Foxfind compared
Last updated: 1 November 2026
There are three common ways to find and email local businesses: buy contacts from a B2B database, export Google Maps listings with a scraper and send with a cold email tool, or use one tool that does both. Foxfind is the third. It finds businesses on Google Maps, checks that each one fits, finds its email on its own website and sends your emails with follow-ups from your own mailbox.
Side by side
| B2B contact database | Maps scraper + cold email tool | Foxfind | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the companies come from | A database of people and companies, built mostly from company and professional profiles | Google Maps listings, exported by a scraper | Google Maps through Google's official Places API, plus web search |
| Local businesses (a gym, a play centre, a restaurant) | Often missing, or listed without a working contact | Found, but every listing in the category, fit or not | Found, and each one judged against your description of a good fit |
| Contact email | The database's record, which can be out of date | Sometimes an extra step or another tool | Found on the business's own website and checked (syntax, MX records, disposable domains) |
| Checking that a company fits | Filters on industry, size and job title | You filter the list yourself | AI reads each website and gives a fit score, a reason and quotes from the site |
| Sending and follow-ups | Some include a sender; often a separate tool | A separate cold email tool: export, then import | Built in: sequences from your own mailbox, follow-ups as replies in the same thread |
| When a company replies | Depends on the sender you use | Depends on the sender you use | The sequence stops for the whole company, and the reply lands in the built-in inbox |
When another kind of tool fits better
- You sell to people by job title at larger companies (for example heads of IT at software companies). A B2B contact database is built for that.
- You already have a clean list. Any cold email tool will send to it. Foxfind can too: imported lists use no credits.
- You want a one-off spreadsheet of places and no emails sent. A Maps export is enough.
Foxfind fits when your customers are local businesses, the kind you would find by searching Google Maps, and you want them found, checked and emailed without moving lists between tools.
Questions
Is Foxfind an alternative to Apollo for local businesses?
Yes, for that job. People databases such as Apollo are strongest for reaching people by job title at larger companies. Foxfind starts from Google Maps, so it covers the local businesses those databases miss. If you have an Apollo account, Foxfind can also use it to find a named decision-maker at the businesses it qualifies.
Does Foxfind scrape Google Maps?
No. It uses Google's official Places API, then reads each business's own website to find its email.
Do I need a separate cold email tool?
No. Foxfind sends from your own Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 or SMTP/IMAP mailbox, with a warm-up ramp, daily caps, sending windows and automatic pauses on bounces. It reads replies, so a reply stops the sequence.
Which countries does it work in?
Anywhere Google Maps lists businesses. You draw the areas on a map, and the emails can be written in the language you choose.
How is it priced?
You pay for emails a month and credits: 1 credit is 1 lead, a business with a verified email, counted once. Searching and businesses with no email cost nothing, and your own lists use no credits. See pricing.
Try it on your own market: start a free trial (250 emails and 50 credits, no card). Questions: info@foxfind.net.