AdHeart Free Mode: 35 Searches, No Downloads, Meta Only

How many free searches does AdHeart's onboarding offer?

AdHeart's onboarding screen offers new users "my free 35 searches," a fixed allotment rather than a recurring monthly quota, per the embedded plan-comparison strings on the AdHeart pricing page. That number sits well below the 100 searches per day the paid Start plan permits, which frames it as a taster rather than a working research budget.

Treat the 35 searches as a single test run, not a renewable resource. Once the pool is spent, the account falls back to whatever restricted browsing free mode still allows, and there's no published mechanism for topping it up without subscribing.

What does free mode block outright?

Free mode blocks four specific capabilities by name, not by a vague "limited access" label. AdHeart's own plan-comparison copy caps the number of search requests and results a free user can pull, blocks creative downloads entirely, blocks app analytics, and disables the creative uniquifier.

• Search requests and results are capped beyond the 35-search onboarding allotment
• Creative downloads are blocked entirely — no saving the ad file locally
• App analytics reporting is blocked
• The creative uniquifier tool is disabled
• Platform access is restricted to Facebook and Instagram only

Which platforms are reachable without paying?

Free mode reaches exactly two platforms: Facebook and Instagram. Paid tiers add Audience Network and TikTok Ads plus AdHeart's Mobile App ads category, extending across what the company states as more than 100 countries with daily updates, per the AdHeart homepage.

Even paid access stops at Meta and TikTok. There's no Google, native, push, Pinterest or Snapchat coverage on any tier, so an operator running native or push campaigns needs a different tool regardless of what they pay AdHeart.

That boundary matters more than the sticker price. Even the platform AdHeart crawls doesn't publish everything an operator wants — our own read of the Meta Ad Library API's limits shows what Meta itself withholds, which means AdHeart's paid tier is a crawl-and-filter layer over that same public surface, not privileged access to private ad data.

What does the Start plan add and at what monthly limits?

The Start plan costs $70 per month, marked down from a former $119, and raises the ceiling from 35 lifetime searches to 3,000 unique searches per month, capped at 100 searches per day, per the AdHeart pricing page.

Set against a media budget, $70 a month barely registers next to what a single new account can spend before Meta's own spending cap lifts. The research tool is cheap relative to the campaign it's meant to inform, which is the argument AdHeart's sales copy leans on.

What does the Pro plan add over Start?

Pro plan raises search volume to 9,000 unique searches per month with a 300-searches-per-day cap, and adds priority support plus early access to new features, at $89 per month.

The jump from Start to Pro is $19 a month for triple the search allowance. For an operator hitting the 100-per-day Start ceiling before lunch, that's a straightforward math problem rather than a feature decision — the extras (support, early access) are secondary to the raw volume increase.

Which of AdHeart's extra tools are gated behind a paid plan?

Four named tools sit behind AdHeart's paywall: Cloaking Detection (branded Uncloak), the Creative Uniqueizer, a UTM Builder and an ROI Calculator, all listed in the pricing page's plan comparison and footer.

The creative uniquifier being disabled in free mode ties directly to that download block — you can't uniquify what you can't save. For operators who just need to check character counts before an ad ships, a free workaround exists outside AdHeart: our own ad copy character counter covers Meta, TikTok and Google limits without a subscription.

Is the Team plan priced publicly?

No. AdHeart lists Team as "Custom" with a "Request Team Plan" button rather than a number, pitched at organizations "from 3 to 100+ participants," per the pricing page.

The published self-serve tiers carry a 2-week money-back guarantee, subscription terms of 1, 2, 3, 6 (a 15% discount) and 12 months (plus 2 months free), and accept Stripe, Fondy and cryptocurrency. Whether any of those terms extend to a negotiated Team contract isn't stated anywhere on the public site, so ask before assuming.

What can you genuinely establish in 35 searches?

Enough to spot-check two or three competitors' current Meta creative, not enough to build a swipe file or track a niche over time. Thirty-five searches covers a first look, not an ongoing research habit, which is roughly the same ceiling problem we found reviewing VidTao's free tier for YouTube ad research — free ad-intelligence tools tend to gate volume first, quality second.

Here's where the pitch gets uncomfortable for AdHeart: a solo affiliate running two or three offers can pull most of what those 35 searches would show, for free, indefinitely, by querying the same accounts directly through Meta's public ad library. AdHeart's search convenience and filtering are real, but the underlying Facebook and Instagram ad data was never proprietary — you're paying for the interface and the crawl, not for access nobody else has.

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