Bardeen
No-code workflow automation across web apps
Overview
Bardeen is a no-code automation tool similar to Zapier but with a stronger AI-agent layer — describes workflows in plain English and the tool produces the automation. Browser-based and desktop apps. Free tier with limits; paid plans for higher run counts.
Use cases
What you can produce with Bardeen
- Scrape a LinkedIn search or company page into a Google Sheet — names, titles, companies — in one click, without writing a scraper.
- Describe an automation in plain English, such as 'when I star an email, save the attachment to Drive and log it in Notion', and have Bardeen build it.
- Enrich a list of leads with company and contact data via integrations like Apollo and HubSpot, then push the results straight into your CRM.
- Trigger a saved playbook from the browser side panel while viewing any page, for instance saving the current job posting into your tracker with fields pre-filled.
- Automate meeting prep by having Bardeen pull a prospect's LinkedIn profile and recent company news into a brief before each calendar event.
- Sync data between web apps — Gmail, Notion, Asana, Google Sheets, Slack — on a schedule or trigger, keeping records consistent without manual copy-paste.
- Run deep multi-page scraping jobs on paid plans to build prospect databases from sources that lack an export button.
ASEAN Perspective
Bardeen in Southeast Asia
ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).
Bardeen is a no-code automation platform that runs AI-driven workflows across the browser and popular SaaS apps, with strong web-scraping and prospecting playbooks that have made it popular with sales and operations teams. Its prebuilt templates and Chrome-first approach make light automation genuinely accessible to non-developers.
More complex, branching workflows can hit reliability and debugging limits, and pricing scales quickly once you move past the free tier. It suits individual operators and small revenue teams automating repetitive web tasks; engineering-heavy orchestration is better served by Zapier, Make or n8n. Available globally in English, so ASEAN access is straightforward.
What people say
Bardeen remains an independent, venture-backed startup (roughly $25 million raised, including a 2024 strategic round from Dropbox Ventures and HubSpot Ventures), but the product has visibly repositioned. What began as a general-purpose browser automation extension — a Zapier-in-the-browser with one-click "playbooks" — relaunched in May 2025 as a "Work Intelligence Platform" centred on AI agents, and the company's marketing now leads squarely with sales and go-to-market use cases: prospecting, lead enrichment and outreach automation.
Users consistently praise the core browser-automation magic. Non-coders can scrape LinkedIn profiles or job boards into Google Sheets, sync data between Gmail, Notion, HubSpot and Asana, and trigger automations from a right-hand browser panel without touching an API. The natural-language builder, which turns a plain-English description into a working automation, gets particular credit, and reviewers on Product Hunt and G2 describe genuine hours saved on repetitive data-entry work.
The complaints cluster around reliability and pricing. Workflows can break silently when a target website changes its layout, error feedback is thin, and scraped data is not always accurate. The shift to credit-based paid plans was poorly communicated, and Trustpilot carries angry reviews about trial-to-paid conversion; several users also describe support as slow and community channels as unmonitored. Paid plans start around $10 to $15 per month for 500 credits, and heavy scraping burns credits faster than newcomers expect — do the maths on your actual run volume before committing.
Bardeen genuinely fits sales, recruiting and ops people who live in a browser and want scraping plus CRM hygiene automated without engineering help. It is a weaker fit for mission-critical back-office automation, where the silent-failure problem matters, and general-purpose automators may find Zapier or Make more predictable now that Bardeen's roadmap tilts so clearly toward GTM teams.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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