# Closely

> Closely is a cloud-based LinkedIn and email outreach platform that runs connection requests, message sequences, and InMails from hosted infrastructure rather than a browser extension, combines them with unlimited connected email accounts in multichannel campaigns, includes a built-in email and phone finder, and ships white-label branding on every paid tier, with plans priced by the number of LinkedIn accounts you connect.

- Category: LinkedIn Outreach (https://saastracker.org/categories/linkedin-outreach)
- Website: https://closelyhq.com
- Starting price: $49 per month (Starter), or $29 per month billed annually
- Free plan: No
- Free trial: Free trial available on every tier, with a starter allocation of enrichment credits to test the finder
- Founded: 2021, HQ: Kyiv, Ukraine, with a New York facing presence, Ownership: Privately held, founder-led
- Profile last reviewed: 2026-08-22
- Canonical profile: https://saastracker.org/products/closely

## Overview

Closely sits in the middle of this category on purpose. It is not the safety-obsessed premium option and it is not the cheap browser extension. It is a cloud platform where the unit of pricing is a connected LinkedIn account, email accounts are unlimited and free, and the agency features that most vendors charge a premium for (white label, team management, multi-account views) are included from the $49 entry plan rather than gated behind an agency tier.

That pricing shape tells you who buys it. A solo seller pays $49 for one LinkedIn account and gets a multichannel sequencer and an enrichment credit pool. A three-person team or a small agency pays $127 for three accounts, which is $42 per account, and gets the same white-label branding a competitor would charge $500 a month for. At five accounts on the $205 Essential plan the arithmetic lands at $41 per account per month, which is competitive with HeyReach and cheaper than Expandi, though without Expandi's safety reputation or HeyReach's depth of multi-account inbox tooling.

The multichannel story is the other differentiator. Most LinkedIn tools bolt email on as an afterthought or charge per mailbox. Closely connects unlimited email accounts at no extra cost and lets a single sequence alternate LinkedIn and email steps with reply detection stopping the whole thread. Combined with the built-in email and phone finder, this makes it plausible as a single outbound tool for a small business rather than one of three, which is a real cost argument even if each individual component is less polished than a specialist.

The company is small and Ukraine-based, led by founder Dan King, with a New York-facing presence. It has been operating since around 2021 and passed through the AppSumo lifetime-deal channel early on, which is a mixed signal: it bought distribution but also a large base of non-paying legacy users. Treat the vendor as a capable small operator rather than a well-capitalized platform, and size your dependency accordingly.

## How it works

1. You connect a LinkedIn account through Closely's web app rather than installing an extension. Execution happens on Closely's cloud infrastructure, so campaigns continue overnight and with your machine off, and there is no extension fingerprint in your browser for LinkedIn to inspect. The tradeoff, shared by every cloud tool here, is that your LinkedIn session is being driven from infrastructure that is not your home network.

2. Campaigns are built as sequences of steps: profile visit, connection request with a note, follow-up messages at intervals, InMail where you have credits, and email steps that use any of your connected mailboxes. Closely applies human-plausible action limits and randomized timing by default rather than letting you set an arbitrary daily number, which is the correct posture but also means you cannot push volume as hard as some buyers expect.

3. Audiences come from LinkedIn or Sales Navigator search URLs, CSV upload, or Closely's own prospect search. The built-in finder resolves verified work emails and, at a higher credit cost, direct phone numbers, so a LinkedIn-sourced list becomes usable for the email half of the same sequence without leaving the tool.

4. Replies from LinkedIn, InMail, and email all land in one smart inbox with tags and templates. Reply detection stops the remaining sequence steps for that person across both channels. Outcomes sync to HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, or GoHighLevel in real time, and webhooks cover everything else. Agency users rebrand the whole interface for clients, which is included rather than an upsell.

## Best for

Small teams and boutique agencies who want LinkedIn and email in one cloud sequencer, need to run two to five LinkedIn accounts, and value white-label client reporting being included at the entry price rather than sold as a $500 agency tier.

## Not the right fit for

- Anyone running a serious multi-account operation above roughly ten LinkedIn accounts; the per-account economics stop improving and HeyReach's agency architecture is materially deeper.
- Buyers who want the strongest published account-safety story in the category; Closely does not document a dedicated country-matched residential IP per account the way Expandi and SalesRobot do, and that is exactly the claim you should not assume without asking.
- Solo users on a tight budget who only need LinkedIn; Dux-Soup at $14.99 or Octopus CRM at $9.99 cover basic outreach for a fraction of $49.
- Teams that need email deliverability infrastructure as a first-class discipline (inbox warm-up, domain rotation, spam testing); Closely sends email competently but is not an email deliverability platform.
- Buyers who need a large, well-capitalized vendor behind a mission-critical channel; this is a small company in a category where vendors disappear, and you should keep your data exported.

## Features

### LinkedIn campaign engine

Cloud execution with vendor-set safety limits rather than a free-for-all throttle.

- **Cloud execution, no browser extension**: Campaigns run on Closely's servers around the clock. Nothing needs to be installed, nothing runs in your browser, and there is no extension footprint on your LinkedIn session.
- **Connection request campaigns with personalized notes**: Invites carry variable-substituted notes drawn from profile fields, with the note optional so you can test noteless invites, which frequently accept better.
- **Multi-step follow-up sequences**: Chains of messages at configurable intervals after acceptance, with reply detection halting the sequence for anyone who answers.
- **Profile visit and engagement steps**: Warm-up actions such as profile views can be interleaved before an invite so the account's activity mix looks like a person rather than a bot that only sends.
- **InMail campaigns**: Sends InMails to prospects outside your network where your LinkedIn plan carries the credits, reaching people who would otherwise need an accepted invite first.
- **Human-like timing and enforced activity limits**: Randomized delays inside working hours and vendor-set daily ceilings rather than a box where you type any number you like. Safer by default, less flexible if you want to push.

### Multichannel email

The feature that makes the price defensible against LinkedIn-only tools.

- **Unlimited connected email accounts**: Every tier connects as many mailboxes as you want at no per-mailbox charge, which is unusual: most multichannel competitors bill per sending account.
- **Mixed LinkedIn and email sequences**: A single campaign can open with a LinkedIn invite, fall back to email if the invite is not accepted within a set period, and return to LinkedIn afterwards.
- **Cross-channel reply detection**: A reply on either channel stops the whole sequence for that prospect, which prevents the classic embarrassment of emailing someone who already answered on LinkedIn.
- **Sending rotation across mailboxes**: Volume can be spread across multiple connected mailboxes rather than concentrated on one, which is the basic hygiene measure for email deliverability.

### Data and personalization

Enrichment bundled as a monthly credit pool rather than a separate vendor.

- **Verified email finder**: Resolves work email addresses from LinkedIn profiles and verifies them before sending, drawing on the plan's monthly credit allowance.
- **Direct phone number lookup**: Phone numbers cost more credits than emails (roughly the ratio of 150 phones to 750 emails from the same 3,000-credit pool on Growth), which is the standard economics for mobile data.
- **Shared credit pool across use cases**: The same monthly credits pay for email lookups, phone lookups, or AI personalizations, so you allocate them to whatever your campaign actually needs.
- **AI message personalization**: Generates opening lines and message variants from profile context at roughly 1,500 personalizations per 3,000 credits, cheaper per unit than a phone lookup by an order of magnitude.
- **Prospect search and list building**: Audiences can come from a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator search URL, a CSV upload, or Closely's own search, so a Sales Navigator seat is useful but not strictly required.

### Inbox, team, and agency operations

Where the pricing model actually pays off.

- **Smart unified inbox**: LinkedIn messages, InMails, and email replies in one view with tags, so a conversation is handled in one place regardless of where it started.
- **White label on every paid tier**: Rebrand the interface and client-facing reporting from the $49 Starter plan upward. Most competitors reserve this for an agency tier costing several hundred dollars a month.
- **Multiple LinkedIn accounts per subscription**: One on Starter, three on Growth, five on Essential, with each account isolated as its own campaign workspace rather than pooled.
- **Team management and permissions**: Assign users to accounts and campaigns, which is the difference between an agency operating properly and everyone sharing one login.
- **Campaign analytics**: Acceptance rate, reply rate, and step-level conversion per campaign and per account, exportable for client reporting.
- **Real-time CRM sync**: Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, and GoHighLevel connectors push contacts and conversation outcomes as they happen rather than on a nightly batch.
- **Webhooks and Zapier**: Covers the integrations the native connectors miss, and gives you a path to mirror campaign outcomes into your own database, which matters for exit risk.

## Use cases

- **Two-founder B2B startup with no SDR**: Both founders want to prospect from their own LinkedIn profiles and follow up by email, but cannot justify one LinkedIn tool plus one email sequencer plus one data vendor. Outcome: The $127 Growth plan covers three LinkedIn accounts, unlimited mailboxes, and 3,000 monthly credits, replacing three subscriptions with one and keeping every reply in a single inbox.
- **Boutique lead-generation agency with four clients**: Clients want branded weekly reporting and will not accept seeing a third-party vendor's logo, but a dedicated agency tier at $500 a month would eat the margin on a $1,500 retainer. Outcome: White label is included on the $205 Essential plan covering five LinkedIn accounts, so the agency runs four clients at roughly $41 per account with branded dashboards from day one.
- **Recruiter running candidate and client outreach in parallel**: Candidate conversations happen on LinkedIn, client business development happens by email, and neither should continue once the other has produced a reply. Outcome: One sequence per persona with cross-channel reply detection, plus phone lookups from the credit pool for the candidates worth calling.
- **Consultant reactivating a dormant network**: Two thousand existing first-degree connections have never been messaged and there is no budget for enterprise tooling. Outcome: A messenger campaign on the $49 Starter plan works the existing network at safe daily limits, with email fallback for anyone who does not respond on LinkedIn.

## Pricing

Per-subscription tiers priced by the number of connected LinkedIn accounts, with unlimited email accounts, white label, and team management included on every paid plan, plus a monthly enrichment credit pool on the two higher tiers.

- **Starter**: $49 per month ($29 per month billed annually, $348 per year). 1 LinkedIn account; Unlimited email accounts; Unlimited outreach campaigns; White label included; Smart inbox and CRM integrations. No bundled monthly credit pool at this tier, so enrichment is bought separately or done elsewhere.
- **Growth**: $127 per month ($87 per month billed annually, $1,044 per year). 3 LinkedIn accounts; 3,000 bonus credits per month; Roughly 750 emails, 150 phone numbers, or 1,500 AI personalizations; Team management; White label included. The best value point: $42 per LinkedIn account per month with enrichment bundled.
- **Essential**: $205 per month ($145 per month billed annually, $1,740 per year). 5 LinkedIn accounts; 5,000 bonus credits per month; Roughly 1,250 emails, 250 phone numbers, or 2,500 AI personalizations; Full team and agency controls; White label included. $41 per account per month, the tier most small agencies land on.
- **Custom**: Negotiated per month. More than 5 LinkedIn accounts; Custom credit volume; Negotiated agency terms. Closely also markets an unlimited-seat white-label agency arrangement in the region of $999 per month; confirm current terms directly, as this is the least stable part of the price list.

Add-ons:

- Additional enrichment credits (Quoted on request): Credits are consumed at different rates: an email costs less than a phone lookup, an AI personalization less again.
- LinkedIn Sales Navigator (Roughly $99 per user per month, paid to LinkedIn): Not required, since campaigns can be fed from ordinary search or CSV, but strongly recommended for serious targeting.

Billing notes:

- Annual billing takes roughly 40 percent off, which is one of the steeper annual discounts in the category and effectively makes the annual commitment the real price list.
- Email accounts are unlimited and free on every tier. Competitors that charge per mailbox make this a larger saving than it first appears for anyone running multichannel.
- Modelled for one user, the real monthly cost is $49 for Closely plus roughly $99 for Sales Navigator, so about $148 all in, or $128 on annual billing.
- Modelled for a five-account agency, Essential is $205 per month, or $41 per LinkedIn account. Add Sales Navigator per operator and the fully loaded figure is closer to $700 if all five need a seat, which most agency setups do.
- Promotional discount codes appear on the pricing page routinely, which is a sign the list price has slack in it; ask for a better rate before committing annually.
- White label is included rather than being an agency upsell, which is worth several hundred dollars a month against vendors that gate it.

Value assessment: Closely is priced honestly for what it is. At $127 for three LinkedIn accounts, unlimited mailboxes, 3,000 enrichment credits, a unified inbox, and white-label branding, it undercuts the combination of a LinkedIn sender plus an email sequencer plus a data tool by a comfortable margin, and the included white label is worth real money to any agency. What you are not paying for is the strongest safety architecture in the category or the deepest multi-account tooling, and both of those gaps matter at scale. Below five LinkedIn accounts Closely is one of the best value propositions here. Above ten, the money is better spent on HeyReach.

## Strengths

- White label included on every paid tier, including the $49 entry plan, which no comparable vendor does.
- Unlimited connected email accounts at no extra charge, making genuine multichannel sequencing affordable for a small business.
- Cloud execution means campaigns run continuously with no browser extension installed and no machine left switched on.
- Cross-channel reply detection stops LinkedIn and email steps together, which is the single most-requested multichannel behaviour and is often done badly elsewhere.
- Enrichment credits are bundled and fungible across email lookups, phone lookups, and AI personalization, so you allocate them to what the campaign needs.
- Real-time CRM sync to Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, and GoHighLevel, with GoHighLevel support being unusually useful for the agency segment that buys this tool.
- Per-account economics improve sensibly with scale, landing near $41 per LinkedIn account at five accounts.

## Limitations

- The account-safety story is not documented to the standard Expandi or SalesRobot set. Closely advertises human-like timing and safe activity limits, but does not publish a clear commitment to a dedicated country-matched residential IP per LinkedIn account. Ask before you buy, because this is the difference that decides whether an account survives sustained volume.
- Multi-account depth stops well short of HeyReach: no account rotation across a shared campaign, no pooled sender rotation, and a lighter agency operating layer.
- Vendor scale is small. This is a Ukraine-based team led by its founder, in a category where vendors are removed by platform enforcement, so treat it as a dependency to be hedged.
- Legacy AppSumo lifetime-deal users sit alongside paying subscribers, which historically creates support load and pressure to move features into higher tiers.
- No inbox warm-up or deliverability infrastructure for the email side, so a cold domain sending through Closely will run into the usual problems the tool does not solve.
- The Starter tier has no bundled credit pool at all, so the $49 price is really $49 plus whatever enrichment costs you separately.
- Public documentation is thinner than the category leaders, and the published details of daily limits and ramp-up behaviour are less specific than a buyer assessing account risk would want.

## Comparisons

- **Closely vs Aimfox**: Both are cloud LinkedIn platforms with agency ambitions, priced within sight of each other. Aimfox charges $49 per seat and has a genuine agency plan at $499 for twenty seats, plus the unusual option of renting managed LinkedIn profiles. Closely bundles white label from $49 and adds unlimited email accounts and enrichment credits. Take Aimfox if you are scaling past ten accounts and want per-seat economics; take Closely if multichannel email and included white label at three to five accounts is the requirement.
- **Closely vs SalesRobot**: SalesRobot publishes the clearer safety architecture, stating dedicated residential IPs per LinkedIn account and explicit daily quotas per plan, and it charges per LinkedIn account from $59 monthly. Closely is cheaper per account at volume and includes white label and unlimited mailboxes. If account survival is your first concern, SalesRobot documents it better; if agency branding and multichannel economics matter more, Closely is the stronger package.
- **Closely vs Kanbox**: Kanbox is a French extension-plus-cloud hybrid with EU data residency, a Kanban pipeline view, and a $20 entry price, aimed at individual operators who want a LinkedIn CRM as much as a sender. Closely is a purely cloud multichannel platform at $49 aimed at teams and agencies. Choose Kanbox for EU data residency and low-cost solo use; choose Closely when you need multiple accounts, white label, and email in the same sequence.
- **Closely vs HeyReach**: HeyReach is the reference agency platform for running many LinkedIn accounts as one pooled sending pool with a unified inbox, and it is built for exactly that. Closely reaches five accounts comfortably and stops improving after. Under five accounts Closely is cheaper and adds email plus enrichment plus white label; over ten, HeyReach's architecture is worth the money and Closely will feel stretched.
- **Closely vs Expandi**: Expandi is the safety benchmark in this category, with a dedicated country-matched IP per account, enforced warm-up ramps, and engagement-based audience building, at a higher price per account. Closely costs less and covers email and white label that Expandi charges around. Buy Expandi if you are pushing sustained volume through accounts you cannot afford to lose; buy Closely if you want the widest feature coverage per dollar and are running moderate, sensible volume.

## Implementation

- Setup time: Under an hour. Connect the LinkedIn account through the web app, connect one or more mailboxes, paste a search URL or upload a CSV, and build a two-step sequence. There is no extension to install and no proxy to configure yourself.
- Learning curve: Low. The sequence builder is conventional and the inbox behaves the way a shared inbox should. The one genuinely non-obvious area is credit budgeting, because emails, phones, and AI personalizations draw on the same pool at very different rates.
- Onboarding: Fully self-serve on every published tier with 24-hour support chat. Agency and custom arrangements involve a conversation, but nothing below that requires a sales call.
- Migration: Prospect lists import by CSV. Campaign history from another vendor does not transfer and generally cannot be, which is true across this whole category. The important precaution is outbound rather than inbound: configure the CRM sync or a webhook on day one so that every conversation and outcome is mirrored into a system you control, because if the LinkedIn integration is blocked or the vendor closes, the conversations living only in Closely's inbox are the part you lose.

## Platform, API & security

- Platforms: Web application at app.closelyhq.com, Cloud execution, no browser extension required, White-label branded deployment for agencies
- API: Webhooks and Zapier for general automation, plus native real-time connectors to Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, and GoHighLevel. A public REST API is not the headline surface it is at PhantomBuster or TexAu.
- Compliance: GDPR data processing available, Standard SaaS encryption in transit and at rest
- Data residency: Not published as a customer-selectable option; the company operates from Ukraine with a New York facing presence.
- SSO: Not advertised on published tiers.
- Security notes: Like every cloud LinkedIn tool, Closely operates your LinkedIn account from its own infrastructure, which means it holds a credential that can act as you on LinkedIn. Keep two-factor authentication enabled on the LinkedIn account, use a unique password, and revoke the session from LinkedIn's own security settings if you stop using the tool. The published detail on IP handling per account is thinner than the category leaders and is worth asking about directly.

## Support

- Channels: 24-hour support chat, Email support, Help centre
- Documentation: Help centre at help.closelyhq.com covering seats and LinkedIn account management, campaign setup, the inbox, and CRM integrations, plus a product blog.
- Community: Modest. There is no large user forum; most collective knowledge sits in review sites and the vendor's own blog.

## Company

- Founded: 2021
- Founders: Dan King
- Headquarters: Kyiv, Ukraine, with a New York facing presence
- Ownership: Privately held, founder-led
- Employees: Not disclosed; a small team
- Funding: No disclosed institutional funding. Early distribution came partly through an AppSumo lifetime deal rather than venture capital.

Timeline:

- 2021: Launches as a LinkedIn outreach automation tool built by a Ukraine-based development team led by founder Dan King, with early distribution through AppSumo.
- 2022: Adds a built-in email and phone finder, turning a LinkedIn sender into a combined prospecting and outreach platform.
- 2023: Introduces multichannel campaigns with unlimited connected email accounts and cross-channel reply detection.
- 2024: Adds real-time CRM sync for Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, and GoHighLevel, targeting the agency segment more explicitly.
- 2026: Prices at $49, $127, and $205 per month for one, three, and five LinkedIn accounts, with white label included on every paid tier and AI personalization drawing on the shared credit pool.

## Integrations

Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, GoHighLevel, Zapier, Webhooks, Gmail and Outlook mailboxes, Custom SMTP, LinkedIn and Sales Navigator search URLs, CSV import and export

## FAQ

### What is Closely?

Closely is a cloud-based platform for LinkedIn and email outreach. It runs connection requests, message sequences, and InMails from hosted infrastructure rather than a browser extension, lets you connect unlimited email accounts into the same sequences, includes an email and phone finder, and gives every paid tier white-label branding. Plans are priced by how many LinkedIn accounts you connect.

### How much does Closely cost?

Starter is $49 per month for one LinkedIn account, Growth is $127 for three accounts plus 3,000 monthly credits, and Essential is $205 for five accounts plus 5,000 credits. Annual billing takes roughly 40 percent off, bringing them to $29, $87, and $145 per month. Email accounts are unlimited on every tier and white label is included on all of them. A custom tier covers more than five accounts.

### Will Closely get my LinkedIn account banned?

It might. Automating LinkedIn violates LinkedIn's user agreement no matter which vendor you use, and accounts genuinely do get warned, restricted, and permanently banned. Closely reduces the risk by running in the cloud with randomized human-like timing and vendor-set daily activity limits rather than letting you type any number you want. What it does not clearly publish is whether each LinkedIn account gets a dedicated country-matched residential IP, which is the specific control Expandi and SalesRobot build their marketing on. Ask about IP handling before you connect an account you cannot afford to lose.

### Is Closely a Chrome extension?

No. It is a cloud platform accessed through a web app. Nothing is installed in your browser and campaigns keep running when your computer is off. That is an advantage over extension tools such as Dux-Soup and Octopus CRM, which only act while a browser session is open, and it is a different risk profile: the extension acts from your own IP, the cloud acts from the vendor's.

### Do I need LinkedIn Sales Navigator?

Not strictly. Campaigns can be fed from ordinary LinkedIn search URLs, a CSV upload, or Closely's own prospect search. In practice most serious users pay roughly $99 per month for a Sales Navigator seat because the targeting filters are much better, so budget the real cost of Closely as the subscription plus a Sales Navigator seat per operator.

### How many LinkedIn accounts can I run, and what does an agency pay?

One on Starter, three on Growth, five on Essential, and more under a custom arrangement. A five-account agency pays $205 per month, or about $41 per LinkedIn account, with white-label client branding included. Add a Sales Navigator seat per operator and the fully loaded figure is closer to $700 a month. Beyond roughly ten accounts, HeyReach's architecture is a better fit than stretching Closely.

### Does Closely include email finding?

Yes. Growth and Essential include a monthly credit pool (3,000 and 5,000 credits) that can be spent on verified work emails, direct phone numbers, or AI personalizations, at roughly 750 emails, 150 phones, or 1,500 personalizations per 3,000 credits. The Starter tier has no bundled pool, so enrichment there is an extra cost.

### Can Closely send email as well as LinkedIn messages?

Yes, and this is one of its stronger arguments. You connect unlimited mailboxes at no extra charge and build sequences that alternate LinkedIn and email steps, with a reply on either channel stopping the whole sequence for that prospect. It is not a deliverability platform, though: there is no inbox warm-up or domain infrastructure, so a cold sending domain still needs separate preparation.

### What happens to my campaign data if Closely shuts down or LinkedIn blocks it?

Prospect lists export as CSV, and the CRM connectors and webhooks can mirror conversations and outcomes into a system you control. The part at risk is conversation history that exists only in Closely's unified inbox. Set up the CRM sync or a webhook on your first day rather than your last, because this is a small vendor in a category where platform enforcement removes tools without notice.

### Who is behind Closely?

Closely is a privately held, founder-led company based in Kyiv, Ukraine, with a New York facing presence, started around 2021 by Dan King and a development team. There is no disclosed institutional funding, and early distribution came partly through an AppSumo lifetime deal. It is a capable small operator rather than a well-capitalized platform, which is worth weighing when you decide how much of your pipeline to route through it.

## Editorial verdict

Closely is the best-value package in this category for a small team or boutique agency running between one and five LinkedIn accounts. Unlimited email accounts, bundled enrichment credits, a genuine cross-channel unified inbox, real-time CRM sync, and white-label branding on every paid tier add up to a bundle that would cost noticeably more assembled from specialists, and $41 per LinkedIn account at the five-account tier is competitive with anything here. The reservations are specific and worth taking seriously: the published account-safety detail is thinner than Expandi's or SalesRobot's, particularly on whether each account gets a dedicated country-matched IP, the multi-account architecture runs out of road well before HeyReach's does, and the vendor is small in a category where vendors get removed by platform enforcement. Buy it for breadth per dollar at modest scale, ask hard questions about IP handling before you connect an important account, and wire the CRM sync up on day one so the conversation history is never trapped in one place.

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