Free rank tracker
Watch the 10 keywords that earn against the site you keep losing to, free
Not a trial. Pick the ten keywords your site lives on and the one competitor you keep losing to. You'll know the day a position moves, and every week you'll get the keywords that competitor has that you don't, with a post plan for the ones worth writing. No card, no end date.
What changes once it's running
You stop checking Google by hand
Each keyword is checked every day, from the country and device your readers use, so the number you see is the one they see, and the same day it happens you get an alert, by email and in the app, when a competitor passes you or your rank drops enough to matter.
You find out what your competitor knows
Every week: the keywords they hold that you have no page for, with how many people search them, how hard they are, and a post plan for up to 4 a month. GapDigest also watches which domains keep turning up in your results so you notice one worth adding as a named competitor.
Your Search Console starts earning its keep
Connect it once: GapDigest imports 16 months of its history, refreshes it every night, and shows clicks and impressions beside every keyword you track, so the quickest wins stop hiding inside an average.
Track more than one market
Add a market — a country, a language, and desktop or mobile — and copy your keywords into it. Daily rank checks run in 211 countries; gap keywords and difficulty are available in 92.
What "free" means elsewhere
Most free rank trackers are trials. Google Search Console is free without limit and shows your own site only; GapDigest connects to it rather than replacing it. Prices as of September 2026, from each vendor's own pages.
| Tool | Free | The catch |
|---|---|---|
| GapDigest | 10 keywords, no end date | Daily checks read the top 10; deeper positions come from Search Console. Paid plans from $19. |
| SERPROBOT | 14-day trial | Then $4.99 a month for every 75 keywords. Positions only, no competitor keywords. |
| Semrush | Free account, 10 reports a day | Rank tracking needs the SEO plan at $139 a month after a 7-day trial. |
| SE Ranking | 14-day trial | Then $129 a month for the Core plan. |
| Ahrefs, AccuRanker, Wincher | No free plan listed | Entry plans are $29, $224, and $49 a month. |
Questions
Is the free plan a trial?
No. It has no end date and needs no card. It tracks ten keywords on one site against one competitor, checks them every day, and sends the weekly report. You upgrade inside the app when you want more keywords.
Why 10 keywords?
Each daily check is a live Google search that costs money to run. Ten is enough to watch the posts that earn most of a site's traffic and to see whether the paid plan is worth it.
How is this different from checking Google myself?
A search from your own browser is personalized by your location and history. The daily check runs from the country and device you set, at the same hour each day, and stores the result, so you get a history instead of a snapshot.
Does it track positions past the top 10?
The daily check reads Google's top 10, and a keyword outside it shows as >10. Connect Search Console, which the free plan includes, and you see Google's average position for the query at any depth, and the weekly report lists your queries at positions 8 to 20 as the pages within striking distance of page one.
Does it alert me the same day, or do I wait for the weekly report?
It alerts you the same day. When a tracked competitor moves above you on a keyword, or your position drops by more than a threshold you set, GapDigest sends a bell notification and one alert email for that site, on the free plan too. The weekly report still gathers everything since the last one into a single digest.
Are post plans on the free plan?
Yes, up to 4 a month. Each week the report picks the gap keywords that fit your site and sends a post plan for each: the title, the angle, an outline, and the questions readers ask. Paid plans raise the allowance to 20 and 60.
Add your site and your first keywords
Your first report — with where you rank today, the keywords your competitor has that you don't, and your first post plans — arrives within an hour of adding your keywords. A new report follows every week after that.