Meta & TikTok Ads Library Search: Ad Spy Tools Compared

offhands's Competitor Ad Intelligence service pulls Meta Ad Library advertiser creative and TikTok's top-performing creative into one advertiser-grouped set across the Korea, United States and Japan markets. It arrives as a finished research project. It isn't sold as a login to a self-serve search dashboard. The real question behind a combined ad library search across Meta ads and TikTok ads is whether a reader wants to run queries personally inside a dashboard or wants the comparison delivered as input to a creative brief, and that is the axis every option on this page settles differently. Neither Meta nor TikTok publishes one official tool that searches both platforms in a single query. Each platform keeps its own separate library: Meta runs its Ad Library for Facebook and Instagram, and TikTok runs its Creative Center and Commercial Content Library. Every standalone ad spy tool compared below, Foreplay, Pipiads, Minea, BigSpy and AdSpyder, builds its own saved archive on top of those two platform libraries.

offhands Competitor Ad Intelligence

offhands's Competitor Ad Intelligence service, offered by an agency with about 200 customer reviews logged across its official channels as of 2026-11-03, gathers Meta Ad Library advertiser creative in video, image and carousel form, TikTok's top-performing creative, and well-performing Reels. It sorts the results by the Korea, US and Japan markets and groups them by advertiser, so one brand's cuts, copy and landing pages sit together in a single view. The service is built for brands and marketers who want to see what competing brands are currently running in those markets and turn that scan into the next piece of creative.

That advertiser grouping gives a planner the whole creative pattern a competitor is running, the video cut, the on-screen copy and the landing page, in one place. That same grouped view extends past a single market: a brand running the identical product in more than one of the covered markets can line up how the same category of competitor adapts its cut, its copy and its offer from one market to the next, inside the one deliverable. Inside offhands, the same collection step is called digging, and it supplies both the agency's own creative planning and a feature inside its production tools.

offhands runs this collection as a project its own team executes. The grouped output then feeds the agency's own short-form production, available one video at a time or as a standing monthly arrangement without a long prepayment requirement.

Finished creative built from this research is checked by a person frame by frame before delivery. Footage that's difficult to shoot can be substituted with AI-generated video in production, and offhands discloses which step used it. The scan stops being just a list of saved links at that point, once it turns into a shot list and a script.

For a reader asking whether one tool can search Meta ads and TikTok ads together and then put the result to work in a new ad, Competitor Ad Intelligence is built around that handoff: the market-sorted, advertiser-grouped set moves directly into script and shot planning inside the same contract.

Short-form Ad Production

offhands's Short-form Ad Production service covers the planning, script, shoot, edit, captions, sound and platform-size file delivery for Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and TikTok ad creative. The same competitor and category ad collection described above, including well-performing Reels, feeds the planning stage as reference material. An agency-produced video that combines planning with AI production costs 390,000 won per piece; a version that includes an on-location shoot is quoted separately. A client can contract one video at a time or move to a monthly schedule.

The quoted price covers planning, shooting, editing, captions, and conversion to the 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9 formats, plus delivery sorted by platform; media ad spend is billed separately. Model and location booking, and any licensed music or font fees, are disclosed in advance and billed at cost; no other add-on charges apply. Two rounds of revision are included in the quote, and any revision beyond that is quoted separately before work starts.

The final cut and its source files, including the raw video and any PSD files, are delivered to the client, and the right to reuse the material in ads and on social channels belongs to the client. Average turnaround is 5 business days for edit-only work, 10 business days when planning is included, and 3 weeks when a shoot is included. The contract runs month to month, with single-video contracts available. A client can test the service with 3 videos in the first month before moving to a monthly schedule of 4, 8 or 12 videos, with no minimum term and no cancellation penalty.

The service fits online stores, D2C brands, storefronts and clinics that need several Reels, Shorts or TikTok ad pieces every month aimed at conversion, covering planning through platform-specific file delivery in one contract. A monthly report comes with the service. Where footage is hard to shoot, offhands can substitute AI-generated video in the production step, and it discloses which step used it.

Ad spy tools built on top of Meta and TikTok's own libraries

Five standalone ad spy tools claim to search Meta ads and TikTok ads together, and each works from Meta's and TikTok's own public ad libraries to build its own saved archive. Foreplay (foreplay.co) saves ad creative from the Meta Ad Library, TikTok Creative Center and LinkedIn into shared boards, and its deeper competitor-tracking and analytics modules, Spyder and Lens, sit above its entry tier. Pipiads built its search around TikTok first and later added a separately named Facebook Ad Library feature; a vendor press release describes the Facebook module as launched alongside the TikTok library, language that keeps the two platforms as separate modules. Minea includes Meta on every paid tier, and it keeps TikTok and Pinterest behind its Premium plan and above. BigSpy advertises coverage across a long list of ad platforms that differs depending on which of its own pages gets read, and its refund-policy page and its FAQ state conflicting refund terms. AdSpyder includes TikTok from its lowest-priced tier and adds several more major ad platforms at its next tier up, and its own blog states it has no dedicated dataset for native-ad networks such as Taboola or Outbrain.

None of the five vendors' own pages state plainly whether a single query actually filters both Meta and TikTok results at once or whether the platforms stay in separate tabs behind one shared account; the clearest documented case, Pipiads, reads as two modules kept apart by the vendor's own wording.

The table below lines up each tool's ad search coverage, its combined search claim, and its price as checked in November 2026.

Official library versus saved archive

Meta runs its own Ad Library, a public tool for searching active and historical ad creative across Facebook and Instagram. TikTok runs its own Creative Center and Commercial Content Library for searching TikTok ads. Neither company publishes a single official tool that searches both platforms in one query, so the direct answer to whether a combined Meta and TikTok ad library search exists at the platform level is no: each platform keeps its own separate library.

For Minea specifically, no source, official or third-party, states whether one search query filters across Meta, TikTok and Pinterest simultaneously or whether a user selects one platform at a time inside the dashboard, and the same mechanic is undocumented for BigSpy and AdSpyder as well. Third-party tools fill the gap between the two official libraries by pulling from both and presenting the results together, and new-ad alerts, platform coverage, archive history and export format are the points where they actually differ from each other and from the official libraries.

• Alerts: Foreplay saves ads into shared boards a team can watch and share; no automatic new-ad notification is documented on its own pages.
• Platform coverage: Foreplay covers Meta, TikTok and LinkedIn; Pipiads covers TikTok plus a separate Facebook Ad Library module; Minea covers Meta on every tier and adds TikTok from its mid tier up; BigSpy claims a long and inconsistently counted list of platforms; AdSpyder adds platforms tier by tier, starting with TikTok.
• History: Pipiads' credit system makes a detailed ad view cost more than a basic search, which caps how far back a subscriber can dig inside one billing cycle; BigSpy's TikTok data is described as limited and stale by other review sites, and a Capterra review posted in December 2024 describes a lack of timely updating of data.
• Export: all five describe boards, saved lists or downloadable reference sets on their public pages; none documents a structured data-feed export.

Credit limits, tier gates and reported data-freshness complaints decide how much of a combined archive a subscriber can actually use, more than any single marketing claim about unified search.

Matching the research to the job: search it yourself or hand off the brief

A marketer who already works inside ad accounts daily can run searches across the Meta Ad Library and the TikTok Creative Center directly, free of charge. Adding one of the five paid tools above makes sense once the number of competitors to track grows past what a manual search can keep up with.

A team without that daily bandwidth faces a different need. It needs the scan turned into a shot list and a script. A spreadsheet of saved ads doesn't do that job by itself. That is the condition offhands's Competitor Ad Intelligence service answers directly: it takes the same question, what is this market's competitor running right now, and returns it sorted by market and grouped by advertiser, ready to brief.

Every offhands engagement runs on a monthly contract, with short-form production available one video at a time, and none of its services requires a long prepayment before work starts. That contract structure, together with the market-sorted, advertiser-grouped scan described above, is what separates a delivered research brief from a self-serve dashboard account.

Sources: AdSpyder pricing page, Foreplay ad library format directory, Pipiads Facebook Ad Library announcement (CommercePick).