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Best Social Media Listening Software in 2026

Listening software helps you monitor discussion and mentions across social networks and other sources. Compare social network coverage, historical data, and sentiment analysis, alongside news and web monitoring, to see what kinds of signals are covered. Alert channels and tracked query limits offer further points to weigh, while free-plan availability and paid-from pricing help frame costs. Brand Intel, dig, and Truescope are among the entries, along with Social Searcher and KWatch.io. Consider which conversations and sources you need to follow, how much history is useful, and whether the listed alert options and query limits fit your monitoring needs.

86 apps
Research read 23 Sept 2026
How the order is worked out

1

Brand Intel

Free plan APIWeb

Choose Brand Intel if your team needs to monitor multiple kinds of sources and analyze sentiment, relevance, and emerging trends in dashboards.

7.2 Free plan · 30-day trial Visit site
2

dig

Free plan APIWeb

7.2 Free plan · paid from $25/mo Visit site
3

Blackbird.AI
by Blackbird.AI
Free plan APIWeb

Choose Blackbird.AI if you need sentiment analysis across its stated range of online sources and API access. Look elsewhere if you need a published price or a platform other than web.

7.1 Pricing on request Visit site
4

Truescope
by Truescope
Free plan Web

Truescope combines media monitoring, sentiment analysis, and configurable alert channels.

7.0 Pricing on request Visit site
5

Social Searcher
by Social Searcher
Free plan Web

Social Searcher brings social searches and mention monitoring into a web interface, with filtering and several search modes. Note the plan limits alongside the service's uncapped-search description.

7.0 Free plan · 14-day trial Visit site
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KWatch.io
by KWatch.io
Free plan APIWeb

KWatch.io offers broad keyword monitoring with sentiment labels and several alert routes. Its source-specific limits matter if you rely on comments, video audio, Instagram, or TikTok.

7.0 Free plan · paid from $19/mo Visit site
7

Harken

Free plan Self-hostedWeb

Harken offers self-hosted mention monitoring with local storage, sentiment scoring, and alert options.

7.0 Free plan Visit site
8

GetAlert
by GetAlert
Free plan Web

Choose GetAlert if you need social monitoring with configurable alerts, sentiment analysis, brand comparisons, or audience insights.

6.8 Free plan · paid from €95/mo Visit site
9

Uyari

Free plan Web

Consider Uyari if you need social listening focused on Latin America, with sentiment analysis and alerts across several channels.

6.8 Visit site
10

Stalkr

Free plan APIWeb

Stalkr combines public-mention monitoring with alerting, AI categorization where allowed, and API options.

6.8 From $29/mo Visit site
11

F5Bot
by F5Bot
Free plan APIWeb

F5Bot provides configurable monitoring for Reddit, Hacker News, and Lobsters, from a limited free tier to plans with integrations and API access.

6.7 Free plan · paid from $9.99/user/mo Visit site
12

MediaLens

Free plan Web

MediaLens combines account analysis, competitor monitoring, alerts, and influencer analysis with several listed AI tools.

6.6 7-day trial Visit site
13

SocialCX

Free plan Web

SocialCX brings broad source coverage, AI sentiment analysis, and team workflows into one hosted service.

6.6 Free plan · 30-day trial Visit site
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Social Mention

Free plan Web

Social Mention gathers many destination searches for tracking topics and brands across web and social content.

6.5 Free plan Visit site
15

slalert!

Free plan Web

slalert! provides focused web and news mention monitoring through Slack. It is a fit when Slack delivery and a free plan matter, provided an administrator can configure the webhook.

6.5 Free plan Visit site
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PulseLens

Free plan Self-hostedWebWindows

PulseLens provides local, structured triage for imported mentions, with sentiment, risk scoring, and report exports. Its Alpha maturity and limited current data sources are important constraints.

6.5 Open source Visit site
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Magpie
by Magpie
Free plan Windows

Magpie offers several scaling algorithms and customizable effects in a free Windows tool. Check its stated Windows and DirectX requirements, and note that frame generation is not planned.

6.5 Free plan Visit site
18

Nexis Newsdesk

Free trial AndroidiPhoneWeb

6.4 Pricing on request Visit site
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Brand24
by Brand24
Free trial AndroidAPIiPhone+3

Brand24 brings web and social monitoring together with analytics, alerts, and reporting.

6.3 From $199/mo (annual) · 14-day trial Visit site
20

Meltwater Social Listening
by Meltwater Social Listening
Paid AndroidAPIiPhone+1

Choose Meltwater Social Listening if your team needs cross-channel monitoring, competitor analysis, alerts and shareable reporting in one workflow.

6.1 Pricing on request Visit site
21

Cision
by Cision
Paid AndroidAPIiPhone+1

Choose Cision if you need news, web, and social monitoring with sentiment analysis and alerts through your preferred listed channel.

6.1 Pricing on request Visit site
22

Awario
by Awario
Free trial Web

Choose Awario to monitor mentions across social networks and broader online sources, with sentiment analysis and in-app follow-up.

6.1 From $29/mo (annual) · 7-day trial Visit site
23

Mentionlytics
by Mentionlytics
Free trial APIWeb

Mentionlytics combines broad web and social monitoring with review tracking, analytics and AI features.

6.1 From $69/mo (annual) · 14-day trial Visit site
24

Cloud-Radar

Free plan

Cloud-Radar provides local template checks as well as functional testing through Taskcat and boto3.

6.0 Open source Visit site
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BrandMentions
by BrandMentions
Free trial Web

BrandMentions combines multi-source monitoring, sentiment analysis, and configurable alerts, with capacity and update frequency varying by plan.

5.9 From $79/mo (annual) · 7-day trial Visit site

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