GummySearch is closing. Export first, then pick the right replacement
If you are here because your tool is going away, the only urgent thing on this page is the date: all user data is deleted on 1 December 2026, per GummySearch’s own notice, re-read on 15 September 2026. Get your exports out before then. The rest of this page is about which kind of tool you actually need next, and for half of GummySearch’s users the answer is not us.
The three dates, from their notice. New signups and payments closed permanently on 30 November 2025. Existing paid customers keep full access through the end of their billing period during a transition window running to 30 November 2026, and subscriptions auto-cancel rather than renew. On 1 December 2026 the service shuts down and all user data is deleted.
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What happened, in their words
The notice is direct about the cause. GummySearch “relies on Reddit’s API to generate its real-time audience insights”, and the company “were not able to reach an agreement that aligns with Reddit’s Data API Usage policies.” Its founder frames the decision as choosing a sustainable business over “looking over your shoulder every day, wondering if tomorrow you get the axe.”
The free tier went for the same reason. The notice says it “was supported by revenue generated from the paid subscriptions. With no new revenue, its quite expensive and unsustainable to maintain.” Free accounts can still log in, view or download their data, or delete their accounts until the deletion date.
It is worth saying, on a page that stands to benefit from a competitor closing, that this is a better wind-down than most software gets: about a year of notice, no degradation for people still paying, subscriptions cancelling rather than renewing, and a published deletion date so nobody loses data by surprise. The home page now carries only the closure banner and a Login link, with no signup anywhere on it.
Export before 1 December 2026, in this order
- Log in today rather than in November. The deletion date is fixed and everybody else will be exporting in the last fortnight. Nothing about this gets easier by waiting, and an account you cannot get into on 2 December is an account whose contents are gone.
- Take the raw text, not screenshots. The genuinely irreplaceable part is the wording real people used for their problem. That text is what your landing page, your cold email opener and your first message are built out of, and it is the one thing you cannot regenerate once the account is closed.
- Export your saved audiences and searches. Even as a plain list, the phrases you had refined over months are the starting point for whatever you set up next, in any tool.
- Write down what you actually used it for. Research, or finding people? That one answer decides your replacement, and it is the question the next section is about.
EaseClaw compared with GummySearch, row by row
Seven rows. Each GummySearch cell links the page it was read from on 15 September 2026. The fifth and sixth rows are the ones that matter, because they are where the two products turn out not to be doing the same job at all.
| GummySearch | EaseClaw | |
|---|---|---|
| Can you buy it today | No. Its home page carries the line that GummySearch closed on 30 November 2025, with a Login link and no signup anywhere on it. New signups and payments closed permanently on that date. | Yes, and the whole menu is published. Two monthly plans, a 7 day free trial that charges nothing until day 7, and nothing behind a sales call. |
| Why it is closing, in its own words | Its notice says GummySearch "relies on Reddit’s API to generate its real-time audience insights" and that "we were not able to reach an agreement that aligns with Reddit’s Data API Usage policies." | Not a risk we carry in the same shape, because LinkedIn outreach runs from a connected account rather than from a public data feed we resell. It is a different dependency, not an absence of one. |
| How long you have | Existing paid customers keep full access through the end of their billing period, across a transition window that runs from 1 December 2025 to 30 November 2026. Subscriptions auto-cancel rather than renew. | No end date to plan around. The thing to diary here is your own trial, not a shutdown. |
| What happens to your data | All user data is deleted on 1 December 2026. Free accounts can "still log in, view/download their data, or delete their accounts" until then. Anything not exported before that date is gone. | Your leads, people and campaigns are exportable while the account is open, and nothing here deletes them on a calendar. |
| What the tool actually did | Audience research. It read public community conversations, grouped them into audiences and surfaced the patterns and pain points inside them, which is a research job rather than a sales one. | Outreach. It works out who is worth writing to from your own website, writes the invite and the follow up in your voice, and runs them inside the campaigns and limits you set. |
| What it handed you at the end | Insight: themes, phrasing, and the sense of what a market complains about. Turning that into a named person you could write to was your job and always was. | A named person with a reason to be written to, the message already drafted, and the reply in an inbox when it comes back. |
| What it cost | Nothing you can pay today. The free tier was closed as part of the wind-down, on the grounds that it was funded by paid subscriptions and unsustainable without new revenue. | $99 a month for Pro and $199 for Business, monthly only, both published. |
Does EaseClaw replace it? Half of it
GummySearch was two products to two kinds of user, and only one of them should end up here. EaseClaw is the AI agent that finds warm buyers on LinkedIn and runs outreach for founder-led B2B companies, without building prospect lists by hand. Built for founders and small B2B sales teams selling high-value products or services, especially when there is no dedicated SDR.
If you used it for research, to learn how a market talks about a problem and what it complains about, nothing on our side does that. EaseClaw does not read communities and will not summarise one for you. Go and look at a research tool, and start by putting your phrases into a free alert service for a fortnight to see whether the conversation exists at all.
If you used it to find people, and the frustrating part was what to do once you had them, that is the half EaseClaw does. It works out who is worth writing to from your own website, finds those people on LinkedIn from what they just did, writes the invite and the follow up per person in your voice, and keeps the replies in one place. Review every message, or let it run. It never posts to public feeds, and public replies stay yours to post.
If you are shortlisting more broadly, the guide to buying intent tools puts eight of them side by side with prices read on the same day as this page, and the Buska comparison covers the closest thing to a like-for-like on breadth.
What each one costs now
There is no GummySearch price to compare against any more, which is the point of this table rather than a gap in it. The date in the last column links the page each line was read from on 15 September 2026.
| Tool | Plan | Price | What it buys | Billing | Read on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GummySearch | Any plan | Not for sale | new signups and payments closed permanently on 30 November 2025 | closed | 2026-09-15 |
| GummySearch | Existing subscription | Runs to the end of your billing period | transition window 1 December 2025 to 30 November 2026, auto-cancels rather than renews | no renewal | 2026-09-15 |
| GummySearch | Free tier | Closed | log in, view or download your data, or delete the account, until deletion day | closed | 2026-09-15 |
| EaseClaw | Pro | $99 | per month, one LinkedIn account per member | monthly | 2026-09-15 |
| EaseClaw | Business | $199 | per month, one LinkedIn account per member | monthly | 2026-09-15 |
Where GummySearch is better than EaseClaw
Four things, and the first one is the reason most of its users should not buy ours.
GummySearch was audience research: read a community, find the recurring complaints, learn the words real people use for a problem. EaseClaw does not do that and has no plan to. If what you got from GummySearch was the language for your landing page and a sense of what a market is angry about, nothing here replaces it and you should be looking at a research tool rather than an outreach one.
Grouping thousands of public posts into audiences and surfacing the themes inside them is a different exercise from finding one person worth writing to. EaseClaw looks for individuals with a reason to be contacted. Both are useful and they are not substitutes, which is exactly why a GummySearch user should expect to replace it with a research tool, an outreach tool, or honestly both.
Roughly a year of notice, existing customers keeping full access through their billing period with no degradation, subscriptions cancelling rather than renewing, and a published date for deletion so nobody loses data by surprise. That is a higher standard of wind-down than most software gets, and it is worth saying out loud on a page that stands to benefit from the closure.
For a long time GummySearch had a free tier, which is how a lot of solo founders did any audience research at all. Its notice says that tier was funded by the paid subscriptions and became unsustainable without new revenue. EaseClaw has a trial rather than a free tier, so the cheapest honest thing a former free user can do is start with a free alert service and see whether anyone is talking at all.
What EaseClaw looks like
Our product, shown with example data. There are no GummySearch screenshots anywhere on this page, because I have not run it, and a screenshot would imply I had.
The numbers behind the second half of the job
One date you need and three figures from our own ledger. The figures are not an industry benchmark and not a promise about your campaigns. They are here because they size the work that starts the moment a research tool hands you a list.
The 17% is the one that explains why research and outreach are two purchases. Pulling the people behind a public signal is cheap, about a quarter of a cent each. Roughly one in six of them turned out to be another vendor selling into the same room, and removing those by hand is the tax nobody quotes you for. The full ledger, with the date each figure was read:
- Days left to export before deletion: 1 December 2026 is the deletion date. Source: gummysearch.com/final-chapter, re-read 2026-09-15, as of 2026-09-15.
- Posts we read before a genuine buyer came out: 34,116 read, 5,789 scored, 125 buyers. Source: easeclaw.com/research/buying-intent-2026, as of 2026-08-04.
- How many public engagers sold a rival product: 286 of 1,672, or 17%. Source: EaseClaw harvest ledger, people marked as vendors, as of 2026-09-08.
- What pulling those profiles cost us: $3.37 for 1,434 profiles, about a quarter of a cent each. Source: EaseClaw harvest ledger, counters for 2026-08-06 to 2026-08-10, as of 2026-08-10.
The wider view is on our buying-intent research page: 34,116 posts read, 5,789 scored, 125 people who turned out to be genuine buyers, as of 4 August 2026.
Questions people ask while moving off it
When exactly does GummySearch shut down?
What should I export, and by when?
Why is GummySearch closing?
Is EaseClaw a replacement for GummySearch?
What are the other options for people leaving?
Does EaseClaw depend on a platform that could do the same thing?
Export first. Then decide which half you need.
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