# Syften

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

Syften monitors the public web plus 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 mentions 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:
- Replacing Google Alerts with better web and community monitoring.
- 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 focuses on public web pages and supported public or community sources.
- 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.
- [Buying Intent Alert Tool for B2B SaaS](https://syften.com/buying-intent-alerts): Find public, person-level buying intent in recommendation requests, competitor comparisons, switching discussions, and problem descriptions. Syften is not an account-level intent-data or website visitor identification platform.
- [AI Social Listening Without the Noise](https://syften.com/ai-social-listening): Use precise keyword rules first, then optional per-filter AI accept or reject checks to keep noisy social mentions out of Slack and email alerts.
- [Affordable Social Listening for Startups](https://syften.com/social-listening-for-startups): A lightweight, multi-platform monitoring workflow for founders who need brand, competitor, product feedback, support, and buying-intent alerts rather than enterprise analytics.
- [Indie Hackers Monitoring for SaaS Leads](https://syften.com/indie-hackers): Monitor Indie Hackers posts and comments for recommendation requests, founder pain points, competitor discussions, launches, and replies to your account. Syften finds and routes public conversations; it does not enrich leads or automate outreach.
- [Mastodon Monitoring for Product Mentions](https://syften.com/mastodon): Monitor public Mastodon posts within Syften's coverage for product names, domains, competitors, feedback, and buying intent, with the limits explained clearly.
- [MCP Social Listening for AI Agents](https://syften.com/mcp-social-listening): Let an MCP-compatible agent search Syften's historical archive across Reddit, Bluesky, Hacker News, forums, and other supported sources; page through stored account matches; inspect monitoring and delivery configuration; diagnose filter health; and test proposed filters.
- [Social Listening API](https://syften.com/social-listening-api): Retrieve monitored, normalized brand and keyword matches from Reddit, forums, Hacker News, Stack Exchange, GitHub comments, the public web, and other supported sources through JSON or webhooks. Contact Syften for broader managed firehose access, or use MCP when an AI agent should research the archive and account matches.
- [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.
- [Google Alerts Alternative](https://syften.com/blog/google-alerts-alternative/): Replace Google Alerts with public web and community monitoring.

## 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.
- [Indie Hackers Monitoring](https://syften.com/indie-hackers): Track Indie Hackers posts and comments for SaaS conversations, known authors, launches, and replies.
- [Twitter Mentions Monitoring Tool](https://syften.com/twitter-mentions): Track X/Twitter keyword mentions and public account activity.
- [Bluesky Monitoring for Brand Mentions](https://syften.com/bluesky): Monitor new public Bluesky posts and replies for brand names, domains, competitors, recommendation requests, and product feedback.
- [Mastodon Monitoring for Product Mentions](https://syften.com/mastodon): Monitor public Mastodon posts for product mentions and keyword alerts, with coverage limits explained and delivery alongside other monitored sources.
- [GitHub Monitoring](https://syften.com/github): Track GitHub issues, discussions, and public repository mentions.
- [Forum Keyword Alert Monitoring](https://syften.com/forums): Monitor supported public forums for brand mentions, ecommerce conversations, product feedback, competitor complaints, support problems, and integration requests.
- [YouTube Keyword Alert Monitoring](https://syften.com/youtube): Monitor YouTube search results and video mentions.
- [Podcast Monitoring](https://syften.com/podcast): Monitor podcast transcripts for keywords and topics.
- [Slack Community Keyword Alerts](https://syften.com/slack-monitoring): Monitor supported Slack communities for keyword alerts, buyer questions, competitor mentions, channel discussions, and thread replies.
- [Product Hunt Launch and Post-Launch Monitoring](https://syften.com/blog/product-hunt-launch/): Plan a Product Hunt launch and monitor new product comments, Product Hunt forum discussions, and cross-community follow-up conversations afterward.

## 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, Three Paying Customers](https://syften.com/blog/competitor-monitoring-case-study/): Case study about acquiring customers by 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 Reddit, HN, and Web Alerts](https://syften.com/f5bot-alternative): Compare Syften with F5Bot's free tier for keyword monitoring, public web 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.
- [Best Mention Alternatives for Social Listening and Community Monitoring](https://syften.com/blog/mention-alternatives/): Choose among focused public community alerts, community intelligence, broad social listening, social media management, and enterprise PR reporting.
- [Best Talkwalker Alternatives for Social Listening and Alerts](https://syften.com/blog/talkwalker-alternatives/): Talkwalker alternatives by workflow, from enterprise intelligence suites to focused community 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.
- [Brandwatch vs Mention: Pricing, Features, and Best Alternative in 2026](https://syften.com/blog/brandwatch-vs-mention/): Enterprise consumer intelligence and company-level monitoring 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.
- [Hootsuite vs Brandwatch: Pricing, Features, and Best Alternative in 2026](https://syften.com/blog/hootsuite-vs-brandwatch/): Social media management and enterprise listening compared with consumer intelligence and focused alerts.
- [Hootsuite vs Brand24: Pricing, Features, and Best Alternative in 2026](https://syften.com/blog/hootsuite-vs-brand24/): Social media operations and brand monitoring compared with focused real-time alerts.
- [Meltwater vs Talkwalker: Features, Pricing, Alternative in 2026](https://syften.com/blog/meltwater-vs-talkwalker/): Media intelligence and social listening compared with focused real-time community alerts.
- [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.
- [Brand24 vs Awario: Pricing, Features, and Best Alternative in 2026](https://syften.com/blog/brand24-vs-awario/): Brand monitoring and affordable social listening compared with focused real-time community alerts.