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Looking past ManyChat, Wave or another Instagram DM tool? What each one does, what it costs, and where InstaReacher fits.

Each page here covers one Instagram DM tool people are trying to replace. It says who the tool is for, what it costs and what to look for instead. Then it gives a short table of options and says when the original is still the better buy.

How we build them: every price comes from the vendor's own pricing page, with the date we checked it, and we re-check before each update. Criticism is only ever a linked quote or a dated fact. We sell InstaReacher, one of the outbound tools, so each page opens with a disclosure and marks our row in the table. Most of the tools here are inbound: they reply to people who message you. InstaReacher starts conversations instead, and each page helps you work out which of those two jobs you have.

For what Reddit says about these tools, see our roundup of Instagram DM automation tools on Reddit. For how we pick threads and decide which replies to leave out, see how we research Reddit.