Dripify vs Expandi vs HeyReach for LinkedIn Outreach
Dripify and Expandi handle LinkedIn sending, but stop at the reply. See the invite math, accept rates, and when agencies should switch to HeyReach instead.
Which tool should you pick if you only run LinkedIn?
Dripify and Expandi are the two founders keep landing on when email is not part of the plan. They pull a prospect list, send connection requests, fire follow-ups on a delay, and stop when someone replies. Dripify's interface is clean enough that you can build a sequence in an afternoon.
What you are buying there is the sending. The sequence runs, the invites go out, the follow-ups fire on day 2 and day 5. Then a prospect replies "what does this cost" at 9pm and the tool stops. Dripify's own page describes the product as automating the outreach and the follow-up, which is the honest scope.
If you are one founder sending 25 invites a day, that is about 550 a month across 22 working days. At a 3 to 5% meeting rate that is 16 to 27 meetings, and Dripify will handle the sending half of it without complaint. If you are three people running six accounts, keep reading.
Is Dripify good, or just well marketed?
It is a solid LinkedIn-only sequencer with a UI you will not have to fight. It sends, and it does not converse. Once your accept rate reaches 20 to 30%, the work moves from sending invites to answering the 15 to 22 first-message replies a month that 500 invites produce.
Follow the 500 through. Roughly 125 people accept. At a 12 to 18% first-message reply rate, 15 to 22 of them write back, and every one of those lands in your LinkedIn inbox with no sequence attached to it. Dripify pauses the campaign for that person and waits for you.
A founder on one account who genuinely likes LinkedIn conversation will never feel that ceiling. An agency running six client accounts feels it in week one, because what they want is one dashboard across all six, and that is the problem HeyReach was built for.
What should I use for several accounts or an agency?
HeyReach rotates sending across many accounts from one dashboard, and sender rotation for agencies is what it gets recommended for. If you run outreach for six clients, that is one login instead of six browser profiles. Expandi is the other cloud option, running on its own infrastructure so your laptop can be shut.
The arithmetic that pushes people here: a warm account safely sends 20 to 25 invites a day, which is about 440 to 550 a month across 22 working days. If your campaign needs 1,500 invites a month, you need three accounts at full warm volume, and four if any of them are new.
New accounts make that worse before they make it better. A fresh client account should open at 5 to 10 invites a day for the first fortnight, so it contributes about 150 invites in month one, not 500. Budget five weeks before a new sender is pulling its weight.
Which tool fits which situation?
Dripify if it is you and one account. Expandi if you want it running with your laptop shut. HeyReach if you are an agency rotating five or more client accounts. Salesflow if LinkedIn and email need to sit in one sequence. Gelee if nobody is free to answer the replies.
| Tool | What it does | Who it suits |
|---|---|---|
| Dripify | LinkedIn-only sequencing, clean UI, auto follow-ups | One founder, one or two accounts |
| Expandi | Cloud-based LinkedIn plus email, runs without your machine on | Operators who want it off their laptop |
| HeyReach | Sender rotation across many accounts, one dashboard | Agencies running 5+ client accounts |
| Salesflow | LinkedIn and email in one sequence | Teams who want both channels in one tool |
| Gelee | AI SDR: outreach, replies in your voice, objections, booking | Founders with no one to answer replies |
Salesflow's team turns up in r/Entrepreneur threads saying they do LinkedIn and email together and that they are the safest. The multi-channel part is checkable in a trial. "Safest" is a claim no vendor can prove, because LinkedIn does not publish the thresholds and nobody sees restriction data across accounts they do not own.
How many invites a day is actually safe?
20 to 25 a day on an account that has been running for months, 5 to 10 a day on a new one for the first two weeks. LinkedIn does not publish a daily limit, and the real ceiling moves with account age, profile completeness and how many people mark you as spam. Every tool promising 100 a day is spending your account.
Ramping matters more than the ceiling. A brand new account that opens at 25 invites a day tends to collect a restriction inside a fortnight. Start at 5, add 5 a week, and you are at 25 by week five with the account intact.
Your accept rate also moves with your profile, not just your copy. If accepts are sitting at 12% against a 20 to 30% benchmark, the headline is usually the problem before the message is. The LinkedIn headline rewriter is free and takes two minutes.
What reply rate should I expect from any of these?
Across our campaigns: 20 to 30% connection accept, 12 to 18% reply to the first message after connecting, 5 to 8% on follow-ups, and 3 to 5% of total invites turning into a booked meeting. Other published benchmarks put average first-touch reply at 8 to 12% and anything above 18% as good.
Worked through at 500 invites in a month: roughly 125 accepts, 15 to 22 replies to the first message, another 5 to 8 off follow-ups. Call it 25 conversations. At a 3 to 5% meeting rate that is 15 to 25 meetings, and the gap between the top and bottom of that range is how fast and how well the replies get answered.
None of this changes much between Dripify, Expandi and HeyReach. They all send the same invite to the same person on the same platform.
What does none of these tools do?
They do not answer the replies. Every tool in the table sends, schedules, pauses on response and reports. The reply itself is yours: the pricing question, the "we use a competitor", the "circle back in Q3". That is where the meeting is booked or lost, and nothing in the table touches it.
Price the hour. Managing 25 conversations a month properly runs about 20 hours once you count writing, checking the thread history, and the context switching. At $100 an hour that is $2,000 of your month on top of the seat. Triple the invites to 1,500 and you are at 60 hours, which is more than a week and a half of full-time work. We put the full breakdown in when a cheap LinkedIn automation seat stops being cheap.
If you have an SDR on payroll, those 20 hours are already paid for, and a sequencer seat is the right answer. Buy them Dripify or HeyReach and stop reading comparison posts.
Which ones DM people who comment on a post?
Very few of them properly. Most LinkedIn tools treat comment-to-DM as a trigger that fires a template at anyone who types anything under your post, which is how people end up DMing their own employees. We compared the ones that handle it correctly in LinkedIn automation tools and comment-to-DM.
Gelee's Post Commenters preset watches a specific post, DMs each commenter, then replies to their comment publicly once the DM has been confirmed sent. The public reply after the DM is the part that matters, because "check your DMs" posted before the DM exists is the most common way this breaks.
Volume is the other constraint nobody mentions. A post with 80 comments is 80 DMs, and at 20 to 25 a day that is a four day queue if you want the account to stay unrestricted. A tool that sends all 80 in an afternoon is making a decision about your account that you did not agree to.
Should you buy Gelee instead?
Not if you already have two SDRs who like their tool. Buy them HeyReach and let them work. Gelee is for the founder doing it alone: it writes in your voice, answers replies, handles objections from your playbook and books the meeting, so the 20 hours stop being yours. There is no self-serve signup and setup takes 15 minutes.
Gelee is also wrong for you if your buyers are not on LinkedIn, or if you want email as the primary channel. Overloop and Salesflow both run email plus LinkedIn in one sequence and we do not. Pricing is shared on a demo call.
If you want the wider map of what automation on LinkedIn can and cannot do in 2026, we wrote that up here.