Manychat grows the audience. Conext answers whoever already wrote.
If the job is turning an Instagram comment into a funnel, Manychat was born for that. If the job is sales seeing the same thread as the agent and not losing a DM, it is Conext.
Both touch Instagram and WhatsApp. One does it to capture. The other, so the person who already asked the price is not left hanging.
A marketing bot is not a team inbox.
Manychat builds visual flows: a comment triggers a DM, a story triggers a sequence, the contact enters a funnel. That is growth. An inbox exists, but the product is measured by automating capture, not by the three-person shift handing off a thread.
Conext does not reply to comments or story mentions. The webhook looks at text messages in the chat: WhatsApp, Instagram Direct, Messenger. What comes in goes to an inbox with folders, assignment, and notes the customer does not see. The job is the counter’s, not the campaign’s.
Conext’s AI sells with stock. Not with a funnel.
In Manychat the bot says what you wrote on the canvas. If the price changes, you touch the flow. In Conext the price lives in the catalog; the agent cites it. A switch per agent decides whether that reply goes out on its own or waits for someone in sales to look.
Manychat is strong when the goal is a sequence: welcome, reminder, close. Conext is strong when the goal is not contradicting stock and not auto-sending anything that touches money. Those are two kinds of “automation” that do not replace each other.
The team joins the same number, not a separate bot.
In Conext several people attend the same WhatsApp, each with their own user. What is pending is marked. The owner is visible. The customer gets a message from the business, with no banner that says “you are talking to a flow”.
If what you need is growth from comments and ads, Manychat is still the tool for that leg. Conext does not pretend to be it. If what you need is that a DM from someone who already bought does not get lost between the till phone and the owner’s, that is the inbox.
How to decide
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Split capture from answering
Comments, stories, and sequences are Manychat. The day’s DMs, stock, and a team on one number are Conext.
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Look at who has to see the thread
If sales and the shop have to pick up the same conversation, you need an inbox. A flow canvas is not that.
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Do not use either for the other’s job
A CRM will not multiply comments. A growth bot will not be the afternoon shift. Try the one that actually fits.
Manychat is the marketing bot. Conext is the inbox CRM. They can overlap on Instagram; they do not substitute for each other.
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