Evaboot vs Listar: which extension to export and enrich your LinkedIn leads?

Exporting leads from LinkedIn has become a daily reflex for B2B sales teams. But the raw export is no longer enough: without reliable email and phone enrichment, a prospect list stays unusable. Evaboot vs Listar — two Chrome extensions targeting that space — take radically different approaches. This comparison breaks down their features, the quality of their enrichment, and their pricing model to help you make the right call.

What Evaboot does: export and cleanup, limited to Sales Navigator

Evaboot is a Chrome extension built specifically for LinkedIn Sales Navigator. A button is added to the Sales Navigator interface and lets you export search results or lead lists in one click as a CSV file.

The tool stands out for its ability to clean exported data. Job titles with emojis, malformed names, and special characters are automatically corrected. Evaboot also detects Sales Navigator "false positives" — profiles that don't actually match the filters applied. According to Evaboot, these irrelevant results can represent up to 30% of a search.

On the enrichment side, Evaboot offers professional email lookup, verified before delivery. However, the tool doesn't provide phone numbers. To get that data, you need to use a third-party service like Datagma — which means an extra cost and an additional step in the workflow.

The limits are structural. Evaboot only works with an active Sales Navigator account (minimum $99/month). The extension supports neither LinkedIn's free search nor LinkedIn Recruiter. In other words, before even paying Evaboot, you have to pay LinkedIn.

What Listar does: free export + complete enrichment in a single step

Listar offers a Chrome extension to export LinkedIn leads with a radically different philosophy. Profile export is 100% free. Listar's business model rests entirely on contact enrichment, not on extracting LinkedIn data. That distinction is fundamental: export isn't a product, it's an entry point.

The extension works on both LinkedIn Sales Navigator and LinkedIn's free search. That's a major advantage for teams that don't have (or don't want) a Sales Navigator subscription. Concretely, you can build targeted prospect lists straight from LinkedIn's standard search engine, including with boolean operators to refine your criteria.

For example, to target sales directors in the tech sector, a LinkedIn search with "Sales Director" AND (SaaS OR "software" OR "tech") is enough. To find marketing leaders excluding junior profiles: "Head of Marketing" OR "VP Marketing" NOT "Assistant" NOT "Junior". These boolean queries, combined with one-click export from the Listar extension, let you build qualified lists without paying for any LinkedIn premium subscription.

The real value comes at the next step: enrichment. Where Evaboot limits itself to email lookup via its own algorithms, Listar mobilizes an augmented waterfall architecture that sequentially queries about forty data providers, complemented by a proprietary dataset and in-house email reconstruction algorithms. Each contact then goes through a triple verification system (syntax, server, deliverability for emails; connectivity and activity for phones) before being delivered.

The result: 80 to 85% enrichment coverage on professional emails and phone numbers, in a single flow. No third-party tool, no extra step.

Evaboot vs Listar: the structural differences

To make this clearer, here are the decisive comparison points between the two extensions.

LinkedIn compatibility

Evaboot works exclusively with Sales Navigator. Without a premium subscription, the extension is unusable. Listar works on both Sales Navigator and LinkedIn's free search, with full boolean operator support. This broader compatibility removes the dependency on an expensive LinkedIn subscription and opens export to every user, regardless of their LinkedIn plan.

Email enrichment

Both tools offer professional email lookup. Evaboot uses its own search and verification algorithms, relying on a single source. Listar aggregates around forty providers via its augmented waterfall, complemented by a proprietary dataset and reconstruction algorithms, then applies triple verification. The hit-rate difference is direct: a single provider typically caps between 35 and 40%, a classic waterfall between 60 and 70%, while Listar's augmented waterfall systematically exceeds 80%.

Phone enrichment

Evaboot doesn't offer phone number lookup. Its own blog actually recommends using third-party tools like Datagma to obtain that data. Listar integrates phone number lookup and verification directly into the enrichment process, with no extra cost or additional step.

Data cleanup

Evaboot has an automatic cleanup algorithm and detects irrelevant Sales Navigator profiles. That's a strength widely recognized by users. Listar also cleans exported data, but the main added value lies in the depth of enrichment rather than cleanup alone.

Enrichment rate

This is the deciding criterion. An export tool that only finds contact details for half your leads leaves you with an incomplete list and fragmented prospecting effort. Listar's waterfall architecture, combining multiple sources with in-house email reconstruction algorithms, reaches 80 to 85% coverage. That's structurally out of reach for a tool that queries only a single data source.

The real cost: beyond the pricing pages

Comparing prices between Evaboot and Listar isn't just about two pricing tables. You have to factor in the full real cost per enriched lead.

With Evaboot, the budget breaks down into three layers. First, the Evaboot subscription itself: from $9 (100 credits) to $699 (50,000 credits) per month. But the system uses double counting — one credit for profile extraction, one credit for email lookup. A 500-credit plan therefore enriches 250 complete leads, not 500. Second, the mandatory Sales Navigator subscription: minimum $99/month. Third, if you need phone numbers, a third subscription with a phone enrichment provider. For 250 enriched leads (email only), the minimum monthly cost already reaches $138, with no phone numbers at all.

With Listar, the structure is transparent. LinkedIn export is free, whether on Sales Navigator or standard search. Only enrichment is billed, on a pay-as-you-go credit pack model, with no commitment or subscription. The principle: 1 credit = 1 euro. Each enrichment type consumes a fraction of a credit depending on the data requested, capped at €0.50 per phone number. The higher the volume, the lower the unit cost, thanks to meaningful tiered effects. A single credit system covers the entire process (emails, phones, verification), with no dependency on Sales Navigator or third-party tools.

That transparency reflects a clear stance: trust in data quality replaces lock-in by subscription. If results don't measure up, the user simply doesn't renew their credits. It's a bet few players in the market are willing to make.

Why the choice clearly leans toward Listar

If we recap the comparison points, the balance is unambiguous.

On compatibility, Listar covers free LinkedIn and Sales Navigator while Evaboot is limited to Sales Navigator. On enrichment, Listar delivers triple-verified emails and phones via forty providers; Evaboot only delivers emails via a single source. On hit rate, Listar reaches 80 to 85%, structurally above what a single-source tool can produce. On cost, Listar's export is free and enrichment is paid as you go with no commitment, while Evaboot requires an Evaboot subscription + a Sales Navigator subscription + a possible third-party tool for phones.

Evaboot built its reputation on a precise use case: cleaning and exporting Sales Navigator searches. It's a competent tool within that narrow scope. But that scope itself has become the limit. B2B sales teams aren't looking for an export tool with a bit of enrichment. They're looking for a complete enrichment tool with integrated export. That's exactly what Listar offers: a platform where export is a means and quality B2B enrichment is the goal.

Conclusion

The choice between Evaboot and Listar comes down to depth. Evaboot exports and cleans Sales Navigator data, then partially enriches emails. Listar exports for free from LinkedIn (free or Sales Navigator), enriches emails and phones via an augmented waterfall of forty providers with triple verification, and reaches 80 to 85% enrichment coverage. All of it pay-as-you-go, with no commitment. For teams who want to maximize the number of usable contacts per euro invested, the math is straightforward.