Adbeat vs Use Poach in 2026: display intelligence vs a Facebook Ad Library capture tool
Adbeat maps competitors’ display and native activity across more than 1,000 networks. Use Poach saves individual Facebook Ad Library findings to files you own, with optional Notion storage for a one-time fee.
Adbeat
Use Poach- Adbeat covers display and native advertising across 1,000+ ad networks in 140+ countries; Use Poach works from the public Facebook Ad Library only.
- Use Poach captures selected ad media and a metadata screenshot card to local disk, rather than operating a proprietary ad-search database.
- Use Poach Pro costs $67 for lifetime access and creates a 13-column database in the customer’s own Notion workspace.
- Adbeat Intro is $99/month, Professional is $399/month, and Professional adds 140+ country coverage, white-label reports, and API access.
- Adbeat provides publisher intelligence and competitor alerts on paid plans; Use Poach does not publish discovery, alerts, or monitoring.
- Use Poach says captured ads, screenshots, Notion content, and Notion tokens are not sent to its licensing service.
These products should not be treated as substitutes just because both help with advertising research. Adbeat is the choice when the question is where a competitor buys display or native inventory, what it is running there, and which publishers appear in its mix. Use Poach begins after you have already found a Facebook Ad Library ad: it captures that one item, its visible context, and its media for a local swipe file or a Notion database you control. Adbeat has a limited free tier, then starts at $99 per month and reaches $399 per month for its Professional plan. Use Poach is free for local captures, while its $67 lifetime Pro license adds native Notion rows. A media buyer looking for publisher intelligence will find Use Poach far too narrow. A solo creative strategist who just wants to retain selected Meta examples may find a recurring intelligence subscription unnecessarily large.
The tools at a glance
Adbeat
Display and native competitive intelligence with creative, landing-page, publisher, and estimated-spend research
Adbeat is for a buyer who needs to investigate a competitor’s display and native operation, not merely collect creative examples. It monitors more than 1,000 ad networks across 140+ countries and captures ads, landing pages, publisher placements, and estimated spend. The useful output is a working hypothesis about a rival’s media strategy: which publishers they appear to value, what formats they use, and how their creative changes over time. Its estimates are signals for research, not advertiser-reported accounts.
The creative library and publisher intelligence make sense together. A team can compare the messages a competitor continues to run with the placements it appears to buy, then turn that into a testing brief or a publisher prospecting list. Paid plans also offer competitor alerts. Professional and Enterprise add white-label reports and API access, which matter when an agency needs repeatable client delivery or a team wants to move data into its own reporting workflow.
The boundary is deliberate. Adbeat does not cover Google Search ads or social-platform ads, so it cannot answer a Meta-specific creative question on its own. Its Free tier is mainly a preview. Intro costs $99 per month with 10+ countries and 90 days of creative history, while Professional costs $399 per month and expands to 140+ countries and 365 days. That is sensible only when display or native research is a recurring media-buying job.
| Feature | Free $0/month | Intro $99/month | Professional $399/month | Enterprise Custom quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Network coverage | Very limited | 1,000+ | 1,000+ | 1,000+ |
| Countries | 1-2 | 10+ | 140+ | 140+ |
| Creative history | 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | Full history |
| Publisher intelligence | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| White-label reports and API | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Use Poach
Chrome extension for retaining Facebook Ad Library ads as local files or rows in your own Notion database
Use Poach has a much smaller, more practical brief: preserve an individual Facebook Ad Library finding once you have discovered it. Its free Chrome-extension workflow saves the selected ad’s image or video plus a metadata screenshot card to local disk. The published metadata includes the visible headline, primary copy, CTA, advertiser, landing URL, dates, and tags applied by the researcher. That makes it useful as a personal creative reference without handing the collection to a subscription dashboard.
The $67 lifetime Pro license adds direct Notion storage. Use Poach says it creates a 13-column database in the customer’s workspace and saves each capture as a native row with its screenshot, where the owner can filter and tag it. It also describes duplicate handling and tags for niche, awareness stage, and lead type. That is a good fit for a strategist whose briefing process already lives in Notion, rather than a team that needs another shared research system.
Its limitations are not hidden behind broad marketing language. Use Poach cannot search Facebook Ad Library for you, monitor an advertiser, or reach TikTok, Google Ads, display, native, or another network. It does not publish team controls, alerts, reporting, an API, or integrations beyond Notion. Choose it for ownership and low-cost collection after manual discovery, not as a replacement for a competitive-intelligence database.
| Feature | Free $0 | Pro $67 lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| Facebook Ad Library capture to disk | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ad media and metadata card | ✓ | ✓ |
| Research tags | ✓ | ✓ |
| Notion database sync | ✗ | ✓ |
| 13-column Notion database creation | ✗ | ✓ |
| Recurring subscription | ✗ | ✗ |
Head-to-head feature comparison
| Feature | Adbeat | Use Poach |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Display and native competitor research | Save discovered Meta ads for later use |
| Published channel scope | 1,000+ display and native networks | Public Facebook Ad Library only |
| Ad discovery and competitor monitoring | Yes, with paid-plan alerts | No, manual discovery first |
| Creative capture | Creative library | Local media and metadata card |
| Publisher intelligence | Yes | No |
| Notion storage | Not published | Pro, customer-owned workspace |
| White-label reports | Professional and Enterprise | No |
| API access | Professional and Enterprise | No |
| Starting price | Free preview, Intro $99/mo | Free, Pro $67 lifetime |
Which should you choose?
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Bottom line
Buy Adbeat when display or native budgets are large enough that publisher and creative intelligence can change a real buying decision. Start at Intro if you need a practical evaluation, and move to Professional only when country coverage, API access, or white-label reports are part of the job. Choose Use Poach when your work starts in Facebook Ad Library and ends with a well-organised reference set. Free covers local collection; Pro is worth $67 only if Notion becomes the place your team actually searches and reuses creative evidence.
Frequently asked questions
Should a display media buyer choose Adbeat or Use Poach for competitor research in 2026?
Adbeat is the appropriate choice for display media buyers because it tracks display and native activity across more than 1,000 networks and provides creative and publisher intelligence. Use Poach only preserves individual ads already found in Facebook Ad Library, so it cannot map a competitor’s display buying or publisher relationships.
Can Use Poach replace an ad intelligence platform for Facebook competitor monitoring?
No, Use Poach cannot replace a monitoring platform because its workflow starts after a researcher manually finds an ad in the public Facebook Ad Library. It saves the selected example locally or to Notion, but its published scope does not include advertiser search, saved-search alerts, or automatic competitor watchlists.
What does the $67 Use Poach Pro license add for a Notion-based creative team?
Use Poach Pro adds a 13-column database in the customer’s own Notion workspace and saves each captured ad as a native row with its screenshot. The lifetime license is useful when tags and searches in Notion are part of a real creative-briefing process, rather than an occasional archive.
Does Adbeat cover Facebook and Instagram ads alongside display advertising?
No, Adbeat focuses on display and native advertising and does not cover social-platform ads such as Facebook and Instagram. A team with a mixed paid-media programme should not assume Adbeat will show its competitors’ Meta activity simply because it has broad display-network coverage.
Which tool is better when an agency needs branded client ad research reports?
Adbeat is the better agency choice because its Professional and Enterprise plans include white-label reporting with logo upload. Use Poach does not publish client reporting or shared hosted-workspace features, because its product is designed around local files and a customer-owned Notion database.
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