Loved GummySearch? Here is where to turn its insight into actual clients.
GummySearch shut down in late 2025 when Reddit's API pricing made it unsustainable. ClientRadar picks up the thread and goes one step further: it finds the people asking to buy, scores them, and helps you reply.
- Four platforms, not just Reddit: Facebook groups, Reddit, X and LinkedIn
- Intent scoring 0 to 100 with the reason, so you only chase ready buyers
- Drafts your reply and keeps a local CRM, find to follow-up in one tab
- Runs in your own browser; leads and CRM stay on your device
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The short version
Two tools, two philosophies. Here's each in a sentence before we go deep.
GummySearch was a much-loved Reddit audience-research tool. It helped founders and marketers find niches, surface customer pain points, cluster audiences, spot trends and generate content ideas, with AI insights layered on top. It was Reddit-only and research-focused, with no reply or engagement features and no CRM. It shut down in late 2025 after it could not secure a sustainable commercial license for Reddit's Data API; existing customers retain access on a maintenance basis into 2026 before data deletion.
ClientRadarClientRadar is an AI client finder that runs as a Chrome extension inside your own browser. It watches the Facebook groups, subreddits and X and LinkedIn feeds you are already in, spots people actively asking for what you sell, scores their buying intent from 0 to 100 with the reason, drafts a reply in your own voice, and keeps a simple local CRM with follow-ups. It is built for solo service providers and small agencies who would rather find inbound buyers than do cold outreach, and it keeps your leads and data on your device.
ClientRadar vs GummySearch
An honest, line-by-line look. Some rows favour GummySearch and we say so. Snapshot as of 2026; check GummySearch's site for current details.
| Dimension | ClientRadar | GummySearch |
|---|---|---|
| Status (as of 2026) | Live, in active development | Discontinued; closed to new users late 2025 |
| Core purpose | Find and win individual clients | Research and understand an audience |
| Platforms covered | Facebook groups, Reddit, X, LinkedIn | Reddit only |
| Reddit research depth | Light; built to convert, not analyse | Deep: niches, clusters, trends, pain points |
| Buying-intent scoring | 0 to 100 per lead, with the reason | Not its focus |
| Reply drafting | Drafts in your own voice, you tap to post | None |
| CRM and follow-ups | Simple local CRM with reminders | None |
| Where it runs / data | In your browser; leads stay on device | Cloud SaaS via Reddit API |
| Platform-pricing risk | Lower; no commercial platform API | Exactly what ended it |
| Best for | Service providers wanting clients | Researchers, validators, marketers |
| Starting price | Free plan, Pro from EUR 29/mo | Was free / from $29/mo (now closed) |
Where GummySearch left service providers wanting
GummySearch was a superb research tool, and none of this is a knock on what it did. But if your goal was clients rather than insight, there were gaps it was never built to fill, and now that it has closed those gaps matter even more.
It stopped at understanding, not winning
GummySearch helped you map an audience, surface pain points and spot trends. What it never did was hand you a specific person to reply to today, or help you actually reply. You did the research, then still had to go find and win the client yourself, by hand.
Reddit only, and that became its undoing
Being Reddit-native was a strength until Reddit's API economics made it unworkable. A single-platform tool is also a single point of failure for your pipeline. Your buyers are not only on Reddit; they are in Facebook groups, on X and on LinkedIn too.
And now it is simply gone
The hardest gap of all: GummySearch closed to new users at the end of 2025, with existing data slated for deletion. Anyone who built a workflow around it now needs a new home, ideally one whose design does not carry the same platform-pricing risk that ended it.
Why ClientRadar is the right next move for finding clients
Not because GummySearch was bad, but because the job most people actually wanted doing was winning clients, and that was never what GummySearch set out to do.
From insight to income
GummySearch ended at a clever dashboard of what your audience cares about. ClientRadar keeps going: it points you at the exact person asking to buy, hands you a reply in your voice, and reminds you to follow up. The work of converting is built in, not left on your plate.
Four platforms means a steadier pipeline
By watching Facebook groups, Reddit, X and LinkedIn, ClientRadar spreads your odds across the places buyers actually post. No single platform, or single API deal, can switch your whole pipeline off the way Reddit effectively did for Reddit-only tools.
A design that is harder to switch off
ClientRadar works inside your own browser on communities you already belong to, rather than pulling data through a paid commercial API. That is a deliberately different footing from the model that became unsustainable for GummySearch, and it keeps your leads local and private.
Built for non-salespeople
Most GummySearch users were not salespeople; they were builders and marketers who wanted results without the grind. ClientRadar is designed for exactly that person: it answers people who are already asking, so it feels like helping rather than cold selling.
Understanding GummySearch: what it did well, and where it falls short
It is worth being fair about GummySearch, because it earned its reputation. Tens of thousands of founders and marketers relied on it, and it was profitable right up to the day it closed. Its shutdown was a story about platform economics, not a failing product.
What GummySearch does well
- Genuinely great Reddit research. GummySearch was one of the best tools ever built for understanding Reddit. It clustered audiences, surfaced recurring pain points, tracked trends over time and turned messy threads into clear insight. For market validation and content ideas, it was hard to beat.
- AI insight that saved hours. Its AI summaries condensed sprawling discussions into themes and takeaways quickly. Instead of reading a hundred threads, you got the gist, the language your audience actually uses, and the problems they keep raising.
- Loved by its users. GummySearch had a devoted following and a founder who shut it down honourably rather than operate against Reddit's terms. That goodwill is exactly why so many people are searching for where to go next.
Where GummySearch falls short
- It is no longer available. The decisive shortcoming today is simply that you cannot sign up. New registrations closed in late 2025 and existing data is scheduled for deletion, so it cannot anchor a workflow going forward.
- Research only, no path to the sale. Even at its best, GummySearch stopped at understanding. It did not score individual buyers, draft replies, or track follow-ups. Turning an insight into a paying client was always left entirely to you.
- One platform, one dependency. Being Reddit-only meant your pipeline rose and fell with a single platform, and ultimately with a single API agreement. That concentration is what made the shutdown so disruptive for the people who depended on it.
Bottom line GummySearch was excellent at Reddit research and deserves its reputation; but it has closed, it never aimed to win you individual clients, and it lived on a single platform, which is precisely the gap ClientRadar is built to fill.
What you get with ClientRadar
Built for solo service providers and small agencies who are brilliant at the work but would rather not 'sell'. It quietly turns the communities you are already in into a steady trickle of warm clients.
Only the people ready to buy
ClientRadar reads posts across your feeds and groups and flags the ones where someone is actively asking for what you offer. Each lead gets an intent score from 0 to 100 with a short reason, so you can trust it at a glance and ignore the noise.
A reply in your own voice
When you find a good lead, ClientRadar drafts a natural reply that sounds like you, based on a short Brand DNA profile. You read it, tweak it if you like, and post with a tap. Nothing ever goes out automatically.
A local CRM that remembers for you
Every lead lands in a simple pipeline with follow-up reminders, so the warm conversation from last Tuesday does not quietly die. Your leads and CRM stay local on your device, not on our servers.
Calm, human-paced and account-safe
It runs inside your own browser on your own logged-in session, with cooldowns and quiet hours so your activity stays human. No passwords are stored, and you stay in control of every action.
So, which should you choose?
No spin. Here's the honest call, both ways.
G You would have chosen GummySearch (and should look at a research tool) if…
- Your job is market and audience research, not winning individual clients: validating a product idea, mapping a niche, or finding content angles.
- You only care about Reddit and want deep subreddit clustering, trend tracking and pain-point analysis in one place.
- You want to study and understand an audience at scale rather than reply to specific people who are asking to buy.
- You prefer a pure dashboard you open occasionally, with no engagement, replies or CRM attached.
Choose ClientRadar if…
- You are a solo service provider or small agency who wants actual clients, not just insights, from the communities you are in.
- You want intent scoring that points you to the people ready to buy now, with the reason for each score.
- You want help replying in your own voice and a local CRM so follow-ups never slip.
- You want to cover Facebook groups, Reddit, X and LinkedIn, not Reddit alone.
More reasons it's the right replacement
Beyond the comparison table, these are the details you'll feel every day.
It goes beyond Reddit
GummySearch lived and died on Reddit. ClientRadar watches four places your buyers actually hang out: Facebook groups, Reddit, X and LinkedIn. If a recommendation request shows up in a local Facebook group at 9pm, you hear about it the same way you would a Reddit thread. One tool, the communities you already belong to, no single point of failure.
It tells you who is ready to buy, and why
Research tools surface topics and pain points. ClientRadar surfaces people. It reads each post, scores buying intent from 0 to 100, and shows you the reason for the score so you can trust it. You skip the 'interesting but not now' noise and spend your time only on the handful of people actively asking for what you sell this week.
It closes the loop into clients
Finding a buyer is half the job. ClientRadar drafts a reply in your own voice, then keeps a simple local CRM so follow-ups don't slip. Find, score, reply, remember: the whole path from lurking to a paying client lives in one quiet tab, instead of ending at a spreadsheet of interesting threads.
ClientRadar vs GummySearch, answered
Is GummySearch still available in 2026?
Is ClientRadar a direct GummySearch replacement?
Why did GummySearch shut down? Will ClientRadar have the same problem?
Does ClientRadar do keyword and audience research like GummySearch did?
Which platforms does ClientRadar cover, and what do the plans include?
Is ClientRadar safe for my accounts?
I loved GummySearch. Is there anything as good now?
Turn the communities you are already in into your next clients
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