It can be challenging deciding what tools to use with the abundant choices available to you online. Every website you visit will claim their list is the best and most reliable, but how can you be sure? Most sites do not spell out the criteria used to rank their best pick, and it may be more of an opinion than fact. Today we will look at some email finders and their features, pricing, and customer ratings on three trusted review sites to help guide your decision-making next time you want to pick out an email finder tool. And so to the article.
What is an Email Finder?
Before we go on, let us define an email finder. An email finder tool is an application that assists with retrieving the email of a person or group of people online. Email finders typically use the name of a company, domain, or title to narrow down their search. They commonly show an accuracy score, and most of them verify the email address.
Who Are The Users of an Email Finder Tool?
Typically, the users are individuals or corporations who need the email address of other people they do not know but want to contact them. And so the users are:
- Digital marketers
- Recruiters
- Business developer
- Promoters and the list goes on.
The users above contact people for various reasons. The digital marketer may send cold emails to promote a product while the recruiters try to recruit talent. A similar rationale will apply to promoters and business developers.
A Guide to 5 Email Finders
Before we talk about the various email finders, let us list and explain the criteria used for the list.
- Features: The features are the functions the email finder provides, and sometimes, what makes it stand out from its peers.
- Pricing: The pricing of the product.
- Customer rating: We believe in people’s voices. So we shall use the ratings on Capterra, G2, and software advice.
Now that we have made the criteria clear. Let us explore the email finder tools.
VoilaNorberts
VoilaNoberts is an email finder that boasts of accuracy rate of 98% in finding the business emails of contacts. It’s also well equipped to use with various CRM platforms. Some of its features include:
- It uses artificial intelligence to figure out possible email combinations and presents confident scores.
- It has a separate service that verifies the email address.
- It works well with Gmail and can integrate well to send emails directly from the platform, schedule meetings, and follow up with contacts.
- It integrates well with other recruiter tools like Zapier, Salesforce, and Drip.
- If you pay extra, it brings out additional information on the name of the contact.
Viola segmented their pricing plan into three board headings. The headings are prospecting (For its regular search services), Verify (For verification of the email address), and Enrich (To get additional information on the contact). Prospecting has four payment plans.
The first two are Valent, which offers 1,000 searches per month for $49, and Bulter, which allows 5,000 searches per month for $99. The other two are Advisor, which grants 15,000 inquiries per month for $249, and Counselor, which allows for 50,000 searches for $499 per month.
As for the Verify and Enrich options, they work on a pay-as-you-go basis. For additional information on these prices, visit the website.
So let’s find out what ratings customers have given ViolaNoberts on the various platforms.
- On the Capterra, customers gave a score of 4.7/5
- On G2, the score was 4.7/5
- While, on software advice, it had a score of 2.8/5 (Based on less than five reviews)
SignalHire
SignalHire is one of the top email finders in the market today. It boasts a bounce rate of 5%, making SignalHire one of the few email finders with a high accuracy rate in the industry.
Some of its prominent features are:
- SignalHire is a contact extractor, meaning it finds not only emails but also phone numbers. It goes the extra step of sourcing for private numbers and email addresses.
- It has a third-party verification tool that makes sure the information gotten is up-to-date.
- Users can search on signalhire.com (after registering) or use its chrome extension.
- Allows for you to search in bulk.
- It integrates well with your email provider, which can help speed up sending private or bulk messages to prospects.
- Can use keywords to narrow the search for prospects.
- Can find prospects through name, address, or location.
- SignalHire can bring out prospects who do not outright mention their qualification, but the information is online.
- API usage to improve efficiency.
SignalHire currently charges $39 if paid annually and $49 if monthly for their default plans. They will customize a unique plan if you feel the default plan won’t meet your needs. They also offer five free contact credits every month.
What the customers say about SignalHire
- On the Capterra, customers gave a score of 4.4/5
- On G2, the score was 4.1/5
- While, on software advice, it had a score of 4.5/5
Hunter
Hunter is a popular email finder that verifies and digs out the emails of contacts you desire to search. Some of their key features include:
- Able to search for company address on a site using its chrome extension.
- It has a verification tool that gives you a confidence score.
- It can search in bulk.
- Uses crawlers to predict the existence of an address based on the domain name.
- Able to integrate with Zapier and other popular CRM.
- Charges you only when your search produces a result.
Hunter has flexible plans and offers varieties for its price. Its free plan gives you 50 searches per month. The next plan is the first of its paid plans called ‘Starter plan,’ which provides 1000 searches per month and costs $49. The Growth Plan is after the ‘Starter plan’ and provides you with 5000 requests, costing $99. The Pro and Enterprise plan offers 20,000 searches and 50,000 searches, respectively. And costing $199 and $399.
What the people think about the hunter, see the ratings below:
- On the Capterra, customers gave a score of 4.6/5
- On G2, the score was 4.3/5
- While, on software advice, it had a score of 5/5
Uplead
Uplead prides itself as the lead business-to-business prospecting leader and prides itself in its data accuracy – claiming to be as high as 95%. Some of its features include:
- Prospects search and email verification.
- Uplead provides additional information like phone number, job title, and workplace of the individual.
- It syncs well with other CRM tools.
- Bulk search for talents is available.
- It has a Chrome extension that integrates well.
- It has an API you can leverage.
- Rollovers for unused credits and refunds for bounce backs.
It has one free plan and three separate paid plans. Its free package offers five credits to test run of the software. The paid packages are essential, plus and professional.
Essential provides 170 credits per month for $99.
The Plus package gives 400 credits per month for $199, and the Professional package allows 1000 credits for $399.
Now that we have gone through the features and the price. Let’s see some customer ratings.
- On the Capterra, customers gave a score of 4.8/5
- On G2, the score was 4.8/5
- While, on software advice, it had a score of 5/5
Clearbit Connect
Clearbit Connect is an email finder and verifier that works by installing the chrome extension, which integrates with your Gmail.
Some of its features include:
- It shows the personal details and titles of individuals.
- Provides business details and other financial details if working for a company.
- You can search right from your Gmail inbox.
- It makes it easier to draft emails to prospects.
There is currently no paid plan for Clearbit connect, but it offers free 100 searches every month. It also rewards you with more checks if you invite people onto the platform.
So what are customer reviews regarding Clearbit connect?
- On the Capterra, customers gave a score of 4.4/5
- On G2, the score was 4.4/5
- While on software advice is N/A (No rating available)
Final Thoughts
These are five email finders we believe will get the job done. We hope this article will help you in making informed decisions in the future. You can also stop by at some of these sites to read more about the customer reviews. Remember that Chrome extensions or other software can help you make your job way faster and achieve more in less time. Get started now!
