SpyWinAds vs Foreplay
Updated 10/24/2026
Foreplay is built for ad teams and agencies: save ads, write briefs, with API and MCP on plans from $175. SpyWinAds is built for dropshippers: find videos many stores are running and send products to Shopify.
| SpyWinAds | Foreplay | |
|---|---|---|
| Ad platforms | Meta ads (Meta Ad Library), by default those shown on Facebook; Instagram can be added when scanning | Competitor tracking on Meta only. The extension saves ads from Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube Shorts, Google |
| Market | Ads running in the US | Not found on their official site |
| Ad start date | Yes. Live ads grouped by age: under 7 days, 7 to 14 days, over 14 days | Not found on their official site |
| Date the video file first reached Facebook | Yes. The earliest date the video file was uploaded to Facebook, across the Pages in our library, accurate to 1–2 days. Shows when an old video is being run again | Not found on their official site |
| Stores running the same video | Yes. Video fingerprints group re-uploads, re-encodes and music changes, and count every page and shop running the same video | Not found on their official site |
| Ads that have stopped | Kept separate, not mixed into the live count | Keeps old ads: the counter on their site shows 54.7 million ads, 52.8 million of them old |
| Daily history for each video | Yes, updated nightly | Not found on their official site |
| Store analysis | Find a domain's ads in our library, grouped by video | Not found on their official site |
| Send products to Shopify | Clone product pages to your Shopify store (7 times in the trial) | Not found on their official site |
| AI | Keyword suggestions, videos ranked by the niche you choose, junk ad filtering. Does not create ads | AI search, sentiment analysis, transcription, brief writing |
| Chrome extension, API | Read-only API and MCP, usable in ChatGPT and Claude. No Chrome extension yet | Free Chrome extension. API and MCP from the Workflow plan |
| Data source | The app on your computer scans over your home connection and adds to a shared database | The counter shows 54.7 million ads; elsewhere the site says more than 100 million |
| Interface languages | 8 languages: Vietnamese, English, German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Portuguese, Chinese | Not found on their official site |
| Pricing | The 99-spot trial is full; the waitlist is open. Pricing will be announced with the commercial version, planned for 11/2026 | Basic $59, Workflow $175, Agency $459 per month. 7-day trial, card required |
Where Foreplay beats SpyWinAds
- API and MCP, so AI can call it directly.
- Team tools: save, tag, write briefs.
- A Chrome extension that saves ads from many platforms.
Where SpyWinAds is different
- Shows the date the video file was first uploaded to Facebook, accurate to 1–2 days. When the two dates are far apart, an old video is being run again.
- Counts how many pages and shops run the same video, including re-uploads, re-encodes and music changes.
- Shows the date an ad started running and groups live ads by age.
- Keeps a daily history for each video, so you can see whether it's growing or fading.
- Clone product pages to your Shopify store, right in the app.
What SpyWinAds can't do yet
- Meta ads only. No TikTok, Google, or Pinterest yet.
- US ads only. You can't choose other countries yet.
- You need the Windows or macOS app to scan keywords. On the web: view results and use 4 free lookup tools.
- No Chrome extension or data export yet. The API looks up one video, store or Page at a time; it does not search the whole library. Only the videos you marked can be exported to CSV.
- No spend, likes, or reach data. Rankings are based on the number of live ads and the number of stores running them.
Original data from the SpyWinAds library: how Facebook video ads get reused ›
Which one to choose
- Choose Foreplay if you're an agency or an ad creative team.
- Choose SpyWinAds if you sell on your own and need to find products that many stores are advertising.
Sources
Information about Foreplay comes from their official site on 24/10/2026 and may have changed. If you spot an error, let us know at support@spywinads.com. Product names belong to their respective owners.