allen. vs Taplio
Taplio helps you write and schedule posts. Allen does that too, but its main job is getting you into your buyers' conversations every weekday.
The short answer.
Your strategy is original content above all. You want a tool whose whole focus is publishing, and daily engagement with buyers is a secondary concern.
Your strategy is pipeline. You want to be visible to specific buyers every day, and when you do want to post, you want Allen to write and schedule it in your voice from the same app.
Built for
allen.
Intelligent commenting + pipeline
Taplio
Content + scheduling
Price
allen.
from $39/mo, three plans
Taplio
$39-199/mo
LinkedIn access
allen.
Official LinkedIn API
Taplio
Cookie-based Chrome extension
Background
What Taplio actually does.
Taplio is an all-in-one content suite: post ideas, an AI writer, a scheduling calendar, viral-post inspiration, analytics, and a lead database, wrapped around the job of publishing on a schedule. Pricing is Starter $39/mo (scheduling and analytics, no AI writing), Growth $69/mo (adds AI post writing and faster AI commenting), and Pro $199/mo (unlimited AI posts and comments, automated lead outreach), each on a 7-day free trial.
For a creator whose growth comes from their own content, it is a strong product and a fair price for the breadth.
But publishing reaches people who already follow you. Getting in front of people who do not means showing up in their comment sections, and that is a daily habit Taplio was not designed to run.
Feature by feature.
The nine things that decide whether daily LinkedIn engagement actually happens.
Facts checked September 2026
| Capability | allen. | Taplio |
|---|---|---|
| Finds relevant posts for you daily source | ||
| Drafts comments in your trained voice source | ||
| Voice improves from your edits and ratings source | ||
| Connects through the official LinkedIn API source | ||
| Built-in prospect and pipeline tracking source | ||
| Runs without your browser open source | ||
| You see the day's plan before it posts and can pull any comment source | ||
| Sends new leads to your CRM source | ||
| Works from your phone source | ||
| Monthly cost | from $39 | $39-199/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.
The core motion
Taplio
Publishing. Write posts, schedule posts, analyze posts. Growth comes from your own content.
allen.
Engagement. Comment on your buyers' posts so they see your name before they ever see your profile. Allen writes and schedules your own posts too, but the daily comments come first.
How it connects
Taplio
The Taplio X Chrome extension, which works off your LinkedIn session cookie. Taplio's own user manual calls it an automation tool that LinkedIn's Terms of Service prohibit by default, and it needs the cookie refreshed when a session expires.
allen.
The official LinkedIn API. You authorize once with a standard LinkedIn login.
Price, honestly
Taplio
Growth, the tier that turns on AI post writing and faster AI commenting, is $69/mo. Starter, at $39, has neither.
allen.
$97/mo (the Professional plan) buys Autopilot commenting every weekday through the official LinkedIn API, reply alerts with a drafted DM, and the prospect pipeline. The same plan also writes your posts in your voice, schedules them, builds carousels, and shows how your posts did, using the same monthly credits. You do not need a second tool for posts.
Who you reach
Taplio
Your existing followers, plus whoever the algorithm hands your post to.
allen.
The specific people you defined as your buyers, in their own comment sections, every day.
What happens after someone engages
Taplio
Analytics on how your post performed, plus a lead-outreach feature on the Pro plan. There is no native push to an external CRM; a Taplio-to-HubSpot connection exists via Zapier.
allen.
Replies become prospects on a pipeline board, and one click sends them to HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, or GoHighLevel.
See what Allen would write
What Allen would draft for a Taplio buyer.
Priya Shah
Fractional CMO
“90 days of posting daily on LinkedIn. Engagement is way up. I honestly can't tell you which comments turned into an actual sales conversation, though.”
90 days is the part most people don't finish, so that alone says something. The engagement number is the easy one to watch; the harder one is which commenters actually run companies that could buy from you. Worth a simple tag for that, even a spreadsheet column, before the list gets too long to sort through by memory.
A real example, not the average. 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.
Where Taplio genuinely wins
We would rather you buy the right tool than the wrong one.
- Genuinely broad feature set for content creation
- Publishing is the whole product, not a second job next to engagement
- A large viral-post library to browse for ideas
Why people move to Allen
The reasons we hear most from people switching.
- Paid for a content suite and never kept up the publishing schedule
- Wanted to reach buyers directly rather than wait for the algorithm
- Uncomfortable with a Chrome extension holding their LinkedIn session cookie
- Needed comments that sound like them, not generic AI replies
Allen vs Taplio: 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.