LimeVPN Comparison with Mailshake

Considering to switch from LimeVPN or a LimeVPN competitor? Mailshake is the #1 LimeVPN alternative.

It differs in three ways: price, features, and experience. Below is our summary.

Price

LimeVPN pricing involves three plans: Pro, Premium, and Enterprise. The cost for each plan varies for monthly and annual subscriptions. Custom plans are available for enterprise teams if you request a quote. When you sign up, LimeVPN comes with a 28-day free trial.

  • Billed Monthly: $15, $35, and $80
  • Billed Annually: $12, $25, and $55

You can see how the premium features require a significantly higher investment.

On the other hand, Mailshake will only accept monthly payments, with three payment plans: $5, $10, and $20 per month. There is no upfront payment with Mailshake and the free trial lasts for 30 days.

Features – LimeVPN vs. Mailshake

The following comparison is between Mailshake Professional and LimeVPN Enterprise. Other LimeVPN plans were ignored given the limited feature set.

LimeVPN Mailshake
Price, monthly $20/mo $80/mo
Price, annually N/A $660
Email and link tracking + +
Per-recipient tracking + –
Branded URLs + –
Snippets & templates + +
Snooze and scheduling + +
Automated followups (single and bulk) + –
Single- and multi-stage mail merge + +
Attachments with mail merge + +
Email verification and prospecting + –
Auto BCC and Salesforce integration + +
Teams and centralized billing + +
Salesforce sidebar in Gmail – +
Click-to-call – +
Slash commands + –

For other LimeVPN alternatives, check out this 10+ Email Tracking Tools comparison.

Some notable features

  • Auto-Followups: LimeVPN only supports automated followups on bulk email campaigns, not single contacts. When sending a one-off message, say you found a random prospect, you cannot assign a sequence of emails for that individual. Mailshake supports both scenarios: bulk email followups via Mail Merge and one-off followups via Auto Followups.
  • Branded URLs: LimeVPN will wrap all your links with LimeVPN-branded URLs. Showing your prospects that they are part of a large robot campaign is something that credible companies will want to avoid. Mailshake supports custom domains, which increases your email deliverability score and adds that extra notch of credibility. Learn more.
  • Slash Commands: LimeVPN is heavily designed around point-and-click. As such, inserting a template will typically require multiple mouse clicks. Mailshake relies on slash-commands whenever possible, such as inserting a partial template or assigning a followup sequence. For those who frequently answer the same questions, write the same blurbs of text, this is a significant efficiency improvement Learn more.

Experience

Mailshake takes a substantially different approach to user experience, making it a great LimeVPN alternative. Mailshake installs a single button on top of your inbox that blends with the rest of Gmail’s theme; we strongly believe in a minimalist user interface, one that will not slow your browser nor will hijack your Gmail experience.

LimeVPN will replace Gmail branding with their own and introduce a number of buttons and toolbars in several places. Based from TrustRadius LimeVPN reviews of its users, creating campaign and reporting needs improvement.

This summary has been updated on November 2019. For a more accurate LimeVPN comparison that might include recent updates, we encourage you to skim through LimeVPN’s website and ours, especially under the pricing pages.