The best tools to automate LinkedIn prospecting
Eight tools compared, a method that protects your account, message templates and the tips you only find in forums.
Short answer: if you work solo or in a small team, Waalaxy does the job for €19 a month. If you want LinkedIn and email in the same sequence, pick lemlist or La Growth Machine. If you run several LinkedIn accounts, HeyReach was built for that. And if money is tight, Linked Helper costs about $8 a month on a yearly plan, as long as you are fine installing desktop software.
The tool matters less than how you use it. LinkedIn publishes no limits, bans automation in its User Agreement, and restricts accounts that send too many invites to strangers. We compared these tools and read hundreds of user reviews. Here is what actually works in 2026, with message templates and a full budget for each profile.
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8 tools to automate LinkedIn, side by side
Prices are for the cheapest plan that actually automates LinkedIn, before tax, billed monthly unless stated otherwise. Some vendors only show euros (Waalaxy, La Growth Machine): we kept their currency. None of these tools has a free plan that automates anything. They all offer a trial, from 7 to 15 days. To compare two favorites in depth, read our lemlist vs Waalaxy comparison.
Your real budget, by profile. The tool is only one line on the bill. A freelancer on Waalaxy Pro (€19) plus Sales Navigator Core ($119.99) pays around $140 a month, or roughly $100 with both on yearly billing. A small sales team equipping one rep with La Growth Machine Pro (€120), Sales Navigator and an enrichment tool like Dropcontact (€79 a month for 500 credits) goes past $300 in month one. An agency pays HeyReach per sender: $79 per account per month, then $999 for 25 to 50 accounts, on top of each sender's LinkedIn license.
| Best for | Free plan | Team size | Visit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waalaxy | Best for getting started | 4.2/5 | €19/mo | — | Freelancers, small businesses | Visit → |
| 2 | lemlist | Best for LinkedIn + email | 4.1/5 | $109/mo | — | SMBs, sales teams | Visit → |
| 3 | HeyReach | Best for multiple accounts | 4.1/5 | $79/mo per account | — | Agencies, teams with 3+ accounts | Visit → |
| 4 | La Growth Machine | Best multichannel built around LinkedIn | 4.0/5 | €60/mo per identity | — | SMBs, scale-ups | Visit → |
| 5 | Kanbox | Best cheap cloud option | 3.9/5 | $20/mo ($12 yearly) | — | Freelancers, tight budgets | Visit → |
| 6 | Expandi | Most careful with account safety | 3.8/5 | $99/mo ($79 yearly) | — | High volume on one channel | Visit → |
| 7 | Linked Helper | Cheapest on a yearly plan | 3.6/5 | $15/mo (about $8 yearly) | — | Technical users | Visit → |
| 8 | Dripify | Simple cloud tool, LinkedIn and email | 3.5/5 | $79/mo ($59 yearly) | — | Solo reps, small sales teams | Visit → |
Add Sales Navigator ($119.99 a month, or $1,079.88 a year) if you want sharp lists: none of these tools replaces it for targeting. Our full Sales Navigator review tells you when it is worth the money.
Waalaxy
Waalaxy (formerly ProspectIn) is the easiest way to start. You sign up on the web app, import a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator search, pick a ready-made sequence (visit, invite, two follow-ups) and the campaign runs. The old Chrome extension is gone: Waalaxy is now fully cloud-based, so campaigns keep running when you close LinkedIn. Its AI assistant, Waami, drafts messages from your offer in five languages, on simple sequences. In our comparison it was the one a beginner gets comfortable with fastest, and user reviews agree: the average rating sits above 4.5 across more than 1,000 public reviews.
Its limit is quotas. Pro at €19 caps you at 300 invites a month, Advanced (€49) and Business (€69) at 800. Email credits stay thin until Business: 25 a month, against 500 on Business, and email steps in sequences only come with Business. A few users also miss features removed over the years and dislike a support desk that starts with a bot. Pricing is in euros even for US buyers, so expect a small currency fee on your card. For solo use, nothing here is a dealbreaker. For a team that wants real multichannel, look at lemlist or La Growth Machine, or browse our Waalaxy alternatives. Plan details are in our Waalaxy pricing breakdown.
- Ready-made sequences and AI-written messages (Waami)
- One-click import of a Sales Navigator search
- Make, Zapier and n8n modules from Advanced
- Up to 50% off with yearly billing
- ✓Easiest tool on this list
- ✓Lowest entry price among cloud tools
- ✓Fully cloud, nothing to keep open
- ✗Only 300 invites a month on Pro
- ✗Email is an afterthought before Business
- ✗LinkedIn inbox is a paid add-on (€20 a month)
The right first tool. Move up to Advanced the day you want to connect your CRM, not before.
lemlist
lemlist started as a cold email tool and added LinkedIn later. That history makes it the richest option when you want to switch between both channels in one sequence. A profile visit, an email, an invite, a LinkedIn voice note, then an InMail if the person never accepted: it all lives in one editor, with conditions like "if accepted" or "if opened".
Watch the plan trap. The $69 Email plan has no LinkedIn steps at all: you need Multichannel, at $109 a month or $87 on yearly billing. Public reviews stay high (4.5 across 250+ reviews), but several customers complain about extra seats on the bill and a support desk that answers with AI first. In our comparison, email deliverability is handled with care and the LinkedIn side is more than enough. On the AI front, lemlist pushes its agents (lemAgent), which research the account and contact to personalize each message. It is not the safest pick for pushing high LinkedIn-only volume. Full plan details are in our lemlist pricing guide.
- Voice notes and InMail inside the sequence
- Conditions per channel (accepted, opened, replied)
- Built-in lead database, enrichment add-on ($20 a month, $16 yearly)
- 14-day trial with multichannel features
- ✓Best multichannel sequence editor
- ✓Email and LinkedIn in one tool
- ✓Lots of native CRM integrations
- ✗No LinkedIn on the Email plan
- ✗Pricier than Waalaxy
- ✗Complaints about seat billing
Pick it if email is your main channel and LinkedIn backs it up. If the price stings, check our lemlist alternatives.
HeyReach
HeyReach starts from a simple idea: if one LinkedIn account should stay around 100 invites a week, you need several accounts to go further. The tool splits a campaign across senders, pulls every reply into one shared inbox and runs in the cloud, with no extension to keep open.
Pricing follows the number of accounts: $79 per sender per month, $64 on yearly billing, then an Agency plan at $999 a month for 25 to 50 senders, white label included. The 14-day trial needs no card and covers 3 LinkedIn accounts. Users praise the account rotation and the unified inbox. Complaints focus on slower support than before (24 to 48 hour waits get mentioned), bugs and a no-refund policy. HeyReach only does LinkedIn: there is no native email, so you plug it into a cold email tool.
- Automatic rotation between sender accounts
- One inbox for every account
- Make triggers on incoming replies
- White label on the Agency plan
- ✓Built for agencies from day one
- ✓Cloud, nothing to leave running
- ✓The shared inbox saves hours
- ✗LinkedIn only, no email
- ✗Expensive for a single account
- ✗Several customers say support has slipped
Unbeatable past three accounts. Below that, Waalaxy or Kanbox do the job for far less.
La Growth Machine
La Growth Machine (LGM) is a Paris-based answer to lemlist, but designed around LinkedIn first. Each "identity" (a rep, their LinkedIn, their email inbox) owns its sequences. Enrichment is included: 250 contacts a month on Basic, 400 on Pro, 1,000 on Ultimate. It runs in the cloud, sends LinkedIn voice notes and has an AI writing assistant from Basic.
The catch is the plan ladder, priced in euros. Basic (€60) is limited to LinkedIn and email, 3 active campaigns and 3 identities. Make, Zapier and the API only arrive on Pro (€120), and HubSpot or Pipedrive sync sits in Ultimate. One reviewer put it bluntly: the features everyone needs are mostly hidden in the most expensive edition. Others mention sync bugs and a longer learning curve than Waalaxy. For a structured sales team, the tool delivers.
- LinkedIn and email from Basic, calls from Pro, X on Ultimate
- 250 to 1,000 enriched contacts a month included
- Fully cloud
- LinkedIn voice notes
- ✓Multichannel designed around LinkedIn
- ✓Enrichment included
- ✓Clean, well-documented sequence builder
- ✗Integrations locked to pricier plans
- ✗Per-identity billing climbs fast
- ✗Reported sync bugs
The pick for a sales team that wants one tool for LinkedIn and email, and is ready to pay for Pro.
Kanbox
Kanbox began as a way to turn your LinkedIn inbox into columns, like a sales pipeline board, and only later added automated campaigns. That remains its real strength: your conversations become a pipeline with tags and stages, without leaving LinkedIn. Campaigns run in the cloud with your laptop closed.
It has the lowest entry price of the cloud tools: $20 a month, $12 on yearly billing, with one active campaign and 300 imported contacts a month. The next tier, Essential ($45, $30 yearly), moves to 3 campaigns and 600 imports. Pro ($80, $50 yearly) goes up to 5 campaigns at once. Its 15-day trial is the longest in this ranking. On the downside, sequences stay simpler than lemlist or LGM, and email lookups use search credits at 1 credit per address.
How to use it: during the trial, sort your existing inbox into a pipeline first, then launch a single campaign on a list of 100 people. If you need a second audience running in parallel, Essential is enough.
- LinkedIn inbox turned into a pipeline
- Cloud, campaigns run with your computer off
- 15-day trial, no card
- Email credits that never expire
- ✓Cheapest of the cloud tools
- ✓Great for tracking conversations
- ✓No commitment on monthly billing
- ✗One active campaign on Starter, 5 on Pro
- ✗Less advanced sequences
- ✗Few public reviews to judge support
The best value for a freelancer who lives in their LinkedIn inbox.
Expandi
Expandi built its name on account safety. Every account gets a dedicated IP address in its own country, the tool runs in the cloud and its Business plan includes automatic profile warm-up: it starts at low volume and you set how fast it ramps. Per-action daily caps round it out. Conditional sequences are well designed and mix invites, messages and follow-up emails.
The price is that of a serious tool: $99 a month, $79 yearly, with no entry tier. The trial lasts only 7 days and rolls into a paid plan if you do not cancel. One forum user summed it up: great, but overkill if LinkedIn is not your number one channel. We agree.
How to use it: turn on warm-up the moment you connect a newer account, set daily caps below the defaults for week one, then add email as a follow-up for people who do not accept. Put the trial end date in your calendar.
- Dedicated IP per account, in your country
- Automatic profile warm-up
- Daily caps per action type
- Conditional LinkedIn and email sequences
- ✓Safest option for your account
- ✓Cloud
- ✓Well-thought-out sequences
- ✗Most expensive for a single account
- ✗Short trial that converts on its own
- ✗No cheap starter plan
Worth it if a restricted LinkedIn account would cost you real deals. Otherwise, Waalaxy is enough.
Linked Helper
Linked Helper is desktop software you install on your computer (or on a server you rent). It does nearly everything: invites, messages, visits, list exports, reply sorting. The base plan costs $15 a month, and the discount climbs to 45% over 12 months, about $8.25 a month: the cheapest option here on a yearly plan. If you do not want to leave your machine running, a paid cloud add-on starts at $16.50 a month.
The low price has a cost: the interface feels dated and setup takes time. Without the cloud add-on, it only works while the machine stays on. Users describe it as reliable but aging. You can tune almost everything: delays between actions, reply filters, step logic. For a beginner, it is the wrong pick.
How to use it: use the 14-day trial, which does not auto-renew, to build one simple campaign (visit, invite, message). If it runs well, go straight to yearly billing to get the discount.
- About $8.25 a month on yearly billing
- Paid cloud add-on from $16.50 a month
- Data stored locally if you want
- A huge range of automatable actions
- ✓Cheapest on a yearly plan
- ✓Full control over your data
- ✓14-day trial that does not auto-renew
- ✗Computer must stay on, unless you pay for cloud
- ✗Dated interface
- ✗Steep learning curve
For tinkerers who want to pay as little as possible. Everyone else will save time with a cloud tool.
Dripify
Dripify shows up in almost every US roundup, and for good reason: it is simple. It runs on its own servers, so campaigns move forward with your computer off, and every sequence can mix LinkedIn steps and emails from the Pro plan. Each month includes 100 email finder credits, and a credit is only used when an address is found and verified.
Pricing starts at $79 a month ($59 yearly) for Pro, aimed at a single rep. Advanced ($99, $79 yearly) adds team management, A/B tests and de-duplication between reps. The default daily quotas (75 invites a day) are higher than we recommend: lower them yourself. On the CRM side, HubSpot connects natively, the rest goes through Zapier, Make or webhooks.
How to use it: during the 7-day trial (no card, nothing charged at the end), connect your inbox and build an invite, message, email sequence. Before launch, bring the caps down to 15 or 20 invites a day.
- Fully cloud, campaigns run with your computer off
- LinkedIn and email in one sequence from Pro
- 100 email finder credits a month
- Native HubSpot, plus Zapier and Make
- ✓Trial with no card and no auto-charge
- ✓Fast to learn
- ✓Email included from the entry plan
- ✗Pricier than Waalaxy for a beginner
- ✗Default quotas too high, lower them
- ✗Thinner sequence logic than lemlist
A solid cloud alternative to Waalaxy if you want email from day one and dollar pricing. On a tight budget, Kanbox stays cheaper.
How to automate LinkedIn prospecting in 8 steps
No tool can save a bad campaign. Here is the order we follow for every launch, from profile to weekly reporting.
What you can automate: profile visits, invites, the first message, follow-ups, list exports and CRM sync. What you should never automate: replies. The moment someone answers, the conversation goes back to a human.
1. Fix your profile first
Your invite shows up with your photo, your name and your headline, nothing else. That is all the person uses to decide. Use a clear photo of your face, a headline that says what you do for whom ("I help accounting firms automate data entry") instead of your job title, and a banner that repeats it.
Add a five-line About section about your customer's problem, plus two or three recent posts. An empty profile with no activity looks fake, and that is exactly what makes people click "I don't know this person".
- Time
- 1 hour
- Tool
2. Write your target in one sentence
Before you open Sales Navigator, write your target in one sentence: "Heads of sales at B2B software companies with 20 to 200 employees that are hiring reps." If you cannot, your list will be too broad and your messages too vague.
Add a signal that gives you a reason to reach out now: a job change in the last 90 days, a funding round, an open role, a recent post. The message almost writes itself after that.
- Output
- 1 sentence + 1 signal
3. Build a small list in Sales Navigator
Sales Navigator is still the best targeting tool: filters by company size, seniority, function, and the "changed jobs in the past 90 days" filter. Core costs $119.99 a month, or $1,079.88 a year, about $90 a month. It also gives you 50 InMails a month, which roll over up to 150. Our Sales Navigator review covers what it adds.
Aim for 100 to 300 people per campaign, not 2,000. A small list can be personalized, measured and fixed. Every tool in the ranking imports a Sales Navigator search in one click. To keep a clean list in a spreadsheet, Evaboot exports your Sales Navigator searches with verified emails (from $9 a month for 100 credits), and PhantomBuster can scrape a list or automate one-off tasks (a free plan with 30 minutes of run time a month, then $69 a month).
- Price
- $119.99/mo
- List size
- 100 to 300
- Export
- Evaboot, PhantomBuster
4. Connect the tool and warm up the account
Warm-up means ramping an account up slowly. A new or quiet account that jumps from zero to 100 invites in a week sends the worst possible signal. Start at 10 to 15 invites a day and climb over two weeks while you watch your acceptance rate. It is the advice that comes up most in forums, from people who already got restricted.
Meanwhile, keep normal activity going: a few comments, some reactions, one post a week. Expandi handles the ramp-up on its own on the Business plan. With the other tools, set the quotas by hand.
- Start
- 10 to 15 invites/day
- Ramp-up
- 2 weeks
5. Build a short sequence
Our base sequence has five touches: a profile visit, an invite, a first message the day after they accept, then two follow-ups 4 to 7 days apart. That is it. Vendor data backs this up: the second follow-up still adds replies, the third and beyond add almost nothing.
Keep every message under 400 characters. Vendor studies measure 22% more replies on short InMails below that mark. The first message sells nothing: it mentions the signal (the new role, the post) and asks a question someone can answer in one line.
Three templates to adapt (under 400 characters each):
First message, "new role" signal: "Hi Claire, thanks for connecting. Saw you took over sales at Datapilot a few weeks ago. In the first months, a lot of sales leaders rethink how the team prospects. Is that on your plate right now, or more of a later-this-year thing?"
First message after a post: "Hi Marc, your post about hours lost on expense reports hit home. Did you fix it in-house, or is your team still doing it by hand?"
Follow-up: "Just one follow-up, Claire. If this isn't a priority, a quick 'not now' works for me and I won't write again."
- Touches
- 5 total, 3 messages
- Length
- < 400 characters
6. Add email as backup
About two invites out of three never get accepted. Without email, those people simply drop out of your campaign. Find their work address with an enrichment tool (Dropcontact only charges for found emails, Kaspr works straight from the LinkedIn profile), then plan an email if the invite is still pending after 7 days.
Order matters: LinkedIn first, email a few days later. By the time your email lands, they have already seen your face. Sending both on the same day with the same text reads as automation. In the US, CAN-SPAM also requires a working opt-out and a real postal address in every commercial email, B2B included. To pick an enrichment tool, read our FullEnrich vs Dropcontact comparison. For sending, see our ranking of the best cold email tools.
- Delay
- 7 days with no accept
- Tools
- Dropcontact, Kaspr
7. Start small and review every week
Launch on 50 people and track three numbers every week: acceptance rate (around 28 to 30% is normal, above 40% means your targeting is good), reply rate after acceptance (around 10% on average) and meetings booked. Acceptance under 20% means your profile or your target is off.
Change one thing at a time: the target, then the first message, then the follow-up. Every Friday, withdraw invites pending for more than three weeks. 63% of acceptances come within 24 hours and 88% within a week: past that, your odds get slim.
- Normal acceptance
- 28 to 30%
- Average reply
- about 10%
8. Take replies back and fill your CRM
A reply stops the sequence: every tool on this page does that automatically. From there, you answer yourself, within the hour if you can. Keep replies in one inbox: HeyReach pulls them from every account, Kanbox turns your inbox into a pipeline, Waalaxy sells a LinkedIn inbox add-on (€20 a month).
Then every useful conversation should land in your CRM. Native sync depends on the plan: HubSpot and Pipedrive with lemlist from the Email plan, HubSpot with Dripify from Pro, HubSpot and Pipedrive with La Growth Machine only on Ultimate, and Make, Zapier or n8n with Waalaxy from Advanced. Check this before you choose: it often decides which plan you really need.
- Reply time
- within the hour
- CRM
- HubSpot, Pipedrive
The tips you only find in forums
What we learned comparing these tools, and what reps who prospect every day learned the hard way.
Think in rolling weeks, not days
LimitsLinkedIn publishes no official limit. The cap the community sees sits around 100 invites over a rolling 7 days, a bit more on an old and very active account, less on a new one. "Rolling" means 100 invites sent on a Monday block you until the next Monday. Spread them out: 15 to 20 per workday is the right pace.
Withdraw pending invites, but not to resend them
LimitsA pile of ignored invites is one of the signals LinkedIn itself lists as a cause of restriction. Withdraw the ones older than three weeks. But know that after a withdrawal, LinkedIn blocks you from inviting the same person again for up to three weeks. So never withdraw an invite just to resend it with a better note: switch to email or comment on one of their posts.
Send the invite without a note
MessagesIt sounds wrong, but a study of more than 20 million requests found the same acceptance rate with or without a note (26.4% either way). On a free account, LinkedIn also allows only a handful of personalized notes a month, three according to recent reports, capped at 200 characters. Save your words for the first message after they accept: that is where they count.
Personalize with AI without sounding like a bot
MessagesWaalaxy (with Waami) and lemlist (with its agents) write messages with AI, and La Growth Machine has its own writing assistant. The trap is letting AI write the whole message. You get generic copy full of vague compliments. Give it one job, the first line, based on a precise fact (the signal from step 2), and write the rest yourself. Read the first 20 messages before launch and cut anything you would not say out loud.
Warm up the person before you invite
MessagesVisit their profile, react to a post, leave a useful comment, then invite two or three days later. A test on 800 prospects split into four groups saw acceptance rise from 45% to 60% and replies from 15% to 45% after two weeks of engagement before the invite. Another vendor's data points the same way: a message preceded by a profile visit gets more than twice the replies.
Watch out for "I don't know this person"
SafetyWhen someone declines your invite by clicking "I don't know this person", LinkedIn counts it against you, and you never see it. That is the real reason behind restrictions, far more than the software you use. After several restrictions, LinkedIn can even force you to enter the email address of everyone you invite, permanently. The fix: targets with a reason to know you, and a credible profile.
Break the pattern
SafetyIn forums, people who got restricted blame regularity more than volume: the same messages at the same times, ignoring replies. Pick a tool that randomizes delays between actions, pause campaigns on weekends, and mix invites, visits and messages throughout the day.
Message open profiles for free
VolumePremium members can turn on an "open profile": anyone can then InMail them without spending a credit. In Sales Navigator, filter your list on these profiles and message them directly, no invite needed. That is extra volume that does not touch your weekly invite limit.
Do not let your InMails go to waste
VolumeSales Navigator Core gives you 50 InMails a month, rolling over up to 150, and you cannot buy more. Keep them for people who have not accepted your invite after a week, with a message different from your first touch.
Voice notes, as the second follow-up
Messageslemlist and La Growth Machine send LinkedIn voice notes. They stand out, on one condition: never as a first touch. Use them as a follow-up, 20 to 30 seconds, natural tone, with the person's first name and the exact reason you are reaching out. A voice note that sounds too polished comes across as an ad.
Send mid-week, in the morning
MessagesData from more than 20 million messages puts Tuesday and Monday on top for replies, and Saturday last. The gap is small, but it is free: schedule messages Monday to Thursday, between 9 and 11 a.m. in your prospect's time zone (that matters a lot if you sell coast to coast).
Several accounts, not one account pushed hard
VolumeTo send more, agencies do not push one account past 100 invites: they rotate several real accounts (their team's) in HeyReach or La Growth Machine. Never fake profiles: they are the first reason accounts get shut down.
Stay on the right side of the rules
RulesLinkedIn's User Agreement (section 8.2) bans "bots or other unauthorized automated methods". Every tool on this page therefore puts your account at risk of restriction: keep volumes modest, always. On the email side, US law (CAN-SPAM) lets you email business contacts without prior consent, as long as you identify yourself, include a postal address and honor opt-outs within 10 business days. There is no exception for B2B email. If you prospect into Europe, GDPR applies on top.
Automating LinkedIn prospecting, your questions
Is LinkedIn automation allowed?
No. The User Agreement bans "bots or other unauthorized automated methods", and LinkedIn can restrict or close accounts that use them. In practice, restrictions mostly hit accounts that send too many invites to strangers. Modest volume and relevant targets lower the risk, but never remove it.
Is LinkedIn automation safe?
Safer than its reputation, if you follow three rules: stay around 100 invites a week, warm up new accounts over two weeks, and target people with a reason to know you. Cloud tools with a dedicated IP per account, like Expandi or HeyReach, reduce the technical signals. None of that makes it risk-free.
What should I do if my LinkedIn account gets restricted?
Stop every campaign and wait: an invite restriction usually lasts one week, and LinkedIn support cannot shorten it. Withdrawing pending invites does not lift it. Restart at 10 invites a day afterwards. Careful: repeated restrictions can make entering each invitee's email address mandatory for good.
How much does Sales Navigator cost in 2026?
Core costs $119.99 a month, or $1,079.88 a year, about $90 a month. It includes 50 InMails a month, rolling over up to 150, and the advanced filters. If you prospect all year, yearly billing saves you about $360. Our Sales Navigator review tells you when it pays off.
Do I need Sales Navigator to automate prospecting?
No, but it saves a lot of time. Every tool also imports a regular LinkedIn search. Sales Navigator adds fine filters (job changes, company size), 50 InMails a month and access to open profiles. Go yearly: $1,079.88 instead of 12 times $119.99.
Is there a free LinkedIn automation tool?
Not really in 2026. None of the tools on this page has a free plan that sends invites, only trials of 7 to 15 days. The cheapest on a yearly plan is Linked Helper, about $8 a month, but it is desktop software. The cheapest cloud option is Kanbox, $12 a month yearly. To test without paying, run a campaign during the 15-day Kanbox trial or the 7-day Dripify trial, both with no card.
Is Waalaxy free?
Not for automation anymore. Waalaxy keeps a free Freemium account, but it runs no automation: it stores your prospects and lets you import a CSV file. To send invites you need Pro, at €19 a month, with a 14-day trial. Older articles about free invites describe a plan that no longer exists.
How do I automate LinkedIn messages?
With a sequence tool that sends the first message the day after someone accepts, then one or two follow-ups, and stops as soon as the person replies. Keep each message under 400 characters, built around a precise signal (a new role, a post), and let AI write the first line at most. Replies are always handled by a human.
Desktop software or cloud tool: which one?
Cloud, if you can. The real split today is desktop versus cloud. Linked Helper installs on your computer and only works while it stays on, unless you pay for its cloud add-on. Waalaxy (which dropped its Chrome extension), Kanbox, Dripify, HeyReach, La Growth Machine, Expandi and lemlist run in the cloud with your computer off, and handle multiple accounts better.
What is a good reply rate for LinkedIn outreach?
Around 10% replies after acceptance is average. Above 15%, your campaign is good. For acceptance, 28 to 30% is normal and 40% is very good. Measure these per campaign, not across the whole account, or a bad audience will hide a good one.
