allen. vs Engage AI
Engage AI is the closest thing to Allen in spirit. Both believe commenting beats posting. The difference is how much of the work is still yours.
The short answer.
You already have a daily LinkedIn habit you enjoy, you know exactly whose posts you want to comment on, and you only want help with the wording.
The habit is the hard part. You want the posts found, the comments written and posted, and the replies brought to you, so LinkedIn runs without an open-ended scroll.
Built for
allen.
Intelligent commenting + pipeline
Engage AI
AI comment extension
Price
allen.
from $39/mo, three plans
Engage AI
$0-80/mo
LinkedIn access
allen.
Official LinkedIn API
Engage AI
Chrome extension
Background
What Engage AI actually does.
Engage AI is a Chrome extension that sits on top of LinkedIn. When you open a post, it offers AI-generated comment suggestions in a few tones, and you pick one, edit it, and post.
It has a free tier, which makes it an easy first step for anyone testing whether a commenting habit works for them at all.
The catch is that the tool only helps once you have already found a post. The scrolling, the deciding, and the sitting down every day are still on you, and that is the part most people quit.
Feature by feature.
The nine things that decide whether daily LinkedIn engagement actually happens.
| Capability | allen. | Engage AI |
|---|---|---|
| Finds relevant posts for you daily | ||
| Drafts comments in your trained voice | ||
| Voice improves from your edits and ratings | ||
| Connects through the official LinkedIn API | ||
| Built-in prospect and pipeline tracking | ||
| Runs without your browser open | ||
| You see the day's plan before it posts and can pull any comment | ||
| Sends new leads to your CRM | ||
| Works from your phone | ||
| Monthly cost | from $39 | $0-80/mo |
A dot means partial or add-on support. Pricing, categories, and features reflect each product's public positioning at the time of writing and may change. We do our best to describe competitors fairly, and we encourage you to evaluate every tool yourself before you buy.
Head to head
Where the two really differ.
Who finds the posts
Engage AI
You do. Engage AI helps once you are already looking at a post, so you still scroll to find material.
allen.
Allen finds posts from your buyers every day, filters out spam, off-topic content, and the wrong countries, and comments for you.
Where it lives
Engage AI
A Chrome extension injected into LinkedIn's page, so it depends on the browser and on LinkedIn's markup staying put.
allen.
A real app on the official LinkedIn API. Nothing you have to install, and it works from your phone. There is an optional Allen extension if you want one.
How well it sounds like you
Engage AI
Tone presets get you in the neighborhood, but suggestions typically need real editing before they sound like a person.
allen.
Allen learns your actual writing from your samples, then tightens with every edit and rating you give it.
What it remembers
Engage AI
No CRM. Once you have commented, there is no record of who you engaged or how often.
allen.
Built-in prospect tracking, so you walk into a call knowing how much familiarity you have already built.
How much runs without you
Engage AI
Nothing. The extension waits for you to open LinkedIn, find a post, and click. Close the tab and the day produces nothing.
allen.
Autopilot posts a few comments every weekday on its own. You get the plan by email first and can pull any comment, or leave Autopilot off and review the queue yourself.
Where Engage AI genuinely wins
We would rather you buy the right tool than the wrong one.
- Free tier to try before you spend anything
- Instant suggestions on whatever post you happen to be reading
- Lightweight, nothing to set up beyond installing the extension
Why people move to Allen
The reasons we hear most from people switching.
- The extension helped with wording but not with showing up every day
- Wanted post discovery, not just suggestions on posts they had already found
- Suggestions still needed heavy editing to sound like them
- Needed to track which prospects they had engaged and when
Allen vs Engage AI: common questions.
Set it once.
Let Allen work..
Tell Allen who you want as customers and turn on Autopilot. Every day it finds them, comments in your voice, and hands you a DM for everyone who replies.