Trigify Alternative for Social Listening: 5 Tools by Source

The right Trigify alternative for social listening depends on which of Trigify's eight Listening sources you actually used. If it was LinkedIn keyword posts and you want the outreach handled too, Intentsly. If it was Reddit, X, Hacker News, YouTube or podcasts, Octolens or Buska. If LinkedIn does not matter and the budget is small, Syften. If your searches fed Clay tables, Clay, with one catch below. Trigify's Listening stops for most customers at 11:59pm BST on 22 October 2026, so copy your saved searches out today.

This article covers that one job. For the whole product, including Social Signals and workflows, see our list of Trigify alternatives. If what you miss is knowing who liked or commented on a post, that is a different job, covered in Trigify replacements for LinkedIn engagement tracking. For dates, exports and what you keep, see what ends when Trigify shuts down.

What exactly did Trigify's Listening do?

Listening was the input layer: you saved a keyword search, Trigify found matching posts, and a workflow did whatever came next. Trigify's own explainer says Listening "runs continuously", only finds posts, and does not filter, enrich or act on them. A replacement therefore has two halves: the finding, and whatever you had wired after it (a Slack alert, a Clay table, a CRM record).

The finding covered eight sources. The supported platforms article lists the Business Network (LinkedIn, in Trigify's wording) for keyword posts, profile monitoring and engagement; X for keyword posts and profiles; Reddit for keywords and, where enabled, subreddits; Substack; YouTube; podcasts, with the note that "Transcript availability can vary by source"; Hacker News stories; and DailyDev posts. Four of those (Substack, subreddits, Hacker News, DailyDev) depended on workspace rollout, so check which you actually had before you pay to replace them.

Four rules of the search decide how much rewriting you face. First, the Boolean guide gives AND, OR and NOT fields, treats a multi-word phrase as one keyword, and caps keywords at 6 per Business Network search and 10 per X, Reddit, YouTube or podcast search. Second, matching was substring and case-insensitive: "sell" matched "upsell", "CRM" matched "CRMs". Third, there was no country or language filter at the Listening level; language was handled afterwards by an AI step in a workflow. Fourth, enrichment only worked on Business Network posts: for Reddit, YouTube and X, Trigify kept the author name, text and URL and "cannot automatically look up the poster's email, company, or business network profile". If you remember enriched Reddit leads, they came from somewhere else in your stack.

The second half, delivery, ran through workflows: a daily email digest, a Slack channel, or an HTTP Request node to any webhook, plus native nodes for HubSpot, Attio, Salesforce and Airtable and a webhook route into Clay. Write down which of these you used; the comparison below has a column for it.

One budget note. trigify.io now shows only the HubSpot announcement, with no plans or prices, and says subscriptions will not renew past the end date. The ranking pages at Octolens and ReactIn quote its last self-serve plans at $40 and $199 a month, so use your last invoice as the line to beat.

Trigify alternative for social listening: 5 tools compared

We make Intentsly. It is listed first so the bias is visible, and the "wrong choice if" column applies to it as much as to the others. Every fact about another vendor comes from that vendor's own site, opened on 16 October 2026; prices change, so confirm on the linked page.

Two things the table makes plain. No single tool covers Trigify's full source list and the LinkedIn engagement side at once; the multi-source tools stop at mentions, and the LinkedIn tools stop at LinkedIn. And the unit you pay for differs everywhere: Trigify counted saved searches, Octolens counts keywords, Buska counts signals, Syften counts filters and results per day, Clay counts actions and credits. Count your Trigify searches before you compare prices, because 25 searches with 6 keywords each is a different bill at each vendor.

Which tool covers which Trigify Listening source?

This is the table to paste next to your export. "Yes" means the vendor names the source on a page we opened; "Not named" means it does not, which is not the same as no.

Reading the rows: Octolens is the closest shape to Trigify's list, with the podcast and newsletter sources behind its higher plan. Buska matches most sources on its middle plan and is the only one that states the LinkedIn gap plainly on its own site (no cookie, no native LinkedIn search). Syften is the cheapest route to Reddit, Hacker News and the developer forums, and says plainly that LinkedIn is out. Intentsly is one row deep, and that row is the one with structured identity data, which is why it is the only tool here that goes from a match to a sent message.

How do you rewrite Trigify Listening searches for the new tool?

Do not paste. Trigify matched substrings, so a saved search for "sell" was quietly also a search for "upsell" and "reseller"; a tool with whole-word or AI relevance matching will return a different, usually smaller, set. Export each search as its AND, OR and NOT terms and sources, then rebuild it in the unit the new tool counts. The rows below are examples to adapt, not searches we have run for you.

Two checks after the rebuild. First, run each search for a day and compare the count with your last Trigify digest; if it halved, the whole-word matching is doing what Trigify's NOT terms used to do, and that is usually an improvement. Second, decide where the alerts land before you switch off Trigify's Slack workflow, because none of these tools reads your old workflow.

If your Listening was mostly LinkedIn, Intentsly's keyword posts watch LinkedIn for people posting about the pain points, tools and topics you name, score each person against your ideal customer profile, and hand the conversation to an AI SDR on LinkedIn, so the rewrite is the last manual step rather than the first of several. If part of your Listening was on Reddit and you are not buying a second tool yet, the search operators in how to find B2B leads on Reddit rebuild that part by hand. And if Intentsly is the direction, the migration guide walks through the rest of the account, not only the searches.

Where each option is the wrong choice

Intentsly is the wrong choice if your Listening lived outside LinkedIn. It monitors LinkedIn only, in English, Romanian, German and Dutch, integrates natively with HubSpot and nothing else on the CRM side, and caps you at 2 LinkedIn sender accounts with 30 messages and 30 connection requests a day each (15 recommended). What it does that none of the others do is close the loop: in our own launch we booked 14 qualified demos in 14 days with zero manual outreach, from signals the platform caught and conversations the AI SDR handled. That is one campaign, not a benchmark, and it says nothing about Reddit.

Octolens is the wrong choice if you want people rather than mentions. Its own Trigify page says it does not export LinkedIn post engagers or enrich contacts, and its pricing page lists the annual-billing rates, with the month-to-month figure only on that Trigify page, so check which you are quoted. It is the right choice when you want Trigify's breadth plus an API and webhooks on the entry plan.

Buska is the wrong choice if you need comments, engagers or private communities. Its Reddit page says scans cover new post titles and text, not replies inside threads, and its home page says private Slack and Discord communities are not covered. It is the right choice for a sales team that wants intent-scored posts and a drafted reply across many public sources at a low monthly price.

Syften is the wrong choice if LinkedIn is in the picture at all, and its X and YouTube coverage costs extra on top of a plan. It is the right choice for a developer-tool or technical product whose buyers talk on Reddit, Hacker News, Stack Exchange and the forums, where it is the cheapest and most specific of the five.

Clay is the wrong choice as a listening tool if you were not already a Clay customer, and the catch mentioned at the top is this: Clay's own Claybook for social listening uses Trigify as its LinkedIn source, so the LinkedIn table in that template stops with Trigify. The X, Reddit and YouTube tables are Clay-native and keep working. If your Trigify searches already landed in Clay through the HTTP Request node, Clay stays as the table and one of the tools above becomes the new feed; the choice is then about the feed, not Clay.

What Trigify's Listening got right

Three things, and they are the yardstick for whatever you pick. One search, many sources, with the same Boolean fields everywhere. A clear line between finding (Listening) and acting (Workflows), so a search could feed Slack, a CRM and Clay at once without re-running it. And a daily digest that needed no set-up. Several of the tools above do one or two of these better; none of them does all three in the same shape, which is why the source table matters more than the price table.

What to do before 22 October

Trigify's notice says to export what you want to keep using the options already in the product, and to email hugo@trigify.io for help, so start there today.

1. Open each saved Listening search and copy its AND, OR and NOT terms, sources and any subreddit or channel into a sheet, one row per search. The query preview shows the full expression.
2. Note what each search fed: digest, Slack, HTTP Request to Clay, a CRM node. This decides whether you need an API or just alerts.
3. Pick by the coverage table: LinkedIn plus outreach, Intentsly; breadth plus API, Octolens; breadth plus drafted replies at a lower price, Buska; developer communities only, Syften; already on Clay, keep Clay for the table and add a feed.
4. Rebuild the searches with the rewrite table, run both tools side by side until 22 October, and compare counts against your Trigify digest.
5. Switch the alerts and the CRM push, then let the Trigify subscription lapse; it will not renew.

If LinkedIn posts were where your buyers showed up, try Intentsly without an account: it shows the people posting about your keywords right now, which is the fastest way to see whether one source is enough.

FAQ

Is Trigify shutting down, and does social listening stop with it?

Yes. Trigify's site says the team is joining HubSpot, the standalone platform is being retired, and access for most customers ends at 11:59pm BST on 22 October 2026. For standard customers, monitoring, signal collection, integrations and API access stop at the same time, so Listening searches stop producing new posts on that date.

What is the best Trigify alternative for social listening?

There is no single best; pick by source. For LinkedIn keyword posts with outreach built in, Intentsly. For Trigify's breadth across Reddit, X, Hacker News, YouTube and more with an API, Octolens. For the same breadth with intent scoring and drafted replies at a lower price, Buska. For Reddit and developer forums only, Syften. For Clay customers, Clay with a new feed.

Is there a free Trigify alternative for social listening?

Partly. Clay has a free plan with a monthly action allowance, and its Reddit, X and YouTube listening tables run on it, but you build and maintain them. The other tools here offer trials of 7 to 14 days, not free plans. Intentsly shows matching LinkedIn buyers without an account on its try page.

Can I import my Trigify searches into another tool?

Not directly; none of the five tools we checked offers a Trigify import. Export each search's terms and sources yourself, then rebuild it in the unit the new tool counts: keywords for Octolens, signals for Buska, filters for Syften, keyword posts for Intentsly. Expect to rewrite rather than paste, because Trigify's substring matching behaved differently from most keyword tools.

Which replacement also tracks who engages with LinkedIn posts?

Of the five here, only Intentsly captures likes, comments and shares on posts from competitors and industry leaders alongside keyword posts. Octolens and Buska both say on their own Trigify pages that they do not track LinkedIn engagers. For tools built around that job, see the separate engagement-tracking comparison linked at the top.

Did Trigify enrich people found on Reddit, X or YouTube?

No. Its help centre says person and company enrichment, post likes and post comments only work with Business Network searches; for Reddit, YouTube and X it kept the author name, post text and URL. So a replacement that gives you only the post and the author for those sources is not a step down from what you had.