Isentia alternative for Australian teams

The Australian-owned alternative to Isentia

You shouldn't have to chase your monitoring provider for missed coverage. Truescope monitors your brand, your competitors and your industry across Australian print, broadcast, online and social media, in one platform, in real time. Then Truescope AI tells you what each story means.

Spot every story the moment it breaks, with intuitive search and spike alerts

Search as much as you want, whenever you want, with no caps or restrictions

Flexible terms, with no multi-year contracts or auto-renewal

100% Australian-owned
All data hosted in Australia
Licensed Australian news content
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See Truescope on your own coverage

A walkthrough built around your brand, your competitors and the Australian sources you care about.

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Truescope and Isentia, side by side

Isentia has been around since 1982 and its insights are high quality, for the stories it picks up. Truescope gives you that depth on a platform built for AI from day one, without the coverage you have to chase.

Feature
Truescope
Isentia
Ownership
100% Australian-owned, with data hosted in Australia
Owned by UK-listed Pulsar Group since 2021
AI
Truescope Analyst, Assistant, Search AI and Spike Alerts, available now
Lumina AI story clustering, with AI summaries and insight agents on its roadmap
Ease of use
One unified platform, where everyday tasks take a few clicks
G2 reviewers mention a steep learning curve
Reporting
AI-written, brandable reports, with no caps on searches, results or templates
Self-service dashboards plus analyst-produced reports
Contracts
Flexible terms, no multi-year contracts or auto-renewal, published pricing
Pricing not published. Users report multi-year terms with auto-renewal
G2 rating
4.7 out of 5 from 82 reviews
3.8 out of 5 from 11 reviews

Isentia details are taken from Isentia's public website, product pages and G2 reviews as at September 2026. Read the full Isentia vs Truescope comparison

All the coverage that matters, as it happens

Print, online, TV, radio, podcasts and social media, monitored in real time and filtered down to the coverage that's relevant to you, in one feed.

Every item is scored for relevance, prominence and sentiment as it arrives, and broadcast can appear within minutes of airing. Before you sign, we check that the sources you rely on are covered, and we can add sources on request.

Content agreements with News Corp Australia, Nine, Australian Community Media and Copyright Agency mean your monitoring covers the mastheads that matter, on the right terms.

Print
Online
TV
Radio
Podcasts
Facebook
Instagram
LinkedIn
TikTok
YouTube
Bluesky
Telegram
Print·Corio Bay Chronicle·Geelong, VIC
TrueAuto opens Geelong battery assembly line, creating 300 local jobs
Online·AusDrive Daily·Sydney, NSW
TrueAuto charging network passes 400 sites across Australia
TV·Yarra TV News·Melbourne, VIC
Long weekend queues at Melbourne fast chargers
Radio·Riverside Radio Breakfast·Brisbane, QLD
Talkback callers compare TrueAuto running costs with petrol
Podcasts·The Capital Briefing·Canberra, ACT
Inside TrueAuto's plan to build EVs in Australia
Facebook·Perth EV Owners Club·Perth, WA
Owners share winter range results for the TrueAuto Voltara
Instagram·@adelaide.drives·Adelaide, SA
Adelaide to Victor Harbor and back in the TrueAuto Voltara
LinkedIn·Northline Logistics·Townsville, QLD
Why we moved 60 delivery vans to TrueAuto
TikTok·@roadtrip.rory·Albury, NSW
Sydney to Melbourne range test in the TrueAuto Voltara
YouTube·Coastline Car Reviews·Gold Coast, QLD
Full review: the TrueAuto Voltara on Australian roads
Bluesky·@gridwatch.tas·Hobart, TAS
What TrueAuto's grid storage pilot means for Tasmania
Telegram·Top End EV Deals·Darwin, NT
TrueAuto end of financial year offer shared across the Top End

Built in Australia, for Australian communications teams

Australia's media monitoring market is now largely foreign-owned, Isentia included. Truescope is the exception: 100% Australian-owned, with your data hosted locally.

100% Australian-owned

Founded and headquartered in Sydney. Our founders built one of Australia's first media monitoring platforms.

All data hosted in Australia

Your searches, coverage and reports are stored onshore, in Amazon Web Services' Sydney region.

Licensed Australian news

Content agreements with News Corp Australia, Nine, Australian Community Media and Copyright Agency.

“Truescope helped a2 Milk Company manage an evolving global issue, with Truescope Analyst generating the stakeholder sentiment reports the Board and Executive needed as media syndication drove the story across international borders.

Understanding the narrative allowed a2 Milk Company to respond with clarity, speed and credibility, protecting trust when scrutiny was at its highest.”

Rick Willis, Director, network four (for a2 Milk Company)

Monitoring that tells you what it means

Truescope doesn't just collect coverage. It codes every item against your own framework, answers your questions about it, and puts the results wherever your team works.

New

Enrichment Agent: your analysis framework, applied to every story

Describe what matters to you in plain language. Truescope suggests the scores, tags and summaries, you approve them, and every matching item is coded automatically as it arrives.

Score coverage for relevance and impact, tag it against your key messages, reputation drivers or risk levels, and write summaries to your own brief

A relevance check runs first and filters out off-topic coverage, with the reason recorded

Results become filters in the Inbox, dimensions on dashboards and fields in reports and alerts

TV · Harbour 9 News · Sydney, NSW
Shoppers find bare produce shelves at Western Sydney supermarkets
RelevanceRelevant
Impact72
Key messagesFresh Produce QualityStore Experience
Risk severityMedium
SummaryShoppers describe empty fruit and vegetable shelves at three Western Sydney stores after flooding cut supply routes. TrueFresh responds at 1:18, confirming full deliveries resume Thursday.

Truescope AI: answers, not just articles

Truescope Analyst runs deep media analysis in minutes, drawing on your coverage and your organisation's own enrichments

Truescope Assistant summarises coverage the moment it's published

More than 70 ready-made analysis templates for briefings and reports

How did coverage of TrueFresh's key messages change this week?
Truescope Analyst
Coverage rose 38% on last week. Everyday Low Prices was the leading key message, in 34% of items, driven by price comparison stories against Greenvale and Harvestly. Fresh Produce Quality peaked at Medium risk on Monday after Western Sydney shortage reports, and sentiment recovered by Wednesday once TrueFresh confirmed deliveries had resumed.

API and MCP: Truescope data wherever you work

Pull coverage and analysis into your own systems with the Truescope API

Connect AI assistants that support MCP to your Truescope workspace

Feed BI dashboards and internal tools without exporting spreadsheets

Your Truescope workspace
APIMCP server
BI dashboardsAI assistantsInternal tools

Moving from Isentia, without the hassle

Your dedicated account manager does the heavy lifting, so your team keeps working while we set up.

1

Show us what you track

Share the searches you run today, the sources you rely on and the reports your leadership reads. We check your source coverage before you sign.

2

We set it up for you

Your account manager, with PR and comms experience, builds your searches, dashboards and reports, then trains your team.

3

See the difference first

Compare Truescope with your current coverage, on your own searches, before you commit.

See how you can get more signals and insights from your media intelligence platform

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Questions from teams moving from Isentia

How is Truescope different from Isentia?

Both cover the core Australian media types. Truescope runs on one platform built for AI from day one, with Analyst, Assistant and Search AI available now, no caps on searches, results or report templates, and flexible terms with no lock-ins. And Truescope is 100% Australian-owned, with your data hosted in Australia.

Is Truescope Australian-owned?

Yes. Truescope is 100% Australian-owned and headquartered in Sydney. Our founders built one of Australia’s first media monitoring platforms.

Where is our data stored?

All Truescope data is hosted in Australia, in Amazon Web Services’ Sydney region. Your searches, coverage and reports stay onshore.

Will we get the Australian coverage we have today?

Truescope covers every major Australian media type (print, online, TV, radio, podcasts and social media) in one feed, and holds the key content licences, including News Corp Australia, Nine, Australian Community Media and Copyright Agency. We check that the sources you rely on are covered before you sign, and can add sources on request.

Can Truescope monitor media outside Australia?

Yes. Truescope ingests millions of media items every day from around the world, with comprehensive coverage across all major markets, including a significant Chinese media feed through Uniwyse. Australian and international coverage sit in the same platform, so your local and global monitoring, alerts and reports all run from one place.

Are we locked into a long contract?

No. Truescope has flexible terms with no multi-year contracts or auto-renewal, and our pricing is published on our website.

Is there a limit on searches?

No. Search as much as you want, whenever you want, with no caps or restrictions.

What does Truescope AI add to media monitoring?

Truescope Assistant summarises coverage the moment it’s published. Truescope Analyst turns your questions into cited answers, in minutes, so you can report to leadership with evidence behind every point.

Can we tag coverage against our own key messages?

Yes, automatically. Describe your key messages, issues or risk levels in plain language, and Truescope tags and scores every matching story as it arrives. Those tags and scores work across the whole platform: as filters in the Inbox, dimensions on dashboards, and fields in reports and alerts.

How does Truescope keep our coverage relevant?

Out of the box, Truescope’s Boolean search is on par with the search engines other media monitoring providers use. On top of that, you can add an automated AI relevance check that reviews every matching story against your own brief, records why it is or isn’t relevant, and acts on the result, such as keeping off-topic coverage out of your feed, reports and alerts.

How does Truescope measure sentiment?

Truescope scores sentiment at four levels: the whole story, each organisation or person mentioned, each sentence and each key phrase. For sentiment that follows your own rules, such as what counts as positive or negative for your organisation, you can add an AI enrichment that scores coverage to your brief. Its result then replaces the standard story sentiment across the platform.

Can we see Truescope on our own coverage first?

Yes. Book a demo and we’ll walk you through Truescope using your brand, your competitors and the Australian sources that matter to you.