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Quick Start

Get from zero to exploring global trends in 2 minutes.

  1. Sign up for free

    Go to app.busypipe.com/sign-up and create your account. No credit card required — your account starts with a 14-day Professional trial. We email you a reminder 3 days before it ends; when it does, you move to the free plan, which keeps full access to the Trends page. If you tracked more than the free plan’s 3 items during the trial, the extras are paused, shown as Archived (your own account is kept first, then the earliest-added items) and resume when you upgrade.

  2. Answer two quick questions

    Right after sign-up we ask what best describes you and how you heard about busypipe. Each question has a Skip button, and you can skip the whole survey.

  3. Track your first TikTok profile

    Next, you pick one TikTok profile to track: a creator you follow, a competitor, or your own account. Type a handle or name, tap Search, then tap Track next to the right profile. busypipe starts collecting that profile’s numbers and posts right away and opens its page. Until they arrive, the page says so. After that a new data point lands about once a day, so the profile’s trends fill in over the first few days. You only do this once: you can track more, or remove this one, any time afterwards. Not ready to pick one? Tap Skip for now to go straight to the dashboard, where a search box at the top lets you find a profile and track it later. If it isn’t in the results yet, tap Search TikTok live.

  4. Start from your dashboard

    Once your first profile is tracked, the dashboard is your home page. The first thing you’ll see is a Get started checklist with three steps: track your first creator, hashtag, or sound; mark which account is yours (skip this if you’re only tracking competitors — it’s optional); and open one of your tracked items to see the numbers. It shows how many steps you’ve completed and disappears on its own once you’ve finished or skipped everything — workspace Owners and Admins can also dismiss it any time with the × in its corner.

    Below the checklist, if you haven’t tracked anything yet, the dashboard leads with what’s trending on TikTok right now — hashtags, sounds, and posts — so you have somewhere to start. As soon as you track anything, the dashboard shifts to your own numbers: a pulse card recapping the biggest movers across your profiles, hashtags, and sounds (with a short headline and a standout recent post), your portfolios at a glance, and — once you track profiles — the profiles with the biggest follower change over the period you pick. See the Dashboard guide.

  5. Open the Trends page

    Click Trends in the sidebar (under Discover). You’ll see a world heatmap showing trend activity by country.

  6. Click a country

    Click any colored country on the map to drill down. You’ll see:

    • KPI tiles — how many search queries, hashtags, audio tracks, and content items are trending
    • Search tab — top trending search queries with popularity scores and sparkline trends
    • Hashtags tab — trending hashtags with view counts and rank trends
    • Audio tab — charting audio tracks with position history
    • Trending topics tab — videos surfacing around the country’s trending hashtags, with rank trends

  7. Filter by category

    On the Search tab, use the Category dropdown to filter by industry — Education, Technology, Fashion, Health, and more. Some options show a region or language in parentheses to tell you which market they cover.

  8. Change the time range

    Use the time-range dropdown — Last 7 days, Last 30 days, Last 90 days, Last year, or specific dates — to see different time windows. Longer ranges show more data and different trends. (Free covers 30 days of history, Starter 90 days, Professional 1 year, and Research and Enterprise reach back to 2014. Dates older than your plan allows are greyed out in the calendar.)

Take the tour

A one-minute tour shows you where search, portfolios and trends live. While the Get started card is on your dashboard, the tour waits for you to start it from the card; once you finish or dismiss the card, it starts on its own the next time you open the dashboard, unless you’ve already taken it. Press Esc to close it at any time — it won’t show up on its own again. To replay it, choose Take the tour at the bottom of the sidebar or in the Get started card.

What’s next?

Now that you’ve explored trends, you can:

  • Search and track — use the Search page to find TikTok creators, hashtags, and audio, then add them to a portfolio to track over time
  • Compare countries — explore multiple countries to find where trends are strongest for your market
  • Export data — upgrade to a paid plan to export trend data as CSV or access it via API

Learn more