A fixed target: it comments on leads you listed by profile URL and on nobody else
LinkedIn auto commenter
A LinkedIn auto commenter, constrained on purpose
If you want a bot that comments on everything in your feed, Icebreakly is not that, and this page explains why you may not want one. It is an auto commenter with four limits built in. It comments only on leads you added. It posts about one comment per lead per day. It writes in a Voice trained on your own comments. And it can hold every draft until you have read it.
See how a comment campaign runs, step by stepBest for
- People who searched for a comment bot and want to know what they would be getting
- Sellers who want automatic comments on a named list, not on a feed
- Founders with 40 buyers to stay visible to and no spare hour a day
- Agencies that need an approval step before anything is posted
The problem
You have already read what a blanket auto commenter writes
It opens with praise, repeats the post back in other words and closes with an emoji. It would fit under any post, which is how readers can tell nobody read this one. Authors skip past it. Other commenters make a joke of it. LinkedIn says it may limit the visibility of comments when it detects an automation tool. The software that wrote the comment is rarely the real problem. The problem is what it was pointed at and how much it was asked to produce.
A ceiling on volume: about one comment per lead per day, with no bursts
Drafts written from the post itself, in a Voice built from comments you have actually written
Guardrails for what to leave alone, such as pitching your product, politics or layoffs
Approval mode on every plan, the free trial included, so nothing posts until you have read it
A dedicated cloud browser session per LinkedIn account, so nothing needs to stay open on your laptop
How it works
Setting up an auto commenter you would put your name to
Write down the people you would comment on by hand if you had the time, and add their LinkedIn profile URLs
Paste in five or six comments you have really written, so the Voice has something true to learn from
Add guardrails: subjects to avoid, no product pitches, your preferred length and whether emoji are welcome
Leave the campaign in Approval mode and read the first twenty drafts in a row, looking for repeated openings
Move to Autopilot only when you are approving nearly everything unchanged, and switch back whenever you like
The kinds of LinkedIn auto commenter, described honestly
The term covers three different products, plus one that is often mistaken for them. They differ in how they find a post and in who presses the button.
Feed and keyword bots watch a stream of posts, such as your home feed, a hashtag or a saved keyword, and publish a comment on what arrives. Browser extensions add a button to LinkedIn’s comment box. You find the post, click, get a draft and post it yourself, so the commenting is assisted and not automatic. List-based cloud tools hold a set of profiles you supplied, check each one on a schedule, and draft or post a comment when that person has published something. Comment generators are web pages where you paste a post and copy a draft back. They get called auto commenters too, though nothing about them is automatic.
None of these is useless. Each is good at one thing and fails in a predictable place. Icebreakly is the third kind. It runs in the cloud instead of in your browser, works from a list, and has no feed or keyword mode.
| Type | What it is good at | Where it falls short |
|---|---|---|
| Feed and keyword bots | Volume and visibility across a topic. Your name can appear under a great many posts with little effort. | The author is usually a stranger, the comment has little to go on, and excessive commenting is what LinkedIn says it may limit. |
| Browser extensions | Speed while you browse. You decide which post gets a comment and when it goes out. | You still find every post yourself. LinkedIn’s help pages also say it does not permit extensions that modify its site or automate activity. |
| List-based cloud tools | Consistency with specific people. They keep showing up for a named list without you checking profiles. | They only work when those people post, they bring no reach, and they are still third-party automation under LinkedIn’s rules. |
| Comment generators | A quick draft with nothing connected to your LinkedIn account. There is a free one at /linkedin-comment-generator. | You do the finding and the posting, so the habit still depends on you. |
One post, two automatic comments
A director of customer support writes that her team cleared its weekend backlog by moving two agents onto a Saturday shift. She ends by asking whether other teams staff weekends in-house or outsource them.
A keyword bot set to “customer experience” replies: “Great insights! Customer experience is everything in today’s market. Thanks for sharing!” She asked a question, and the comment does not answer it. It could sit unchanged under ten thousand other posts.
A list-based tool that has her as a named lead drafts this in the commenter’s Voice: “The Saturday shift is the interesting part. Did the two agents volunteer, or did you rotate the whole team through?” It is about her post and no other, and it asks for a detail she knows without looking anything up.
Software wrote both. Three things separate them: who the tool was pointed at, what it knew about how the commenter writes, and whether a person read the draft before it went out. Those are the things to check in any auto commenter, this one included.
Where blanket auto-commenting goes wrong
It fails with the author first. Someone who posts regularly soon learns the shape of a generated compliment. They stop replying to it, and they file the names attached to it as noise. For a seller that is worse than silence, since the point of commenting was to be remembered well.
It fails with everyone else reading the thread. Generic AI comments have become a running joke on LinkedIn, and screenshots of the worst ones travel. A cheerful “Congrats, well deserved!” under a layoff announcement is the predictable result of commenting on posts nobody read.
And it runs into LinkedIn. The User Agreement tells members not to use bots or other unauthorized automated methods to comment on, like or share posts. LinkedIn’s help page on commenting says it may cap how many comments a member can make in a period, and that when it detects excessive comment creation or the use of an automation tool it may limit the visibility of those comments. A comment that few people are shown does nothing for you.
Volume makes all three worse. The more a tool posts, the less each comment can know about its post, and the less the account’s activity resembles a person’s.
- See: /blog/is-linkedin-comment-automation-safe for LinkedIn’s wording, and the three things that can happen to an account
Four constraints in Icebreakly, and what each one costs you
Icebreakly is an auto commenter. It finds posts and can publish comments from your account without you typing them. What sets it apart is a short list of limits that are part of how the product works. Each has a price, and you should know it before you start.
In return, every comment lands in front of someone you picked, and every one is counted. Each lead carries a touch count and a stage: Stranger, Familiar at about 5 touches, Trusted at about 12 and Warm at 20 or more.
- Only people you chose. Leads are added by profile URL, pasted or uploaded as a CSV. The cost: no reach beyond your list, and no new names found for you
- About one comment per lead per day. A daily check picks up each lead’s most recent post if it is no more than about a week old. The cost: low volume, and a comment that typically arrives within about a day, well after the first replies
- In your Voice. Drafts follow your tone, length, sample comments, language, emoji preference and guardrails. The cost: some setup, and tuning during the first weeks
- Approval available. Every plan can hold drafts in Needs your review until you approve, edit or skip them. The cost: a few minutes of reading a day, unless you move to Autopilot on Standard or Pro
What it is not, and who should pick a different tool
Icebreakly comments, and it can like the post. That is all it posts on LinkedIn. It does not send connection requests, direct messages or InMail. It runs no follow-up sequences. It does not find leads, scrape lists or look up email addresses in the paid product. When a lead is warm, the next move is a message you write yourself.
Pick something else if you want followers or impressions, since a list-based tool brings neither. Pick something else if you want to comment on a topic and not on particular people. And if you are on LinkedIn every day and only stall at the blank comment box, a generator or an extension is the cheaper fix. Icebreakly is for the case where the people matter more than the volume.
Plans: a 7-day Free trial with 10 monitored leads in Approval mode, Standard at $49 a month for 100 leads, and Pro at $99 a month for 300 leads across 3 LinkedIn accounts.
- See: /linkedin-comment-automation for the full product page: list, Voice, modes, likes and the warming tracker
- See: /linkedin-post-monitoring for how leads are checked each day and which posts qualify
- See: /linkedin-engagement-tool for where an auto commenter sits among LinkedIn engagement tools
- See: /how-it-works for the setup, one step at a time
- See: /pricing for plan limits
- See: /blog/what-is-a-linkedin-auto-commenter for a longer explanation of triggers and tool types
- See: /blog/best-linkedin-comment-automation-tools for how ten tools divide into reach, list warming and writing help
- See: /engage-ai-alternative for how Icebreakly compares with Engage AI
FAQ
Common questions about linkedin auto commenter
What is a LinkedIn auto commenter?
A LinkedIn auto commenter is software that posts comments from your account without you typing each one. It needs a way to find posts, a way to write a reply and a way to publish it. The label is used for feed and keyword bots, for list-based cloud tools, and loosely for browser extensions and comment generators that only draft. What a tool is pointed at decides most of the outcome.
Is Icebreakly a bot?
In the sense LinkedIn’s rules use the word, yes. It is automated software that acts on your account, and it should be judged as one. It differs from the usual comment bot in what it will do. It comments only on leads you added, at about one comment per lead per day, in a Voice trained on your writing, and in Approval mode it posts nothing until you have approved the draft.
Can Icebreakly comment on posts in my feed, on a hashtag or on a keyword?
No. It has no feed, hashtag or keyword targeting and no option to follow popular creators for reach. It comments only on posts by people you added by LinkedIn profile URL. If commenting across a topic is what you want, a different kind of tool does that, with the trade-offs that come with it.
How many comments will it post in a day?
At most about one per lead per day, and only for leads who have a recent post. Most people do not post every day, so the daily total is normally well below the size of your list. A list of 100 leads does not mean 100 comments a day. There are no bursts, and plans cap monitored leads at 10, 100 or 300.
Do I need to install a browser extension?
No. Commenting does not run in your browser. Each connected LinkedIn account runs in a dedicated cloud browser session, so campaigns keep going when your laptop is closed. The trade-off is that you connect your LinkedIn account to a third-party service. You can attach your own proxy to each account if you want its session to use one.
Do auto commenters break LinkedIn’s rules?
Yes. LinkedIn’s User Agreement names commenting in its ban on bots and other unauthorized automated methods, and LinkedIn says members who use prohibited software risk having their accounts restricted or shut down. This covers every auto commenter from every vendor, Icebreakly included. Reviewing each draft in Approval mode and keeping to a human pace lower the risk. No tool can remove it, and you should decide with that in mind.
Can I read every comment before it is posted?
Yes. In Approval mode each draft waits in the Needs your review queue with its touch number. You approve it, edit it or skip it. Approval mode is included in every plan and is the only mode on the Free trial. Autopilot, which posts inside your guardrails without waiting, is available on Standard and Pro.
Does it do anything besides comment?
It can like the post it comments on, if you turn that on, and it records each comment as a touch against the lead. It does not send connection requests, direct messages, InMail or message sequences, and it does not find leads or email addresses for you.
What does it cost to try?
The Free trial runs for 7 days with 1 campaign, 10 monitored leads and 1 LinkedIn account in Approval mode. After that, Standard is $49 a month for 100 leads with Approval and Autopilot, and Pro is $99 a month for 300 leads across 3 LinkedIn accounts with a team workspace.