Swipe file & analysis · Ad Swipe File
Ad swipe file and creative swipe file tool that organizes itself by hook and angle
Most swipe files are a graveyard of screenshots in a folder nobody reopens. The file grows, the context falls away, and six months later you cannot remember why you saved half of it or whether any of those ads ever worked. The idea is sound, and it goes back to the copywriters who kept folders of headlines that pulled. The execution is where it usually falls apart, because a static screenshot loses the one thing that made the ad worth keeping: the evidence it was performing.
AdEye gives you a living ad swipe file instead. Save any public ad in one click and it arrives already tagged by hook, angle and format, with the advertiser, the run length and the landing page attached. That means you can search the file the way you actually think when you sit down to write, by angle rather than by brand, and pull every saved ad using social proof or a risk-reversal offer in a couple of seconds. When the advertiser kills a creative you saved, the board keeps it with the run length it reached, so the file records what actually ran rather than only what was live the week you happened to look.
It is a shared file, not a personal one. Strategists, buyers and creatives work from the same boards, which is what turns a swipe file from a private inspiration folder into the thing a creative brief is actually built from. Everything in it comes from public records in the Google Ads Transparency Center, so there is nothing scraped from behind a login and nothing you cannot show a client.
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Public Google Ads Transparency data. Nothing behind a login.
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Live Google Ads Transparency data · Run length · Public data only
Run length on every ad
AI-tagged hooks & angles
Why it works
What an ad swipe file should do
One-click saving, with the context attached
Add any public ad to your swipe file while you research and the advertiser, run length, format and landing page come with it. That context is what a screenshot loses, and it is the difference between a reference you can defend in a brief and a picture you vaguely liked in March.
Organized by angle, not by brand
Every saved ad is auto-tagged by hook, angle and format, so the file is searchable along the lines you actually brief creative on. Looking for how six competitors handled a price objection is a filter, not a memory exercise. No manual foldering, no naming convention for the team to forget.
It stays alive after you save it
Ads get paused, rewritten and killed, and a swipe file full of undated creative quietly misleads you. Every saved ad keeps the first-seen date and run length it had when you saved it, so you know how old it was at that point rather than holding a bare screenshot. Search the brand again to see where the ad stands now.
What it surfaces
Every ad card carries the hook, angle and a working signal
You type a brand or a domain. AdEye pulls that advertiser's live public Google ads into one feed and AI-tags each creative on the paid plans, so you read the strategy and spot the long-running winners before you save a single one.
- Save any public ad in one click, with context
- Auto-tag every save by hook, angle and format
- Search the file by angle instead of by brand
- Keep run length on each ad
- Keep saved creatives on a board after the ad stops
- Share boards across strategists and buyers
- Build client-ready briefs from saved evidence
- Public ad-library data only
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Why AdEye
One feed, the AI read, the working signal in view
Not a stale doc full of screenshots. One query for a brand, the run length on every creative, and a swipe file worth reopening. Public ad-library data only.
Every Google ad at once
The Google Ads Transparency Center searched by brand or domain, so competitor ad research is one query instead of clicking through Google's own viewer.
The AI reads the why
Creatives are tagged with their hook, angle and format on the paid plans, a few per search and kept once read, and a working signal flags the long-runners, so you see why an ad works, not just what it ran.
A swipe file that stays current
Save winners to boards, each keeping its run length and a link back to the original creative on Google, so the file is still useful months later.
Good questions
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Type any brand and watch their live ads stream into one feed, AI-tagged with the hook, angle and what is actually working.
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Live Google Ads Transparency data · Run length · Public data only