Comparison
A Group Collector alternative, compared honestly
Group Collector sells both a subscription and a $297 lifetime licence, which is unusually flexible for this category. Here is what either price buys, and the one thing neither of them changes.
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The short version
- About $25 a month before VAT, or $297 for a lifetime licence.
- Twelve months of the subscription is $300, so past a year the lifetime option is simply cheaper.
- Roughly 6,000 Chrome Web Store installs at the time we checked.
- Your browser very likely has to be open to Facebook while it captures, though Group Collector do not state it and we have not confirmed it.
- Once our launch price ends, both lifetime licences cost $297. The difference is not price.
What Group Collector gets right
Offering both a subscription and a lifetime licence is a real kindness and more vendors should do it. Someone testing the idea for two months can pay $50 and stop. Someone who knows they are in for the long haul pays once. Most tools in this category force you to guess which kind of buyer you are before you have used anything.
What Group Collector does well
- Both a subscription and a lifetime licence, so you can test before committing
- Around 6,000 Chrome Web Store installs, which is real distribution
- A focused feature set aimed squarely at capturing membership answers
- An established listing you can read reviews on before buying
What you take on
- Your browser very likely must be open to Facebook while it works (unconfirmed)
- Multi-group activity is paced by you
- Twelve months of the subscription costs more than the lifetime licence
The pricing quirk worth knowing
At $25 a month, a year costs $300. The lifetime licence is $297. The crossover is therefore at twelve months, not at some distant point, which makes the decision unusually simple: if you expect to use it for a year or more, the subscription never makes sense.
| Option | Year one | Three years |
|---|---|---|
| Group Collector, monthly at $25/mo | $300 | $900 |
| Group Collector, lifetime | $297 | $297 |
| KeepAnswers lifetime, launch price | $197 | $197 |
| KeepAnswers lifetime, after launch | $297 | $297 |
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Where this comparison actually lands
Our launch price is $100 below their lifetime licence. When launch pricing ends, the two are the same number to the dollar. Anyone choosing on price alone in six months is choosing between $297 and $297, which is to say they are not choosing on price.
So the question is what the tool does while you are not watching it.
Prices read from the vendor’s own site on August 12, 2026. They change, and the vendor’s page is the authority, not this one.
The thing neither price changes
Group Collector reads the pending request card from a rendered Facebook page in your browser, which normally means the browser has to be open and logged in while it works. We have not found them stating that outright, so take it as our reading of the architecture rather than a checked fact. Group Leads is the one competitor whose documentation says it in so many words. It is the standard design, and standard for a good reason: there is no server-side route to the data.
KeepAnswers takes the other route. It runs its own session on a randomised schedule with quiet hours, so requests that arrive at 2am are captured at a sensible hour the next morning without a machine sitting on all night. That is the entire difference, and it is why we think it is worth building a fifth tool in a category that already had four.
Where the two products differ
| Group Collector | KeepAnswers | |
|---|---|---|
| Browser must stay open | Not stated; unconfirmed | No |
| Lifetime price | $297 | $197 at launch, $297 after |
| Subscription option | Yes, $25/mo | No, one-time only |
| Answers to Google Sheets | Yes | Yes |
| Lead magnet email | Yes | Yes, sent as the answer lands |
| Auto-approve members | Yes | Yes, at a randomised human pace |
| Multi-group spacing | Your responsibility | Worked out automatically |
| Install base | Around 6,000 | Early release |
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What we cannot match
Six thousand installs is six thousand people who found it, kept it and did not uninstall it. That is a signal we do not have and cannot manufacture. If buying software from a product with users is your rule, it is a good rule and Group Collector satisfies it today. We would rather write that sentence than pretend otherwise.
The trade you are being offered here is a lower launch price and an architecture that does not need your browser, in exchange for being early. That is the whole pitch.
Pick Group Collector if
- You want to test for a month or two before committing to anything.
- You want a product that has been in the market for years rather than weeks.
- Your machine is on with Facebook open most of the day anyway.
Pick KeepAnswers if
- You want the capture to keep working with your laptop shut.
- You want the launch price while it is still $100 below the category anchor.
- You run several groups and would rather not pace them yourself.
- You are comfortable being an early customer of a small product.
Next step
The full comparison lines up all five tools, and the pricing page says exactly what the licence includes. For the underlying job rather than the tools, start with the guide on saving answers.
Questions people ask
- What does Group Collector cost?
- Published pricing is around $25 a month before VAT, or $297 for a lifetime licence. Twelve months of the subscription comes to $300, which is more than the lifetime price, so the monthly option only makes financial sense if you plan to use it for under a year.
- Is Group Collector a well-established tool?
- It has a Chrome Web Store listing with roughly 6,000 installs at the time we checked, which puts it firmly in the established half of this category. That is real distribution and worth weighing against an early release like ours.
- How is KeepAnswers different if both are $297 lifetime?
- After our launch price ends the two numbers are identical, so price is not the argument. The difference is how each one runs: KeepAnswers works on its own randomised schedule, in a background tab it opens and closes itself, while Group Collector reads the group page in a browser tab, which we expect means the tab has to stay open. They do not state that outright, so confirm it with them if it is your deciding factor.
- Does a lifetime licence mean lifetime support?
- Ask both vendors that question directly, including us. A lifetime licence normally means no recurring fee for the software, not an unlimited support commitment. KeepAnswers includes email support and version updates for as long as the extension exists, which is a real promise from a small operation rather than a corporate guarantee.
- Can I move my existing sheet across?
- If your rows are already in Google Sheets, yes. KeepAnswers appends to a sheet you own with headers you control, so the practical work is matching the column order once. Nothing needs re-importing.
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