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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Groove (legacy product)

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AGroove by Clari is a legacy Sales Engagement product for organizing prospect outreach, capturing sales activity, and guiding seller workflows across email, calendar, CRM, and campaign tools. On August 14, 2023, Clari acquired Groove and integrated it as the sales-engagement layer of the Clari Revenue Platform. Following Clari’s subsequent merger into Salesloft in 2025, Groove became part of the combined Salesloft platform. Salesloft unified the companies under its brand on September 2, 2026;…N/A

    Owler

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AOwler is a sales intelligence app developed by the company of the same name San Mateo and acquired by Meltwater June 2021, providing competitive insights, company information, and other sales relevant information.

    $8.25

    per month

    Pricing
    Groove (legacy product)Owler
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Plus (personal use)
    $99
    per year
    Pro
    $420
    per year
    Teams
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Groove (legacy product)Owler
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Groove (legacy product)Owler
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Meltwater
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    679 Answers
    80%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    446 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    682 Answers
    80%
    Happy with the feature set
    4 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    400 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    394 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Groove (legacy product)Owler
    Prospecting
    Comparison of Prospecting features of Groove (legacy product) and Owler
    Feature
    Groove (legacy product)
    -
    Ratings
    Owler
    7.1
    16 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Advanced search00 Ratings8.716 Ratings
    Identification of new leads00 Ratings6.114 Ratings
    List quality00 Ratings6.114 Ratings
    List upload/download00 Ratings6.09 Ratings
    Ideal customer targeting00 Ratings7.012 Ratings
    Load time/data access00 Ratings8.713 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Data Standards
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Groove (legacy product) and Owler
    Feature
    Groove (legacy product)
    -
    Ratings
    Owler
    7.9
    16 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Contact information00 Ratings7.910 Ratings
    Company information00 Ratings7.916 Ratings
    Industry information00 Ratings7.915 Ratings
    Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
    Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Groove (legacy product) and Owler
    Feature
    Groove (legacy product)
    -
    Ratings
    Owler
    6.2
    15 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Lead qualification process00 Ratings5.311 Ratings
    Smart lists and recommendations00 Ratings5.09 Ratings
    Salesforce integration00 Ratings5.06 Ratings
    Company/business profiles00 Ratings5.314 Ratings
    Alerts and reminders00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Data hygiene00 Ratings7.012 Ratings
    Automatic data refresh00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Tags00 Ratings7.08 Ratings
    Filters and segmentation00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Sales Intelligence Email Features
    Comparison of Sales Intelligence Email Features features of Groove (legacy product) and Owler
    Feature
    Groove (legacy product)
    -
    Ratings
    Owler
    7.9
    5 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Sales email templates00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
    Append emails to records00 Ratings8.84 Ratings
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    Groove (legacy product)Owler
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    HubSpot Sales Hub
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Clay
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Mixmax
    Score9.8 out of 10
    Clay
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Outreach
    Score8.3 out of 10
    LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Gmail (discontinued)
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Groove (legacy product)Owler
    Likelihood to Recommend
    5.0
    (706 ratings)
    9.7
    (18 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (33 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    5.4
    (542 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.5
    (145 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    4.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.9
    (6 ratings)
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Groove (legacy product)Owler
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    • Groove is excellent for the use case of improving sales representative and customer success representative productivity and data quality when used alongside Salesforce. It is a Salesforce focused tool. You should definitely consider Groove if you are a current Salesloft / Outreach user and you also use Salesforce.
    • Groove would not be a good fit for an organization not using Salesforce.
    Incentivized
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    Meltwater
    This is a free service, so it should be compared to free and low cost alerting (e.g. Google Alerts) and PE/VC funding profile (e.g. Crunchbase) services. Owler is well suited for competitive intelligence professionals, named account reps, and marketing professionals tracking company news (web mined company mentions and press releases) and social media (blogs, Video, YouTube). The alerts are high precision and tag for three key events (M&A, Funding, Exec Changes). It is the alerting and social media tools which are the key strength of the service. The company claims two million profiles, but only has 60,000 with full address information. Content includes competitors, user polls, and funding / M&A data. Owler should be viewed as a free complement to other online company research tools, but it lacks the depth to replace subscription services. Missing content includes long business descriptions; financials and discrete sizing data; family tree linkage, and executive profiles (only the CEO is covered) While they offer list building functionality, it is quite thin and non-downloadable. As such, I would not recommend Owler for sales and marketing prospecting at this point. A unique feature is a set of company polls about the direction of the company and CEO performance. Unfortunately, the response rates are often too low to be statistically meaningful.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Groove lets us know real-time when a client has checked an email we sent them.
    • Groove helps us streamline our day-to-day events, meetings, and tasks with the help of the Calendar Booking feature.
    • Groove helps us save a lot of time on typing long letters when we explain our products to our customers with the help of their Templates feature.
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    Meltwater
    • Owler enables the user to quickly find the data and information that he or she needs.
    • I appreciate the customizable dashboard where you can set alerts and track companies you select.
    • The latest news regarding the funding rounds of startup companies is especially helpful.
    • The top competitors to companies provided by Owler often give me a great point of reference for my competitive analysis.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • The footprint of the person who lasts touches the information.
    • The footprint of the person who edited the information.
    • Date and time of the modification of the account owner.
    • Date and time of the modification of the last person touching the account.
    Incentivized
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    Meltwater
    • The information provided is useful but at times the variation with other websites and tools is substantial which makes it difficult to rely solely on owler
    • Information only about bigger companies is available not for smaller and research on smaller ones are important as there are not many tools that do that
    • There are few companies that appear as defunct or do not exist but in the actual market there is a lot going on with them and being in market intelligence industry owler needs to capture that
    • It would be great if they provide revenue or growth of the in the past three years or so. As it would save our time and efforts to some extent
    • They need to maintain the database in aperiodic manner with precise information
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    I actually don't have any complaint regarding groove. It's just that I will give 9 since I confidently believe that there'd be updates in the future which would be more optimal not just for us users but for the business as well. The only regret I have with groove is I was not able to use it before the current company that I'm employed
    Incentivized
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    Meltwater
    Not really an applicable question as this is a free service, but if they charged $100 / year (GageIn's price) I would still license the service.
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    Groove has been an awesome platform to use for sales pipeline management. I really enjoy how it integrates with my Salesforce, Gmail, and Google Calendar. It makes my job easier by helping me keep track of the progress of each sales contact that I have. Leads are able to reply and notify us using Groove.
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    Meltwater
    I think it's well designed but always room for improvement. Maybe more customization in layout or information presented. Maybe even a layout that allows comparison and ranking of companies in a similar industry or vertical, or company size, and geography
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    Our organization has not experienced any availability issues with Groove
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    Meltwater
    I have yet to see the platform down or running slowly, but there have been multiple instances recently (Q2 2015) when the user links to a news story and Owler gives an Oops message. Users simply click on the story a second time and the story is displayed. This is a nuisance bug. I also have a sense that the system is not processing alerts as quickly as before, but I haven't tracked this closely, so I could be wrong about it.
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    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    Everything is good
    Incentivized
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    Meltwater
    The news precision, which is the most important feature for me, is very accurate. They have editors review the news to ensure it is properly tagged by company and event type.
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    My company has a team dedicated to supporting our implementation of operative tools and business systems such as Groove. For this reason, I feel that we have ample support for Groove, although I have not personally contacted Groove for any support issues.
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    Meltwater
    Problems have been closed quickly and professionally.
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    In-Person Training
    Discontinued Products
    It was okay. But, just the once. I had to figure it out with help of others on my team.
    Incentivized
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    Meltwater
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Discontinued Products
    Easy to use
    Incentivized
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    Meltwater
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    At Nearpod, I have been impressed with the internal expertise and support around Groove as a key tool for the Sales and Customer Success business systems and operations.
    Incentivized
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    Meltwater
    Focus on setting up companies that have limited news coverage first. Public companies are well covered and it is easy to track them. Furthermore, the surfeit of news around public companies can crowd out smaller companies with less news. It is smaller companies where you are most likely to see a benefit in their tracking of news, blogs, press releases, and videos.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Groove is simple. Like their competitors, they give you the ability to create templated "Flows" (sequences) of calls, emails, and LinkedIn touches. Some of them can be automated, but it's also simple to personalize outreach. Ultimately, my decision to purchase Groove over some of the competitors was based on their Salesforce integration, as well as white-glove customer service.
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    Meltwater
    I believe Lead411 and Owler go hand in hand, rather than one over the other. I believe Lead411's contact generation is far stronger based on the cost, but Owler allows you to broaden your horizon for prospecting whereas Lead411 is more of a user-driven search rather than an platform-driven search.
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    Scalability
    Discontinued Products
    Our organization was able to quickly scale Groove from a pilot group of a few users to a department-wide solution
    Incentivized
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    Meltwater
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Reduced several hours a week of logging time in Salesforce that either wouldn't get done or would have been done to the detriment of more value add activities.
    • Saves hours per week by delivering actionable/useful info from Salesforce into Gmail
    • Gives me valuable insight on what emails are being opened and read. This helps plan targeting.
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    Meltwater
    • The personalisation of emails has definitely helped us to earn a higher reply rate, with the knock-on that this will be helping with future deals.
    • Keeps us very relevant in our conversations with contacts. They are often impressed by the research and knowledge we have on their company and how we have aligned ourselves to help. Again, small differences at the start of calls but this will be helping with the number of opportunities created.
    • Reduces SDR prospecting time. Quick and easy to get updates allowing them to process a great number of accounts on a daily basis.
    Incentivized
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