Besides being one of the largest social media platforms in the world, LinkedIn is an excellent place to close more deals. Many sales teams base their entire prospecting strategy on LinkedIn, be it cold outreach or using automation tools to connect with existing connections.
Overloop and Waalaxy are some of the more popular tools in this industry that give you essential features to prospect with LinkedIn. Whether you want to focus on LinkedIn alone or combine this platform with cold email outreach, both can do the job, but how well will they perform?
Today, we stack Overloop and Waalaxy against each other to help you find the better tool for LinkedIn and email outreach.
Overloop and Waalaxy at a glance
Overloop is a multichannel outbound platform built for sales teams that rely on email as their main acquisition channel. It combines prospecting, email sequencing, and CRM features in one place.
You can find leads, verify emails, build automated campaigns, and track replies without stacking multiple tools. Overloop works well for B2B teams that want a structured outbound process and care about deliverability, reporting, and collaboration.
Waalaxy is a LinkedIn automation tool first, with email layered on top. It is built for individuals and small teams who prospect directly on LinkedIn and want to automate connection requests, follow-ups, and message sequences. It works as a browser extension and focuses heavily on LinkedIn workflows, including LinkedIn messaging and LinkedIn plus email combinations.
In short:
- Overloop is built for email outreach with built-in prospecting and CRM capabilities.
- Waalaxy is built around LinkedIn automation, with email as an add-on channel.
If your strategy starts in the inbox, Overloop is the safe bet. If your strategy starts on LinkedIn, Waalaxy is the one to bet on.
Key features
Overloop and Waalaxy both support outbound outreach, but the way they fit into your sales process is different. One is built around structured email-led multichannel, personalized campaigns. The other is built around LinkedIn prospecting and automating activity from your LinkedIn account.
Here is what each of them will get you.
Overloop key features
Overloop is an outbound platform that covers prospecting, outreach, and pipeline management in one place. It is built for teams that want to manage the full sales process, not just send sequences.
B2B database and advanced prospect search
You can build lead lists inside Overloop using filters such as industry, company size, job title, and geography. This reduces reliance on external tools and allows you to move from prospect search to outreach in the same workflow.
Email finder and verification
Overloop includes email discovery and verification features to help lower bounce rates. Clean data is critical when running personalized email campaigns at scale.
Multichannel campaigns with LinkedIn integration
Campaigns can combine cold email steps with LinkedIn touches, such as connection requests and follow-ups. This LinkedIn integration allows you to run true multichannel campaigns instead of isolated email blasts or strictly LinkedIn campaigns.
Personalized messages at scale
You can use dynamic variables and prospect data to tailor outreach. Overloop also promotes AI-powered personalization features that help generate personalized messages based on available contact information.
Campaign performance tracking and reporting
Open rates, reply rates, clicks, and bounce data are tracked inside the dashboard. Campaign performance tracking makes it easier to optimize subject lines, targeting, and sequence timing over time.
Built-in CRM and pipeline management
Replies can be converted into deals and tracked through a visual pipeline. For teams without a separate CRM, this keeps prospecting and opportunity management connected.
Waalaxy key features
Waalaxy is built around LinkedIn prospecting first. It works as a browser-based tool that connects directly to your LinkedIn account and automates typical LinkedIn outreach activities. While this is generally something that LinkedIn doesn’t allow, Waalaxy seems to be under the radar for now.
LinkedIn search and lead extraction
You can pull prospects directly from LinkedIn search results or LinkedIn Sales Navigator. This makes it easy to turn LinkedIn browsing into structured outreach campaigns.
Automation for your LinkedIn account
Waalaxy automates profile visits, connection requests, and follow-up messages. Campaigns are centered on activity within LinkedIn rather than inbox-first outreach.
Multichannel campaigns with LinkedIn plus email
On higher plans, Waalaxy allows you to add email steps to LinkedIn prospecting sequences. This extends conversations beyond the platform and supports basic multichannel campaigns.
Personalized messages for LinkedIn outreach
You can customize connection notes and follow-ups using variables. The focus is on creating personalized messages that feel native to LinkedIn interactions.
Unified inbox and campaign performance tracking
Waalaxy centralizes LinkedIn and email replies in one interface. It also provides campaign performance tracking so you can see acceptance rates, reply rates, and overall engagement for each sequence.
In practical terms, Overloop supports a broader sales process with email-led multichannel campaigns and built-in pipeline management. Waalaxy is stronger if your strategy starts with LinkedIn prospecting and scaling activity from a single LinkedIn account or a small group of accounts.
Ease of use and available support
Both tools are straightforward to set up, but the day-to-day experience is not the same. One feels like a full outbound system with more moving parts. The other feels closer to an extension of LinkedIn.
Overloop can be difficult to start with but rewards you later
Overloop brings prospecting, personalized email campaigns, LinkedIn integration, and pipeline management into one interface. That gives you control over the full sales process, but it also means there is more to configure at the start.
Setting up domains, building multichannel campaigns, and connecting your CRM takes some initial effort.
Once everything is in place, the workflow is logical. You move from prospect search to sequence building to campaign performance tracking without switching tools. For teams running structured outbound, this layout makes sense and keeps work centralized.
Support includes in-app chat, email support, and a detailed help center with setup guides and tutorials. There are onboarding resources that walk you through connecting your email, setting up LinkedIn steps, and launching your first campaign. Higher-tier plans may include more hands-on onboarding.
Waalaxy’s easier when it comes to onboarding
Waalaxy is lighter and faster to start with, especially if your focus is on LinkedIn prospecting. Because it connects directly to your LinkedIn account through a browser extension, pulling leads from LinkedIn search and launching a sequence feels natural.
The campaign builder is simple. You choose a template or create a basic flow with connection requests, follow-ups, and optional email steps. For solo users or small teams, this reduces setup time and makes it easy to experiment.
Support is available through email and an online help center with tutorials and walkthroughs. Waalaxy also provides guidance on using LinkedIn safely and managing limits on your LinkedIn account. Some plans include additional resources such as training content.
Chrome extension support
Overloop has a Chrome extension that works with LinkedIn and other sites. With it, you can capture leads directly from LinkedIn search, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, company pages, and other web pages. Once captured, leads sync to your Overloop database so they are ready for personalized email campaigns and multichannel outreach from inside the main app.
The extension supports saving contact data with one click, including name, role, company, and profile links. This speeds up list building when LinkedIn prospecting is part of your process, and it eliminates manual exports or list imports. Captured leads are available in Overloop for enrichment, verification, and outreach.
Waalaxy’s browser extension is central to how the tool works. It runs with your LinkedIn account and lets you trigger actions such as connection requests, profile visits, and follow-up messages directly from LinkedIn search, Sales Navigator, or your network pages.
With the Waalaxy extension, you can also add prospects into your campaigns while you browse, combine LinkedIn touches with email steps, and monitor campaign status without manually transferring data across tools. LinkedIn search results become active lists you can act on instantly.
Integrations
Overloop connects tightly with common B2B sales tools so your personalized email campaigns and multichannel campaigns stay aligned with your pipeline.
- CRM integrations: Native integrations with HubSpot, Salesforce, and Pipedrive to sync contacts, deals, and activity.
- Two-way data sync: Push new leads into your CRM and pull updated deal data back into Overloop for accurate campaign performance tracking.
- Zapier integration: Connect Overloop to hundreds of third party apps for custom workflows.
- LinkedIn integration via Chrome extension: Capture leads from LinkedIn search and sync them directly into your Overloop workspace.
- Webhooks and API access: For teams that want deeper customization inside their sales process.
Waalaxy is built around LinkedIn prospecting, so its integrations focus on moving LinkedIn data into the rest of your stack.
- CRM integrations: HubSpot, Salesforce, and Pipedrive integrations to sync leads captured from your LinkedIn account.
- Automation tools: Zapier and Make support, for routing LinkedIn data into other systems.
- Email integrations: Connect email accounts to run combined LinkedIn and email sequences.
- LinkedIn native workflow: Direct interaction with LinkedIn search and Sales Navigator through its Chrome extension.
Overloop vs Waalaxy pricing plans
The main difference between the two tools is that Waalaxy has a much lower starting price point, and it has more choices. Both tools come with a free trial, and there is no free plan available.
Overloop pricing starts at $69 per user per month, which gives you 250 credits. Let’s unpack what this means and what the plans are.
The Starter plan is $69 per user per month and gives you:
- 250 credits
- 1 email account
- 3 campaigns
- Basic integrations
- Shared IP
- Self onboarding
The Growth plan is $99 per user per month, and you get everything from Starter plus:
- 500 credits
- 3 email accounts
- 10 campaigns
- HubSpot and Pipedrive integration + REST API
The Enterprise plan has custom pricing, so you’ll have to reach out and get a quote. We do know that you get 1,000 credits, unlimited campaigns, and unlimited mail accounts.
To understand Overloop pricing, you have to understand credits. They are deducted from your account when you:
- Source a prospect from Overloop’s database
- Find a valid email address (whether the prospect was sourced or imported)
Both take one credit.
On the other hand, Waalaxy starts at just $16 per user per month when paid monthly. These are the plans.
Pro is $16 per user per month and gives you 300 invitations to use for LinkedIn automation.
This plan comes with:
- Automated follow-up messages
- Unlimited campaigns
- Smart reply detection
- CRM Sync (to 2000+ tools)
- CSV Imports and Exports
- Imports from LinkedIn Basic, Sales Navigator, Recruiter Lite
- Duplicate prevention
- 25 email Finder Credits
- Team collaborations
- Support reply within 48h
The Advanced plan starts at $32 per user per month and gives you 800 invitations instead of 300. All of the features remain the same, but you get live chat support to solve problems more quickly.
The Business plan starts at $55 per user per month, and the number of invitations remains the same, but you get one extra valuable feature: cold email sequences. This plan also comes with automated email follow-up, multiple accounts for sending, and 500 email finder credits.
The Custom plan doesn’t have publicly available pricing, but you do get a glimpse at the features available.
Waalaxy has an add-on called LinkedIn Inbox, which does just that, allows you to manage LinkedIn messages from Waalaxy. It also includes features like response templates, lead tagging, automated follow-ups, data export to your CRM and more.
Which one should you get?
Get Overloop if…
- Your outreach starts with email, not LinkedIn.
- You want a tool that supports the entire sales process, from prospect search to deal tracking.
- You plan to run structured multichannel campaigns combining cold email and LinkedIn steps.
- Your team wants built-in campaign performance tracking and CRM synchronization.
- You prefer working from a centralized platform rather than relying on a browser extension.
Overloop works best for outbound teams that want a system for managing lead generation, personalized email campaigns, and pipeline activity in one place. It focuses heavily on combining email and LinkedIn outreach within a single dashboard.
Get Waalaxy if…
- Your strategy revolves around LinkedIn prospecting.
- You want to automate activity directly from your LinkedIn account.
- You prefer working inside LinkedIn search or Sales Navigator with a browser extension.
- You need simple automation for connection requests, messages, and follow-ups.
- Your campaigns mainly run through LinkedIn with occasional email steps.
Waalaxy is designed primarily for LinkedIn outreach. It connects directly to your LinkedIn account and automates actions like invitations, messages, and follow-ups to help scale prospecting campaigns.
Get Woodpecker if you want a more reliable cold outreach platform
If email is your main acquisition channel, tools meant primarily for LinkedIn automation may not be the best long-term choice. LinkedIn workflows can be fragile, and automation limits often restrict how much outreach you can run safely.
Woodpecker is built specifically for cold email outreach and deliverability. Instead of focusing on LinkedIn automation, it helps you run large-scale personalized email campaigns with better inbox placement, reply detection, and campaign management.
Key advantages include:
- Built-in email warm-up to protect sender reputation
- Advanced personalized email campaigns with conditional follow-ups
- Reliable sending infrastructure built for cold outreach
- Detailed campaign performance tracking and deliverability monitoring
- Native integrations with tools such as Clay and CRMs
If your goal is to book meetings through email rather than automate LinkedIn activity, Woodpecker is usually the more stable and scalable option.