LinkydyThe short verdict: choose Linked Helper if you want the longest feature list per dollar in LinkedIn automation and you're willing to run — and learn — a separate desktop application to get it. Choose Linkydy if you'd rather work inside the browser you already use, get email and phone finding without plan upsells, keep a clean statuses-and-notes CRM, and optionally let an AI agent run the whole loop over MCP. Price favors trying both: Linked Helper from about $15/month after trial, Linkydy free to start.
| Linkydy | Linked Helper 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Chrome extension in your own session | Desktop app with embedded browser |
| LinkedIn password required | No — uses your existing login | Second login inside the app |
| Email finder built-in | Yes, 1-click, incl. free tier | Pro plan only |
| Phone finder | Yes | No |
| CRM statuses & notes | Statuses, notes, history — lightweight | Built-in CRM, dated and dense |
| CSV export & import | Yes, incl. URL import | Yes |
| AI agent (MCP) | Yes — Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Cursor | No |
| Personalization fields | {FirstName}, {Company}, {JobTitle} | Yes, extensive variables |
| Free tier | Yes — free credits, no card | 14-day trial |
| Starting price | Free; paid plans for higher limits | from ~$15/mo |
A desktop app in a browser-extension world
Linked Helper 2's architecture is unusual: it's a program you download that ships its own embedded browser, inside which you log into LinkedIn a second time. Credentials stay on your machine — a fair, safer-than-cloud model — but automation now lives in a parallel environment: another login session, another window, another thing that must be open and running on a computer for campaigns to move. Close the laptop, and outreach stops — the same browser-open trade-off Linkydy has, plus an extra application to manage.
Linkydy runs where you already work. Open LinkedIn in Chrome and the extension is there: collect from people search or Sales Navigator, enrich, queue invites with {FirstName}, {Company} and {JobTitle} fields, and check statuses — no second login, no second app. Why in-session automation is the safest architecture is covered in is LinkedIn automation safe?.
The price of cheap
Linked Helper's pricing is honestly excellent: from about $15/month (less on annual billing), it undercuts nearly everything in the category while offering one of the deepest feature lists — event invites, group messaging, workflow chains, an email finder on Pro. If software cost is your binding constraint, that's a real argument.
The cost shows up elsewhere. The interface is dense and dated — features stack in nested menus and multi-step workflow configs that take evenings to learn, and the app itself needs care: updates, a machine that stays awake, campaigns that resume. Linkydy bets most prospectors don't need all of it: collection, enrichment, personalized outreach, follow-ups, statuses, notes and CSV export cover the loop that produces meetings — learnable in an afternoon, free to start.
Enrichment and the CRM you'll actually keep clean
Linked Helper gates its email finder behind the Pro plan and has no phone finding. Linkydy's 1-click "Find Email" and "Find Phone" work on regular and Sales Navigator profiles from the free tier, landing results on the lead card. Both products have a CRM layer; the difference is friction. Linked Helper's is powerful but shares the app's density. Linkydy's is deliberately light — status, notes, history per lead — because a CRM only helps if updating it takes seconds.
The AI-agent difference
Linked Helper is operated by hand, through its interface, feature by feature. Linkydy is the only LinkedIn CRM with an MCP server: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Grok or Cursor and describe outcomes — "collect 30 fintech founders in London, enrich, queue invites" — while the extension enforces pacing and daily caps. If Linked Helper's learning curve is the thing holding you back, MCP removes the curve entirely. Setup is on the MCP page; for other head-to-heads, see Linkydy vs Dux-Soup or the comparison hub.
Switching from Linked Helper
Linked Helper exports its lists and campaign contacts to CSV, so migration is straightforward: export, keep the profile-URL column, and load it into Linkydy's CSV URL import. Your leads become cards; the built-in finder re-enriches emails (and adds phones, which Linked Helper never had); statuses replace whatever workflow stage each contact sat in. Since Linkydy is free to start and Linked Helper's trial costs nothing either, the cheapest experiment is two weeks of parallel use on different segments — one automation per account at a time, so combined invite volume stays inside LinkedIn's weekly limits.
