TrackReddit Alternative for Live Reddit Keyword Alerts
Rebuild the job TrackReddit handled: monitor Reddit posts and comments for brands, competitors, domains, recommendation requests, subreddits, and authors—then send useful matches where your team can act.
- Posts and comments across Reddit
- Target delivery in under 1 minute
- Archive checks and AI qualification
- Slack, email, RSS, API, webhooks
r/SaaS · comment alertWe are replacing our current alert tool because it misses useful replies. Is there an alternative that monitors Reddit comments and can send the good ones to Slack?
Can Syften replace TrackReddit?
Yes—if the job you need is reliable Reddit keyword alerts for both posts and comments. Syften can monitor names, phrases, domains, competitors, authors, subreddits, titles, and post types, with a target delay of under one minute.
It also adds archive search, precise exclusions, tags, AI qualification, and delivery through Slack, email, RSS, API, or webhooks.
You want conversations, not a listening dashboard
Syften is designed to deliver a small number of Reddit threads and comments someone can answer, research, support, or route.
Rebuild the alerts that still matter
Old TrackReddit settings and history do not transfer. Start with the names, domains, subreddits, and people your team still needs to monitor.
TrackReddit's 2020 shutdown sent users looking for a new alert workflow
In 2020, TrackReddit users reported refunds and a shutdown notice. The public Reddit thread became a practical discussion about replacement tools for monitoring posts and comments.
That context matters: this is not a comparison against a normal active product. It is a migration guide for people who still need the job TrackReddit used to do.
That thread is also where a few TrackReddit users discovered Syften. The full exchange became a case study about one Reddit comment leading to three paying customers, including this follow-up from a former TrackReddit customer.
Trackreddit was definitely a helpful tool for our marketing efforts.
What you keep—and what changes after TrackReddit
TrackReddit earned users by solving one clear problem: tell me when Reddit mentions something I care about. Syften keeps that alert-first job and adds the controls a team workflow needs.
Reddit posts and comments
Monitor new threads, replies, or both across Reddit instead of depending on search-engine indexing.
Subreddit and author scope
Focus a filter on one subreddit, title pattern, post type, author, language, or combination of concrete signals.
AI qualification
Match a broad product or competitor term first, then keep only recommendation requests, switch intent, complaints, or another defined meaning.
Archive search
Check recent Reddit matches while rebuilding an alert so you can see whether the filter is useful before relying on it live.
Team-ready delivery
Route each filter to Slack, email, RSS, API, or webhooks instead of sending every signal into one person's inbox.
Coverage beyond Reddit
Monitor the same brand, competitor, or buying-intent signal across Hacker News, GitHub, forums, blogs, Bluesky, X/Twitter, and more.
How to replace TrackReddit with Syften
Start with the concrete alerts someone still wants to receive. Use recent archive matches to validate them, then route and refine each stream around the action it should trigger.
List the alerts that still have an owner
Start with brand names, domains, products, competitors, authors, and recommendation phrases that led to useful conversations.
Choose posts, comments, and communities
Monitor all of Reddit or narrow an alert by subreddit, title, author, language, post type, or a precise combination.
Check recent archive matches
See what the filter would have found recently, then add exclusions, exact phrases, or AI qualification before live delivery.
Send each signal to its owner
Use Slack for team response, email or RSS for personal review, and API or webhooks for internal systems.
Example Reddit alert filters
Syften filters are monitoring rules, not Google queries. Keep each rule focused on one job and combine plain text with Reddit scope, post type, author, title, exclusions, tags, or AI qualification when needed.
Brand and domain mentions
example.comFind the company domain, including subdomains and common obfuscated forms such as example[.]com.
Alternative language in comments
site:reddit.com type:comment "alternative to" competitorFind replies where someone discusses another option around a known competing product.
Questions in one subreddit
site:reddit.com/r/shopify/ type:post title:plugin title:"?"Find new r/shopify threads with plugin and a question mark in the title.
Known Reddit author
site:reddit.com author:someuser123Find new posts and comments by a customer, founder, competitor, advocate, or other known account.
Qualified Reddit alertWe switched because the old tool kept missing comments. The new setup is useful, but I would still prefer something with cleaner Slack routing and less keyword noise.
Use exclusions, tags, language rules, title filters, or AI qualification only when the simpler filter produces noise. The goal is not to monitor more Reddit—it is to receive the exact conversations someone can act on.
A TrackReddit replacement is useful when someone owns the response
Syften is a strong fit when your team wants a small stream of Reddit posts and comments and has someone ready to answer a question, support a user, learn from a competitor complaint, thank an advocate, or route the signal elsewhere.
Operating since 2019
Check out what our customers are saying
At Rewardful, we're huge believers in word-of-mouth marketing. I've used most of the social monitoring tools on the market and most have a lot of noise in the results or miss important conversations happening online. Syften returns the most relevant social mentions with the least amount of noise out of all the tools I've tested so far. Their community listening is the best on the market and I love how you can fine tune by source.
I love that Syften monitors all the communities I am part of but don't have enough time to check all day. Now, I can check my email and see conversations happening on Twitter, Reddit, Indie Hackers, and many more places. It's incredibly useful. Worth every dollar.
We use Syften to react to people saying things about us on the internet every single day. It's a set once and forget tool that just helps your team keep your pulse on whatever it is you care about.
Syften is awesome. I use it for my business so I can monitor the brand, and participate in online discussions which can help us attract new customers. I also use it personally to keep track of niche subjects that I'm interested in like emerging tech and products.
We love Syften at PostHog and find it incredibly useful for listening to our open-source community. The Slack integration enables our entire team to find ways to connect with our users, whether it's the Marketing team sharing new content or the Engineering team answering technical questions. The filtering system is especially powerful and helps us separate the signal from the noise.
I've written a couple books and like to keep an eye on how and where folks are talking about them. Syften has helped me catch several key conversations that I otherwise wouldn't have seen. Even on the days without any notable alerts, I'm still happy to know that I haven't missed anything. A very useful tool.
Syften has become integral to our business. It allows us to monitor *and* respond in real-time using their super simple webhooks. For example, when people mention our competitors being expensive on Twitter, Syften finds it and enables us to respond instantly with Zapier. It's paid for itself many times over. It even helped us secure $5M in funding for one of our community members. Michael has been overwhelmingly supportive over the past 18+ months we've been a customer and we couldn't be more grateful.
I use Syften every day and have been for a year. I looked at various other social listening tools but they were mostly aimed at big brands and enterprise customers and carried a hefty price tag. Syften tracks all of the major networks that I'm interested (even ones the big tools don't) and it's affordable for businesses of every size. Every day I get an email digest of people talking about my product for me to take immediate action on.
I gather the mentions I get from Syften and add them to our customer sales and partner presentations to show how our product is gaining mindshare amongst users on Reddit and forums. These slides are very impactful.
Syften has been a great tool to understand in which communities my website is being mentioned, or topics relevant to my business. It allowed me to engage in meaningful discussions and to identify some important actors in my niche.
Syften has enabled us to keep an eye on the topics related to our product. We can easily track posts about discount codes, email marketing, and e-commerce. We can then suggest using our service, or just be helpful answering questions on subjects that we are familiar with.
Pricing
It pays for itself if you find just one customer (easy)
Entry
Keep an eye out for your product name
- Communities filters: 3A filter is a search query for mentions you want to track. Communities include Reddit, forums, Stack Exchange, podcasts, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, GitHub, Slack communities, mailing lists, and similar discussion spaces.
- Communities results: 100/day
- Web filters: 1The Web means public websites across the internet, including articles, changelogs, documentation, directories, product pages, and your competitors' blogs.
- Web results: 5/day
- Archive search: 7 daysSee who has mentioned you in the past. Click to read more.
Standard
AI filtering, API access, more filters, more archive, Slack integration, and optional Twitter and YouTube support
- Communities filters: 20A filter is a search query for mentions you want to track. Communities include Reddit, forums, Stack Exchange, podcasts, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, GitHub, Slack communities, mailing lists, and similar discussion spaces.
- Communities results: 200/day
- Web filters: 5The Web means public websites across the internet, including articles, changelogs, documentation, directories, product pages, and your competitors' blogs.
- Web results: 20/day
- Archive search: 1 monthSee who has mentioned you in the past. Click to read more.
- Slack integration
- Twitter monitoringPaid addon
- YouTube monitoringPaid addon
- AI filteringFilter noisy matches before they reach your alerts. Click to read more.
- API accessQuery results and edit your settings. Click to read more.
Syften PRO
More matches, more filters, unlimited archive, API access, and webhook support
- Communities filters: 100A filter is a search query for mentions you want to track. Communities include Reddit, forums, Stack Exchange, podcasts, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, GitHub, Slack communities, mailing lists, and similar discussion spaces.
- Communities results: 500/day
- Web filters: 20The Web means public websites across the internet, including articles, changelogs, documentation, directories, product pages, and your competitors' blogs.
- Web results: 50/day
- Archive search: unlimitedSee who has mentioned you in the past. Click to read more.
- Slack integration
- Twitter monitoringPaid addon
- YouTube monitoringPaid addon
- AI filteringFilter noisy matches before they reach your alerts. Click to read more.
- API accessQuery results and edit your settings. Click to read more.
- WebhooksPush new matches to your own endpoint. Click to read more.
- MCPConnect Syften to AI tools that support MCP. Click to read more.
Tailor made
We also offer custom solutions built just for you, whether it's integrating Syften into your product or supplying your marketing team with the right data.
TrackReddit alternative FAQ
What is the best TrackReddit alternative?
If you used TrackReddit for Reddit keyword alerts, Syften is a strong replacement because it monitors Reddit posts and comments, supports subreddit and author filters, and sends alerts to Slack, email, RSS, API, or webhooks.
Is TrackReddit still available?
The old TrackReddit alert workflow is no longer something users can rely on the way they did before the 2020 shutdown reports. If your goal is to recreate Reddit keyword alerts, Syften is built for that workflow.
Can Syften monitor Reddit comments, not just posts?
Yes. Syften monitors both Reddit posts and comments. Use type:post when you only want new threads, type:comment when you only want replies, or omit the type filter to monitor both.
Can I monitor specific subreddits?
Yes. Use the site: operator, for example site:reddit.com/r/startups/. Add a trailing slash so a short subreddit name does not match longer paths accidentally.
Can I track Reddit users or domains?
Yes. You can monitor a Reddit author with author:username, and you can monitor domains by adding the domain as a filter. Domain filters also catch common obfuscated forms like example[.]com.
Where can Syften send TrackReddit-style alerts?
Syften can send keyword alerts by email, Slack, RSS, API, and webhook. Slack is often the best fit for teams that need someone to answer a Reddit thread quickly.
Can I search past Reddit mentions?
Yes. Syften includes archive search, so you can test filters and find recent Reddit mentions from before you created an alert. During the trial, Syften immediately shows recent mentions for your configured filters.
Does Syften only monitor Reddit?
No. Syften also monitors Hacker News, GitHub, forums, blogs, X/Twitter, YouTube, Bluesky, podcasts, selected Slack communities, and more. That matters when the same buying-intent or support conversation appears outside Reddit.
Real-time community monitoring
One conversation can change what happens next
Be there when the right customer mentions your product, your competitor, or the problem you solve.