Bardeen Review 2025: The Browser Sidekick That Does Your Clicking For You

You need to pull 50 leads from LinkedIn into a spreadsheet. You need to grab contact info from a company website and drop it into your CRM. None of it is hard. All of it is boring. And somehow it eats four hours of your day.

The ugly truth: you have become the middleware. The human glue between apps that refuse to talk to each other. Open tab, copy, switch tab, paste, repeat until your soul leaves your body.

Bardeen walks in and basically says: "I will sit in your browser and do the clicking for you."

What Bardeen Actually Is

Bardeen is a Chrome extension that automates browser tasks the way a human would. Clicking buttons, filling forms, copying text, scraping pages. Except it does not get tired, distracted, or resentful.

Think of it as a macro recorder on steroids combined with a "Magic Box" that speaks English. Type what you want: "Save these LinkedIn profiles to my Google Sheet." Bardeen's AI figures out what steps that requires and builds the automation for you. No flowcharts. No coding.

Founded in 2020. Over 200,000 users. Companies like Deel, Miro, and WPP use it for go-to-market automation.

Story: Building a Lead Machine Without Hiring Anyone

You run outbound sales for a small B2B company. Your current workflow: search LinkedIn, open each profile, copy name and company, paste into Sheets, find emails with another tool, write personalized intros. Takes hours. Day gone.

Here is how Bardeen changes that.

Step 1: You run a LinkedIn search and hit the Bardeen extension. It scrolls through results, grabs name, title, company, and profile URL for everyone visible, and drops it into a Google Sheet. Fifty leads scraped in under two minutes.

Aha moment: the bottleneck was never "finding leads." It was the clicking. And that just disappeared.

Step 2: Bardeen's enrichment Playbooks connect to data providers like Apollo or Hunter and pull verified emails for each row. A few minutes later, the Email column fills in.

Step 3: Connect OpenAI and run a prompt against each row: "Write a one-sentence icebreaker about a challenge they probably face." Now each lead has a custom opener.

Step 4: Schedule this whole flow to run every Monday. By the time you sit down with coffee, fresh leads are waiting. Scraped, enriched, and personalized.

You have not hired a VA. You have not built a custom integration. Just strung together a few Playbooks and pointed them at the right data.

Key Features

1,000+ pre-built Playbooks for common workflows. Pick one, connect your apps, hit run.

Browser-native scraping. If you can see it in Chrome, Bardeen can grab it. LinkedIn, job boards, directories, e-commerce sites. No official integration required.

Second aha moment: you stop asking "does this app have a Zapier integration?" and start asking "can I open this in Chrome?"

AI-powered actions. Connect OpenAI to summarize scraped content, write drafts, or classify data.

100+ app integrations. Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable, Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce, Gmail, and more.

Pricing

Bardeen uses credits. Every action costs one credit.

Free tier trick: Builder Mode lets you test automations without using credits. Only production runs cost anything.

Security

SOC 2 Type II certified. GDPR compliant. CASA Tier 2 and 3 certified.

Data from connected apps stays in your browser cache, not on Bardeen's servers. Transfers go directly to your destination. Encryption is TLS 1.2 in transit, AES-256 at rest.

Strengths and Limitations

Where it shines

• Scraping without APIs. If you can see it in a browser, Bardeen can grab it.
• Magic Box is genuinely magic. Plain English to working automation.
• Unlimited team seats. Pay for usage, not users.
• Privacy-first. Data does not live on Bardeen's cloud.

Where it struggles

• Learning curve for complex multi-step workflows.
• Scraping accuracy varies when websites change layouts.
• Chrome-first. Safari and Edge users are out of luck.

Final Verdict

If your problem is "I spend hours moving data between browser tabs," Bardeen offers a direct answer. Install the extension. Point it at what you want scraped. Tell it where to put the data. Let it handle the clicking.

Start with a specific problem: "I need 100 leads from LinkedIn by Friday" or "I want competitor pricing tracked weekly." Solve that one thing. See how it feels.

Because honestly? Being the human API between your apps is not a job. It is a bug. And Bardeen is a pretty good fix.