Linked Helper review: how the desktop LinkedIn helper works, what it costs and who it fits
Linked Helper, often searched as LinkedIn Helper, is a desktop app that automates LinkedIn from your own computer or server. This review covers how it finds people and runs campaigns, its AI, its limits and what a license costs on each term, checked on its own site and help center.
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Quick answer: Linked Helper, often searched as LinkedIn Helper, is desktop software that automates LinkedIn from your own computer or a server you rent, with your LinkedIn session kept on that machine. Paying month to month, Standard costs $15 per license with local storage or $29.9 with cloud storage and a 12-month term takes 45% off. It fits people who want a long list of LinkedIn actions and fine control and are happy to keep a machine running.
Linked Helper takes a different route from cloud LinkedIn tools: it is an app you install, which drives LinkedIn from your own machine. That one choice shapes its price, its setup and its safety settings, so this review starts there. We make FOUND, which runs in the cloud, so the disclosure comes first.
What Linked Helper is
Linked Helper is a standalone program that works as a smart browser. It runs on Windows 10 or later, macOS 12 or later and Ubuntu 18.04 or later, on your own computer or a VPS you rent and that machine has to be on with the app running for anything to happen. Your LinkedIn session stays on the machine and never reaches Linked Helper's servers.
Your workspace data, meaning leads, campaigns, notes and message history, lives either on your own device (local storage) or on Linked Helper's servers in the United States (cloud storage). Cloud storage adds access from a second device, automatic backups, sharing with teammates and incoming webhooks. One license runs one LinkedIn account at a time.
Linked Helper at a glance
- Runs
- As desktop software on your computer or a VPS, not as a browser extension.
- LinkedIn session
- Stays on the machine that runs the app.
- Finds people
- LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and Recruiter searches, post engagers, groups, events, alumni and employee lists, with AI ICP detection.
- Outreach
- Unlimited campaigns from more than 30 action types: invitations, message chains, InMail, group and event messages, endorsements and likes.
- AI
- Personalized messages, ICP detection, comments and reply help, on both plans.
- Price
- Standard $15 per license a month and Pro $45, on a one-month term with local storage.
Who Linked Helper is built for
Its home page speaks to sales, recruiting, marketing and agency teams and to founders. The structure suits anyone running several accounts: a separate workspace per client or department, roles from Owner to Guest, access levels per account and view-only access for a client. Licenses belong to LinkedIn accounts, not people, so teammates join your first workspace through roles without a license of their own.
In short, it serves a hands-on user who wants to tune limits, delays and templates and doesn't mind looking after the machine that runs it.
How Linked Helper works
Setup
You download the app and add a LinkedIn account. One account needs at least 4 GB of RAM, one CPU core and 4 GB of free disk space and each further account running at the same time needs about 2 GB more RAM. A proxy is optional for your own account and suggested when you run several accounts on one machine or manage someone else's; Linked Helper takes HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS proxies. For round-the-clock running, its guides show how to install it on a Windows or Ubuntu server.
Finding people
Linked Helper gathers people from LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and Recruiter searches, the likers and commenters of a post, your first-degree connections, alumni pages, Sales Navigator lead lists, Recruiter projects, group members, event attendees and company employee lists or from a CSV, TXT or HTML file. Auto-Collect keeps pulling new profiles from a saved search on a schedule. One search yields at most 1,000 profiles on basic LinkedIn or 2,500 on Sales Navigator, because of the way LinkedIn pages its results.
AI ICP detection then reads each full profile, including the summary, the experience write-ups and the company description, scores it against the ideal customer you describe and passes only the profiles above your minimum match to the next step.
Sequences
A campaign is a workflow of actions with any delays between them. Ready-made templates cover Connect & follow-up, a messaging sequence, an InMail sequence (with a paid LinkedIn plan), messages through a shared event or group, warming a lead up before connecting, invitations to follow your company or join an event, endorsements and likes and comments. Templates take variables, spintax and IF-THEN-ELSE logic.
A Check for replies step moves a lead on to the next message only if no reply arrives within the time you set. It scans your inbox every three hours by default and people who answered move to a Replied list.
AI writing
The AI personalized messages step, part of the Connect & follow-up template, writes each invitation note and follow-up from profile data you pick, such as role, company and experience, toward the goal, language and tone you set. It does not write from a person's recent posts. The invitation note is AI-written only on Premium, Sales Navigator or Recruiter accounts and one campaign holds up to seven AI-written messages. There is also an AI commenter, a reply assistant, a message generator and a text editor, all on both plans and run by Linked Helper's own AI engine, with no separate subscription.
Replies and approvals
Message chains stop when a lead replies and conversations gather in a built-in inbox, so you can answer without switching to LinkedIn. AI messages come with a review step: with Auto-approve off, which Linked Helper recommends until your prompts prove themselves, each draft waits in the AI Drafts tab of the campaign inbox, where you edit it and approve it one by one or in bulk.
Limits and safety
By default the app caps all activity at 150 actions in any 24 hours and Linked Helper advises against raising it. For accounts older than a year it suggests 50 invitations, 60 endorsements and 150 messages, follows or extractions per 24 hours, with no more than 40 profiles opened by URL. A new account should start at 10 to 15 invitations a day, rising to 35 after a month and 50 after another, with no more than 200 to 500 invitations pending.
Behind those numbers sit randomized delays, simulated typing and mouse movement, working hours with random start times and your own IP or a dedicated proxy.
Integrations
Native connections cover HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho CRM, Zoho Recruit, ActiveCampaign, Close, Capsule, Streak, HighLevel, Instantly and Google Sheets and Zapier, Make and n8n connect through webhooks. A Send person to external CRM step can push everyone who replied and incoming webhooks, on cloud storage, drop leads into a campaign. The built-in CRM adds notes, tags and auto-tagging.
Linked Helper pricing
Linked Helper prices each license and one license runs one LinkedIn account. The price depends on the plan, the data storage and the term you pay for up front. These are US dollars per license a month, from its pricing page and its cloud storage page on 25 Oct 2026.
| Plan and storage | 1-month term | 12-month term |
|---|---|---|
| Standard, local storage | $15 | $8.25 ($99 up front) |
| Standard, cloud storage | $29.9 | $16.5 ($198 up front) |
| Pro, local storage | $45 | $24.75 ($297 up front) |
| Pro, cloud storage | $59.9 | $33 ($396 up front) |
- Terms and volume: 3 months take 11% off, 6 months 33% and 12 months 45%. Buying 10 or more licenses together adds 10% to 50% off and the two discounts multiply.
- Standard or Pro: the same features, AI included. Pro lifts a 20-a-day cap on some advanced actions, adds messaging-history export and includes 3,100 data credits a month instead of 620 and about twice the AI credits.
- Before paying: 14 days of full Pro access with no card; campaigns pause when it ends and nothing renews.
- Renewal: auto-renewal is off by default and a Standard license can move to Pro only once it expires.
One account on Standard with local storage costs $99 for a year paid up front, against $180 for twelve one-month terms (our arithmetic).
What Linked Helper does well
- A long list of LinkedIn actions. More than 30 action types, from invitations and InMail to group and event messages, endorsements and company follow invites.
- Your session stays with you. The app and your LinkedIn session live on your machine or your own server.
- AI with a review step. Drafts wait for approval unless you switch on auto-approve and ICP detection reads the whole profile.
- A low price per account on long terms. Standard with local storage is $8.25 a month on a 12-month term.
- Room for many accounts and clients. Separate workspaces, roles, guest access and licenses that move between accounts.
- Many native integrations. A dozen, from HubSpot and Salesforce to Close and HighLevel.
What to know before you buy
Each point below is a plain fact about how Linked Helper works. Together they decide whether it fits your week.
- The machine must stay on. Nothing runs while the computer is off or asleep; for 24/7 use, you run it on a VPS.
- Hardware matters. Windows on ARM processors and ChromeOS are not supported and each account running at once needs about 2 GB of free RAM.
- Storage is chosen up front. A workspace cannot yet move between local and cloud storage.
- Standard caps some actions. Messages to group members or event attendees, likes and comments and sending contacts to a CRM stop at 20 a day.
- AI writes from profiles. Messages draw on profile fields, not on what a person recently posted.
- One license, one account at a time. You can switch the connected account, but not run two at once.
Who should pick Linked Helper
Pick Linked Helper if you mainly want
- An app on your own computer or server, with your LinkedIn session staying there.
- A long list of LinkedIn actions in one app, from InMail to group and event messages.
- AI-written messages that wait for your approval.
- A low price per account on a long term.
- Separate workspaces and view-only access for clients.
Look further if you mainly want
- Someone else doing the list building: people picked from buying signals and checked against your buyer.
- Outreach that keeps running in the cloud with your computer off.
- Lead data from platforms beyond LinkedIn.
- White label for an agency.
Linked Helper alternatives, by fit
Every need in the second box has a tool designed around it and each linked review was written from that vendor's own pages.
| If you mainly want | Look at |
|---|---|
| People found for you from buying signals and checked against your buyer, then one sequence of LinkedIn steps and emails from your own mailbox, with work emails found for you, every message held for approval, a dedicated residential IP for your account, replies answered and a campaign per signal, for $69 a month | FOUND (ours) |
| Cloud sequences for lists you build, mixing LinkedIn and email steps, that keep running with your computer off | Dripify |
| Lead data from more than 15 platforms, chained into flows you design | PhantomBuster |
| Cloud campaigns for agencies, with a dedicated IP per account and white label | Expandi |
FOUND, which we make, is an AI SDR for LinkedIn that sits at the other end: it runs in the cloud and does the finding itself. Describe your buyer in a sentence or two or let it draft the description from your website. Each day it looks for people showing need, such as posting about the problem you solve, engaging with a rival's content or your company page, changing roles, hiring the team you sell to or raising a round and keeps only those who pass two checks against your buyer, on headline and full profile. It finds each lead's verified work email and every message, every email and the invitation note on a Premium account is written from what that person did, in one sequence from your own LinkedIn and mailbox; nothing sends until you approve it in review mode. Replies from both land in one inbox, where an agent can answer them and two agents each run their own signals and campaign. Ask turns one sentence into up to 50 companies, with the right person at each and their email. A new account waits 48 hours before its first invitation, begins at 35 a week and stays at or under 25 on any day, from its own residential IP in the country you choose. FOUND also works from Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client, with webhooks, a Slack alert on each reply and CSV export. It costs $69 a month for two agents, one LinkedIn account, one mailbox and 100 credits and a teammate is $59 a month: see pricing. For most teams, from a founder selling alone to a full sales team, that makes it the stronger pick; Linked Helper stays the better fit if you want desktop software on a machine you control, at a low price per account.
How LinkedIn's own invitation limits work, with sources, is set out in LinkedIn connection limits.
Questions
Is Linked Helper the same as LinkedIn Helper?
Yes. Many people search for LinkedIn Helper, but the product's name is Linked Helper: desktop software that automates LinkedIn from your own computer or server.
Does Linked Helper work when my computer is off?
No. The app runs on the machine you control, so that machine has to be on with Linked Helper running. Cloud storage changes where your data is kept, not where the work happens; for round-the-clock running you can install it on a VPS.
How much does Linked Helper cost?
It is priced per license, one LinkedIn account each. Standard is $15 a month on a one-month term with local storage or $29.9 with cloud storage; Pro is $45 or $59.9. A 12-month term takes 45% off and 10 or more licenses bought together add a volume discount.
Does Linked Helper write messages with AI?
Yes, on both plans. Its AI personalized messages step writes invitation notes and follow-ups from profile data toward your goal and tone and with auto-approve off each draft waits for you to edit and approve it.
Does Linked Helper need a paid LinkedIn plan?
No. It works with free LinkedIn accounts, though those carry a monthly search limit and LinkedIn may cap their personalized invitation notes. A paid LinkedIn plan adds InMail sequences and AI-written invitation notes.
How we checked
We read Linked Helper's home page, pricing page and cloud storage page and the help center articles below, on 25 Oct 2026, noting each plan, storage option and term. Prices are in US dollars as shown. We did not run campaigns, so this review claims no acceptance or reply rate. For FOUND we used our own site and product. If anything here is out of date, write to hello@foundtofind.com and we will correct it and move the date at the top.
- Linked Helper: linkedhelper.com, its pricing page and cloud storage
- Running it: requirements, with the computer off, several accounts, proxies
- Campaigns and AI: creating a campaign, Check for replies, AI personalized messages, AI ICP detection
- Limits and accounts: recommended limits, working hours and limits, paid LinkedIn plans
- Integrations: HubSpot