Free Answer The Public Alternative

Find what people actually ask — about any topic, free

Enter your website URL or a topic. WritanK reads your brand, then searches Reddit, Quora, Google Autocomplete, YouTube, HackerNews, and Stack Overflow to surface the real questions your audience asks — ranked by demand, not just autocomplete.

A faster, free alternative to Answer The Public — no signup to run your first search.

✓ 9 sources searched ✓ AI-ranked by real demand ✓ SEO + GEO + AEO ready ✓ First search free — no card

Add your URL and WritanK builds a Brand Profile, then resolves vague topics into the ones your product can actually win.

Be specific for better results. “Roof repair in Texas” works better than “contractor”.

Add this and we’ll tailor topics to where you can naturally feature your product — so the traffic actually converts.

Keyword volume and difficulty are tailored to this market. SERP analysis uses the selected country when applicable.

1 free search included
Run your first search free. Join the waitlist to unlock 5 more while we build the full WritanK platform.
How it works

From topic to blog-ready questions in seconds.

1

Enter your topic

AI expands it into 15+ angles — how-to, why, comparison, troubleshooting, and recommendation questions.

2

We mine 9 real sources

Reddit, Quora, HackerNews, Google Autocomplete, YouTube, Stack Overflow, Twitter/X, Product Hunt, and G2/Capterra.

3

Get ranked content ideas

Scored by engagement, freshness, keyword opportunity, and intent; de-duplicated into 10 diverse, blog-ready questions.

Reddit Quora HackerNews Google Autocomplete YouTube Stack Overflow Twitter / X Product Hunt G2 / Capterra
WritanK vs Answer The Public

Why switch from Answer The Public?

Answer The Public started the question-research category and made it popular. WritanK takes the same idea further — more sources, real engagement data, and AI ranking, for free.

Feature Answer The Public WritanK (this tool)
Price$5–$199/month for full useFree to start
Free searches3 searches/day (5 if signup)1 free, +5 on the waitlist
Signup to startRequiredNo — try instantly
Data sourcesGoogle + Bing autocomplete9 platforms (Reddit, Quora, HN, …)
Real engagement dataNoYes — upvotes, comments, recency scored
AI-poweredLimited (AI dashboard)Yes — query expansion, intent, clustering
Keyword difficulty + volumePaid tiersBuilt in
Content-intent labelsNoYes (How-to, Comparison, FAQ, …)
AEO + GEO-ready outputNoYes
Full content workflowIdeas onlyComing at launch (research → draft → publish)
More than a tool

This free tool is just the start.

WritanK is building the full workflow — keyword strategy, optimized outlines, researched drafts, and images — so your content ranks on Google and gets cited by AI like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI overviews.

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Common questions

People also ask about Answer The Public.

Answer The Public is a visual keyword and question research tool that pulls Google and Bing autocomplete suggestions to show what people search around a topic. It is now part of Neil Patel's Ubersuggest. WritanK does the same job and adds real questions from Reddit, Quora, HackerNews, and more — not just autocomplete.
Answer The Public is free but limited to 3 searches per day (5 with a signup); full use costs $5–$199 per month. WritanK is free with no hard daily cap and no signup required to run your first search.
WritanK is the most complete free alternative: it searches 9 platforms, ranks questions by real engagement, and labels intent. AlsoAsked and Google Search Console are also useful free options, but they pull from fewer sources and don't rank by demand the way WritanK does.
Answer The Public uses Google and Bing autocomplete only. WritanK mines 9 platforms — Reddit, Quora, HackerNews, Google Autocomplete, YouTube, Stack Overflow, Twitter/X, Product Hunt, and G2/Capterra — then scores results by engagement, detects content intent, and clusters duplicates.
AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) means structuring content so answer engines extract it for featured snippets and direct answers. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) means optimizing so generative AI like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI overviews cite your content. They matter because AI search cites content that directly answers specific questions — and WritanK finds those exact questions.
Launching July 2026

The full WritanK platform is next.

This free Answer The Public alternative is just the research step. The full platform turns these questions into researched, SEO/GEO/AEO-ready articles — close to autopilot.

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