Honestly
A rumor-detector for what people really think of your product online — instead of trusting a handful of five-star reviews, it reads thousands of Reddit posts, TikToks, and comments, checks which ones are genuine, and tells you what's actually being said.
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Description
Star ratings and testimonials on a company's own website are easy to cherry-pick, and searching Reddit or TikTok yourself for honest opinions is slow and unreliable — you never know if a glowing comment is a real customer, a paid post, or bot-generated noise. Honestly automates that digging: it scans social platforms for conversations about a product, checks whether each opinion looks genuine, sponsored, or AI-generated, and organizes what's left into a clear picture.
Honestly monitors YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, X, and Threads for conversations about a given product, then structures the opinions it finds by product attribute, verifies authenticity (flagging disclosed sponsorships and likely AI-generated content), and measures sentiment. It's aimed at marketing, partnerships, and product/R&D teams at e-commerce and consumer brands who want a data-driven read on public perception rather than anecdote, and it's built by second-time founders (Paolo Shamoon, CEO; Kalvin Kazemi, CTO) who previously built a Pokémon-card trading marketplace called TradeUp. Pricing isn't published — the pricing page currently returns a 404 — and no funding has been disclosed, consistent with a small, early-stage team.
💬 Our review
The short version: Honestly is solving a real, annoying problem — verifying that online chatter about your product is genuine rather than sponsored or fake — and the sponsorship/AI-content flagging is the feature that actually differentiates it from a basic social-listening dashboard.
Compared to established social-listening tools like Sprout Social or Brandwatch, Honestly's narrower focus on opinion verification (not just volume/sentiment tracking) is a meaningful angle, especially for brands worried about astroturfing or fake reviews inflating perceived sentiment. The company is genuinely early-stage — the pricing page 404s, no funding is disclosed, and the founders are on their second startup rather than proven in this specific space — so it's worth treating this as a promising but unproven tool rather than a mature platform, and confirming current pricing directly before committing a marketing budget line to it.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Page /pricing renvoie une erreur 404 au moment de la rédaction — aucune grille tarifaire publique disponible, contact direct nécessaire
Pros
Vérifie l'authenticité des avis (sponsorisé, IA-généré, organique)
Couvre 6 plateformes sociales majeures (Reddit, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X, Threads)
Structure les avis par attribut produit, pas juste un score global
Fondateurs expérimentés (deuxième startup)
Cons
Page de tarifs actuellement en erreur 404 — impossible de connaître le prix sans contact direct
Aucun financement public divulgué
Produit jeune, équipe visiblement petite