Waalaxy alternative
The Waalaxy alternative that books the call
Keep what works. Add live signals, lists that refill themselves and replies drafted for you.
Why teams switch
Why people leave Waalaxy.
Built for simple sequences
Waalaxy is a good start. Gelee is built for when outbound has to book real meetings.
Replies are on you
Gelee drafts every reply and sends your booking link.
A closed API
Waalaxy's help center says its API isn't open for custom builds. Gelee's is, with webhooks and an MCP.
What you get
Everything, on every plan.
Side by side
Gelee vs Waalaxy.
| Feature | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Finding buyers | |||
| Live buying signals (hiring, funding, job changes) | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Evergreen lists that add new matches every day | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Every lead enriched automatically | ✓ | Email finder | |
| ICP filters checked before every send | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Scores every lead before reaching out | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Reaching them | |||
| Routes your best accounts to your best prospects | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Per-account limits for invites, messages, reads, likes and comments | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Smart warm-up and ramp-up | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Post engager campaigns | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Keyword and follower campaigns | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Free InMails to Open Profiles | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Blacklist | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Replies and booking | |||
| AI drafts replies and sends your booking link | ✓ | ✕ | |
| One inbox for every account | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Custom Slack notifications | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Setup and plumbing | |||
| Set up for you by our team | ✓ | ✕ | |
| CRM integrations | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Public API and webhooks | ✓ | Limited | |
| MCP for Claude and ChatGPT | ✓ | ✕ | |
How to switch
8 steps. We do them with you.
Export your Waalaxy prospects
Export each prospect list or campaign to CSV from Waalaxy. Filter first if you only want some of them. Keep the LinkedIn URL, name, company, title and status.
Bring your do-not-contact list over first
Do this first. Before a single lead goes in. Collect the prospects you excluded in Waalaxy, plus anyone already contacted.
Then send it over in one call, or add it in the app's Settings. People and whole companies both work, and sending the same list twice won't break anything. Gelee checks it when someone joins a campaign and again right before every message.
curl -X POST "https://www.gelee.ai/api/v1/blacklist" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer gk_your_key" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"entries":[ {"value":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/janedoe","type":"account"}, {"value":"Acme Corp","type":"company"} ]}'Connect your LinkedIn seats
Whoever sends the outreach connects their LinkedIn in the Gelee app, under Accounts. It takes a minute.
One rule matters more than the rest: don't let Waalaxy and Gelee both run campaigns from the same seat at the same time. Neither tool knows what the other sent, and LinkedIn sees both. Pause that seat's Waalaxy campaigns first, then switch it on in Gelee.
Brand new or rested account? Turn on warm-up and it starts slow.
Swap your message variables
Paste your Waalaxy messages into Gelee steps and swap the variables. If a variable comes back empty, Gelee drops that sentence instead of sending a blank, so you don't need a fallback on every one.
Anything of your own, like a report link or a finding, becomes a custom field:
{{custom.field_name}}. If a step needs a field that isn't there yet, it waits for it (up to a day). Handy if you write the link onto the lead when they accept.- first name →
{{firstName}} - company →
{{company}} - job title →
{{role}}
- first name →
Rebuild the sequence
Rebuild the invite and message steps with their waits. Visit and follow steps are not Gelee steps.
Add your leads
Make the campaign, then add people however's easiest: upload the CSV, push them with the API, or point Zapier or Clay at the campaign's intake URL. All Gelee needs is the LinkedIn URL.
Leave out anyone Waalaxy already reached, unless you actually want a second touch. Gelee won't put the same person in two of your campaigns anyway.
curl -X POST "https://www.gelee.ai/api/v1/campaigns/CAMPAIGN_ID/leads" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer gk_your_key" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Idempotency-Key: import-batch-1" \ -d '{"leads":[{"linkedin_url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/janedoe", "first_name":"Jane","company":"Acme","title":"VP Sales", "custom_fields":{"report_link":"https://acme.example/r/5d70"}, "tags":["imported"]}]}'Repoint your integrations
Where a Waalaxy CRM sync step or webhook feeds Zapier, Make or n8n, replace it with a Gelee webhook. Gelee also has an API for writing back.
In Gelee, add a webhook under Settings, Event Destinations (or
POST /webhooks). Every event comes with the person, the seat that sent and the campaign. Hit Test to get a full sample before anything real flows.Leave the Waalaxy one running until you cut over, so your CRM doesn't have a gap.
Run both for a bit, then cut over
Don't move everything on day one. Start with a seat or two, run them next to Waalaxy for a few weeks, and look at accepts, replies and booked calls. Split by seat, never by person.
Happy? Pause the rest of Waalaxy, export one last time, move the remaining seats. Keep that last export. It's your record of who was contacted before.
Let AI do it
Let our AI move it.
The Gelee MCP already knows Waalaxy. Connect it to Claude or ChatGPT and ask it to move you over. It checks with you before anything sends.
Set up the MCPQuestions
Good to know.
Can I connect Gelee to my CRM like Waalaxy's CRM sync?
Yes, through webhooks (directly or via Zapier, Make or n8n) and the API, which also lets your CRM write outcomes and fields back to Gelee.
Can I run Waalaxy and Gelee at the same time?
Yes. Just don't run both on the same LinkedIn seat at once, and don't let them message the same people. Split by seat and you're fine.
Will I lose my Waalaxy conversation history?
No. The conversations live on LinkedIn, so they show up in Gelee once the seat connects. What doesn't come over is the other tool's own notes, tags and stats. Export those before you cancel.
Do I need the API to switch?
No. You can do all of this in the app. The API is there if you'd rather your own systems do it.
How long does a switch take?
Setup is about a day. The part that takes time is watching both side by side for a few weeks before you move everything.
For developers: API calls, webhooks and variables
Waalaxy exports prospect lists and campaigns to CSV on every plan. It sends prospect data out through a CRM sync step or a webhook (often via Zapier, Make or n8n), including on a reply. Its help center says its API is not open for custom development.
Their words, our words
| Waalaxy | Gelee | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Campaign / sequence | Campaign | |
| Prospect list | The campaign's leads | No separate list object. |
| Prospect | Lead | |
| CRM sync step | Webhook destination | |
| Inbox | Inbox | With the AI SDR drafting or sending replies. |
API calls
| Waalaxy | Gelee | Notes |
|---|---|---|
CRM sync / webhook step | Webhooks | Every event carries the person, seat and campaign. |
(API not open, per Waalaxy) | The Gelee REST API | Leads, conversations, campaigns, seats and settings. |
Webhooks
| Waalaxy | Gelee webhook | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Webhook on reply | reply_received | Plus reply_positive / reply_negative. |
| CRM sync step in a sequence | connection_accepted, message_sent, … | Pick by event instead of a sequence step. |
Message variables
| Value | Gelee variable |
|---|---|
| First name | {{firstName}} |
| Full name | {{fullName}} |
| Company | {{company}} |
| Job title | {{role}} |
| Industry | {{industry}} |
| Your own per-lead field | {{custom.your_field}} |
| A fallback when empty | {{custom.your_field|default text}} |
| Sender's name | {{senderName}} |
Discovery call
Moving from Waalaxy? We'll plan it with you.
A quick call. We learn about your market, and if it's a fit we'll move you over.
