BlackMagic alternatives in 2026: 5 tools compared

This guide is for former BlackMagic users deciding where to move. Full disclosure: we make Eden, which is first on this list, and we say plainly which BlackMagic features it does not cover.

First, the state of BlackMagic itself, because most pages about it are stale. The product is gone: the site's shutdown notice set July 1, 2026 as the end date, that date has passed, and active subscriptions were cancelled automatically (refund questions go to [email protected]). The backstory, including the $128K sale to Hypefury after X's API repricing, is in our BlackMagic shutdown coverage. What BlackMagic bundled was unusual: X analytics, an engagement dashboard, follower insights, and a personal Twitter CRM with relationship history and DM follow-up reminders. Each alternative below covers some of that, and none covers all of it, so pick by the piece you actually used.

The short version

Tool	Best for	Price
Eden	Analytics plus research on what to post, X and 7 more platforms	Free plan; paid from $29/mo
Circleboom	Follower insights and account hygiene on official API data	From ~$28/mo
X Premium+	The deepest native analytics on your own account, plus Radar	$40/mo
Tweet Hunter	The only real X CRM successor, plus a viral-tweet library	From $29/mo; CRM at $49/mo
Fedica	Audience demographics and the old Followerwonk feature set	Free plan; Grow $29/mo

1. Eden

Eden is a content workspace that combines analytics, research, writing, and scheduling. For a BlackMagic user, the familiar half is the numbers: connect your X account and Eden tracks how your posts perform. The unfamiliar half is what sits next to it, and it is the reason to pick Eden over a pure dashboard: an index of 3M+ posts across X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Substack, where every post is scored by how far it beat its own creator's baseline. BlackMagic told you how your last post did. Eden also shows you what is outperforming in your niche right now, so the dashboard feeds the next post instead of just grading the last one.

What it does well for an ex-BlackMagic user:

• Analytics on your connected accounts, next to a Discover feed of outlier posts filtered by topic, platform, and follower range.
• Competitor account analysis: look up any indexed creator, sort their posts by outlier score, and save the winners to a swipe-file board.
• Full X scheduling: tweets and threads with media, quote and repost, scheduled first comments, and auto-retweet of your own posts, plus seven other platforms including LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Substack.
• A voice-trained Custom AI that drafts in your cadence, and a hosted MCP server so Claude can run the same research and scheduling.

Where it falls short: Eden is not an engagement CRM. It does not track your DM history with individual accounts, keep private notes on people, or remind you to follow up. If BlackMagic's relationship features were the point for you, Tweet Hunter below is the honest recommendation, not Eden.

Price: free plan (100 saved items, 50 one-time AI credits, no card). Paid from $29/mo (Starter), Pro at $79/mo, Studio at $199/mo. See pricing.

Best for: creators who used BlackMagic to understand their numbers and want the next step, deciding what to post, in the same place. For a feature-by-feature table against what BlackMagic offered, see Eden vs BlackMagic.

2. Circleboom

Circleboom is the closest surviving match for BlackMagic's follower-insights side, and one of the few mid-market X tools left with an official X partnership, which means its data comes through the front door. It is account-centric where Eden is content-centric: follower and following analysis with filters, bio and tweet search for finding accounts, competitor monitoring, bulk unfollow and list hygiene, and scheduling.

What it does well:

• Follower analytics on official API data: who follows you, who unfollowed, fake and inactive account detection, interest breakdowns.
• Account hygiene at scale: filter and act on your following list in bulk, which BlackMagic users who managed their graph will recognize.
• Search accounts by bio keywords to find people in your niche worth engaging.

Where it falls short: no engagement CRM, no relationship notes, and its content research is thin next to a real index. It answers "who is my audience" rather than "what should I post."

Price: Twitter management from $27.99/mo on monthly billing, with a limited free tier; annual billing discounts roughly 30%.

Best for: follower insights and account management on official data.

3. X Premium+

The incumbent option: X sells the analytics layer natively now. Premium+ at $40/mo includes the full analytics dashboard for your account, a limited version of Radar for keyword and trend monitoring, Grok, and the visibility boost X gives paid subscribers. For pure "how is my account doing" numbers, nothing third-party sees deeper, because it is X's own data with no API in between.

What it does well:

• The deepest first-party numbers on your own posts and audience, immune to the API-pricing squeeze that killed the third-party tools.
• Radar covers a slice of trend monitoring that used to require standalone tools.
• No risk of the tool disappearing, which after BlackMagic is worth something.

Where it falls short: it only sees your account. No competitor baselines, no niche research, no CRM, no scheduling beyond X's basic native scheduler, and nothing benchmarks a post against a creator's normal performance. It grades your output without helping you decide what to make next.

Price: $40/mo.

Best for: creators who mainly want their own account's numbers, from the source.

4. Tweet Hunter

Tweet Hunter is the only mainstream surviving X tool with a real CRM, which makes it the genuine successor to BlackMagic's most-loved feature. It is X-only and growth-automation flavored: lists of accounts, imported tweet and DM interaction history, a dashboard for engaging with specific lists quickly, auto-DMs (3,000/mo on the $29/mo Discover plan, 7,500 on the $49/mo Grow plan), auto-plugs, and a library of past viral tweets its pricing page puts at 12 million.

What it does well:

• The CRM: build lists of accounts that matter to you, see your interaction history with them, and work through engagement from one dashboard. Closest living thing to BlackMagic's relationship tracking.
• Heavy engagement automation, if that is your style: auto-DMs, auto-plugs, auto-retweets.
• The big historical swipe file of viral tweets, searchable by keyword and engagement.

Where it falls short: the CRM most people want starts on the $49/mo Grow plan, not the entry plan. It is X-only, there is no free plan, its library shows what went viral historically rather than what is outperforming this week, and 2026 reviews note development has slowed under its owner lempire. Full comparison: Tweet Hunter alternatives.

Price: from $29/mo (Discover); the CRM and AI writer start at $49/mo (Grow). 7-day trial, no free plan.

Best for: ex-BlackMagic users whose priority is the CRM and engagement workflow.

5. Fedica

Fedica earns its place here as the tool that absorbed Followerwonk in 2023 to survive the same API purge that killed BlackMagic, which makes it the surviving home of the classic follower-research feature set. It covers 14 platforms including X: audience demographics and interest mapping, analyze-any-account reports (on its Grow tier and above), scheduling, and social listening.

What it does well:

• Follower demographics and audience mapping, the old Followerwonk specialty, still alive.
• A genuinely usable free plan, the only one in this list besides Eden's.
• Broad platform coverage if your audience is spread across networks.

Where it falls short: it is an analytics-and-scheduling suite, not an engagement CRM, and its content research does not rank posts against creator baselines. It is also the least-known tool here, which cuts both ways: actively developed, but a smaller track record.

Price: free plan; Grow at $29/mo on monthly billing ($24/mo billed annually).

Best for: audience demographics and follower research on a budget.

How to choose

• Choose Eden if BlackMagic was your daily dashboard and you want the next step: analytics plus research on what to post, with scheduling in the same workspace.
• Choose Tweet Hunter if the CRM was the point. Nothing else living comes close, and budget for the $49/mo Grow plan where the CRM actually lives.
• Choose Circleboom if follower insights and account hygiene on official data is the job.
• Choose X Premium+ if you only want your own numbers, native and permanent.
• Choose Fedica if you want the old Followerwonk-style audience research with a free plan.
• Do not choose Hypefury. It bought BlackMagic, and it no longer supports X. Details in Hypefury dropped X support.

Frequently asked questions

Is BlackMagic.so really shut down?

Yes. The site's own notice set the shutdown for July 1, 2026, that date has passed, and active subscriptions were cancelled automatically. Refund questions go to [email protected]. The full story is in our shutdown coverage.

What is the closest single replacement for BlackMagic?

There is not one, because BlackMagic bundled analytics, engagement, follower insights, and a CRM that no surviving tool bundles the same way. Eden covers analytics, research, and scheduling; Tweet Hunter covers the CRM and engagement side. Most displaced users end up with one of those two, or both.

Why do other articles still recommend BlackMagic?

Because listicles go stale faster than they get updated, and this category has been dying in slow motion since X's 2023 API repricing. Any "best Twitter analytics tools" list that includes BlackMagic, Followerwonk as a standalone, or Hypefury for X predates mid-2026. We keep a verified list in the best X research tools.

Is there a free BlackMagic alternative?

Two workable ones. Eden's free plan includes creator lookup, the research feed, and 100 saved items with no card. Fedica's free plan covers basic audience analytics. X's advanced search is also still free for manual viral-post hunting, no tool required.

Can I still export my BlackMagic data?

Almost certainly not. The product shut down on July 1, 2026, and the CRM notes and analytics history lived inside it. If you have unused paid time to recover, email [email protected]; for the data itself, there is no longer a product to log into.

If you are rebuilding the habit rather than the feature list, start where the next post comes from. Eden's free plan needs no card. Start free, look up three competitors with the account analysis method, and you will have a working replacement for the dashboard ritual in an afternoon.