Social Searcher
Social Searcher: A free entry point for public social and web searches, with paid monitoring tiers. Ranked #29 of 85 in Social Media Listening Software by our editors (5.7/10); pricing: Free plan · 14-day trial; best for small teams wanting free social listening.
At a glance
- Editor score5.7 / 10
- PricingFree plan · 14-day trial
- Best forSmall teams wanting free social listening
- Free planYes
- Social network coverageFacebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, Reddit, Flickr, Dailymotion, VKontakte
- Founded2011 · Berlin, Germany
- Facts checked19 Sep 2026
Where it wins
- Searches keywords, hashtags, profiles, and brand mentions across social sources
- Monitors news, blogs, forums, comments, and videos alongside social content
- Adds sentiment filters, analytics, CSV exports, RSS, API access, and email alerts
Where it doesn't
- Monitoring capacity is limited to 1, 5, or 10 monitorings by plan
- Free plan caps searches at 100 per day and saved posts at 500 per month
- Feature depth and integration breadth are lighter than higher-tier tools
Our verdict on Social Searcher
Social Searcher is a web-based tool for finding publicly indexed social posts, profiles, hashtags, images, and brand mentions. It suits small teams that need a low-cost way to search public content and keep watch on selected terms, rather than a broad social management suite. Searches cover social sources such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, Reddit, Flickr, Dailymotion, and VKontakte, alongside web results. The service is described as working with public search results rather than private social-network data.
The published plans offer a free tier and paid monitoring tiers, with a 14-day trial for paid plans. Free includes 100 real-time searches per day, 1 monitoring, and 500 saved posts per month. Standard raises those limits to 400 searches per day, 5 monitorings, 20,000 saved posts per month, and 1,000 premium saved posts per month. Professional provides 800 searches per day, 10 monitorings, 100,000 saved posts per month, and 5,000 premium saved posts per month. The pricing page lists a starting price of 8.49; verify current plan pricing and limits before purchase, as the pricing page may not reflect the current homepage description of unlimited free public searching.
Beyond search, Social Searcher brings monitoring for news, blogs, forums, comments, and videos into the same workflow. Saved-search history, sentiment analysis and filtering, analytics by time, post type, links, users, keywords, and hashtags, plus CSV export, RSS feeds, API access, and email alerts give teams several ways to review and route mentions. Its integration listing centers on Google search technology, and access is through web and API. Choose it for public mention discovery and lightweight monitoring with a free starting point; teams needing greater feature depth or broader integrations should compare alternatives.
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Social Searcher fact sheet
| Free plan | Yes |
|---|---|
| Paid from | Not verified |
| Social network coverage | Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, Reddit, Flickr, Dailymotion, VKontakte |
| Web monitoring | Yes |
| Sentiment analysis | Yes |
| Historical data | Not verified |
| Tracked query limit | 400 queries |
| News monitoring | Yes |
| Alert channels | Email, RSS |
| Free trial | 14 days |
| Deployment | Cloud |
| Platforms | Web |
| Integrations | 1 integrations: Google search technology |
| Pricing | Free plan · 14-day trial (source) |
| Website | social-searcher.com |
| Facts checked | 19 Sep 2026 |
Social Searcher integrations
Social Searcher lists 1 integrations on its own site.
- Google search technology
Alternatives to Social Searcher
- Meltwater Social ListeningBroad listening and analysis for teams that need more than social-network monitoring.9.4
- Sprinklr Social ListeningBroad channel monitoring and analysis for enterprise teams with complex workflows.9.3
- TalkwalkerBroad social, web and visual listening with multilingual sentiment and custom-quote pricing.9.1
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