Best Waalaxy alternatives (2026): 9 LinkedIn outreach tools compared by lead source, research and approval
The best Waalaxy alternatives in 2026: traxy, Valley, Gojiberry, Dripify, Expandi, HeyReach and more, compared by who picks the leads, research and approval.
TL;DR: The best Waalaxy alternatives in 2026 are traxy, Valley and Gojiberry if you want the tool to pick who gets contacted from LinkedIn signals and research each person before anything is sent, and La Growth Machine, Dripify, Expandi, lemlist, HeyReach and Linked Helper if you want another LinkedIn automation tool for lists you build yourself. traxy runs your entire LinkedIn GTM end to end, from finding high intent leads from social intent to enriching and researching each one, to running relevant, personalized LinkedIn and email outreach to them on autopilot once you approve the campaign, with the option to approve every message. If you are new to LinkedIn outreach and want ready-made sequences on your own LinkedIn or Sales Navigator searches, Waalaxy may still be the right pick.
traxy wrote this guide and lists itself first. Every competitor detail comes from that vendor's own site or help center, linked in its entry and checked November 2026. Prices are left out; see each vendor's pricing page, and traxy pricing.
Comparing only traxy and Waalaxy? Read the head-to-head, traxy vs Waalaxy. Keeping Waalaxy and adding traxy leads to it? See traxy + Waalaxy: 7 agency outreach workflows, which covers the CSV and webhook handoff. This page is the wider list for teams leaving Waalaxy.
Which Waalaxy alternative should you pick?
Pick by why you are leaving Waalaxy: Dripify, Expandi, HeyReach, La Growth Machine, lemlist and Linked Helper replace the sender for lists you build, and traxy also finds the leads. The short version is below, with each vendor's pricing page instead of prices; the full entries further down have the details and sources, checked November 2026.
Tool | Best fit | Why consider it | Main trade-off | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
traxy | For teams that want the tool to find the leads too: traxy finds high intent leads from LinkedIn activity, checks each one against your ICP, then runs LinkedIn and email outreach from your own connected accounts after you approve the launch. | Only people with a 50%+ ICP match become leads, each with the post or comment behind it, and a campaign researches each lead before messages are prepared. | Built around finding the leads. If your list is already right and you only want another sender, a sender-only tool is simpler. | |
Dripify | Simple LinkedIn and email sequences on lists you build | Drag-and-drop builder, InMail steps, A/B tests of up to 3 variants per step, and lists from the likers or commenters of a public post. | The pages we checked don't describe research on each lead or approving each message. | |
Expandi | Agencies and teams that want many LinkedIn actions and conditions | Post engagers from any public post, Signals for profile and company page visitors, and white labeling. | Expandi Email is in beta with access by request, and the pages we checked don't describe research on each lead. | |
HeyReach | Agencies sending from many LinkedIn accounts at once | Unlimited LinkedIn senders with automatic rotation and one Unified Inbox for LinkedIn messages. | Email runs through Instantly, Smartlead or EmailBison, and its post import brings in reactors, not commenters. | |
La Growth Machine | Building your own multichannel paths | LinkedIn, email, voice messages, call tasks and X steps in one sequence, with signals from any LinkedIn post. | For a line unique to each lead, its FAQ suggests writing it in another tool and sending it in as a custom attribute. | |
lemlist | Cold lists from a contact database, plus phone steps | Its own lead database, signal agents that watch the LinkedIn profiles you choose, and lemAgent campaigns that wait for your approval. | LinkedIn steps need the Multichannel or Enterprise plan. | |
Linked Helper | A desktop app with a wide set of LinkedIn actions | AI ICP Detection lets only good fits into a campaign, and AI Messages reads each profile. | It runs as a desktop app, and email continues in your cold-email tool. |
Which one to pick, by reason for switching:
Your lists are the problem: traxy. It runs your entire LinkedIn GTM end to end, from finding high intent leads from social intent to enriching and researching each one, to running personalized LinkedIn and email outreach to them on autopilot once you approve the campaign, or with every message approved by you.
You want a simple builder with A/B tests: Dripify.
You want more LinkedIn actions or white labeling for clients: Expandi.
You send from many LinkedIn accounts: HeyReach.
You want to design your own path with voice, calls and X: La Growth Machine.
You need a contact database and phone steps: lemlist.
You prefer a desktop app: Linked Helper.
Most of these tools can now pull post engagers too. Dripify builds lists from the likers or commenters of a public post, Expandi Signals tracks the engagers of up to three posts per campaign, yours or anyone's (Expandi Signals), HeyReach imports the people who reacted to a post but not the ones who commented (HeyReach Help: post reactors), La Growth Machine brings in people who like or comment on any LinkedIn post, and lemlist's signal agent watches likes or comments on the posts of the LinkedIn profiles you choose (lemlist Help: profile engagement). What traxy adds is the fit check and the evidence: only people with a 50%+ ICP match become leads, every lead shows the post or comment behind it, a campaign researches each lead before messages are prepared, and nothing sends until you approve.
What does Waalaxy do, and when should you stay with it?
Waalaxy is a LinkedIn outreach tool that helps you find prospects, send messages and follow up automatically (waalaxy.com). On the pages we checked in November 2026, it offers:
Lists you build: LinkedIn Search, Sales Navigator, Recruiter Lite or a CSV, plus targeting by post reactions, groups and events, with no external database needed. A LinkedIn search import stops at 1,000 results and a Sales Navigator one at 2,500, and Clean My Import filters out prospects whose job titles don't match your search keywords (Waalaxy Help: imports).
Sequences: 99+ ready-to-use sequences of connection requests, messages and follow-ups, up to 800 new connection requests a month, and follow-ups that run until prospects reply (waalaxy.com).
Messages: variables and custom properties, and Waami, which drafts a message from your target, your value proposition and your call to action (Waalaxy: points to check before you leave).
Email: on the Business plan, email sequences from the mailbox you connect (Gmail, Outlook or another provider), up to 5 emails with delays of up to 28 days. A prospect who replies leaves the campaign (Waalaxy Help: email campaigns). The Email Finder looks up professional emails through a waterfall of providers (Waalaxy cold email).
Teams and tools: shared prospect lists and campaigns, roles, permissions, team dashboards, a guard against messaging the same prospect twice, and HubSpot, Pipedrive and 2,000+ apps through Make, Zapier and n8n (waalaxy.com).
Stay with Waalaxy if you are new to LinkedIn outreach, you already know who to contact from a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator search, and you want ready-made sequences with little setup. Waalaxy says 75% of its users had never done LinkedIn outreach before, and its own guide suggests comparing your reply rate with the 14 to 15% its help center gives as a benchmark before you leave (Waalaxy). Switching makes more sense when the list is the problem, or when you want research and a review step before anyone is contacted.
Why do teams look for Waalaxy alternatives?
Most reasons fall into three groups:
Who decides who gets contacted. In Waalaxy, you do, with the search filters you use. A tight search gives you people who look right on paper. It doesn't tell you who has a reason to hear from you this week.
The reason behind each message. Waalaxy personalizes with variables, custom properties and Waami drafts written from your offer. The pages we checked don't describe research on each lead, or showing the post or comment that put a person on the list.
Control over the path and the send. Waalaxy's own guide says its sequence templates react to the prospect's status, but you don't build your own path or reorder the steps, and it has no email warm-up, SMS or calls (Waalaxy). The pages we checked don't describe approving each message before it goes out.
If your reason is price, Waalaxy's guide lists its own fixes, and each vendor's pricing page has current plans. This guide compares who picks the leads and what happens before anyone is contacted.
How we picked and compared
We started from the tools that AI answers named for Waalaxy alternatives in November 2026 (Dripify, Expandi, HeyReach, La Growth Machine, lemlist and Linked Helper), then added signal-based tools that pick and research the leads for you (Valley and Gojiberry). We kept a tool only if its own pages show it sending LinkedIn outreach, and compared six things:
Who decides who gets contacted: you, with a search or a list you import, or the tool, from signals checked against your ICP.
The signal behind each lead: whether you can see why each person is on the list, such as the post they commented on.
Research on each lead: whether the tool looks up facts about each person before a message is prepared.
LinkedIn and email from your own accounts: both channels in one sequence, from the LinkedIn account and mailbox you connect.
Approval: a test with nothing sent, a launch review, approval of each message, or an autopilot setting.
Stopping on reply: whether a reply stops the rest of that person's sequence.
Also checked, not ranked: Waalaxy's own guide to its alternatives also names Kanbox for a LinkedIn inbox, and PhantomBuster and Apollo for data (Waalaxy). We left them out because, as that guide describes them, their main job is the inbox or the data, not running the outreach.
The 9 best Waalaxy alternatives
1. traxy
traxy runs your LinkedIn GTM end to end: it finds high intent leads from social intent, checks each one against your ICP, enriches and researches them, and runs personalized LinkedIn and email outreach from your own connected accounts once you approve the campaign. traxy is the vendor writing this guide.
Who decides who gets contacted: traxy does, from the ICP and signals it drafts from your website for you to fix. It finds people who post, comment on or like posts about the problem you solve (Signals); people who engage with the profiles, posts and company pages you track, such as competitors, creators and your own team (Tracking); a plain-English search of 71M+ scanned LinkedIn likes, posts and comments (social intent search); and your profile views. A person counts as a lead only at a 50% or higher ICP match (qualification).
The signal behind each lead: each lead shows the post, comment or like behind it and a label (Warm, Related, Activity or ICP match) for how strong the evidence is. Campaigns group leads by signal, and each group gets its own message variant. You can run many campaigns at once, each on a different signal.
Research on each lead: a campaign researches each lead for the facts you ask for before any message is prepared, or runs research only (create a campaign). Hiring, funding and job change signals come from that research. You can also look up a work email or phone number for a lead (contact details).
LinkedIn and email from your own accounts: connection requests, LinkedIn messages and email steps run in one sequence from the LinkedIn accounts and mailboxes you connect, each with limits, active hours and ramp-up that a campaign doesn't bypass (sender accounts). A wait can depend on connection acceptance, and the inbox keeps one conversation per lead across both channels.
Approval: a test on sample leads prepares research and previews with nothing sent. The launch review shows who joins, who is skipped because another unfinished campaign holds them or a past campaign contacted them, the sender, the steps and the delivery mode. Then you approve each message in a review queue or let the approved campaign send (review and launch). You can run it in the app, through trax, the traxy agent, or from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor or Grok through the traxy MCP, where the AI asks for your yes before anything sends.
Stopping on reply: replies, unsubscribes and hard bounces stop the sequence (sequences).
Fits better than Waalaxy when: you want the tool to decide who to contact from what people do on LinkedIn, with the reason and the research on every lead, and a person approving before anything sends.
Waalaxy fits better when: you want ready-made sequences on lists you build from LinkedIn searches, or you don't want any review step before sending.
2. Valley
Valley finds people from LinkedIn signals or your own lists, checks each one against your ideal customer, researches them and runs LinkedIn and email outreach in your voice.
Who decides who gets contacted: Valley, from plays built on lead magnet engagement, hiring signals, competitor frustrations and keyword engagement, or you, with your own lists (Valley product). For post engagers, it works on your own posts and on competitors' posts from up to five monitored profiles (Valley: post engagers).
Signal and research: Valley checks each person against your ideal customer and explains the match, and only the engagers that fit get researched and written to. Research pulls context from posts, interviews and company news, with the sources shown.
LinkedIn and email from your own accounts: you connect your own accounts and put both channels in one sequence.
Approval: Autopilot is a per-campaign setting. With it off, every message waits in Approvals for you to review; with it on, Valley sends messages after generating them (Valley Help: approvals).
Stopping on reply: when someone replies, the sequence stops.
Fits better than traxy when: you want hiring as a play that starts the audience, or drafts matched to your phrasing and punctuation. See Valley alternatives.
3. Gojiberry
Gojiberry finds prospects from social and company signals, scores each one against your ICP, and runs LinkedIn and email outreach until they reply.
Who decides who gets contacted: Gojiberry's source agent, from the signals you pick: people who engage with competitors' LinkedIn company content, with posts on topics you choose and with experts you select; your profile visitors and company page followers; job changes, new decision makers, funding, hiring, tech stack, lookalikes and company-level website visitors. Your own CSVs, LinkedIn searches and post engagers go through the same scoring (Gojiberry product facts).
Signal and research: every prospect is scored against your ICP before outreach, with exclusions and keyword rules, and scoring can be skipped. Gojiberry writes each message for one lead from their profile, their company and the signal that surfaced them.
LinkedIn and email from your own accounts: one sequence, from your own Gmail or Outlook mailbox or from done-for-you mailboxes bought inside Gojiberry, with LinkedIn and email in one inbox.
Approval: full autopilot, or Review Mode to approve leads before outreach starts; rejected leads are never contacted. The page describes approving leads, not each first message.
Stopping on reply: a reply stops that lead's sequence.
Fits better than traxy when: you want website visitors, tech stack or lookalikes of your customers as lead sources, or mailboxes bought in the same tool. See Gojiberry alternatives.
4. La Growth Machine
La Growth Machine is a multichannel outreach platform that runs LinkedIn, email, voice messages, call tasks and X steps in one sequence from your own accounts.
Who decides who gets contacted: you, through persona filters on every signal. Signals bring in people who like or comment on any LinkedIn post, register for a LinkedIn event, follow your company page or visit your site through RB2B or Warmly; profile views, job changes and recent hires use Sales Navigator. Most signals are checked every 24 hours, and new matches join the campaign that's running (La Growth Machine Signals).
Signal and research: new matches land in the audience you attach the signal to, and its FAQ suggests one audience, one signal and one message. You can skip leads you already contacted. AI Messages drafts one message per step with each lead's data; for a line unique to each lead, its FAQ suggests writing it in Claude, ChatGPT or Clay and sending it in as a custom attribute (La Growth Machine AI).
LinkedIn and email from your own accounts: invitations, messages, profile visits and post likes from your LinkedIn account, and email from your own Google, Outlook or SMTP mailbox, with replies in one shared inbox (lagrowthmachine.com).
Approval: a manual check on any LinkedIn message or email in a sequence, and when you run it from Claude or ChatGPT, the assistant asks before it sends, edits or launches, by default.
Stopping on reply: the sequence stops for that lead on every channel, by default (La Growth Machine sequence builder).
Fits better than traxy when: you want to build your own path with conditions and A/B tests, or add voice messages, call tasks and X steps.
5. Dripify
Dripify is a LinkedIn automation tool that runs LinkedIn and email campaigns from a drag-and-drop sequence builder.
Who decides who gets contacted: you, with a LinkedIn Basic, Sales Navigator or Recruiter search, profiles from My Network, a LinkedIn event, or profile URLs pasted in or uploaded as a CSV (Dripify Help: add leads). It can also pull the likers or the direct commenters of a public post, one interaction type per list, and Evergreen mode, on the Advanced plan, adds new ones every 12 hours (Dripify Help: leads from posts). Its homepage lists high-intent signals as coming soon (dripify.com).
Signal and research: 20+ variables, custom lead fields and fallback text when data is missing. The pages we checked don't describe research on each lead.
LinkedIn and email from your own accounts: 15+ actions and conditions, A/B tests of up to 3 variants per step, an email finder, and email steps sent from the Gmail or Outlook mailbox you connect (Dripify Help: send emails).
Approval: the pages we checked don't describe approving each message, and Dripify describes its LinkedIn actions as running on autopilot (Dripify features).
Stopping on reply: a reply on LinkedIn puts further actions on hold (Dripify Help: replies), and an email reply pauses the lead in all active campaigns, for Gmail and Outlook (Dripify Help: email replies).
Fits better than traxy when: you want InMail steps, A/B tests and step analytics on lists you already trust. See Dripify alternatives.
6. Expandi
Expandi is a LinkedIn automation tool for sales teams, lead generation agencies and recruiters, with behavior-based sequences and email steps.
Who decides who gets contacted: you, with LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and Recruiter search URLs, the likers and commenters of any public post, event attendees, group members, your company page followers, a CSV, Smartlead imports and lists built through its MCP. A lead qualification list groups leads in your LinkedIn account that match your ICP, with inclusion and exclusion criteria (Expandi Help: lead lists). Expandi Signals adds people who view your profile or your company page and the engagers of up to three posts per campaign, yours or anyone's (Expandi Signals).
Signal and research: a post engagement list shows how each person reacted (like, praise, empathy and so on). The pages we checked don't describe research on each lead.
LinkedIn and email from your own accounts: Expandi Email runs LinkedIn and email in one campaign from your own Gmail, Outlook or SMTP mailbox, up to five per LinkedIn account. It is in beta with access by request, and you reply to emails from your own mailbox (Expandi Email).
Approval: when an AI assistant drafts messages through its MCP, they wait as drafts that you approve one by one or in bulk; the MCP is in beta (Expandi Help: MCP drafts).
Stopping on reply: a reply on LinkedIn or in any connected mailbox pauses the rest of that prospect's campaign.
Fits better than traxy when: you want many LinkedIn actions and conditions per sequence, group and event campaigns, or white labeling for agency clients (expandi.io). See Expandi alternatives.
7. lemlist
lemlist is an outbound platform with its own lead database that runs LinkedIn, email and phone outreach from one place.
Who decides who gets contacted: you, from lemlist's database or its Chrome extension, enriched with outside providers' data (lemlist LinkedIn prospecting), plus signal agents for hiring changes, funding, job changes, website visits, tech stack changes and engagement with a LinkedIn profile, company or topic (lemlist signals). A profile engagement signal agent watches the LinkedIn profiles you add, such as thought leaders or competitors, for likes or comments on their posts, with ICP criteria such as persona, location, industry and company size (lemlist Help: profile engagement).
Signal and research: when a signal is spotted, Engage Agent suggests a sequence, copy and AI prompts tailored to the trigger. Messages use dynamic fields such as name, ICP or pain points, and lemlist AI turns LinkedIn bios into icebreakers.
LinkedIn and email from your own accounts: profile visits, post likes, endorsements, invites and text, voice or InMail messages, with email and phone in the same outreach and one inbox. LinkedIn steps need the Multichannel or Enterprise plan.
Approval: lemAgent builds a campaign from a chat and hands you the brief, the list, the sequence and every message; nothing launches without your approval (lemAgent).
Stopping on reply: each campaign stops by default when a lead replies to an email or LinkedIn message, and you can choose to pause or end the lead instead (lemlist Help).
Fits better than traxy when: you build cold lists from a contact database, or want LinkedIn, email and phone steps, including voice messages, in one outreach. See lemlist alternatives.
8. HeyReach
HeyReach is a LinkedIn automation tool for agencies, sales teams and GTM experts that sends from many LinkedIn accounts at once.
Who decides who gets contacted: you, or the tool you import from: LinkedIn contacts from Sales Navigator, Clay, RB2B, HubSpot or other tools, plus people who visit your site, book a meeting, engage with an ad or interact with your posts, pushed in as warm leads (heyreach.io). Its post import brings in the people who reacted to a LinkedIn post, not the ones who commented, up to 10,000 reactors per post import per sender (HeyReach Help: post reactors).
Signal and research: its homepage describes importing leads that are already qualified in another tool.
LinkedIn and email from your own accounts: unlimited LinkedIn senders with automatic rotation; connection requests, messages, voice notes and profile views with "If Connected" logic; and a Unified Inbox for LinkedIn messages. Email runs through native integrations with Instantly, Smartlead and EmailBison, and an MCP lets AI agents create campaigns and tag replies.
Approval: not described on its homepage.
Stopping on reply: leads who reply end the sequence (HeyReach Help), and they auto-pause in Smartlead, Instantly and EmailBison when they reply in HeyReach (HeyReach blog).
Fits better than traxy when: you run outreach from many LinkedIn accounts, for example as an agency, and already qualify leads in Clay or Sales Navigator.
9. Linked Helper
Linked Helper is LinkedIn automation software that runs as a desktop app, with invites, follow-ups, profile visits and data export.
Who decides who gets contacted: you, with lists you build on LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, Recruiter or Talent (linkedhelper.com), or a CSV of profile URLs (Linked Helper Help: upload URLs). AI ICP Detection checks every profile against an ideal customer you describe in plain words and lets only good fits into the campaign.
Signal and research: AI Messages reads each lead's profile and writes an invite or follow-up for the campaign goal. The pages we checked don't describe a signal shown on each lead.
LinkedIn and email from your own accounts: connection requests, InMails, messages, endorsements, follows, post likes and comments, and event and group invites. For email, its homepage describes finding the address with Data Enricher and continuing in your cold-email tool.
Approval: you approve every AI draft yourself, or let it run on full autopilot.
Stopping on reply: message chains stop the moment a lead replies.
Fits better than traxy when: you want a desktop app with a wide set of LinkedIn actions and data export, on any LinkedIn subscription.
Comparison table
Competitor rows summarize each vendor's own pages, checked November 2026. Waalaxy is included for reference.
Tool | Who decides who gets contacted | Signal behind each lead | Research on each lead | LinkedIn and email from your accounts | Approval before sending | Stops on reply |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
traxy | traxy, from LinkedIn activity at a 50%+ ICP match | The post, comment or like, with a label | Optional, for the facts you ask for | One sequence from your LinkedIn accounts and mailboxes | Test with nothing sent, launch review, optional approval of every message | Yes, and on unsubscribes and hard bounces |
Waalaxy | You, with LinkedIn searches, post reactions, groups, events or a CSV | Not described | Variables, custom properties, Waami drafts | LinkedIn, plus email from your mailbox on Business | Not described | Yes |
Valley | Valley, from signal plays, or your own lists | ICP match explained | Posts, interviews, company news | One sequence from your accounts | Autopilot, or every message in Approvals | Yes |
Gojiberry | Gojiberry, from social and company signals, or your data | The signal that surfaced them | Message written from profile, company and signal | One sequence; your own or bought mailboxes | Autopilot, or Review Mode for leads | Yes |
La Growth Machine | You, with persona filters on signals | The audience the signal fills | Custom attributes from outside tools | One sequence, plus voice, calls and X | Manual check on any step; AI assistant asks first | Yes, on every channel by default |
Dripify | You, with searches, events, a CSV or post engagers | Not described | Variables and custom fields | One sequence; email from Gmail or Outlook | Not described | Yes, the lead is put on hold |
Expandi | You, with search URLs, post engagers, groups, events or a CSV | Reaction type on post lists | Not described | One campaign; Expandi Email in beta | MCP drafts wait for approval | Yes, on either channel |
lemlist | You, from its database, extension or signal agents | The trigger that fired | Icebreakers from LinkedIn bios | LinkedIn, email and phone | lemAgent campaigns wait for approval | Yes, by default |
HeyReach | You, by import from other tools | In the tool you import from | In the tool you import from | LinkedIn; email through Instantly, Smartlead, EmailBison | Not described on its homepage | Yes |
Linked Helper | You, with searches or a CSV, plus an AI ICP check | Not described | AI reads each profile | LinkedIn; email in your cold-email tool | Approve every AI draft, or autopilot | Yes |
Which Waalaxy alternative picks the leads for you and shows why each one is there?
traxy, Valley and Gojiberry pick the people from signals and check each one against your ICP before outreach. They differ in what you see on each lead and what you approve, so ask about both on any demo.
traxy: only people with a 50%+ ICP match become leads, each shown with the post, comment or like behind it. A campaign researches each lead for the facts you ask for, a test on sample leads sends nothing, you always approve the launch, and you can approve every message in a review queue.
Valley: engagers are checked against your ICP with the match explained, and only those that fit are researched and written to. With Autopilot off, every message waits for you.
Gojiberry: every prospect is scored before outreach unless you skip scoring, and each message is written from the signal that surfaced the lead. Review Mode holds leads for your approval.
An ICP match says a person fits your criteria, not that they will buy; see ICP match score vs signal strength. To see what a test looks like before launch, read how to test an outbound campaign on a few leads, and for the approval step across tools, which LinkedIn outreach tools let you approve each message.
Which Waalaxy alternative fits if you only want another sender for your own list?
If your lists are good and you only want a different sending tool, look at Dripify for a simple builder with InMail and A/B tests, Expandi for many LinkedIn actions and conditions, La Growth Machine for your own multichannel paths with voice, calls and X, lemlist if you also want a contact database and phone steps, HeyReach for many LinkedIn accounts with sender rotation, and Linked Helper for a desktop app. Or stay with Waalaxy, which is built for this job. traxy fits when the list is the problem: you want people who recently engaged on LinkedIn, checked and researched, and the outreach to them in the same tool. For more tools that run both channels, see the best multichannel outbound tools for LinkedIn and email.
What changes when the leads come from LinkedIn activity instead of a search?
Most Waalaxy lists start from a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator search. These traxy customers built lists the same way, then changed where the leads came from:
Paper Run ran LinkedIn outbound off Sales Navigator lists and booked 3 to 5 meetings every 60 days. After rebuilding its targeting around who in its industry engaged with content, it booked 16 meetings in the next 60 days, with connection acceptance up 104% and replies nearly doubled (Paper Run case study).
Resorsi swapped keyword-based Sales Navigator lists for engagement signals and booked 6 qualified meetings in about three weeks, with 54% higher connection acceptance and 50% fewer unqualified leads. "Before, 50% of my leads were garbage," says founder Federico Waldman (Resorsi case study).
traxy's own campaigns: in a four-week window ending in October 2026, traxy's own and client LinkedIn campaigns sent 9,930 connection requests only to warm ICP fits, people who had liked a post about the problem or engaged with traxy's posts. 3,902 accepted (39.3%), 603 of the 2,131 people messaged replied, and 251 were interested. The signal picked the message template (Adam Salmanov's post on X, with the dashboard).
Teams that switch to traxy leads from other tools usually see LinkedIn reply and acceptance rates about double. Your own numbers depend on your offer, your message and your market.
How to move from Waalaxy to traxy
Export your Waalaxy prospects: from a list or a campaign, select them, click Export, then Download CSV. Waalaxy says the file holds the name, job title, company, LinkedIn URL, the email if one was found and the status of each conversation (Waalaxy).
Add the people in your active Waalaxy campaigns to traxy's Do not contact list before any outreach. It takes single entries or a CSV of emails and LinkedIn profiles (Do not contact).
Add your customers' company domains to the Blocklist so traxy leaves them out of lead discovery (Blocklist).
Give traxy your website, then fix the ICP and signals it drafts. Carry over the job titles and keywords from your best Waalaxy searches into your lead criteria (lead criteria).
Track the profiles, posts and company pages whose audiences you reached through post reactions, groups or events: competitors, creators and your own team. For a single post, paste its URL under Tracking (Tracking).
Connect your LinkedIn account and mailbox under one sender name, since a sequence that uses both channels needs both (sender accounts).
Save the leads you want to reach as a shared view, build one campaign with the research you need, test it on sample leads, read the drafts, then approve the launch (outbound from qualified signals).
Keep each person in one tool's sequence at a time, and pause any Waalaxy campaign that covers the same people before you launch.
FAQ
What are the best Waalaxy alternatives?
traxy, Valley and Gojiberry if you want the tool to pick who gets contacted from signals and check each person against your ICP, and La Growth Machine, Dripify, Expandi, lemlist, HeyReach and Linked Helper if you want another LinkedIn automation tool for lists you build. traxy also researches each lead and runs the LinkedIn and email outreach to them after you approve.
Is there a Waalaxy alternative that finds the leads for me?
Yes. traxy finds people who post, comment on or like posts about the problem you solve, engage with the profiles, posts and company pages you track, or match a plain-English search of 71M+ scanned LinkedIn likes, posts and comments. Only people with a 50%+ ICP match become leads, and each one shows the post or comment behind it. Valley and Gojiberry also build audiences from signals.
Do other Waalaxy alternatives find leads from LinkedIn post engagement too?
Yes, several do. Dripify, Expandi, La Growth Machine and lemlist document ways to pull people who like or comment on LinkedIn posts, and HeyReach imports the people who reacted to a post. traxy differs in what happens next: only people with a 50%+ ICP match become leads, each shows the post or comment behind it, a campaign researches each lead, and nothing sends until you approve the launch.
Does traxy send LinkedIn messages and emails too, or only find leads?
Both. traxy runs connection requests, LinkedIn messages and email steps from the LinkedIn accounts and mailboxes you connect as sender accounts, with optional research on each lead first, and one inbox conversation per lead across both channels. See LinkedIn outbound with traxy.
Does traxy send anything without my approval?
No. traxy prepares the messages, a test on sample leads sends nothing, and nothing sends until you confirm the launch after reviewing the audience, sender, steps and delivery mode. Then you approve every message in a review queue or let the approved campaign run on autopilot, and you can pause it at any time. Replies, unsubscribes and hard bounces stop the sequence.
When is Waalaxy still the right pick?
When you are new to LinkedIn outreach, you already know who to contact from a LinkedIn, Sales Navigator or Recruiter Lite search, and you want ready-made sequences with LinkedIn and email follow-ups and little setup. Waalaxy says 75% of its users had never done LinkedIn outreach before (waalaxy.com).
Can I use traxy and Waalaxy together?
Yes. traxy finds and qualifies the people, and you hand them to Waalaxy by CSV export or by a webhook, Zapier or n8n route; traxy + Waalaxy covers the steps. Or keep Waalaxy for search-based lists and run outreach to traxy leads in traxy. Either way, keep each person in one tool's sequence at a time.
Will LinkedIn restrict my account?
It can, with any tool that sends from your LinkedIn account, traxy and Waalaxy included, and no tool can promise it won't. Keep volume low, send to people with a clear reason to hear from you, and review messages before they go out. In traxy, each sender's limits, active hours and ramp-up apply to every campaign. See LinkedIn account restrictions and LinkedIn limits.
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