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ForumScout

The only free forum monitoring tool

Get an email when any keyword is mentioned on any forum. Track your brand, competitors, or any topic you care about, for free.

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2500+ companies and organisations trust ForumScout:

United Nations Cognizant AeroPress Motorola Solutions Yotpo Monday

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See your forum mentions as they happen.

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Stack Overflow
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78945612
Best tools for monitoring developer communities?
4 hours ago —  Been using ForumScout to track mentions of our dev tools across forums. The AI filters help surface actual feedback from noise. Really powerful for product teams.
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Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39847562
Forum monitoring tools pricing is out of control
5 hours ago —  Asked for quotes to monitor HN, SO, and a few niche forums. One vendor wanted $3K/month just for forum monitoring. This is getting absurd for indie makers and small teams.
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Indie Hackers
https://indiehackers.com/post/forum-monitoring-success-a9b8c7
Found 5 leads on forums this week using ForumScout
42 minutes ago —  Set up ForumScout to monitor tech forums for people complaining about our competitor. Found 5 warm leads asking for alternatives. Converted 2 already. ROI is insane!

If it's said on a forum, you'll know.

Track every forum mention in real-time, across all posts.

1

Create a scout

Enter the keyword or phrase you want to track on forums. Each scout monitors one keyword.

2

Get notified

Your scout monitors forums and sends you an email alert when your keyword appears.

3

Reply & engage

Join the conversation, respond to questions, or monitor competitor discussions on forums.

Also included for free: Track mentions across all major platforms

Reddit
Twitter (𝕏)
LinkedIn
YouTube
Instagram
Bluesky
Hacker News
Facebook
Forums
News
Included In Growth Plan

Tell our AI what you want (or don't want)

Our AI understands the context of each post and filters out the stuff you don't want with human-like precision - included with all paid plans.

100% natural language

Write filters in plain English, just like you'd explain it to a person

Match scoring

The AI will score each post and explain why it does/doesn't match your criteria

Smart notifications

Only get notified when a post matches your criteria

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"Show me posts from unhappy customers of my competitors"
Included In Business Plan

Powerful Insights

Turn your mentions into actionable intelligence with audience analytics, sentiment analysis, and competitive insights.

Sentiment Score

+67

+8.3 vs last period
Scale
-100 to +100

Dominant Emotion

Trust

32%
of all mentions

Negative Posts

274

-12% vs last period
Percentage
14%

Emotional Intensity

6.8

+0.4 vs last period
Scale
0 to 10

Sentiment Over Time

Dominant Emotion Analysis

Plutchik Model
Trust
32%
Joy
26%
Anticipation
16%
Anger
12%
Surprise
8%
Fear
4%
Sadness
2%
Disgust
1%

Emotion Trends

Most Negative Mentions

Reddit r/technology 2h ago
1st

"The new update completely broke the interface. Worst redesign ever, going back to competitors."

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Twitter @upset_user 4h ago
2nd

"Customer support is absolutely terrible. Been waiting 3 weeks for a response. Unacceptable!"

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HN HackerNews 6h ago
3rd

"Security vulnerability discovered. Team was slow to respond and patch. Very concerning."

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Top Mentions by Emotion

Reddit r/entrepreneur 3h ago
Trust

"Been using this for 2 years now. Consistently reliable, great security, and the team always delivers on promises."

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HN HackerNews 5h ago
Anticipation

"Really excited to see what they build next. For a free social listening tool, ForumScout is moving fast!"

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Stack Overflow @worried_user 12h ago
Fear

"I'm concerned about migrating our data. What if something goes wrong during the transfer? We can't afford any downtime."

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If you need more than just monitoring...

Forum monitoring is free, but if you want to scale up, use AI, and discover insights, then we have plans for that too.

Frequently
asked questions

The free plan is limited to 3 keywords and 100 posts per month, so it's a way for us to introduce you to the service. Once you see the value and ForumScout has paid for itself, we hope you'll consider upgrading. If not, no worries - you can keep using the free plan forever :)