Show HN: A Free AI Visibility Tracker
A free, downloadable AI visibility tracker has been released for Windows and Mac. The tool, a bring-your-own-API-keys alternative to paid services, monitors visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. It includes dashboards, graphs, spreadsheet exports, and a scheduler for tracking over time.
Background
- AI visibility (also called "brand presence in AI" or "AI search visibility") refers to whether and how a company or website is mentioned when an AI chatbot or AI-powered search engine answers a user query — similar to traditional SEO, but for large language models like ChatGPT and Gemini.
- Peec and Profound are paid SaaS platforms that monitor where brands appear in AI-generated answers; their subscriptions typically cost hundreds of dollars per month, which the maker of this tool found excessive.
- "Fanout queries" are the many parallel sub-searches an AI like ChatGPT sends to the web behind the scenes when it needs to pull in live information — tracking these reveals which sources the AI is actually consulting.
- This is a free, open-source-style desktop app (bring-your-own-API-key) that lets anyone run the same kind of monitoring without paying for a cloud service; it covers five major AI products and offers scheduling, dashboards, and export features.