made by a creator, for creators
You didn’t start creating to answer the same DM 200 times.
A comment, a DM, a story reply — the moment someone asks, DMChat answers with your link, in your words, in seconds. Then it even follows up if they forget. You get your evenings back; nobody gets left on read.
Official API only — your account stays safe, always.
maya.creates
LINK please!! I need this 😭
DMChat picks it up…
your.page
nownew comment detected…
a story every creator knows
It’s 2:47 AM.
Your reel finally popped. 312 comments are asking for the link — and every single one of them is a sale, a subscriber, a person who cared enough to ask.
You could answer all 312.
Or you could be asleep.
DMChat answers in under 3 seconds. Even the 2:47 AM ones. Every commenter gets your link while the moment is still hot — that’s the whole point.
your lock screen rn
ria.jpeg commented
link please 🙏
edit_wizard commented
PRICE?? need this asap
saloni_talks commented
how did you make this, drop the tutorial
thefitguy commented
bro the link isn’t in bio??
aan.chal commented
GIRL. THE LINK. NOW. 😭
+ 307 more
the whole setup, honestly
Live before your coffee gets cold
No flowchart builders. No 40-minute YouTube tutorial. Three things, then you never think about it again.
Connect Instagram
One tap through the official Meta login. No passwords shared, nothing sketchy — Instagram itself handles it.
takes ~30 seconds
Pick your word
“LINK”, “GUIDE”, “PRICE” — whatever your audience comments, DMs you, or replies to your story. That word becomes the trigger.
posts, reels, stories, DMs — all covered
Write the DM once
Write it the way you actually text. From then on, every commenter gets it instantly — forever, on autopilot.
write once, send forever
ok, but what does it actually do?
Watch it handle your DMs.
Six plays creators run every day. Tap one — the phone acts it out exactly like it happens on Instagram.
A comment becomes a DMthe classic
They comment your keyword on a reel — the link lands in their DMs while the moment is still hot.
maya.creates
Active now
maya.creates commented “GUIDE” on your reel
hey Maya! here’s the free guide you asked for 🤍
you’re a lifesaver 😭
takes ~4 minutes, no card needed
our whole philosophy
Most tools do twelve things. Badly.
You pay for a dashboard full of features you’ll never open. We made the opposite bet — cut everything, keep one thing, and make that one thing embarrassingly good.
- noEmail marketing funnels
- noWhatsApp broadcast bots
- noAI caption generators
- noWebsite chat widgets
- noCRM pipelines
- noAn “all-in-one growth OS”
Instagram DMs.
That’s it. That’s the product.
Every hour we’d spend building feature #13 goes into making your DMs faster, safer, and more personal instead. One job, done properly, at a price a creator can actually justify.
depth > breadth. every time.
what the one thing includes
Everything a DM needs.
Nothing it doesn’t.
Comment → DM, instantly
Someone drops your trigger word, the DM lands in seconds. While the moment is still hot — not tomorrow morning.
Works straight in DMs
No post needed. Someone DMs you “PRICE”? DMChat answers it. Your inbox finally handles itself.
Story replies too
They reply to your story asking for the link — DMChat catches it and delivers before the story even expires.
Followers-only unlocks
Want the link to be a follower perk? We actually verify the follow — a real check, not an honor system — then send.
Capture the lead in the DM
Ask for the name, the email, the budget — right inside the conversation. No landing page to bounce off, no form nobody fills in.
Public replies too
It also replies under the comment — “check your DMs 💌” — so everyone scrolling sees your post is alive and answering.
Templates that don’t sound like bots
Start from message templates written for creators — giveaways, lead magnets, product drops — then make them sound like you.
Sends like a human, not a bot
Randomized delays, a hard hourly rail so a viral post can’t torch your account, rotating reply variants. Spam filters hunt for robots — DMChat never acts like one.
Numbers that mean something
How many asked, how many got the DM, how many failed and why. The numbers you care about — not a 14-widget dashboard.
that’s the whole list. on purpose.
the bit nobody else does
Capture the lead in the DM.
Every other tool sends a link to a form and hopes. The conversation is already open — so just ask there, and keep the answer.
everyone else
Send a link to a form
- GUIDE
- Here you go! Grab it here 👉 yoursite.com/free-guide
- …
Three taps and a page load between the comment and the email — a browser to open, a form to load, fields to type on a phone keyboard. Most people stop somewhere in there, and you never find out who.
dmchat
Ask inside the conversation
- GUIDE
- Happy to send it over! What's the best email for you?
- sam@studio.co
- Perfect — it's on its way to your inbox 🎉
They type one reply. No browser, no form, no drop-off — and the answer lands in your leads list attributed to the automation that earned it.
The lead was already in your comments. Now it is in your list.
Ask for an email, a phone number, a city, a budget — as many questions as the conversation can carry, with validation, a confirmation step, and a completion message you write. Free plans get one form; Pro gets as many as you like, plus CSV export.
Try it on one keyworda note from the person who built this
Why this exists.
Hey — I’m a creator, same as you.
Last year one of my reels finally took off, and I spent the next three days doing the least creative work of my life: copy-pasting the same link into hundreds of DMs. I missed replies. People I missed bought from someone else. That stung more than the sore thumbs.
The tools that could fix it were built for marketing teams — enterprise dashboards, twelve features I’d never touch, and a price that assumed I had a “budget” instead of ad revenue and hope.
So I built DMChat: the one feature I actually needed, at a price I could have justified back when nothing was going viral yet. No investors telling us to bolt on an email suite. Just this, done well.
If a reply from a tool can’t be warm, it should at least be yours — your words, your voice, on time, every time. That’s the bar we build against.
— Aditya A
creator first, founder second
the wall
Creators who let their DMs run themselves
Beta fam, pinned with pride. Every card is an inbox that answers itself now.
@maya.creates
UGC & lifestyle
“replied to 1.2k “link?” comments while I was literally asleep”
1.2k DMs sent
@thefitguy
fitness coach
“my meal-plan drop stopped dying in the comments. sales doubled.”
2x link clicks
@saloni.talks
finance creator
“story replies used to vanish. now every single one gets my guide.”
0 missed replies
@pixel.by.dev
digital artist
“the follower unlock is genius — my follows went up with my sales”
+38% followers
@chef.riya
food blogger
“recipe requests answer themselves now. i just cook.”
900+ recipes sent
@your.handle
this spot is taken by nobody. yet.
your quote goes here after your first reel pops off
claim your spotincluding the bits we lose
How we actually compare
LinkDM gives you more DMs per dollar. ManyChat has a flow builder we deliberately do not have. Both of those are on this table, because a comparison that only shows our wins is not worth reading.
| What you are comparing | DMChat | ManyChat | LinkDM | CreatorFlow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free plan — better here: DMChat, LinkDM. | 1,000 DMs / mo | 25 contacts | 1,000 DMs / mo | 500 DMs / mo |
| Entry paid plan — better here: DMChat. | $15 — 30,000 DMs | $14 — 250 contacts | $19 — 25,000 DMs | $15 — 5,000 DMs |
| How you get billed — better here: DMChat, LinkDM, CreatorFlow. | Flat DM cap | Per contact + overage | Flat DM cap | Flat DM cap |
| Your bill when a post goes viral — better here: DMChat, LinkDM, CreatorFlow. | Does not move | Rises with contacts | Does not move | Does not move |
| Lead capture inside the DM — better here: DMChat. | Asks in the chat | Link to a form | Link to a form | Email, via a form |
| Verified follower-only unlocks — better here: DMChat. | Real follow check | Varies | Varies | Varies |
| Best price per 1,000 DMs — better here: DMChat. | $0.50 | Not comparable | $0.76 | $3.00 |
| Instagram accounts on the entry paid plan — better here: LinkDM. | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Visual flow builder — better here: ManyChat. | No, on purpose | Yes | No | No |
Competitor pricing as published in August 2026. Contacts and DMs are different units and do not convert cleanly.
The full ManyChat comparisoncreator math, not corporate math
Free forever. Actually free.
A flat monthly DM cap — never per contact, never a surprise overage. Go over and we keep sending while we tell you about it. Nobody gets auto-charged.
Free
$0
/ foreverEverything that makes DMChat work. No card, no clock.
- DMs / month
- 1,000
- Automations
- 3
- Leads / month
- 50
- IG accounts
- 1
- All 5 triggers — comment, DM keyword, story mention, story reply, live
- Text, quick-reply and carousel DMs
- Follower-only unlocks with real verification
- 1 lead-capture form, 50 leads/mo
- 7-day analytics
Pro
$15
/ month$9/mo for the first 99 — locked forever
For the creator whose reel just went off.
- DMs / month
- 30,000
- Automations
- 25
- Leads / month
- 10,000
- IG accounts
- 3
- Everything in Free, plus:
- 30,000 DMs a month — 25 automations
- 3 Instagram accounts
- Remove DMChat branding
- 25 lead forms, 10,000 leads/mo, CSV export
- Retrigger missed sends
- 90-day analytics · 10 reply variants · priority support
Scale
$29
/ monthWhen three accounts, or one launch, stopped being enough.
- DMs / month
- 100,000
- Automations
- 100
- Leads / month
- 50,000
- IG accounts
- 10
- Everything in Pro, plus:
- 10 Instagram accounts
- 100,000 DMs a month
- 365-day analytics
- Same flat price — still nothing per contact
Not open yet — start on Pro and we will move you across
Every creator who signed up before we started charging keeps the launch limits, permanently. No card needed to start, and nothing renews without you saying so.
the founding 99
Counting real seats — no fake numbers, no countdown tricks. The free plan is free forever.
“wait, is this safe for my account?” — yes. here’s why:
Official Meta API
We talk to Instagram the way Instagram wants us to. No bots, no session hacks, no shadowban roulette.
Your password never touches us
You log in on Instagram, Instagram vouches for you. We never see or store your password. Ever.
Leave with everything
Disconnect in one click, ask us to delete your data, and it is gone. Your account, your call.
the API keeps you compliant. behavior keeps you safe.
Every certified tool gets the same API. What decides whether an account gets flagged is how the messages behave — so DMChat sends like a careful human, not a script.
Randomized, human-like delays
Spam filters flag robotic timing — replying in exactly 3.00 seconds, every time. DMChat adds natural micro-delays, like a human assistant typing.
Auto-throttle when you go viral
A post blows up and 10,000 comments land in an hour? Sends get paced to stay inside Instagram’s comfort zone instead of tripping alarms.
Reply variants, not copy-paste
Public replies rotate through variations — because 400 identical “check your DMs” comments look exactly like a bot, to everyone.
They always ask first
Every DM is triggered by their comment, story reply, or message. No cold outreach, ever — requested messages are messages Instagram trusts.
you, probably, right now
Fair questions. Straight answers.
One thing: when someone comments a word you chose (like "LINK") on your Instagram post, DMChat instantly sends them a DM you wrote. It can also reply publicly under their comment, check that they really follow you first, and collect their email right there in the DM.
About two minutes, and we mean actual minutes. Connect Instagram through the official Meta login, type your trigger word, write your DM once. Done. If it takes you longer than a coffee, tell us and we will fix whatever slowed you down.
Yes, and it stays free — 1,000 DMs a month, 3 automations, every trigger type, no card, no clock. Pro is $15/mo for 30,000 DMs when you outgrow it, and everyone who signed up before we started charging keeps the launch limits permanently.
Honestly, the opposite. Big accounts have teams answering DMs. If you are the writer, editor, and customer support all in one, automating the repetitive replies is what buys your time back.
ManyChat is a chatbot platform — flow builders, branching logic, WhatsApp, hundreds of integrations — and it bills you per contact, so a post that performs costs you more. DMChat does one slice of that, comment to DM, at a flat monthly cap that does not move when a reel takes off. If you need branching flows or WhatsApp, ManyChat is genuinely the better tool and we say so on our comparison page. If your whole use of it is "someone comments a word, send them a DM", you are paying for a platform to do one job.
Something else on your mind? DM us — we reply fast, obviously.
one last thing
Your next “link please?”
could answer itself.
Two minutes of setup. Then every comment gets answered — including the ones that arrive while you’re asleep, filming, or living your life.
Free forever · no card · official Meta API