TikTok trend tracker: free, updated daily from TikTok search

Free, no login. In the 31 October 2026 pull the fastest riser was "Side hustles with ai", at 131,760 searches and 656% above its weekly average; for your own niche, pick a category in the TikTok trending topics finder or ask TokConnect.

Data: TikTok Creator Search Insights and TikTok search via TokConnect, pulled every morning. Today's raw data. The table shown without JavaScript is the 31 October 2026 snapshot; the 27 September 2026 snapshot is kept as the earlier record.

How to read it. "Searches (7 days)" is TikTok's search popularity figure for the topic, the same number Creator Search Insights shows. "vs the week" compares the latest daily reading with the average of the six before it, so +50% means the latest day is running half again above the week. The line is the last seven readings, and "Videos" is how many videos TikTok matches to the search. Tap any search to open it on TikTok.

The Gap badge marks a search with at least 100,000 searches and no more than one video for every 500 searches. In the 31 October snapshot, "Side hustles with ai" had 131,760 searches and 225 videos, about 585 searches per video, so it gets the badge. "What is acne" had 311,943 searches and 855 videos, about 365 per video, so it does not.

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<a href="https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-trend-tracker/"><img src="https://tokconnect.com/graphics/tiktok-trend-tracker/summary.png" alt="Rising TikTok searches in the snapshot of 27 September 2026: 11.9x latest reading vs the week for &quot;read and read&quot; (+1,086%); +73% momentum for &quot;kindlecase&quot; (297K searches); 724 searches per video for &quot;fall amazon must haves&quot;, a Gap; 39 of 548 topics passed the organic filter" width="1200" height="658" style="max-width:100%;height:auto"></a><br>Source: <a href="https://tokconnect.com/guides/tiktok-trend-tracker/">TikTok Trend Tracker: Free, Updated Daily From TikTok Search</a> on TokConnect

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How does this TikTok trend tracker work?

Every morning we pull TikTok's search data from two places: Creator Search Insights, the search tool TikTok gives creators, and TikTok search itself. The pull covers 68 everyday seed searches across products, beauty, books, dance, food, fitness, money, sport, travel and gaming, plus TikTok's own Trending tab. On 31 October that came to 528 topics.

Most of those topics are noise, so an organic filter throws them out. A topic stays only if it has a seven-day curve with no empty days, at least one matching video, 20,000 or more searches, and a first reading that is not tiny next to its latest one. That last rule removes topics TikTok generated overnight, which jump from nothing to millions. Only 134 of the 528 survived on 31 October.

Momentum is the "vs the week" column: the latest reading divided by the average of the six readings before it. We use the week, not yesterday, because single days jump around. "Side hustles with ai" averaged about 17,400 over six readings and then hit 131,760, which is +656%. Anything above 5 million searches, or anything from the Trending tab, goes under TikTok topic labels. Those are phrases TikTok writes to group many searches, such as "cristiano ronaldo merchandise and media", so treat them as the size of a topic, not words people type.

What it cannot see: searches outside the seed list, sounds, and whether the videos on a search are any good. The numbers are global and cover one week, so the tracker cannot tell a yearly event like Halloween from a new trend. For the daily write-up of the same data, read what's trending on TikTok today. For the week's pattern, read the weekly TikTok search report.

How to track TikTok trends yourself

You can run the same checks by hand in about 20 minutes a week. Do it on the same day each week, because the comparison with last week is what turns scrolling into tracking.

1. Creator Search Insights, 5 minutes. Open it in the TikTok app (search "creator search insights") or at tiktok.com/csi on a computer, with your TikTok login. Type your three main topics and write down the search popularity number for each. Then check the Trending tab for anything in your category. The Creator Search Insights guide walks through every screen.
2. The search bar, 3 minutes. Type each topic into TikTok search and note the suggestions that drop down. A suggestion you did not see last week is a new search people are typing. Before you type, the search page often shows a short list of suggested searches too; note any that fit your niche.
3. Creative Center, 4 minutes. Open TikTok Creative Center, pick your country and look at trending hashtags and songs for the last 7 days. No login is needed to browse. It tells you which formats and sounds are in use, not what people search for.
4. Save sounds as you scroll. When a sound keeps turning up, tap the spinning record and choose Add to Favorites, so it waits for you in the Favorites tab when you make your video. How to find trending sounds on TikTok shows how to tell a sound is still rising.
5. A spreadsheet, 3 minutes. One row per topic per week: date, topic, search number, video count and a short note. After three weeks you can see which topics climb and which were a blip. Without the sheet you are relying on memory, and memory makes everything look like a trend.
6. Decide, 2 minutes. Pick one topic that is rising and still has few videos, and plan that video this week.

The longer version of this routine, with the seven places trends show up in the order they appear, is in TikTok trend research. For the yearly view, see TikTok trends 2026, and to get the same data in code, the TikTok trends API guide.

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How can you tell a TikTok trend is still early?

A trend is early when searches are climbing and videos have not caught up. Three checks tell you, and the tracker above shows the first two.

The curve is rising, not just high

Look at the shape of the last seven readings, not the size. A steady climb over several days is what you want. In the chart below, from the 27 September snapshot, "read and read" rose four readings in a row, from 99 to 1,299, 14,595, 80,875 and then 244,726. "kindlecase" and "fall amazon must haves" also sit near the top of the rising list, but their curves bounce up and down every other day. That looks more like something people search all the time than something taking off.

Few videos for the number of searches

Divide searches by videos. "nyfw outfits" had 4,852,655 searches and 910 videos, more than 5,000 searches for every video. "Line dances" had 385,838 searches and 4,011 videos, fewer than 100 per video. The first still has room. The second is already crowded. The Gap badge does this sum for you.

Searches growing faster than videos

This one needs a second look. Note the search number and the video count today, then again in three or four days. If searches grew by half and videos by a tenth, you are early. If videos are growing faster than searches, other creators have found it and the window is closing. The tracker shows one day, so keep both numbers in your spreadsheet.

TikTok trend tracker options compared

Most trackers count views and posts, which tell you what is already big. Search counts tell you what people are typing this week. Every price and feature below comes from the vendor's own site or App Store listing.

Checked 28 September 2026 on each vendor's own pricing page, feature page or App Store listing; Exploding Topics, Brandwatch, Brand24, Storyclash and Creative Center on 5 October 2026. Facts with links: 28 September, 5 October.

What the paid dashboards add: months of stored history for hundreds of hashtags (TickerTrends, Exolyt). What TokConnect adds is TikTok's own search count, the curve behind it and the videos, creators and comments behind each search. Creative Center and TrendTok cover sounds and songs, which our daily list leaves out, and Google Trends has two decades of history. The number this tracker shows is the number of people typing a phrase into TikTok this week. People search before they post, so it tends to move first, and Google Trends for TikTok explains where the two kinds of trend discovery agree and where they do not.

Want this list in your own agent? Connect TokConnect to ChatGPT or Claude, or get an API key.

Same trend, different numbers: what each kind of tracker sees

To show the difference, we took two themes from TikTok's Food and Fashion trending lists, Japanese straight perms and gumbo, found the searches people type about them, and looked up the matching hashtags, which is roughly what a views-and-posts tracker sees.

Data: TikTok Creator Search Insights and TikTok hashtag search. Searches are TikTok's 7-day global figure for phrases people type; hashtag views are lifetime totals. Curves and hashtags.

"japanese straight perm at home" stayed between 11,125 and 61,189 a day through September, reached 300,889 on 3 October, and TikTok matched no videos to it. A hashtag tracker sees a mid-sized beauty tag; search shows the week it took off, and that nobody has made the at-home video yet. Gumbo shows the opposite problem: #gumbo has over a billion lifetime views, so it always looks big. Search shows timing: "gumbo file", for the filé powder that thickens gumbo, rose from 3,155 on 5 September to 259,470 on 5 October, while "okra gumbo" was searched steadily all month.

Which TikTok trend tracker should you pick?

• Creative Center if you want free, official hashtag and video rankings by country and mostly need to know which formats already work.
• Creator Search Insights if you check a handful of topics by hand and don't need history or exports.
• TrendTok if you are a creator who wants trending sounds on your phone.
• Exolyt if you are an agency reporting on dozens of hashtags and accounts over months, with dashboards and seats.
• Exploding Topics if you sell across channels and want Google search growth first, with TikTok views as a second check.
• TickerTrends if you are an investor linking TikTok trends to listed companies.
• TokConnect if you want TikTok's own search counts across your niche, how each one moves, and to ask follow-up questions about the videos, creators and comments behind them.
• Brandwatch, Brand24 or Storyclash if the job is monitoring your brand's mentions or running creator campaigns, not spotting trends.

Most teams use two: one views tool for formats and one search tool for timing. To see how much warning search gives before a trend peaks, read how to predict TikTok trends.

How we got these numbers

The saved table on this page comes from our 31 October 2026 pull: 68 seed searches through TokConnect plus TikTok's Trending tab, 528 topics in all. The charts and the infographic keep the 27 September 2026 pull (548 topics) as a worked example. Searches are TikTok's search popularity, the 7-day global figure Creator Search Insights shows. The organic filter, the momentum sum and the Gap rule are described above and stored with every row in the snapshot. Topics above 5,000,000 searches, topics that start the week near zero, and Trending tab rows are TikTok's own topic groups that pool many searches, so they sit in a separate tab and never in the rising list or the key figures.

The "Line dances" example (385,838 searches, 4,011 videos) comes from the 26 and 27 September readings in our Q3 search dataset. Prices and features in the comparison table were read from each vendor's own page on the date shown (28 September facts, 5 October facts). The Japanese perm and gumbo figures come from TokConnect's trending topics, search topics, 30-day search popularity and hashtag totals on 5 October 2026 (curves and hashtags). The live list reloads each morning from today's data.

Get rising searches for your own niche

The tracker covers everyday topics. For your niche, TokConnect can run the same filter on your own seed words, in its research agent or from the AI assistant you already use, and hand back a table like the one above.

Pull TikTok search topics for these seeds in [your niche]: [seed 1], [seed 2], [seed 3]. For each topic get the 7-day search count, the last seven daily readings and the number of matching videos. Drop topics with no videos or with empty days, and list TikTok-written topic labels separately. Rank the rest by the latest reading against the average of the previous six, flag any with at least 100,000 searches and one video or fewer per 500 searches, and suggest one video angle for the top three.

Run it on my seed words or open it in ChatGPT or Claude