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Motion alternative for competitor ad research, not just your own reporting
Motion is a creative analytics tool: you connect your ad accounts and it scores how your own creatives perform, with hook scores and visual reports. That is genuinely useful once you are spending. The gap people hit is that Motion can only report on ads you have already made and paid to run. It cannot show you what your competitors are testing, which is where most winning angles actually come from.
AdEye works the other side of the problem. Instead of connecting your ad account, it reads the public ad libraries and pulls your competitors live ads from Meta, Google, TikTok and YouTube into one feed, then AI-tags each hook, angle and format and flags the ones that keep running. If a Motion alternative to you means competitor creative research rather than in-house performance reporting, that is exactly what AdEye is for. Many teams run both: Motion to grade their spend, AdEye to find the next thing worth testing.
Public ad-library data only. Nothing behind a login.
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4 ad libraries, 1 feed · AI hook and angle tags · Public data only
Motion is a creative-analytics tool that scores your own ads once you connect your accounts; AdEye is a competitor ad-research tool that pulls rivals live public ads across four platforms and AI-tags the hooks and angles. Different jobs, often used together.
Side by side
AdEye vs Motion, honestly
A fair look at what each does well. Both are capable tools. Here is where they differ.
| What matters | AdEye | Motion |
|---|---|---|
| What it analyzes | Your competitors live public ads | Your own connected ad accounts |
| Needs your ad account | No, reads public libraries only | Yes, you connect Meta, TikTok and more |
| Platforms in one feed | Meta, Google, TikTok and YouTube | Meta, TikTok, YouTube and LinkedIn reporting |
| Own-ad performance scores | Not the job, no spend or ROAS data | Hook scores and creative reports on your spend |
| Competitor creative discovery | Search any brand, AI hook and angle tags | Not a competitor research tool |
| Best suited for | Finding new angles from rivals before you build | Grading and iterating creatives you already run |
Comparison reflects general, publicly understood positioning. Capabilities change, so check each product for the latest. Motion is a trademark of its owner, used here for fair comparison.
Why marketers pick AdEye
The ad spy tool that shows you the why
See what rivals test, not just what you ran
Motion can only score creatives you have already produced and funded. AdEye shows you the ads your competitors are running right now, so you find proven angles before you spend to discover them yourself.
No account connection required
AdEye reads public ad-library data, so there is nothing to plug in and no spend figures involved. Search any brand or niche and their live public creatives appear, tagged by hook, angle and format.
A research feed, priced for research
Motion is priced around the size of your ad spend. AdEye is a flat competitor-research tool: one feed across four platforms with a living swipe file and alerts on new and scaling ads.
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Motion vs AdEye, answered
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Try AdEye on your competitors today
Type any brand and watch their live ads stream into one feed across Meta, Google, TikTok and YouTube, AI-tagged with the hook, angle and what is working.
Public ad-library data only: Meta, Google, TikTok and YouTube. Nothing behind a login, no private data.
4 ad libraries, 1 feed · AI hook and angle tags · Public data only