Push Ad Spy Tools: Best Options for Push Traffic (2026)

What does a push ad spy tool actually track?

A push ad spy tool logs the icon, headline, body copy, and landing page of push notification ads as they run live on networks like RichAds, PropellerAds, and MegaPush, then timestamps when each creative first appeared and how long it stayed active. That timestamp is the field that matters most.

Everything else is filtering around it.

• Icon and image creative, pulled directly from the ad
• Push title and body text, often in multiple languages per GEO
• Landing page URL and, where available, a cached screenshot
• Network, GEO, device OS, and category or vertical tag
• First-seen and last-seen dates, which double as a running-days counter

The category tags are the part to distrust most. Vendors classify by keyword match against landing page copy, and nutra, dating, and sweepstakes creatives get mislabeled into each other constantly. Cross-check the landing page yourself before you trust a category filter for a niche where compliance actually matters.

How do Anstrex Push and AdPlexity Push compare?

Anstrex Push is the cheaper, faster-onboarding option, with a larger claimed daily ad volume and a simpler filter UI. AdPlexity Push charges more but has historically had stronger GEO segmentation and a cleaner landing page downloader. Both pull from overlapping but not identical network sets, so serious buyers often run both during a research sprint rather than picking one permanently.

Both companies revise pricing and tier structure often enough that any number printed here should be treated as a starting range, not a quote. Check Anstrex's published pricing page and AdPlexity's published pricing page directly before you buy.

Trial periods on both have shrunk over the past two years.

What do push spy tools cost and is there a free option?

Push spy tools cost roughly $89 to $149 a month at the entry tier, with higher tiers for landing page downloads, API access, or multi-user seats running well past $200. There is no free tool that replicates their live crawl. What exists instead is manual monitoring: browsing RichAds', PropellerAds', and MegaPush's own ad marketplaces or partner pages, and bookmarking landing pages you see recur.

That manual version works. It is slower, it misses GEOs you did not think to check, and almost nobody keeps doing it past week three, but the data itself is real and free.

Some affiliates split the difference: one paid seat during an active testing sprint, cancelled the rest of the month.

Which push networks do the major tools cover?

Both Anstrex Push and AdPlexity Push cover the large push networks, RichAds, PropellerAds, and MegaPush chief among them, plus a rotating list of smaller ones that changes as networks launch, merge, or shut down. Coverage of any single small network is never guaranteed and should be confirmed before you buy a plan around it.

• RichAds — broad GEO spread, strong Tier 2/3 volume
• PropellerAds — one of the largest push inventories by raw volume
• MegaPush — smaller but frequently used for regulated-niche testing
• Evadav, Adsterra, and several white-label push resellers, with partial and inconsistent coverage

Coverage gaps show up most in white-label networks that resell inventory from a bigger parent network under a different brand name. A spy tool crawling the parent may miss creatives running exclusively through the reseller's dashboard, and vendors rarely disclose which resellers they actually index. If a specific network matters to your niche, ask the vendor's support team directly rather than assuming from the marketing page. RichAds' own blog on push notification advertising has published rough estimates of its own daily ad volume in the past, which is worth reading as a sanity check against whatever a spy tool claims to be pulling from RichAds specifically. The two numbers rarely match exactly.

How do you spot a scaling push campaign from spy data?

A scaling push campaign shows the same icon and landing page running across many GEOs and multiple advertiser accounts at once, not just running for a long time in one place. Running-days count tells you a creative survived. It does not tell you it is spending real money today.

A push icon that appears in 4 GEOs on day one and expands to 11 GEOs by day nine, with the landing page unchanged, is a much stronger signal than a single ad that has technically run for 60 days in one small GEO at low volume. Volume expansion across markets is the tell. Duration alone is not.

Filter for creatives added or expanded in the last 5 to 7 days before you filter by anything else.

When is push spying worth it for nutra affiliates?

Push spying earns its subscription cost for nutra affiliates once you are testing at $200/day or more in ad spend, because at that budget a wasted week of blind creative testing costs more than the tool itself. Below that spend level, the manual method covers most of what you need.

Here is the part most buyers of these tools do not want to hear: the nutra creatives an automated spy tool surfaces are rarely the campaigns actually printing the most money in a regulated niche. Datacenter IP ranges used by crawler infrastructure get fingerprinted and cloaked against by sophisticated nutra buyers, the same way they cloak against compliance reviewers, so what a spy dashboard shows you skews toward advertisers who either have not bothered cloaking or are running smaller, less-defended tests. PropellerAds' publisher documentation and most major networks' anti-fraud material describe datacenter-versus-residential IP detection as a standard part of their own traffic quality tooling, which is the same signature a cloaking script checks against. The biggest nutra winner in a GEO this week may simply never appear in your feed.

Treat spy data as a floor on what is running, not a ceiling on what is winning.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best push notification ad spy tool for a beginner?

Anstrex Push is the easier starting point, with a simpler filter set and a lower entry price than AdPlexity Push. Beginners get value faster from fewer, well-understood filters like GEO and first-seen date than from AdPlexity's deeper but more complex segmentation options.

Is there a free push notification ad spy tool?

No free tool fully replicates Anstrex Push or AdPlexity Push's live crawl. You can approximate it manually by browsing RichAds', PropellerAds', and MegaPush's own ad marketplaces and bookmarking recurring landing pages, which costs time instead of a monthly fee.

Do push spy tools cover PropellerAds and RichAds?

Yes, PropellerAds and RichAds are core networks for both Anstrex Push and AdPlexity Push. Smaller and white-label push networks have inconsistent coverage that changes over time, so confirm current coverage with the vendor directly before buying a plan around a specific niche network.

How much do push spy tools cost per month?

Entry-tier push spy tools run roughly $89 to $149 a month, with higher tiers for landing page downloads or API access costing more. Treat these as a range needing a current-price check, since both major vendors adjust pricing and tiers periodically.

Do push spy tools work well for nutra offers specifically?

Partially. Push spy tools show plenty of nutra creatives, but cloaking against datacenter IPs used by crawler infrastructure means the biggest, best-defended nutra campaigns often stay invisible to automated tools. Treat spy data as a partial picture, not a complete map of what is winning in a regulated niche.

Sources

Named rather than linked — verify before relying on any figure below.

• Anstrex's published pricing page
• AdPlexity's published pricing page
• RichAds' blog on push notification advertising
• PropellerAds' publisher documentation