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simplytk vs Whali: cold email for students, compared honestly
What each gives a student emailing people at firms for spring weeks and internships: price, how the email is written, how it is sent, follow-ups, finding addresses, the tracker and prep around it, and the things Whali does that we do not.
Checked against Whali's public pages on 9 October 2026. The short version: Whali finds the person and sends for you, for a subscription. We write the email better than most students would, hold it to the published numbers, hand it to your own inbox, and keep the queue, for free. If you cannot find who to write to, use Whali for that part. If you can, you do not need to pay anyone. If something here is out of date, tell us from the listing policy page and we will fix it.
| Feature | simplytk | Whali |
|---|---|---|
| Price to draft a cold email sequence | Free: 2 full-depth sequences a day (first email plus both follow-ups), then quick runs. Unlimited on the pass from £4.99 a week | From £9.99 a week or £25 a month after a 3-day trial; each AI email costs 3 credits from a weekly allowance of 250 to 2,500 |
| Finds and verifies the person's email addressThis is the thing Whali has that we do not. If you cannot find the person, Whali will. | Guesses it from the firm's reported format and the name, and tells you to verify before sending | Database of 275M+ professional profiles with verified work emails, 3 credits per reveal, 5 per enriched lead |
| Searches for people to write toWe point you at the firm pages and LinkedIn. Whali has the search. | Filters by company, team, seniority, function, location and hiring activity | |
| What the opener is built from | What you paste about them (a post, a deal, a talk), so the detail is real and you have read it | Reads their LinkedIn, posts, podcasts and company news automatically |
| What the credential line is built from | Your own CV, with a hard rule against inventing anything and brackets for what it could not find | A profile parsed once from your CV or LinkedIn |
| Held to the published numbers on length, subject and ask | Yes: under 100 words, subject under 30 characters, one small ask, checked on the page as you edit | Its own data study found the same numbers; the app does not show per-email checks |
| How the email is sent | Opens in your own Gmail, Outlook or mail app with everything filled in; you press send | Sends from your connected Gmail or Outlook account by OAuth, after you approve each draft |
| Access to your mailbox | None. No connection, no read, no send | Send access, plus read access on Outlook to detect replies; it says it never reads your inbox |
| Follow-upsWhali's automation is real and ours is a reminder. We chose the reminder: you press send on every message. | Drafted with the first email, due day 3 and day 7, weekends skipped, in your queue and your calendar feed; you send them as replies | Sent automatically on a cadence you set, with send conditions, weekend skipping and a stop on reply |
| Reply tracking and inbox | Your inbox. You mark a contact replied | A unified inbox with open and click tracking, automatic on Outlook, manual mark-as-replied on Gmail |
| Leads list and pipeline | Free: every contact, status, next follow-up, on your dashboard | My Leads with research, notes and status, plus a job-application pipeline |
| Live tracker of openings | UK, US, India, Switzerland, the Gulf, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands and Singapore, with deadlines, per-firm alerts, stage reports and a calendar feed, free | A job board with match scores against your profile and company follows |
| CV and cover letter | CV rater, CV tailor per opening and cover letter tool with sector standards, free daily | Tailored CV rewrite or cover letter at 5 credits a document |
| Interview and test prep | Firm Prep, the mock video interview, the interview course and 34 OA drills, free | An interview pack per role at 5 credits |
| Free guidesWhali's guides are good and we cite their study. Read them. | The outreach playbook on the tool page, the free edition of the Spring Week Playbook | 25 guides on cold email and internships, including a data study of 6,337 student emails |
| Refer a friend | A free week of the pass for you and for them, up to ten weeks | 50% off their first month, and half your plan price credited after they pay |
| For societies | Embed the live tracker, pipe openings into Discord or Telegram, free JSON feed | Workshops, templates and a members' discount for finance, consulting, tech and law societies |
| Team and enterprise plans | £499 a seat a month with unlimited credits | |
| Human help | 1:1 mentoring, human CV and personal statement review, paid | Email support, priority on higher plans, a free onboarding demo |
| Cancel | One click on your account page, renews until you do | One click, access to the end of the period, refunds within 14 days on request |
Start with Cold Email AI, or see how the tracker compares with Trackr. Whali is a trademark of Whali Technologies Ltd; simplytk is not affiliated with it.