I found an Apollo scraper that finally lets me get the data without dealing with Apollo’s cringey dashboard. In this video I break down why I think Apollo is a bad buy: the “verified” emails aren’t really verified (expect to lose 40–60% once you run it through NeverBounce or similar), the search/download flow is confusing, and the pricing is misleading. If you’re only getting ~5,000 credits a month for $49, you’re paying a premium for a workflow that still wastes your time. Then I walk through the best Apollo scraper I’ve used: Scraper City. The big difference is you don’t need to log into Apollo, paste URLs, or wait days for someone to email you a file. You just type what you want (location, industry, title, company size, number of contacts), it builds the Apollo search for you, and the scrape happens live on-screen in seconds. When it’s done, you download a CSV and run it through your own verification before sending. It’s also cheap (about $0.0024 per lead) and the first $5 are free—so you can test it with roughly 2,000 leads before spending anything.