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title: "Gatsby vs ManyChat: A Side-by-Side Comparison for List Growth"
description: Discover how Gatsby compares to ManyChat with tighter email & SMS integrations, UGC tracking, and more for Instagram DM automations and list growth.
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**Alternative to ManyChat**

# Gatsby vs. ManyChat

## Discover Gatsby's unique advantages, including our Email & SMS integrations that fully subscribe Instagram users to your marketing lists on Klaviyo, Yotpo, Attentive and more!

- [Side-by-Side Compare](https://gatsby.ai/compare/manychat?hsLang=en#gatsbyvmanychat)
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# Gatsby vs. ManyChat

Side-by-side comparison of Gatsby and ManyChat for Instagram DM automations and email & SMS list growth.

### ManyChat

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ManyChat is great, but here are some things Gatsby offers that ManyChat doesn't:

- Tighter email & SMS integrations
- Social contacts subscribed to your lists
- UGC tracking & more

### Gatsby

8

One key difference is that while ManyChat can sync an email address to Klaviyo, Gatsby can fully subscribe that contact to your marketing.

ManyChat

Gatsby

## List Growth

 Collect email addresses from IG

 Collect phone numbers from IG

 Subscribe emails to your email list

 While ManyChat can sync an email address to Klaviyo, Gatsby can fully subscribe that contact to receive your email marketing.

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 Subscribe phone numbers to your SMS list

 While ManyChat can sync a phone number to Klaviyo, Gatsby can fully subscribe that contact to receive your SMS marketing.

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## Integrations

 Sync an Email or Phone to Klaviyo

 Send an email address or phone number to Klaviyo, but doesn't subscribe them to receive marketing.

 Subscribe to Klaviyo Email

 Fully subscribe Instagram users to your Klaviyo email lists without them leaving Instagram

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 Subscribe to Klaviyo SMS

 Fully subscribe Instagram users to your Klaviyo SMS lists without them leaving Instagram

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 Subscribe to Yotpo Email

 Fully subscribe Instagram users to your Yotpo email lists without them leaving Instagram

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 Subscribe to Yotpo SMS

 Fully subscribe Instagram users to your Yotpo SMS lists without them leaving Instagram

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 Subscribe to Attentive Email

 Fully subscribe Instagram users to your Attentive Email lists without them leaving Instagram

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 Subscribe to Attentive SMS

 Fully subscribe Instagram users to your Attentive SMS lists without them leaving Instagram

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 Email & SMS Flows for IG Engagement

 Trigger flows when customers tag you in content, follow you on Instagram, have a large following and much more!

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 Shopify Sales Tracking

 Track all Shopify sales from your social contacts

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 Omnisend Integration

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 Sendlane Integration

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 LoyaltyLion Integration

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## Instagram

 Auto-reply to DMs

 Auto-reply to Stories

 Trigger DM from Comment

 Auto-reply Conditional Splits

 Different messages based on follower size, follow status, tag etc

 Track & Download UGC

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 Engagement on UGC

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 Identify Influencers & Creators

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 Metrics on your IG Growth

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Tyler, Marketing Manager at J Skis

"Solves a major gap by converting social followers onto your email/sms list. Wish this was around years ago!"

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# How it works

**Step 1**  
Connect Gatsby with Instagram and your Email platform (ie: [Klaviyo](https://gatsby.ai/klaviyo?hsLang=en), [Attentive](https://gatsby.ai/attentive-list-growth?hsLang=en), Yotpo...)

**Step 2**  
Instagram users subscribe to your email or SMS list [through Instagram DMs](https://gatsby.ai/list-growth?hsLang=en)

**Step 3**  
Send targeted email and SMS flows using Instagram data that Gatsby keeps in sync.

 

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Founder, System Three Resins

"Way above and beyond! We were so thrilled to find Gatsby, it's exactly what we were after - amazing product"

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Enlil, Social Manager at Gorgie

"Love the list growth feature, super easy to set up for collecting new email & SMS subscribers in Klaviyo!"

[Read the whole review](https://apps.shopify.com/gatsby/reviews?sort_by=newest)

"10/10! Our experience with Gatsby has been incredible and already exceeded our expectations."

Jennifer L. Koana Swim

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