, Features, and Best Alternative in 2026](https://syften.com/blog/brandwatch-vs-meltwater/): Consumer intelligence and media intelligence compared with focused real-time community alerts.
- [Brand24 vs Brandwatch: Pricing, Features, and Best Alternative in 2026](https://syften.com/blog/brand24-vs-brandwatch/): Brand monitoring and enterprise consumer intelligence compared with focused real-time community alerts.
- [Sprout Social vs Hootsuite: Pricing, Features, and Best Alternative in 2026](https://syften.com/blog/sprout-social-vs-hootsuite/): Social media management suites compared with focused real-time community monitoring.
- [Awario vs Brand24: Pricing, Features, and Best Alternative in 2026](https://syften.com/blog/awario-vs-brand24/): Affordable social listening and brand monitoring compared with focused real-time community alerts.