To 4 Best Email Finder Tools (2024 Comparison)

You want to contact prospects, but you don’t have their email addresses… Therefore, you can’t contact them 😔.

📩 We’ve got the solution! You should choose an Email Finder tool, which consists of going and retrieving your contacts’ email addresses to contact them directly afterwards.

➡️ On the program, to help you choose the right tool:

• What is data enrichment?
• What is a Mail Finder, why use it, and how does it work?
• Comparison of 4 best Email Finder tools: Waalaxy, Snov.io, Lemlist and Dux-Soup.

By the end of this article, we’ll have tested them all. So you’ll know which Email Finder tool delivers the best results, and how to use it like a pro.

Let’s get started! 😎

What is data enrichment?

💎 Data enrichment, also known as scraping, involves enhancing existing information by adding additional data from a variety of sources.

The aim is to make this data more complete, accurate and reliable to maximize its value for the company. 🎯 This process improves statistical analysis, refining decisions and email-marketing strategies based on reliable data.

In prospecting, database enrichment enables us to better target prospects and personalize future exchanges, by adding information such as phone number, business email address, location…

This process can be carried out manually or using automated tools (such as Email Finders), which exploit external databases, social networks and APIs. ⚙️

As you can see, we’re going to focus on email enrichment: explanations and comparisons of the best Email Finder tools on the market to follow. 🚨

What is an Email Finder and why use it?

Email Finders are tools (or a feature within a tool) that lets you quickly find business email addresses, so you can contact one or more people directly. 📣 There are two methods of email enrichment:

• Via purchased databases (not to be used).
• Via semantics (method used by Mail Finder tools).

Semantic email enrichment is an algorithm that combines different possible email formats (based on a prospect’s first name, last name or company) and then tests whether these emails are valid. 🧪

Here are the advantages of the ✅ method:

• RGPD compliance and no legal risk.
• Saves time compared with manual or contact-based email lookup.
• Reliable, up-to-date results, with systematic verifications that the email exists (avoids invalid emails and high bounce rates).
• Use of different sources of information updated by users themselves (for example, LinkedIn, which remains the simplest solution for finding e-mail addresses).
• More efficient prospecting and automation of the contact collection process to quickly obtain contact details, improving the scope and effectiveness of sales initiatives.

👉🏼 In short, email enrichment has become a must-have feature for all prospecting and email automation solutions on the market.

Many of them now offer this Email Finder service and integrate it directly into their platform and campaigns. 📩

🛟 And, to help you choose the best tool for your strategy, we tested four and compared the rates of emails found.

1) Waalaxy Email Finder

What if I told you that Waalaxy let you do it in just 10min/day? 🤩

Not only is it possible, it’s super simple! And, that’s what we’re going to show you, you don’t need to be a growth hacker to use the Email Finder! 🔍

🤖 Our Mail Finder retrieves emails thanks to a search algorithm, but also, thanks to Dropcontact integration (managed automatically) for email verification.

This combination ensures that these are up-to-date, verified professional emails and prevents any nasty surprises 🔒

In short, here’s how it works👇🏼:

• Automatic verification of the validity of email addresses to reduce risk, ensure that your email messages reaches its destination and improve email deliverability (mail tester).
• Automatic association of found emails with corresponding contacts in Waalaxy, making it easier to manage and track interactions.
• Easily track and export found emails from your prospect lists and campaigns.

Access to Email Finder

Via the Waalaxy extension 👽, the Email Finder can :

• Lookup for an e-mail address for a single contact.
• Launch a campaign where the only active functionality is the Mail Finder, to search for e-mail addresses on a list of contacts.
• Be included in Waalaxy campaigns with multichannel actions : LinkedIn & Emailing (always via a list of contacts).

🪙 Waalaxy’s Email Finder functionality works per credits and is accessible either:

• By all subscriptions (from 25 to 500 credits/month depending on the subscription),
• Freemium (25 credits offered free of charge). 🤑
• By purchasing additional credits according to your needs.

Finally, with our Email Finder, you can simplify your collection process as much as possible and start email campaigns with your eyes closed. 😎

👇🏼 Take a look for yourself with our tutorial.

The Email Finder tutorial

Creating an Email Finder campaign couldn’t be easier with Waalaxy!

🖱️ Just click on “Start a campaign” and select “Email Finder”, to easily enrich your list of prospects.

You can also choose from over 80 other automated action sequences, which include this functionality. 🤩 For example: Profile visit + Email Finder + Connection Request on LinkedIn + LinkedIn Message.

After selecting your Waalaxy sequence, you’ll need to name your campaign so you don’t lose it and have access to the full performance results. 📊

Next, you’ll be able to choose from one of three ways to import your leads/contacts:

• 🥇 From LinkedIn.
• 🥈 From an auto-import.
• 🥉 From your lists, for this you must have already run a campaign or at the very least have created a list via a CSV import before launching the campaign.

All you have to do is select the list in question, and let the tool guide you through to the launch of the campaign!

And, just a few minutes later, you’ll get the long-awaited email list and the results of your campaign. 🔥

Campaign results

🏆 As far as our campaign is concerned, it was a complete success, with 96 usable business emails found out of the 224 we searched for.

With an excellent found rate of 42.9%. That’s 20.4% more than our competitors (on average) 😈.

Already convinced? Try our tool now. 👇🏼

If not, stay with us for the rest of the comparison and to discover the scores of other tools. 💥

Email Finder tools comparison

To demonstrate the effectiveness and simplicity of the Waalaxy Email Finder, we decided to test this feature and launch campaigns at our main competitors 🚀 :

• Snov.io
• Lemlist.
• Duxsoup.

2) Snov.io Email Finder

Snov.io offers two e mail finder tools 🤔 :

• 1️⃣ Tool for online email address lookup (retrieval of professional email addresses linked to a domain name, which can also be found on LinkedIn and via Waalaxy).

• 2️⃣ Extension for email retrieval via LinkedIn, auto-import (to scrap LinkedIn profiles automatically) or CSV. This is the one we’re concerned with here.

Access to Email Finder

As with Waalaxy, Snov.io can launch “Email Finder” campaigns only, or be included in multichannel campaigns.

🪙 Snov.io’s Email Finder functionality also works on a per-credit basis and can be accessed either :

• By subscription (from 50 to 5000 credits/month depending on the subscription),
• By free email finder tool trial (50 credits offered free of charge).

❌ On the other hand, unlike Waalaxy, Snov.io doesn’t offer to buy additional credits as you need them.

So if you’re considering using it, be aware that you won’t be able to add email search credits to your free trial (to pay only for the credits, without the subscription), you’ll need to estimate your need to upgrade to a paid subscription…

⚠️ That’s not the only thing the tool doesn’t offer and/or that complicates the process:

• Installation of another Chrome extension required for “non-email” enrichment (domains, websites and searches results…) and very tedious.
• List import via .csv file is unavailable for freemium subscribers.
• You can’t choose the exact number of emails to scrape (only the number of pages on LinkedIn).
• You can’t use filters to avoid duplicates or remove invalid e-mails, as they don’t exist, so you’ll have to sort your lists manually.
• There are no graphs for analyzing results and monitoring performance.
• Overall, the tool is far less design-led and intuitive, and very little support is offered for launching the first campaign.

Campaign results

Once you’ve launched and completed your campaign, you’ll find the searches results color-coded (according to e-mail status) directly in the relevant list:

• 🌑 Grey: Not found.
• 🟢 Green: Valid.
• 🟡 Yellow: Possibly valid.
• 🔴 Red: Invalid.

As far as our campaign is concerned, the results are rather disappointing 😞 159 emails were found, i.e. only 53 usable and deliverable professional emails, out of the 224 emails searched for.

👉🏼 A very low success rate of 23.6% (less than a third of the desired emails).

These figures show that Waalaxy’s Email Finder is not only easier to use, but also offers significantly higher scores than Snov.io. 🦾

⏰ Now it’s time to compare it with a second tool: Lemlist.

3) The Email Finder on Lemlist

Like Snov.io, Lemlist offers two Mail Finder tools:

• 1️⃣ A free email finder tool online that lets you lookup for a single profile.

• 2️⃣ Extension for LinkedIn email extraction, people search or CSV. Once again, this is the method we’re interested in.

Access to the Email Finder

🪙 Lemlist’s Email Finder also works on a per-credit basis and can be accessed either :

• By subscription (from 100 to 1000 credits/month depending on the subscription),
• By free email finder tool trial (500 credits offered free of charge).
• By purchasing additional credits (up to 10,000).

Unlike Snov.io, we have to admit that Lemlist has put great effort into the design of their app. 🎨

❌ But there are still things the tool doesn’t offer that can complicate the process and getting started:

• Results take a long time to arrive, compared to Waalaxy’s speed.
• The extension is very slow, making it difficult to navigate (but really).
• The cost for 1 search = 5 credits is not cheap (on Waalaxy 1 search = 1 credit) and may explain the quantity of credits offered by subscription or purchase.
• No sales dashboard is available for analyzing results and steering performance.
• Support resources for the extension are only available in English.
• Problems with customer support have been reported by some users.

Campaign results

Once you’ve launched your campaign, you’ll be able to see the results arriving in real time in your contact list. 👀

As on Snov.io, searches results or email enrichment statistics will be sorted by color code (according to email status), heading the Enrichment column, in the relevant list:

• 🌑 Gray: Not found or not verified.
• 🔴 Red: Inexploitable.
• 🟡 Yellow: Risky (chances of landing in the recipient’s mailbox spam).
• 🟢 Green: Deliverable.

Regarding our campaign, the results are as follows 😢: 77 emails were found, of which only 55 were professional deliverables, out of the 224 emails searched.

👉🏼 That’s a very small success rate of 24% (less than a third of the desired emails). In a nutshell:

• Compared to Waalaxy, it’s -19% of deliverable emails found.
• Lemlist does just better than Snov.io in terms of professional email deliverables found, but still isn’t up to the level of results brought by Waalaxy. 😈

Now it’s time to compare the Waalaxy Email Finder with one last tool: Dux-Soup. 👇🏼

4) Dux-soup Email Finder

Dux-Soup offers just one Mail Finder tool per Chrome extension, just like Waalaxy! And, believe me, that’s a plus over the two separate tools offered by Lemlist and Snov.io.

Access to the Email Finder

To launch the Dux-soup 🦢 Email Finder, you’ll need to :

• First create your campaign.
• Then import your prospects (from LinkedIn or .csv file).

🪙 Like the other tools presented, the functionality works by credits (in this case Dux-Soup point).

❌ However, unlike the others, the Email Finder is an option to be taken in addition to the subscription (from 100 to 2000 credits) and is therefore obviously not available as a free email finder tool trial.

So you won’t be able to test it… 😱

⚠️ That’s not the only thing the extension doesn’t offer and/or complicates the data collection process:

• Not being able to test Email Finder and having to directly take out a subscription and an option to gain access to it can be a real drag.
• It’s difficult to understand that you first have to create a campaign, then add a list and associate a campaign with it.
• The functionality is activated during lead import (checkbox), so if you don’t venture that far, it’s impossible to find.
• Incorrect operation of the extension, which sometimes on LinkedIn does not detect that another Dux-Soup window is open in the web browser and is indeed connected to the account.

Campaign results

⏳ Once you’ve launched your campaign, you’ll have to wait until it’s finished to see how your leads have been added and the results of your campaign.

There’s no color-coding here, as Dux-Soup thinks “like Waalaxy” in this respect, i.e. in terms of e-mails found to be usable and deliverable. ✅

👉🏼 Regarding our campaign, here are the results: 49 emails found, out of the 224 emails searched for. That’s still a very low success rate of 21.8%.

It’s a downhill slide for Dux-Soup 🫣, with results and sales kpis well below those of other tools, in addition to complicated access to functionality.

That’s it, that’s the end of this comparison of Emails Finder tools. 🎉 Would you like a summary table of everything we’ve just said?

Email Finder tool comparison (Recap table)

🎁 It’s here.

Features	Waalaxy	Snov.io	Lemlist	Dux-Soup
Simple access	✅	❌	✅	❌
Free trial	✅	✅	✅	❌
Subscriptions	✅	✅	✅	❌
Additional credit	✅	✅	✅	❌
Search cost	1 credit	1 credit	5 credits	1 credit
Additional filters	✅	❌	✅	❌
Interface design	✅	❌	✅	❌
Speed	✅	❌	❌	❌
No bugs	✅	✅	❌	❌
Detailed statistics	✅	✅	✅	❌
Graphics	✅	❌	❌	❌
Campaign results	42,9%	23,6%	24%	21,8%

Conclusion – Which Email Finder to choose?

We hope that after comparing Waalaxy to Snov, Lemlist and Dux-soup… you now have a clearer picture! 👁️

And, that you believe us when we tell you that, Waalaxy is the best Email Finder tool to have. 💥Here’s why:

• It’s ultra-easy to use,
• It’s available as a freemium trial,
• It provides the highest number of reliable results,
• It delivers them faster and more easily,
• It’s directly included in your prospecting tool.
• It allows you to automate the Email Finder and include it in each of your campaigns.
• It enables you to sort and to do market segmentation on your lists using the data collected.

🤩 With Waalaxy Email Finder, you’ll never again be short of data on your contacts and/or prospects.

What more can you say? You don’t have to do a thing, Waalaxy works for you. 🔥

You really can’t miss it! Try it now. 👇🏼

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Did you think it was over? 🫢 Here are the answers to the most frequently asked questions. 👇🏼

Are the e-mails found professional e-mails?

With Waalaxy Email Finder and Dropcontact? Yes, they are.

• All the email addresses found are business email addresses.
• On the other hand, those retrieved via your LinkedIn connections are mostly personal emails. ✅

How to enrich Phone Finder with Waalaxy?

📞 To get people phone numbers, you won’t have to go through the Email finder. And, you’ll only be able to do so if these two conditions are met:

1️⃣ Be connected with the person.

• On LinkedIn, you can send connection/invitation requests to people, who may or may not accept.
• By accepting, these people give you access to all the information on their LinkedIn profile, for example, their phone number.
• So, you’ll need to be in someone’s network to access their data.

2️⃣ Import LinkedIn contact(s) into Waalaxy.

🎬 That’s the end of this article, you know all about the Email Finder tools available.

And, as a bonus, you have irrefutable proof that the Waalaxy Email Finder is the best! See you soon. 👽