Comparison
PowerAdSpy is a broad ad-intelligence database with strong niche and keyword search across several platforms. It's good at filtering the haystack. It can't tell you which needle is sharp.
PowerAdSpy indexes ads across Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube, and more, with keyword, niche, and engagement filtering.
If your job is finding what's live, PowerAdSpy does it. Keep it.
PowerAdSpy will filter a category down to the ads matching your keyword and engagement thresholds. PowerAdSpy, like every ad spy tool, is a database: it shows you an ad exists and, at best, how long it's run. It cannot tell you whether the creative actually holds a viewer's attention — which is the only thing that decides whether an ad is worth copying. That's not a knock on PowerAdSpy; no database can see inside the creative. It's a different layer.
PowerAdSpy is the card catalog — every ad indexed, none of them read. PreTestAds is the librarian who read them all. Point an AI agent with the PreTestAds MCP at any advertiser and it scores each live ad for predicted attention, then hands back a verdict on every one:
The verdict a spy database can't give you
HIDDEN GEM
Great creative nobody's backing — steal it early
MODEL IT
Proven winner — copy the structure
SKIP
Nothing to learn or beat
OUT-HOOK IT
They're committed to weak creative — beat it
Creative attention score →
Run time fools everyone — a long-running ad looks like a winner and is often just coasting on autopilot budget. A score doesn't guess (more in how to tell if a competitor ad is working).
Use PowerAdSpy to filter the category, then score the survivors so your shortlist is ranked by whether the creative actually holds attention. See it in practice on 7 real competitor ads we pulled and scored, or read the honest landscape in best Facebook ad spy tools.
Score any competitor ad for attention before you model it. First analysis free.
Score an AdThey cover different layers. PowerAdSpy is an ad-intelligence database across Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube, and more; PreTestAds scores whether a given ad's creative holds attention. Use PowerAdSpy to find and filter, PreTestAds to judge.
No. PowerAdSpy surfaces ads by niche, keyword, and engagement, but it doesn't read whether the creative holds attention. That's a separate scoring layer.
Judgment. Score the ads PowerAdSpy surfaces for predicted attention and get a model / out-hook / hidden gem / skip verdict, turning a filtered list into a ranked, decision-ready shortlist.