Subgrow vs Redship

The short answer

Redship sends you a scored shortlist of Reddit threads every morning with a suggested reply, and you post it yourself. Subgrow writes and posts one answer a day in a subreddit your brand owns.

Pick Redship if you're a solo founder with a few minutes each morning and $29 to spend. Pick Subgrow if you want the posting done for you, in threads you own.

At a glance

What Redship does

You add your website, and Redship turns what you sell into keywords. Every morning it checks Reddit for new posts that match, scores them from 0 to 100 so you read ten instead of hundreds, and suggests a reply. It flags "any alternatives?" threads about your competitors, runs a weekly scan for Reddit threads already on Google's first page for your keywords, and checks which threads ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini cite. You reply, in your own words, from your own account.

It's built for one person with a small budget, and it says so: the cheapest plan is named Founder.

The real difference: a morning shortlist vs a subreddit that posts daily

Redship gives you a list and a draft. Everything after that, reading the thread, deciding whether a mention fits the community, writing it so it doesn't read like an ad, posting it, is your time.

Subgrow does the posting. We open a subreddit under your brand and publish one long answer a day, from your brand's account, to a question your buyers type into Google. Each post is written after reading the Reddit thread Google already shows for that search, so ours answers it better. You can read every post a week ahead and change or skip it; otherwise it goes out on its day.

The outputs differ too. A reply under someone else's question is a few lines in their thread. A post in your subreddit is a whole thread you own, which can become the Reddit result for that search.

Pricing, and what a month buys

Redship's Founder plan is $29 a month and Company is $49, with 20% off quarterly and 40% off yearly. There's no free trial; a one-time $12 pass gives a week of the Founder plan without a subscription.

Both plans buy finding and suggesting, not posting. Replies are unlimited, but each one still needs you.

Subgrow is $99 a month for 30 posts, written and published for you, with a 7-day trial and your first post shown before you give a card.

Accounts and the risk of a ban

Redship doesn't post for you and doesn't use other accounts, so the risk is the ordinary one: you, posting from your own account, in a community whose moderators decide what counts as self-promotion. Reddit's rules say promotion isn't spam in itself, and that each community sets its own line. Reply where your product genuinely answers the question and you'll rarely have trouble.

Subgrow's posts go out from your brand's own account into your own subreddit, so no other community's moderators decide whether they stay. Reddit's site-wide spam filter can still remove one, and we don't buy upvotes to push them.

Where Redship is better

• Price. $29 a month, or less on a yearly plan. Ours is $99.
• A live demo you can click through before paying anything, with sample data.
• Reach into today's threads. It finds people asking right now, so you can answer while they're still deciding.
• Watching AI answers. It runs your buyers' questions against ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini every week and shows which Reddit threads they cite.

Redship's numbers, as it states them

• Loved by 2145+ users. redship.io homepage, read November 6, 2026.

Who's behind it: Axel Schapmann. Founded Redship in France in November 2025. Its revenue is verified through Stripe on TrustMRR: about $608 a month from 20 subscriptions in November 2026. TrustMRR: Redship.

How Subgrow works

You give us your website. We find your three closest competitors and the searches your buyers make on Google, and suggest a subreddit name. We open the subreddit with your brand's own Reddit account as its moderator; you never give us a password.

Then we post one answer a day, each written for one of those searches: a how-to, a comparison, a top-10 list or a question for the group. Every post is ready a week early, so you can read it, change it, or skip it. If you do nothing, it goes out on its day. Your blog comes too: your 25 newest articles go in first, then each new one.

Google can show a new post within hours. AI answers take a few weeks. Google Analytics shows the visits that come from the posts; we set up the tracking as we post.

What Subgrow isn't

So you can compare like with like: Subgrow is Reddit only. It doesn't send DMs, doesn't track your rank inside AI answers engine by engine, and posts once a day, not dozens of times. A new subreddit starts with few members; the posts are found through Google and Reddit search first, and the community grows from there. Reddit's spam filter can remove a post even in your own subreddit, and Reddit asks accounts whose posts mostly link to their own business to be careful how often they post (Reddit Help). That's why each post is a full answer that stands on its own, with a link to your site only where it helps.

Subgrow also lists threads elsewhere on Reddit where your buyers are talking, with a suggested reply. You can post it yourself, or hand it to a creator who uses your product and posts from their own account, marked as a paid partnership. We don't buy accounts or upvotes.

Results from our customers

Measured results from subreddits we run, named with each company's permission. The links go to the real subreddits and posts.

• AppFollow19 Gemini answers

  Three weeks after we started posting in r/AppFollow, Gemini answers picked the subreddit as their #1 source 19 times. The post it leaned on most was a comparison of ASO keyword tools, written for a search AppFollow's buyers make.

  r/AppFollow · The most-cited post

• RecraftAbout 10× the views

  Recraft's articles got about ten times more views as posts in r/howto_recraft than on Recraft's own blog. The blog is imported, so the subreddit started full rather than empty.

  r/howto_recraft · One of the imported posts

• Cube23 AI quotes

  Two posts in r/cubedev were quoted 23 times in AI search answers from August to October 2026, as measured by Peec AI: 19 times for the dbt integration post and 4 for the semantic layer one.

  Introducing dbt Integration · The Context Layer Needs a Semantic Layer

Which one to pick

Looking at other options too? See Redship alternatives, or every Reddit marketing tool we've compared.