Hunter

It finds the work email of the person you want to reach and tells you whether that address is likely to bounce. If you do cold outreach, the costly mistake is sending to bad addresses, which damages your sender reputation. Hunter lets you check before you send, and it can also run simple email sequences.

Yes, if you sell to businesses by email. A founder or one or two salespeople can start on the free plan (50 free leads a month, no card needed). It is a weaker fit if your customers are consumers, if you mostly target small local firms or markets outside the US, or if you would rather not send cold email at all. Reviewers say results for smaller firms often fall back to generic addresses like info@.

Test the free plan on your own prospects first. Hunter works in credits: finding an address costs 1 credit and verifying costs half a credit, so a found and checked contact is about 1.5 credits. Reviews we read list paid plans from around $49 a month for 2,000 credits. As a rough guide, two people reaching 100 new contacts a week each need about 1,200 credits a month. Confirm current prices on Hunter's pricing page.

Find the likely email of a named person at a company, list the addresses found on a domain, check an address before you send, and run simple outreach sequences. A Chrome extension lets you look people up while you browse company sites. It does not provide phone numbers, so you need another tool for calling.

It helps. It speeds up list building and cuts bounces, but you still decide who to contact and what to say. Treat anything marked as a guess as unconfirmed, and send only to addresses Hunter marks as verified.

Yes. It lists HubSpot, Zoho, Salesforce, Pipedrive and Zapier, and reviewers also use its Google Sheets add-on for bulk lookups. Some report that the Sheets script can time out on very large lists, so work in batches.

Accuracy is the most common complaint. Reviewers on Capterra and Trustpilot report outdated or guessed addresses, especially for small firms and companies outside the US, so verify before you send. Some also say the credit rules and auto-renewal were unclear and refunds were hard to get, so read the billing terms and note your renewal date. A good first test: run 50 prospects whose emails you already know and see how many Hunter gets right.