Hypelio
ProductMulti-account workspacesOne login, a separate space per accountApprovalsYour client signs off from a link, not a loginPricingPer connected account, published up front
SolutionsFor agenciesEvery client’s LinkedIn on one rosterFor creatorsPosting under your own nameFor foundersFounder-led, in twenty minutes a weekEmployee advocacyOne idea, in each person’s own voiceFor ghostwritersWrite as ten people without ten loginsManaging many accountsWhat LinkedIn allows, and how to do it safely
ResourcesFree toolsNo signup, nothing storedApproval workflowsGetting sign-off without chasingClient reportingWhich numbers to send, which to leave outIs automation safe?What actually gets accounts restricted
Comparevs TaplioWhere each one wins, including where they dovs SupergrowCloser than you would expect, split by scalevs AuthoredUpTheir editor is better. The difference is sign-offvs ShieldShield has closed. Where its users are goingvs KleoOne brand, or a roster of themvs PostwiseCheaper at scale. No client approval step
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Shield has closed. Choose the next one carefully.

Shield ran from 2018 and a lot of people trusted it with their numbers. Its founders wrote that Google and LinkedIn “made it clear that we could not continue operating Shield as it was built.” That sentence matters more than any feature list, so this page starts there rather than with ours.

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Shield’s notice was read from shieldapp.ai on 20 August 2026. We have deliberately not described Shield’s features from memory now that the product is gone, so this page claims less about them than our other comparisons do. If anything here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it.

LinkedIn analytics, one account, monthly
ShieldClosed
Hypelio$19

Analytics is part of Hypelio rather than the whole of it. If a dashboard is genuinely all you want, we are more tool than you need — and we would rather say so than take the $19.

The short version

We are not a Shield clone, and will not pretend to be

Shield was an analytics product. Hypelio is a publishing tool that reports on what it published. Those overlap. They are not the same job.

Shield did things we do not

Worth knowing before you treat this as a like-for-like move.

It measured profiles you did not publish to. Ours reports on accounts you actually publish for, which is a narrower job by design.
Its metrics went deeper than ours. Years of a team working on analytics alone beats a reporting module, and it would be silly to claim otherwise.
We cannot recover your history. Anything that lived only inside Shield is gone. No tool can import it for you, and one that offers to is worth a hard look.
A dashboard is cheaper than a publishing tool. If measuring is all you came for, you are paying for drafting, scheduling and approvals you will not open.

Hypelio is worth a look if

These are the reasons people have actually given us this month.

You want the numbers to outlive the tool. We read and publish through the official LinkedIn API, so the access we depend on is access LinkedIn grants on purpose.
You track more than one account. Shield was built around a profile. This is built around a roster, so comparing accounts is the default view rather than an export.
Somebody else has to read the report. Per-client reporting that survives a renewal conversation, rather than a screenshot of your own dashboard.
You publish as well as measure. The numbers sit beside the post that produced them, in the same place you wrote it.
The part worth reading twice

Why a product people liked can disappear anyway

We have no inside knowledge of Shield and are not going to invent any. But the shape of what happened is worth understanding before you pick a replacement.

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A tool is only as durable as its access

Every LinkedIn tool reaches the platform somehow. Some are granted that access. Others take it — a browser extension driving your logged-in session, or reading pages a person was meant to read. From the outside the two look identical. They do not age the same way.

02

The notice points at the method

Shield’s founders wrote that they “could not continue operating Shield as it was built.” They did not spell out which part, and we will not guess. What is clear is that the objection was to how it worked rather than to whether people wanted it. People plainly did.

03

Ask before you subscribe, not after

Whatever you move to, ask how it reads and writes your data, and what happens to you if the platform objects. It is a fair question to put to us too, which is why the answer is written down on the security page instead of waiting for you to ask.

Questions

The ones people are asking this week

Can I import my Shield history?+
No, and neither can anyone else. Analytics that lived inside Shield went with it. Hypelio starts measuring from the day you connect an account, and LinkedIn’s API exposes only a limited window of past data, so the honest answer is that you are starting a new baseline rather than continuing an old one.
Is your analytics as deep as Shield’s was?+
No. Shield spent years on analytics alone and it showed. Ours covers what you need to judge a post and build a client report — reach, engagement, follower movement, and comparison across the accounts you run — rather than everything Shield could do.
Why would Hypelio not be shut down the same way?+
Because we work through the official LinkedIn API rather than a browser extension or scraped pages. That constrains what we can offer — no bulk connection requests, no automated messages, no data on accounts nobody has connected — and those constraints are the point rather than a gap in the roadmap.
I only want analytics. Is this overkill?+
At one account, probably. Solo is $19 a month and includes the publishing side whether you open it or not. If you write for several people and want the numbers in one place, the arithmetic turns around quickly — ten accounts is $104.
What happens to my data if you close?+
Posts, drafts and analytics stay exportable for ninety days after a subscription ends. Given why you are reading this page, we would rather commit to that in writing than ask you to assume we will be around.

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Fourteen days, no card. Connect one account, publish a fortnight of posts, and see whether the reporting tells you anything you can act on.

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