Emelia Review: a simple and affordable alternative to Lemlist?

On the saturated market of prospecting tools (between Lemlist, Waalaxy and La Growth Machine), you’d think there wasn’t much left to invent. And yet, Emelia, a young French platform launching in 2021, has managed to carve out a place for itself with a simple promise that couldn’t be simpler: to bring together everything you need to prospect in a single tool, without multiplying subscriptions or integrations.

And that’s the whole point of Emelia: to bring together cold emailing, LinkedIn Sales Navigator scraping, email verification and automatic mailbox warm-up all in one place. All in a clear, modern, uncluttered interface, designed for sales teams, agencies or founders who want to send high-performance campaigns without wasting hours setting up parameters.

Yes, but… In a landscape where “the new revolutionary prospecting tool” appears every month, what is Emelia really worth? Does it hold its own against the behemoths of the sector? And above all: who is Emelia aimed at?

We’ve tested it for you. Here’s our full review of Emelia’s strengths, limitations and practical uses.

Our opinion about Emelia in a nutshell

The main advantages & disadvantages of Emelia

• A true all-in-one tool designed for field teams. It’s not just another cold emailer: Emelia combines LinkedIn scraping, email verification, warm-up and campaign sending in a single tool. You can launch a complete prospecting campaign without plugging in five different tools or wasting hours on integrations.
• Automatic warm-up integrated into all shots. This is rare to mention. The tool manages sender rotation and mailbox warm-up without complicated configuration. Where others charge this as an option, here it’s all included, even on the €37 plan.
• Unlimited LinkedIn scraping, with automatic segmentation. This is one of our most impressive assets. You can exceed Sales Navigator’s limit of 2,500 results, and Emelia automatically segments your searches to avoid blocking. A real game changer.

• Clear pricing with no surprises. No hidden billing, no commitments, no features locked behind a paywall. The team’s positioning is simple: a complete and accessible tool, at a fixed price, and that’s it.
• A clear, fluid, jargon-free interface. Emelia gets straight to the point: you quickly understand where to click, how to create a campaign and how to track results. It’s a product designed for salespeople, not engineers.
• Close, available support. The team is responsive and accessible. The exchanges are qualitative: human, concrete and often rapid.

• Integration still limited. Outside the Scale plan, you’ll need to use Zapier or Make to connect Emelia to your CRM. This works well, but native integrations still lack depth. This is a point that will probably evolve over time.
• Still room for improvement in reporting. You track openings, clicks and responses, but without any in-depth analysis. For organizations wishing to monitor sales performance precisely, dashboards are still a little lightweight.
• No advanced automation (yet). Scenarios work very well for simple sequences, but we can’t yet build complex conditional logics of the type if click → change sequence, if no response → assign to CRM, etc. It’s not blocking, but it’s important to know.
• A young, fast-evolving tool. The roadmap is moving fast, and some features (reporting, native CRM, team management) are still under development. If you like ultra-stable, fixed tools, Emelia may frustrate you a little. If you like agile products that improve quickly, this is rather good news.

Emelia’s main features

Emelia isn’t looking to reinvent outbound sales (what’s new under the sun?): it simply wants to make it more fluid. The strength of this platform lies in its ability to bring together, in a single interface, all the essential building blocks of a B2B outbound strategy.

No need to juggle between a scraper, an enrichment tool, a warm-up and a sending platform: everything is centralized, automated and designed for teams who want to spend less time configuring and more time prospecting.

The functionalities can be divided into three main groups:

• Emailing and deliverability.
• Data generation and enrichment.
• Sequence automation.

It’s this integrated logic (rarely so well executed at this price level) that is Emelia’s strength.

Emailing and deliverability

Deliverability is often a sales team’s nightmare. Between spam filters, domain blocks and “burnt” addresses, many companies see their campaigns run out of steam without understanding why. Emelia tackles this issue head-on, by directly integrating an automatic warm-up and reputation tracking module on all connected mailboxes, even in the most basic plan (which is very rare, let’s emphasize again).

In concrete terms, each email address you connect to Emelia is automatically “prepared” before you send your first campaigns. The tool simulates gradual, natural exchanges with other addresses in the network, gradually increasing sending volumes and rebalancing response and click rates to enhance your domain’s reputation.

Everything is managed continuously, without manual intervention: no need to configure a separate warm-up tool like Lemwarm or Mailflow. During your campaigns, Emelia also manages automatic sender rotation: you can distribute your mailings over several boxes to limit the risk of blocking and maintain a good deliverability score.

The tool also tracks the health of your domains via a “reputation score” indicator, and alerts you to any anomalies (rising bounce rate, too many unsubscribes, etc.).

As far as sending is concerned, Emelia remains true to its philosophy: simple, text-based, personalized emails with no gimmicks. You can insert variables (first name, position, company, sector), add personalized fields,
spintax (automatic sentence variations) and A/B test several objects or formulations.

The editor is light, fast and designed to produce human messages, not newsletters.

Finally, the tool natively integrates complete tracking: opens, clicks, responses and unsubscribes. Nothing revolutionary, but everything you need to manage your campaigns without complexity. And above all, without depending on another sending or tracking tool: everything is in the same space.

LinkedIn scraping and data enrichment

This is undoubtedly Emelia’s most differentiating feature. The tool includes an unlimited LinkedIn Sales Navigator scraping engine, accessible from the “Start” plan.

Where most tools limit your exports to 2,500 results (a restriction imposed by LinkedIn), Emelia bypasses this constraint thanks to automatic search segmentation. You can extract tens of thousands of profiles without manual manipulation or blocking.

Scraping is done directly from the Emelia interface: you simply copy the URL of your LinkedIn Sales Navigator search and the tool takes care of the rest. Each profile collected is automatically enriched with available information (name, position, company, location, professional email, telephone if available, website, etc.).

The data is then cleaned, de-duplicated and ready to use in your campaigns. Emelia also includes an in-house email finder and email verifier. Emails are invoiced only when they are valid (a minor detail, but one that makes a big difference to your data budget…). Verification is carried out in real time, with automatic deletion of duplicates and invalid addresses, so your bounce rate doesn’t go through the roof. Prices remain very low: a few thousandths of a euro per verification.

Advanced users will appreciate Emelia’s “data ownership” logic: all data belongs to the user, and no database is shared or resold.

Automation and sequences

Emelia lets you create multi-channel prospecting sequences (Email, LinkedIn or Email + LinkedIn). The aim is not to build highly advanced workflows, but to enable you to quickly launch multi-channel campaigns that work. You can combine emails, automatic follow-ups and LinkedIn messages in the same sequence, all within a fluid interface.

Each step can be customized: delay between sends, personalization variables (first name, position, company), choice of sender or box used, subject line, A/B test on messages, deactivation rules (if reply, if open, if click).

There are no complex conditional scenarios here, and the logic is one of rapid execution, where efficiency takes precedence over sophistication. The idea is to launch a running campaign in a few hours, rather than spending a week setting it up.

Collaboration & CRM

Emelia was designed from the outset for teams, not just freelancers. Each plan allows you to connect multiple email inboxes and LinkedIn accounts, with different levels of sharing depending on the plan.

On the “Start” plan, you can already manage three boxes and a LinkedIn account. On the higher packages, you can go up to fifty boxes, or an unlimited number on the “Scale” plan. This enables several sales reps to work on the same campaigns or on separate accounts, while sharing results.

The collaborative logic is simple but effective: campaigns can be duplicated from one user to another, and responses are centralized in the same space, thus avoiding dispersed conversations. Each member can track his or her own metrics (opening, response and click rates) or consult the team’s overall results.

On the CRM side, Emelia is light on features, but well thought-out. You can track the status of your leads,
add tags, notes, custom fields and export your data to CSV. Direct integrations with tools like HubSpot or Pipedrive are available on the “Grow” and “Scale” plans, and the API enables automated synchronization with any CRM.

This technical openness compensates for the fact that Emelia is not a full-fledged CRM. It is not designed to manage complex opportunities or multi-stage pipelines, but it integrates very well with an existing CRM.

Customer service & support

Customer service is often a weak point in prospecting tools, especially those targeting SMEs. Delays are often long, when answers are not standardized.

Emelia is an exception to the rule.

Support is responsive and human, accessible directly from the tool’s interface. Users can exchange information by chat or email, and feedback shows that they receive fast, concrete answers, often within a day.

In terms of resources, the documentation is still light but clear: step-by-step guides, an online knowledge base and a few video tutorials. Nothing exhaustive yet, but the basics are quickly understood. Advanced users will appreciate the presence of a documented API, and integrations via Zapier and Make are accompanied by predefined templates to make getting started easier.

Emelia doesn’t yet offer structured training or personalized support (this isn’t HubSpot), but the team makes up for it with genuine availability and fluid communication on Slack or LinkedIn. The advantage is that you speak directly to the platform’s designers, not to a chatbot.

Rates & value for money

Emelia offers three plans. Each plan includes all the essential building blocks: unlimited warm-up, unlimited LinkedIn scraping, email verification and automation sequences. The difference lies mainly in the number of connectable email inboxes and LinkedIn accounts, the level of CRM integration and API access.

All plans include a free 7-day trial, with no credit card and no commitment.

In parallel with the subscription, Emelia offers a modular credit system used for data actions: search and verification of emails, telephone numbers, AI actions (analysis, enrichment, segmentation). These credits are available in two formulas: monthly subscription (from €19/month) or pay-as-you-go (credits valid indefinitely). Unused credits are automatically carried over to the following month (a rarity in the SaaS world…).

To give you an idea, 1,000 credits (€19) allow you to :

• Find 1,000 emails (that’s about €0.005 per email found and verified).
• Launch 1,000 AI actions.
• Find 20 phone numbers.
• Carry out 4,000 email checks.

Verdict Salesdorado

Far from sprawling platforms or solutions that are too expensive for small structures, this tool is simple and pragmatic. Everything you need for effective prospecting (scraping, enrichment, warm-up, campaigns, automation) is integrated, accessible and frictionless.

We recommend Emelia if you’re looking for a clear, modern and efficient tool to launch or structure your B2B prospecting. It’s an ideal solution for SMEs, agencies or freelancers who want to centralize their prospecting activities without piling up subscriptions. The user experience is impeccable, deliverability is natively managed and the value for money is excellent.

On the other hand, we’d steer clear of Emelia if you’re looking for a highly advanced reporting solution, with complex conditional scenarios or deep CRM integration. This is not its playground: Emelia aims for speed, simplicity and efficiency, not sophistication.