Dripify: Our Comprehensive Review of This LinkedIn Automation Tool

If you’re looking for a tool to automate your LinkedIn outreach, you probably have a specific goal in mind: sending more invitations and reaching more people each week. That’s exactly the approach Dripify takes—just like all its competitors—with claims of “hundreds of leads per day” and daily quotas set at 75 invitations.

There’s a catch. The number of invitations you can send isn’t determined by your tool. It’s determined by LinkedIn. The limit is around 100 invitations per week, whether you have a free, Premium, or Sales Navigator account. No subscription or software can exceed this limit. So comparing automation tools based on the volume they promise is pointless: you’ll hit LinkedIn’s limit long before you exhaust their quotas.

The real questions lie elsewhere, and this article answers them:

• Does Dripify help you get more out of those rare invitations, rather than just promising you more?
• Does its cloud architecture—which runs 24 hours a day even when your computer is turned off—really protect your account, or does it leave it a little more vulnerable?
• At $39 to $79 per month, for which type of user is it worth it compared to Waalaxy, which is free and French?

Check out our full review of Dripify.

Our Review of Dripify: A Summary

The LinkedIn invitation limit: what Dripify can’t change

We might as well dispel the myth right away, because everything else stems from it.

Ever since LinkedIn cracked down on spam, the invitation limit has been around 100 per week. New accounts are capped at a lower number, sometimes under 50. An older account with a good Social Selling Index can reach 150 or 200. The general range, however, remains the same. And paying for a LinkedIn subscription doesn’t change anything: the invitation limit is the same for the free version, Premium, and Sales Navigator.

Now take a look at Dripify’s settings. The invitation limit goes up to 75 per day on the Pro and Advanced plans. Do the math: 75 per day equals 525 per week—five times LinkedIn’s actual limit. This quota is just for show.

In real life, you use up your supply of invitations in a day and a half, and then you see the message “You’ve reached your weekly limit.” At that point, no tool can help you anymore.

This observation shifts the entire focus of the issue. Since invitations are a scarce and limited resource, a tool’s true performance depends on two factors:

• Its ability to reach your prospects through all the channels not covered by the invitation—such as email, InMail, a simple “like,” or a comment on their posts—to increase touchpoints without using up your invitations.
• Its ability to get people to accept the invitations you send, because a low acceptance rate causes LinkedIn to further lower your limit.

This second point is counterintuitive—keep it in mind. Generic invitations that get ignored are never neutral: LinkedIn notices this and penalizes you by reducing your quota. Personalization, therefore, isn’t a luxury—it’s what protects your ability to reach out to prospects the following week. A well-maintained LinkedIn profile plays exactly the same role in your acceptance rate.

We’ll be evaluating Dripify based on these two criteria (not on quota sizes). If you want to dive deeper into the mechanics, our guide to LinkedIn automation lays out the basics.

What exactly is Dripify?

Dripify is a LinkedIn (and now email) automation platform built on a fundamental technical choice: everything runs in the cloud. Your campaigns run on Dripify’s servers continuously, even when your computer is turned off. Most consumer-facing competitors operate differently. Waalaxy, Dux-Soup, and Linked Helper are Chrome extensions: they only work when your browser is open and the tab is active.

It’s really convenient. You start a video, close your laptop, and it keeps playing.

Except that the prevailing narrative markets this cloud as a guarantee of security—and we disagree with that. A Chrome extension remains linked to your actual session, with your usual schedule and your personal connection: in LinkedIn’s eyes, the activity looks like that of a human. A “always-on” cloud platform that operates from a remote IP address at times when you’re asleep, on the other hand, is exactly the kind of behavior that LinkedIn’s detection system is designed to track.

Dripify knows this and makes up for it: a dedicated local IP address, simulation of human behavior, and customizable time slots. But let’s be clear, The cloud doesn’t eliminate risk. It just shifts it. In fact, it’s the same trade-off as with PhantomBuster, the other major cloud player in the market.

Finally, a word about a common misconception that keeps popping up in most online reviews: “Dripify only works with LinkedIn.” That was true a year ago. It’s no longer the case. The builder now combines LinkedIn actions and email sequences within a single workflow, complete with time delays, conditions, and conditional branches. Email functionality came late—well after specialists like Lemlist —and it’s still not as polished, but it’s there. In light of our first criterion, it’s a game-changer: following up via email with a prospect who hasn’t accepted your invitation is exactly the smart workaround to the LinkedIn limit we mentioned earlier.

How Dripify Works: From Lead List to Launched Campaign

Let’s get down to the nitty-gritty, because that’s where we can really gauge the tool’s maturity. Setting up a Dripify campaign involves three steps.

Step 1: Build Your List of Leads

Dripify offers eight entry points, which can be grouped into four categories:

• LinkedIn searches: a standard search, a Sales Navigator search, or a Recruiter search—all of which Dripify pulls in directly
• Communities: Participants in a LinkedIn event or members of a group
• Your existing network: your first-degree connections, for reactivation campaigns
• Imports: a CSV file or a list of profile URLs pasted in bulk

The process is straightforward: you target your audience on LinkedIn, and the tool retrieves the results. The success of your campaign will therefore depend on the quality of your initial search—and that’s a skill in itself. Our guide to setting up a multichannel campaign with Sales Navigator breaks this process down step by step, and our tutorial on X-Ray search will help you find what the native filters don’t show.

Step 2: Filter profiles upon entry

This is the hygiene filter we found to be the best designed. Before adding leads, Dripify offers to automatically exclude certain profiles: those already included in another one of your campaigns, those already being worked on by a colleague on your team, profiles without a photo, those with fewer than 500 connections, and free LinkedIn accounts.

These criteria are indicators of quality. A dormant or inactive profile is likely to ignore your invitation, and every ignored invitation hurts your acceptance rate—and thus your limit. Filtering users at the outset is already a way to protect your account.

Step 3: Build the multichannel sequence

Three ready-to-use templates let you get started in five minutes; you can save your own templates or choose from the team’s templates, and the visual canvas lets you build everything from scratch.

The options are extensive but not endless: ten actions, ranging from sending an invitation to withdrawing an invitation, including sending a message, an InMail, visiting a profile, endorsing skills, liking a post, following a profile, searching for an email address, and sending an email. And four conditions for triggering the scenarios: Is the prospect logged in? Has the prospect viewed the message? Is the prospect’s email address available? Is the prospect’s profile open? A customizable delay can be set between each step.

When drafting messages, each one supports personalization variables such as first name, job title, company, and country, and the invitation message can include an alternative version: Dripify splits the sends between the two, effectively serving as a native A/B test. Simple and useful. To go beyond simple variable fields, our methods for personalizing your outreach messages apply directly to LinkedIn.

A typical sequence that makes use of all this looks like this: warm up the prospect by visiting their profile and liking it, send the invitation with a personalized note, gently follow up with those who haven’t responded, and then, after a few days without an acceptance, withdraw the invitation, find the prospect’s email address, and switch the conversation to that channel.

You can see the logic here: this is exactly the solution to the LinkedIn cap we described at the beginning. Our guide to multichannel prospecting sequences provides complete templates that you can adapt.

One specific flaw remains, and it’s annoying everyone: you can’t edit a campaign once it’s launched. Need to add a step or rephrase a message? You have to recreate the campaign. For a tool that claims to be “ridiculously simple,” this lack of flexibility is surprising.

Account Security: A Closer Look at Dripify’s Security Measures

This is the number one concern for any LinkedIn automation user. Let’s take a look at what Dripify actually offers, beyond the marketing hype.

The settings allow for fine-tuned control over your daily activity. Each type of action has its own slider: invitations up to 75 per day, messages up to 150, profile visits up to 400, emails up to 200, and so on for InMails, likes, endorsements, and profile follows. Work hours settings align all activity with human schedules, your time zone, and your workdays. Set it once, and the tool sticks to it.

Above these sliders, the activity monitor keeps watch. This feature gradually increases the volume for a new account and automatically adjusts your daily limits when it detects a risk of being flagged, whether on LinkedIn or via email. You can disable it, but we don’t recommend it. The only downside: it’s exclusive to the most expensive plan—we’ll cover that in the pricing section.

And then there’s the feature that nobody talks about but that convinced us the most: the bulk removal of pending invitations. The dashboard constantly displays the number of sent invitations that haven’t been responded to—307 in our test account—along with a button to remove them all at once.

This isn’t just a gimmick. A growing backlog of pending invitations sends a negative signal to LinkedIn, which interprets it as spammer behavior and reduces your invitation quotas accordingly. Regularly clearing out this backlog is one of the most effective maintenance practices you can do, and few tools make it this easy.

Using the Dripify Interface on a Daily Basis: Dashboard, Inbox, and Lead Profiles

Once campaigns are launched, Dripify becomes a control center. It’s in day-to-day use that you really get a sense of how an interface works.

The morning dashboard answers the one question that matters: How is my account doing today? Gauges show the usage of daily quotas—42 invitations out of 54— 65 messages out of 78, a real-time activity feed lists every action as it happens, and each campaign can be turned on or off with a simple toggle, with its acceptance rate and response rate displayed alongside it.

The inbox centralizes all LinkedIn conversations, with filters for unread, important, and archived messages. The smartest feature is hidden: when a prospect replies, their sequence automatically pauses. No more nightmare scenarios where an automated message goes out in the middle of a real conversation. If the exchange doesn’t go anywhere, a button resumes the sequence right where it left off.

Each prospect has a comprehensive profile: a history of all actions related to them, profile visits, found email addresses, accepted invitations, email addresses detected or added manually, free-form notes, and a list of campaigns in which they appear. It’s not a CRM, but for the operational tracking of prospecting efforts, it’s more than enough. Everything can be exported to your actual CRM via webhooks, which can be triggered by key events: a sent or accepted invitation, a first message, or a response from the lead. If you don’t yet have a tool set up, our guide to turning LinkedIn into a CRM offers simple setups.

Finally, for teams, the manager view displays each employee along with their role and an activity chart by time period: invitations sent and accepted, messages, replies, and emails. An agency managing multiple sales representatives can access its reporting here without having to export any data.

How much does Dripify cost? Pricing and the real issue with the plans

Dripify charges per user per month, in dollars. The first thing for a French buyer to note is that there is no billing in euros. Here is the pricing table, showing the monthly rate and the annualized rate; signing up for a year reduces the cost by about one-third.

All plans include 100 Email Finder credits. Beyond that, you’ll need to purchase packs ranging from $29 for 1,000 credits to $99 for 10,000. This credit balance depletes quickly once email outreach becomes a routine part of your campaigns, especially since there are free methods for finding email addresses if your volume remains modest. The trial lasts 7 days, with the features of the Advanced plan and no credit card required. However, there is no permanent free plan, which is a real drawback compared to the competition.

The real criticism isn’t about the price, which is still reasonable. It’s about what Dripify includes in each plan. The two most crucial features are reserved for the most expensive plan:

• Activity monitoring—which, as we’ve just seen, is the best “life insurance” for your account—is only available in Advanced mode.
• Step analytics, which breaks down performance move by move to identify the exact step that’s holding back a sequence, is also useful.

In other words, advanced security and optimization—the two things that matter most when you take LinkedIn seriously—are sold to you as a premium tier costing $79 per month. The Basic and Pro plans include basic protections, but you’re essentially flying blind.

Dripify or Waalaxy: Which One Should You Choose?

For a French reader, the comparison that really matters isn’t between Dripify and ten obscure American tools. It’s between Dripify and Waalaxy, the French leader, with its 150,000 users and free plan. So let’s settle this.

The right question isn’t “which one is better,” since they’re designed for different purposes, but “do I need the cloud?”

• Are you just starting out, prospecting on your own, watching your budget, and want to give it a try without spending a dime? Waalaxy comes out on top almost every time. Its free plan removes the barrier to entry, its interface is simpler, and it bills in euros. Our full review of Waalaxy goes into all the details.
• Do you handle a steady volume of lead generation—whether as part of a team or through an agency—and want a tool that runs on its own with detailed reporting at each stage? Dripify has the edge. Its 24/7 cloud access, multi-team management, and step analytics justify the price difference.

Here are two other options, depending on your priorities. If email is at the heart of your strategy—and not just a supplementary tool—a specialist like Lemlist will take you much further on this channel. And if your only constraint is budget, Linked Helper gets the job done just as well for much less, though it requires a more technical learning curve. For a broader view, our overview of LinkedIn lead generation tools takes a look at what’s available on the market.

What We Like (and What We Don’t Like) About Dripify

• The 24/7 cloud: Campaigns run without your computer, which makes a world of difference when prospecting isn’t your full-time job.
• A straightforward multichannel sequencer: ten actions, four branching conditions, customizable delays, and native A/B testing for the invitation.
• High-quality filters at the start of campaigns, including measures to prevent duplicate entries among colleagues. Few tools do such a good job of protecting the acceptance rate early on.
• Bulk deletion of pending invitations: the feature no one talks about—and one of the best ways to keep your account clean.
• Sequences that pause as soon as a lead responds, and resume where they left off.
• Step analytics, which shows the exact step where your sequence breaks down.
• Robust team management tailored for agencies, with reporting by employee—no exporting required.

• No free plan: only a 7-day trial, while the French competitor offers 80 invitations per month for life.
• The two key features exclusive to the Advanced model: activity tracking and step analytics—in other words, precise safety and optimization.
• You cannot edit a campaign that has already been launched. You have to recreate it, which is honestly a pain.
• Only one LinkedIn account per subscription, and billing in dollars for a French buyer.
• Email finder credits run out quickly, and the refund policy is inflexible.

Our verdict: Who is Dripify designed for?

Dripify is for you if:

• You prospect on LinkedIn on a regular basis, week after week
• Do you want your campaigns to run without having to keep a tab open all the time?
• You manage a sales team or an agency, and you need to generate reports by employee
• Are you looking to combine LinkedIn and email into a single workflow, rather than using two separate tools?
• Do you want to know exactly which step in your sales process is causing your prospects to drop out?

Skip it if :

• You’re starting out on your own with a tight budget: Waalaxy’s free plan gets the job done
• Your LinkedIn account is new, and you prefer a browser extension that integrates seamlessly with your browsing experience
• Email is your primary channel, not just a supplement to LinkedIn
• You need to manage multiple LinkedIn accounts under a single subscription
• You won’t get as far as the Advanced level, without which you’ll be flying blind

Final rating: 4/5.

Don’t choose Dripify for its quotas—which, like those of all its competitors, are largely theoretical—since LinkedIn is the one calling the shots. Choose it for what it really excels at: clean, multi-channel sequences; safeguards that we found to be robust in practice; lead filtering from the outset through to the automatic removal of dormant invitations; step-by-step control that few tools offer; and team management designed with agencies in mind. Our testing confirmed the product’s true maturity. The clever details—such as pausing sequences upon a response, event-based webhooks, and native A/B testing—are exactly what newer tools are missing.

One last thing—this applies regardless of which tool you choose. Your results on LinkedIn depend on your targeting and your messages, not on the software’s advertised capabilities. Even the best tool in the world can’t make up for a poorly targeted list. Our rating reflects an excellent product—but it’s best suited for the right audience.