MagicBrief is a research platform designed to help teams collect and analyze ad creatives. It provides access to over 12 million ads from platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, which is significantly smaller than GetHookd's 65+ million ad database. You can save ads using a Chrome extension, organize them into boards, and collaborate with teammates in real time.
However, it's important to note that MagicBrief's pricing scales with your advertising spend and team size, and all plans require a custom quote. This makes it out of reach for smaller operations and solo marketers, who may value platforms with transparent pricing or more comprehensive, all-in-one capabilities.
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MagicBrief uses ad spend-based pricing, starting at $249/month for its Pro plan. Exact costs are customized based on your ad spend and team size, so please submit your details to receive a quote.
For larger organizations, MagicBrief offers a Creative Intelligence tier with unlimited seats, tracked brands, ad account connections, and invoice-based billing.
Analyzing feedback from current users reveals consistent themes about MagicBrief's strengths and limitations. Users appreciate MagicBrief's briefing tools and collaboration features. The ability to save ads, build storyboards, and share briefs with creators in one place is also highlighted.
That said, the most frequent criticism involves pricing. Starting at $249/month with no transparent pricing tiers, MagicBrief feels expensive for smaller teams or solo marketers, especially since you have to go through a custom quoting process just to determine your actual cost. The ad library, while useful, contains significantly fewer ads than some competitors', which can limit options in niche industries.
GetHookd is a creative intelligence platform built for e-commerce brands, dropshippers, and media buyers who need to find winning ads and create variations fast, while tracking performance.
We provide access to over 65 million ads across Meta, which is more than 5x the size of MagicBrief's database. You can filter by niche, format, or keyword to discover what's performing in your market. Our Chrome extension lets you save ads from the Meta Ad Library directly to your Swipe File with one click.
While MagicBrief helps with research and briefing, you'll need separate tools to actually produce ads. GetHookd handles the entire workflow, from winning ad discovery to AI-powered creative analysis and ad creation. Our AI ad discovery system helps you find winning creatives faster, while our AI creative analysis tools identify patterns in top-performing ads.
We offer three pricing plans starting at $19/month for the Launch tier, which includes access to the ad library, Swipe File, Brand Spy, Ads Transcription, and Video Scripts. The Grow plan at $59/month includes AI creative tools such as Clone Ads and Creative Analyzer.
The Scale plan at $149/month unlocks full access to all features, with Creative Analyzer supporting up to 5 ad accounts. All plans include a 7-day free trial.
Compared to MagicBrief's $249/month starting price, our platform delivers more comprehensive features, including AI creative production, at a fraction of the cost.
Motion overlaps with MagicBrief in creative analytics and performance reporting. Where Motion falls somewhat short compared to MagicBrief is in its collaborative features. While it offers basic sharing capabilities, it lacks the robust brief builder and team workflow tools.
Additionally, Motion is primarily for finding top creative analytics. It doesn't incorporate the sophisticated AI creation capabilities that GetHookd offers. You will need another tool to make variations of your own winning ads.
Motion starts at $250/month for its Starter plan, which covers brands spending up to $50K/month on ads and includes AI tags, creative analytics, unlimited seats, and in-app chat support. Pro and Growth tiers are available for brands with higher ad spend, but pricing requires a demo call.
Motion is built for larger teams with significant ad budgets. Smaller brands, dropshippers, or those just starting with paid ads may find the entry price and minimum spend requirements limiting. The platform also focuses primarily on analytics, which limits it to brands that need a comprehensive platform that spans research through production.
AdSpy is one of the older ad intelligence platforms. It provides access to millions of ads across Facebook and Instagram with granular search filters, though much of its database consists of outdated ads that are no longer running. This platform is designed specifically for research and competitor tracking.
AdSpy lets you filter ads by keywords, advertiser name, engagement metrics, demographics, call-to-action type, media type, and more. You can also search for comments to identify creatives that generate strong audience reactions. The platform includes landing page screenshots linked to each ad, which stay accessible even after the original page goes offline.
AdSpy offers a single plan at $149/month with no lower-tier options. For a research-only tool, the price can feel steep for solo marketers and smaller teams who need more than just a search engine for ads.
While AdSpy has a large database, a significant portion of it is historical, meaning many indexed ads are no longer running. Finding current, relevant campaigns takes extra filtering and manual effort. The platform also lacks AI creative tools, so there's no script generation, ad cloning, or creative analysis to help turn research into production-ready ads.
MagicBrief helps teams organize research and build briefs, but the workflow stops there. You still need separate tools to actually create ready-to-use ads, generate scripts, and analyze performance.
What sets GetHookd apart is its end-to-end workflow, which eliminates the need to juggle tools. Our platform includes advanced AI creative generation capabilities that automatically produce variations from top-performing ads. This allows marketers to quickly implement insights at higher volumes. It also significantly accelerates testing cycles and reduces the technical complexity of handling multiple tech stacks.
With transparent pricing starting at just $19/month (vs. MagicBrief's $249/month baseline), 5x more ads in our database, and comprehensive features spanning both analytics and production, GetHookd delivers significantly more value per dollar than MagicBrief's research-focused approach.
For teams looking to improve creative performance at scale, GetHookd shortens the path from research to launch. Instead of building a library of inspiration you'll never use, you can go from research to profitable creatives in minutes.
MagicBrief lets you discover ads from its library, save them to organized boards, and turn your research into creative briefs for your team or external creators. Its block-based editor lets you build detailed briefs, including references, storyboards, scripts, and technical specifications, in a single document.
That said, MagicBrief is primarily a research and briefing tool. Once you've built your brief, you still need separate tools to actually create the ads. GetHookd handles both research and production on a single platform.
MagicBrief centralizes creative research and simplifies communication between strategists and creators. The AI analysis tool helps identify what makes winning ads work, and the briefing tools keep teams aligned on creative direction.
However, MagicBrief stops at this briefing stage. You still need separate tools to produce the actual ads. GetHookd goes further by combining research with AI-powered creative production. You can generate ad variations, scripts, and images directly from your findings, plus track your own ad performance. It's the full workflow from insight to execution, not just research you'll hand off to someone else.
Brand Spy lets you track any brand's ad activity over time. You can see which creatives they're running, how long ads have been active, which ones are being scaled, and where they're driving traffic. It's a straightforward way to monitor competitors and identify winning strategies before testing them yourself.
No. GetHookd is built for marketers and dropshippers, not developers. You can browse ads, save creatives, generate scripts, and analyze performance without any coding or technical setup.
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