The closest Minea alternative for TikTok ads is PiPiADS at $49 a month, which covers TikTok and Facebook ads, products and TikTok Shop. For shops and Meta ads with an MCP endpoint, TrendTrack starts at €49 a month, but its ads library starts on Pro at €89. AdSpy searches Facebook and Instagram ads by text and comments for $149. Meta's Ad Library and TikTok's Creative Center are free. Playhead is a different kind of tool: it finds no ads, and it takes apart the ad you found, with the second of every hook, beat and claim, free for 50,000 credits every 4 weeks.
Key takeaways
- Minea costs $49, $99 or $199 a month. On 9 October 2026 the $49 Starter card showed 4 crossed-out lines: shops listing, brand tracker, notifications and daily niche lists.
- PiPiADS Basic is $49 a month for 30,000 PiPiADS credits. At 20 PiPiADS credits an opened ad, that opens 1,500 ads, where Minea Starter holds 10 AI analyses.
- 8 of the 9 tools on this page find ads in a database. 1 of them, Playhead, finds none and reads the ad you bring.
- 3 of the 9 name an MCP endpoint for Claude or ChatGPT on the pricing page: TrendTrack from €89, Foreplay from $175 and Playhead on every plan.
- The free start for ads is Meta's Ad Library and TikTok's Creative Center. Neither one links an ad to a shop or a product.
What is on this page and on no other
Most pages on this subject repeat the same advice and the same figures. These are the facts this one produced itself, and how each one was made.
4 of the 9 feature lines on Minea's $49 Starter card were crossed out on 9 October 2026: shops listing, brand tracker, notifications and daily niche lists. The shops listing starts on Premium at $99.
Of 9 ad research tools, 8 find ads in a database, 3 name an MCP endpoint on the pricing page, 3 have a free tier with no end date, and 1 documents that it watches the ad and names the second of each part.
$49 buys 10 AI ad analyses in Minea Starter, which is $4.90 each, and 1,500 opened ads in PiPiADS Basic, which is about 3.3 cents each.
A 115.30 second supplement ad, taken apart by Playhead, has 33 cuts, 7 beats and the product on screen at 1.5 seconds. Its proof beat runs 42.1 seconds, 37 per cent of the runtime.
What happened to Minea
Nothing shut down. Minea is live and sells 3 plans at $49, $99 and $199 a month, or $39, $79 and $158 paid quarterly. The $49 Starter plan holds 10 AI ad analyses a month and does not include the shops listing or the brand tracker. The pricing page lists Snapchat, Pinterest and TikTok ads as coming soon. [1]
Minea is an all-in-one research tool for dropshipping and ecommerce: a Meta ads listing, a products listing, a shops listing, influencer product placements, a brand tracker, and AI analysis and transcripts of ads. It says it holds more than 10 million ads.
How we chose these tools
- Every price is the lowest monthly tier on the vendor's own page, read on 9 October 2026. Where a vendor shows no price to a visitor with no account, the entry says so and names where the price was read instead.
- A tool is on this list when it does at least one job a Minea customer pays for: finding ads, finding products and shops, or understanding what a found ad does.
- Every entry names at least one thing the product does not do, including ours.
- Playhead is third, not first. PiPiADS and TrendTrack replace what Minea does. Playhead does the job that starts after an ad is found.
The shortlist
Every price is the lowest published tier, read off the vendor's own pricing page. The date it was read is at the foot of this page.
| Tool | From | Best for | Watches the video |
|---|---|---|---|
PiPiADS
An ad spy tool built around TikTok, with Facebook ads, TikTok Shop products, rankings of top products and stores, and an ad tracker, sold in credits.
- What it costs
- Best for
- Rated
What it actually sees in the ad
What it does
- TikTok and Facebook ad search, with filters
- TikTok Shop products and stores
- Rankings of top products, new products and top stores
- An ad tracker: 2 brands on Basic, 10 on Advanced
- A trial with 500 PiPiADS credits
Stronger at
- TikTok ads are live today, where Minea's pricing page lists them as coming soon
- $49 opens 1,500 ads a month, against 10 AI analyses on Minea's $49 plan
Where it stops
- The trial holds 500 PiPiADS credits and 0 details, so it opens no ad. Credits reset each month and do not roll over.
- No influencer placements, and the pricing page names no MCP endpoint. An API is sold through sales.
TrendTrack
Ecommerce intelligence: a database of Shopify stores with traffic, a Meta ads library that indexes 2 to 3 million new ads a day, an advertisers view, an email library and a brand tracker.
- What it costs
- Best for
- Rated
What it actually sees in the ad
What it does
- A shop database with estimated traffic, catalog size and best sellers
- A Meta ads library from Pro, with EU reach and spend
- An email library and an advertisers view
- API and MCP access from Pro, for Claude and ChatGPT
Stronger at
- Store traffic and catalog data, which Minea's $49 plan does not open
- An MCP endpoint from €89, so an agent can pull stores and ads
Where it stops
- The €49 Starter plan has no ads library. Ads, Mail and Advertisers start on Pro at €89.
- 1 seat on Starter and Pro. A second person needs Business at €159.
Playhead
OursPlayhead watches an ad you found and tells you how it is built, second by second: the hook and how it reaches a viewer, every beat with its start and length, every claim quoted at the second it is legible, and the cuts counted off the file.
- What it costs
- Best for
- Rated
What it actually sees in the ad
What it does
- Paste a link from the Meta Ad Library, TikTok, Instagram or YouTube, or upload a file
- Each ad becomes a teardown with the same fields: hook, beats, claims, cuts, first product, and whether it works muted
- Up to 10 ads read in one set, then stacked into one comparison
- An MCP endpoint on every plan, the free one included
Stronger at
- Names the second of every hook, beat and claim, which no other entry here documents. A 115.30 second ad came back with 33 cuts and 7 beats
- A free plan with no end date, and $19 is the lowest paid price on this list
Where it stops
- Playhead does not search for ads. It has no database of ads, products or shops, so you bring the link from Minea, PiPiADS or the Ad Library.
- Playhead knows no spend, reach or sales. It reads the video file and nothing about how the ad performed.
AdSpy
A search engine for Facebook and Instagram ads, searchable by ad text, comments, advertiser, landing page and more. It says it holds more than 212.2 million ads.
- What it costs
- Best for
- Rated
What it actually sees in the ad
What it does
- Search by ad text, comments, URL and advertiser
- Filters by country, language and engagement
- Affiliate network and ecommerce platform filters
Stronger at
- Search inside the comments under an ad, which no other entry offers
- One plan and no credits or quotas to count
Where it stops
- $149 a month is the only price, 3 times Minea Starter, and there is no entry plan.
- Facebook and Instagram only. No TikTok, no products and no shops.
Kalodata
TikTok Shop analytics: which products, shops, creators and videos sell on TikTok Shop, with sales estimates and 1,000 days of history.
- What it costs
- Best for
- Rated
What it actually sees in the ad
What it does
- TikTok Shop products, shops and creators ranked by estimated sales
- Video and livestream data with 1,000 days of history
- A 7 day free trial with no card
Stronger at
- Sales estimates for TikTok Shop products, which Minea does not publish
Where it stops
- No price on the website. On 9 October 2026 the pricing address answered a bot check in a browser, so the figure comes from the App Store.
- TikTok Shop only. Meta ads and Shopify stores are out of scope.
Foreplay
A swipe file, a search over more than 200 million ads saved by its users, a brief builder and a competitor tracker. Foreplay is where creative teams keep the ads they find.
- What it costs
- Best for
- Rated
What it actually sees in the ad
What it does
- Save ads from the Meta Ad Library, TikTok and Instagram with a browser extension
- Discovery, a search over 200 million saved ads
- Briefs built from saved ads
- MCP and an API from the $175 Workflow plan
Stronger at
- The best place on this list to keep and share ads as a team
- A brief builder, which no spy tool here has
Where it stops
- No products, shops or sales data. Foreplay is about the ads, not the stores behind them.
- The competitor tracker and the agent endpoint start at $175 a month, not on the $59 plan.
Meta Ad Library
Meta's own public archive of every ad running on Facebook, Instagram and the rest of Meta, searchable by keyword and advertiser, with no account.
- What it costs
- Best for
- Rated
What it actually sees in the ad
What it does
- Every active ad on Meta, by keyword or advertiser
- Filters by country, platform and media type
- Ads that ran in the EU in the past year, with reach
Stronger at
- The primary source. Every Meta ad listing on this page reads from the same ads
- Free, with no plan and no quota
Where it stops
- Saves nothing, ranks nothing by sales and links no ad to a shop or a product.
- No TikTok ads.
TikTok Creative Center
TikTok's own free dashboard of top ads, sortable by reach, CTR and view rates, with an engagement graph across the runtime of each ad.
- What it costs
- Best for
- Rated
What it actually sees in the ad
What it does
- Top Ads by region, industry and objective
- Sort by reach, CTR, 2 second and 6 second view rate
- Trending hashtags, songs and creators
Stronger at
- Free TikTok ads, which Minea's pricing page lists as coming soon
Where it stops
- It never shows every ad of a brand, only those that passed TikTok's 2 gates.
- No shops, no products outside TikTok, and no Meta ads.
What the Minea Starter plan holds
Meta ads, products and 10 AI analyses. The shops listing starts at $99.
Most people who search for a Minea alternative have opened the Minea pricing page and found one of three things.
The shops listing is not on the $49 plan. On 9 October 2026 the Starter card showed 4 crossed-out lines: shops listing, brand tracker, notifications and daily niche lists. All four start on Premium at $99.
The AI analysis has a quota. Starter holds 10 AI ad analyses a month, which is $4.90 each. Premium holds 50 for $99. Only Business at $199 has no limit.
TikTok is not there yet, on the pricing page. The same page lists Snapchat, Pinterest and TikTok ads as coming soon. The home page lists a TikTok ads listing and TikTok Shop. If TikTok is your main channel, read both pages before you pay.
| Plan | A month | Paid quarterly | Shops listing | AI ad analyses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $49 | $39 | No | 10 a month |
| Premium | $99 | $79 | Yes | 50 a month |
| Business | $199 | $158 | Yes | Unlimited |
What each alternative does, counted
8 of 9 find ads. 1 of 9 reads what is inside them.
9 ad research tools, counted on 9 October 2026
Minea, PiPiADS, TrendTrack, AdSpy and the two free libraries all answer the same question: which ads are running, and which ones win. They sort by engagement, by days active, by reach. That is the first half of the job.
The second half is the one that makes your next ad. You found a supplement ad that has run for 90 days. Now you have to know what it does: what the first 3 seconds say, when the product appears, how long the proof runs. Minea sells an AI analysis for that step, 10 a month on Starter, and does not publish what it returns. Playhead is built only for that step. The ad below ran 115.30 seconds, and the teardown counts 33 cuts and 7 beats.
Hook, 0:00, 5.3 s. Here's what happens to your arteries if you take two soft gels of aged odorless garlic every day for four weeks. Demonstration, 0:05.6, 12.2 s. Minutes after taking the first softgels, tight heavy feeling in chest eases as S-allylcysteine breaks down buildup. Turn, 0:18, 19.5 s. Brain fog lifts within hours and week two brings back youthful energy and end to exhaustion. Proof, 0:37.5, 42.1 s. Blood pressure drops toward 120 over 80 by week three without strict diet or cardio, restoring full cardiovascular vitality by week four. Demonstration, 1:19.6, 15.4 s. 20-month aging converts allicin into S-allylcysteine which cleans arteries and keeps vessels flexible. Proof, 1:35.2, 3.7 s. Over 50,000 people have experienced this transformation. Ask, 1:39.4, 15.7 s. Claim yours today with free shipping and 30-day guarantee before limited batch sells out at 70% off.
Which Minea alternative for which job
Pick by the channel you sell on and the step you are stuck at.
| Your job | The pick | A month |
|---|---|---|
| Find TikTok ads and TikTok Shop products | PiPiADS Basic | $49 |
| Research Shopify stores and their traffic | TrendTrack Starter | €49 |
| Search Facebook ads by their text and comments | AdSpy | $149 |
| Pick TikTok Shop products by sales | Kalodata | $45.99 in the App Store |
| Keep and share ads as a team | Foreplay Basic | $59 |
| See live Meta or TikTok ads with no budget | Meta Ad Library, TikTok Creative Center | $0 |
| Take apart an ad you found, second by second | Playhead | $0, or $19 |
Find the ads in a free library first
Search the Meta Ad Library or TikTok Creative Center for your product. Keep the ads that have run longest, because an advertiser keeps paying for what works.
Pay for a spy tool only for the part a library cannot do
Products, shops and sales estimates are what a paid tool adds. If you do not need them, you do not need the plan.
Read the ads you kept
Paste up to 10 links into Playhead as one set. Each comes back with the hook, the beats, the claims and the second the product appears.
Write the brief from what the winners share
Where the long-running ads share a hook type, a beat order or a first product second, that is the pattern for your next ad.
The verdict
Leave Minea when you pay $49 for a plan without the shops listing, or wait for TikTok ads that its pricing page still calls coming soon. PiPiADS at $49 is the pick for TikTok, TrendTrack at €49 for Shopify stores, and the Meta Ad Library and TikTok Creative Center cost nothing. All 8 finders on this page stop at the same point: they show you the winning ad and leave you to work out why it wins. Playhead does that part, with the second of every hook, beat and claim, from $0. Keep one finder, or a free library, and read every ad you keep with Playhead.
Common questions
What is the best Minea alternative?
PiPiADS at $49 a month is the closest Minea alternative when TikTok is your channel, because its TikTok ads and TikTok Shop data are live today. TrendTrack at €49 is the pick for Shopify store research, with its ads library from €89. Neither one watches the ad, so add Playhead from $0 to know what happens inside it.
Is there a free Minea alternative?
Meta's Ad Library and TikTok's Creative Center are free and show live ads on Meta and TikTok. Playhead's free plan holds 50,000 credits every 4 weeks to read those ads second by second. None of the three lists products, shops or influencer placements, which is what Minea's paid plans add.
How much does Minea cost?
Minea costs $49 a month for Starter, $99 for Premium and $199 for Business, as its pricing page printed them on 9 October 2026. Paid quarterly, the three cost $39, $79 and $158 a month. Starter holds 10 AI ad analyses a month and no shops listing.
Does Minea show TikTok ads?
Minea's two main pages disagree. On 9 October 2026 the pricing page listed Snapchat, Pinterest and TikTok ads as coming soon, and the home page listed a TikTok ads listing and TikTok Shop. PiPiADS, Kalodata and TikTok Creative Center all cover TikTok today.
Which Minea alternative works with Claude or ChatGPT?
Three of the nine tools here name an MCP endpoint on the pricing page: TrendTrack from its €89 Pro plan, Foreplay from its $175 Workflow plan, and Playhead on every plan, the free one included. Minea, PiPiADS, AdSpy and Kalodata named none on 9 October 2026.
Is PiPiADS better than Minea?
PiPiADS is better for TikTok ads and opens more ads for the same $49: 1,500 a month at 20 PiPiADS credits each. Minea is better for influencer placements and Meta ads with AI analysis built in. Both find ads, and neither documents naming the second of each part of one.
