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Mangools vs Exploding Topics

Mangools is a keyword research suite featuring simple tools for tracking volume, difficulty, rankings, and backlinks. Exploding Topics surfaces topics that are growing right now and analyzes the implications for products, markets, and companies.

Our pick

Exploding Topics

  • Browse trends by industry to find trending topics
  • Trending Products and Startups with sales, funding, and valuations
  • Social channel breakdowns
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Mangools

  • - Every lookup starts from a keyword you supply
  • - No product, startup, or funding data
  • - Coverage limited to search and backlinks data

Exploding Topics Pro is trusted by 1,200+ teams worldwide.

SEO and trend research

Simple keyword tools versus comprehensive trends analysis

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Trend discovery

Trends you didn't know about

Exploding Topics organizes over one million topics by industry so you can see what is growing before you know what to type. Each trend carries search volume, a growth chart with up to 15 years of history, a forecast for the year ahead, seasonality signals, and a breakdown of which social channels are driving it. Meta Trends place related topics within a larger picture.

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Products and startups

Research the market around the keyword

Trending Products tracks items across Amazon and TikTok Shop with reviews, sales, and revenue data, with a TikTok Insights add-on for a deeper dive on social commerce. Trending Startups covers funding, valuations, and headcount, which matters if you are sizing an entire market rather than a SERP. Expert reports and API access complete the all-in-one trends package.

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Where Mangools leads

Straightforward keyword and rank tools

Mangools runs five focused SEO tools: KWFinder for keyword volume and difficulty against a database it puts at 2.5 billion keywords, SERPChecker for SERP analysis, SERPWatcher for rank tracking, LinkMiner for backlinks, and SiteProfiler for domain overviews. Mangools has also launched an AI Search Watcher function. The suite of tools is deliberately simple, and for day-to-day keyword and ranking work it covers some ground Exploding Topics does not.

At a glance

Mangools vs Exploding Topics

Feature

Mangools

Trend Tool

Exploding Topics

Our pick

Primary purpose

Keyword research and rank tracking

Trend discovery and market research

Best for

People who need basic keyword data without a full trends suite

Marketers, founders, e-commerce teams, researchers

Trend discovery

Trend chart inside a keyword lookup

Browsable database across industries, with forecasts

Social channel data

None

Breakdown per trend

Product and startup data

None

Trending Products and Trending Startups

Rank tracking and backlinks

Included

Not included

Starting price

$37.70/mo billed annually

$39/mo

Paid plans

$37.70 / $52.70 / $97.70 per month billed annually

$39 / $99 / $249 per month

Free plan / trial

Free plan, no trial

7-day free trial, some free features

How We Find Trends

We track topics across the internet to identify under-the-radar trends before they go mainstream.

1

Analyze

Our trend identification process begins with a comprehensive data collection from a variety of online sources.

  • Social media platforms
  • Search engines
  • Online forums and communities
  • News articles and blogs
  • E-commerce websites
  • Podcasts
2

Identify

Our proprietary machine learning models are designed to detect the absolute earliest signs of an emerging trend.

  • Analyze historical data to identify growth patterns
  • Predict future trends based on current data trajectories
  • Detect sudden spikes in interest or activity around specific topics
3

Curate

While our algorithms are powerful, human expertise is crucial for contextual understanding, ensuring quality topics.

  • Review the top-scoring trends identified by our models
  • Validate the authenticity and relevance of these trends
  • Filter out fads (movies, TV shows, celebrity gossip, etc.)
  • Provide qualitative insights to complement quantitative data

FAQ

Everything you need to know about using our features and getting the most out of them.

What is Mangools?

Mangools is a keyword research and SEO suite made up of six tools: KWFinder for keywords, SERPChecker for SERP analysis, SERPWatcher for rank tracking, LinkMiner for backlinks, SiteProfiler for domain overviews, and AI Search Watcher for LLM visibility.

Is Mangools free?

Mangools has a permanent free plan with five keyword lookups every 24 hours. You can't get a free trial of paid Mangools tiers, but there is a 48-hour refund guarantee.

How much does Mangools cost?

Mangools costs $37.70, $52.70, or $97.70 per month when billed annually, which works out at $452.40, $632.40, and $1,172.40 per year. Premium plans improve usage limits and rank update frequency.

How much does Exploding Topics cost?

Exploding Topics Pro is priced at $39, $99, and $249 per month, with the entry Entrepreneur plan starting at $39/mo. There is also a limited free plan that covers basic site access and the newsletter.

Does Exploding Topics have a free trial?

Yes, Exploding Topics Pro includes a 7-day free trial, and a limited free plan is available alongside it.

Does Mangools show trending topics?

Mangools doesn't display trending topics as a browsable database. KWFinder embeds a Google Trends chart and a keyword interest growth figure once you look up a term, so you can see how one keyword has moved, but there is no way to browse rising topics across an industry the way Exploding Topics does.

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