Minea is a product research tool for dropshippers, not a way to watch a competitor’s newest ads. The $49 Starter plan opens Meta ads and Shopify products; shop data needs Premium at $99. On 14 October 2026, Minea’s newest Gymshark ad was 33 days old.
| What we tested | |
|---|---|
| Account | our own, Starter plan ($49 a month) |
| App | the Minea app at app.minea.com: Meta Ads Library, TikTok, Products and Shops |
| Searches | page name “gymshark” and “manscaped” on 12 and 14 October 2026; keyword “dropshipping” on a free account, 8 October |
| Locked on Starter | Shops beyond a short list, brand tracker, notifications, daily niche lists, TikTok ads |
| Sign-in | email and password or Google |
Every figure in this Minea review comes from those sessions or from minea.com on 14 October 2026, and each screenshot carries its date.
What is minea.com?
Minea.com sells the Minea tool, a product research app for dropshippers: it lists ads and the Shopify products behind them so a seller can spot what is selling. The minea.com home page says “Trusted by +200,000 dropshippers” and leads with winning products rather than competitor tracking.
Minea quotes three different sizes for its database. The minea.com home page says “80M+ active ads” and “120k+ daily ad & shop updates”. The pricing page says “More than 10 million ads”. Inside the app, the ad search is headed “100+ million ads to discover”, and the Products page says “10M+ e-commerce Shopify products”. Minea does not explain which figure counts what.
Verdict: Treat Minea’s database size as unstated; its own pages give 10 million, 80 million and 100 million ads.
Minea pricing: what each plan opens
Minea Starter at $49 a month opens Meta ads and Products, with 10 AI ad analyses, 10 AI transcripts and 50 Magic Search queries a month. Premium at $99 adds Shops, an unlimited brand tracker, notifications for 10 shops and daily niche lists. Business at $199 makes notifications, AI analyses, transcripts and Magic Search unlimited. Paid quarterly, the three cost $39, $79 and $158 a month.
Magic Search is an image search: you upload a product photo and Minea returns similar products, ads and shops. On Starter it is capped at 50 searches a month.
Verdict: Starter is enough to browse Meta ads and products; anyone who needs shop data pays $99 for Premium.
Minea ads: Meta yes, TikTok behind an upgrade
Minea ads come from the Meta Ads Library tab, which worked fully on Starter, with filters for publication date, duration, reach, ad spend, countries and languages. Shop performance and shop info filters on the same screen are marked Premium.
The app also has a TikTok tab. On our Starter account it showed empty placeholders and the button “Upgrade to unlock more tiktok ads”, while the minea.com pricing page still lists “Snapchat, Pinterest, TikTok ads (coming soon)”.
Verdict: Buy Minea Starter for Meta ads only; its TikTok ads were not available to us on that plan.
How fresh Minea’s ads are
Minea showed no ad newer than 11 September 2026 for Gymshark. We searched the page name “gymshark” and sorted by publication date on 12 and on 14 October 2026; both times the newest ad was published on 11 September, followed by 4 September and 13 August. Gymshark was launching new ads through that period: Spytrend has a Gymshark ad launched on 6 October, and Dropispy one posted on 9 October.
Manscaped was missing altogether. A search for “manscaped” across ad copy, page name and shop URL returned only other pages, Jake’s Grooming Journey and Aberlite, and no ad from Manscaped itself. In our 12 October test Dropispy had 40 Manscaped ads.
Minea’s ad cards show a publication date and a last-seen date but not the day Minea added the ad, so we could not measure the delay from launch to database the way we did for Spytrend, Dropispy and PowerAdSpy. In that test Spytrend had 44 of 50 new Gymshark and Manscaped ads on their launch day.
Verdict: Check your own competitors in Minea before paying; for Gymshark the newest ad was 33 days old and Manscaped had none.
Minea dropshipping: products and shops
Minea dropshipping research starts in Products, which opened on Starter and lists Shopify products with their price, publication date and the number of active ads behind them. Shop filters inside Products, such as monthly visits, revenue, theme and apps, are marked Premium.
Shops is the Premium part. On Starter the Trending Shops list showed seven shops with estimated daily revenue, visits and active Meta ads, then a block reading “Unlock All Analysis with Minea Premium Plan”.
Verdict: For Minea dropshipping research, Starter covers products; tracking stores needs Premium at $99.
Minea login and free account
Minea login is at app.minea.com, with email and password or “Continue with Google”. Registration is free, and a free account without a subscription opened the Meta Ads Library search: on 8 October 2026 a keyword search for “dropshipping” returned ads, with Minea showing no total count.
Verdict: Register free to look at Minea’s Meta ads before paying; there is no free plan or trial in the pricing table.
Minea alternatives we tested
Every tool on this site is tested on an account we use ourselves. These are the ones that overlap with Minea, in alphabetical order.
| Tool | Cheapest way in | Paid from | Use it when |
|---|---|---|---|
| BigSpy | Free plan: Facebook only, about 10 searches a day | $69/mo | you want Facebook ads at zero cost, or all 11 networks on Ultimate |
| Dropispy | Free plan, last 2 months of ads hidden | €29.90/mo | you want the cheapest paid plan for Facebook ads and shop data |
| Minea | Free account: ad search, shop data locked | $49/mo | product hunting from Meta ads and products; shops and brand tracking from $99 |
| PowerAdSpy | 3-day trial from $1 (Basic), $7 above | $69/mo (pricing page), $99 inside the account | you need LinkedIn, Quora or Reddit ads, on Palladium at $399 |
| Spytrend | Free plan: ads older than 3 months | $79/mo | you need fresh Facebook, Instagram and TikTok ads with advertiser totals |
Dropispy and Minea return different ads even though Dropispy loads data from Minea-named servers; our Dropispy review shows the test. For TikTok, Spytrend includes it on its $79 plan.
Who Minea is for
The bottom line of this Minea review: Minea fits dropshippers hunting Shopify products from Meta ads who will pay $99 for Premium to see shops and track brands. It is a poor fit for watching a specific competitor’s newest campaigns, where its newest Gymshark ad was 33 days old, and for TikTok on the Starter plan.
FAQ
Is Minea free?
Minea has free registration but no free plan in its pricing table. Our free account opened the Meta ad search on 8 October 2026, with shop data marked Premium; paid plans start at $49 a month, or $39 a month paid quarterly. Spytrend has a free plan that shows ads older than three months.
How long is the Minea free trial?
Minea does not list a free trial on its pricing page on 14 October 2026; it offers free registration and three paid plans, Starter at $49, Premium at $99 and Business at $199 a month. PowerAdSpy sells a paid three-day trial instead, and Spytrend a free plan.
How to get Minea for free?
Register a free account at minea.com: on 8 October 2026 that opened the Meta Ads Library search without a subscription, while shop performance and shop info filters were marked Premium. Shops, the brand tracker and the AI quotas come with the paid plans. Spytrend’s free plan covers ads older than three months.
Is Minea the same as Dropispy?
No. Minea and Dropispy are sold as separate products, Minea from $49 and Dropispy from €29.90 a month, although Dropispy loads ad data from Minea-named servers. In our test they returned different ads for the same brands. Spytrend is a separate service with its own ad database.