The Linked Helper alternative for people who've outgrown the desktop

Where Linked Helper is genuinely good

• Price. $15–45/month is unbeatable.
• Feature depth accumulated over a decade.
• Local-first architecture some operators prefer.

Honesty first: if you run one seat, love configuring campaigns by hand, and your computer never sleeps, LH remains a rational choice.

The walls we hit (running 5 seats)

1. 1

   The limit counters are numbers you typed, not limits. LH will happily queue 150 invites/day — 6–7× LinkedIn's safe rate. Nothing stops you but your own caution. LinkedBoost caps are enforced server-side: 20/day, 80/week, ramped for new seats. You cannot exceed them, which means you cannot be tempted.

2. 2

   Suppression rots between exports. Dedupe depends on manually exported CSVs. Ours went stale by eight weeks once; the result was duplicate invites and “contact was invited previously” errors across a whole campaign. LinkedBoost keeps the contacted universe as live state — every seat, every campaign, always current.

3. 3

   Reply data misleads. LH's last_received_message_text holds the last message in the thread regardless of direction — read naively it overstated our replies by 7× (328 vs 43 actual). LinkedBoost tracks queued / sent / accepted / replied as separate, honest states.

4. 4

   Your computer is the server. Campaigns stop when the laptop sleeps. A VPS fixes it — now you're a sysadmin.

5. 5

   AI steps fail without fallbacks. 73 of our profiles once died mid-sequence because a personalization step errored with no template fallback. LinkedBoost drafts through the agent with mandatory fallbacks, and every draft waits in an approval queue — you see what would have gone out.

Switching is one file

Export your contacts from Linked Helper the way you always do. Import the CSV into LinkedBoost — we handle LH's delimiter drift between accounts and its reply-direction quirk automatically, then rebuild your suppression list so nobody gets double-invited on day one. Your contacted history is the one thing you should never lose in a migration.