When someone comments a word like “LINK” on your Instagram or Facebook post, HushReply sends them a private message with what they asked for. Automatically, in seconds. It can also reply under their comment and like it. No monthly fee and no contact limits.
Public comment in · Private reply out
Everything below is included, free, today.
HushReply is free, and it runs on Cloudflare's free plan, in an account that belongs to you.
ManyChat does a lot more. HushReply does the comment-to-DM part, free, on your own account. Here's the honest split.
| Feature | HushReply | ManyChat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, on your own free Cloudflare account | Free plan, then from $14/mo; Pro from $29/mo |
| Contacts | No limit | 25 active contacts on Free; 250 from $14/mo, 2,500 on Pro; price grows with contacts |
| Branding | None | “Powered by Manychat” on Free |
| Instagram comment → DM | Yes | Yes |
| Facebook comment → DM | Yes | Yes |
| Public reply to the comment | Yes, with rotating variants | Yes |
| Multiple accounts | Yes, every account you own, free | Yes |
| Where your data lives | Your Cloudflare account | ManyChat's servers |
| Open source | Yes, free to use and change | No |
| Visual flow builder | No. Simple keyword rules, set up in a dashboard | Yes |
| Broadcasts and sequences | No | Yes |
| Story replies, “follow to get the link” | Not yet | Yes |
| Setup time | About an hour, once, mostly in Meta's settings | Minutes |
Prices from third-party roundups of manychat.com/pricing, October 2026, at annual-billing rates. Check their site for current pricing. Not affiliated with ManyChat or Meta.
No servers to look after. Most of the time goes on Meta's settings, and the setup guide walks you through every screen.
A free “app” on Meta's developer site is what allows HushReply to message people for you. The setup guide shows every click.
One button makes your own copy of HushReply in your GitHub and sets it up on a free Cloudflare account. It asks for the keys from step 1, plus a verify token: any password you make up.
In your Meta app's webhook settings, paste your HushReply address (it ends in /webhook) and the verify token you made up in step 2. Now Meta tells HushReply about new comments.
Comment your keyword on your own post. HushReply starts in test mode, so it shows what it would send without sending anything.
In your copy on GitHub, open wrangler.toml, change DRY_RUN = "true" to "false" and commit. HushReply updates itself within a couple of minutes.
A rule is three things: the word to watch for, the message to send, and what to say under the comment. This one comes with HushReply, ready to edit.
Make your own in the dashboard: fill in a form, try a comment, click save. Or edit rules.json right on GitHub's website. HushReply updates itself either way. Rule reference
HushReply comes with a simple dashboard. Set up your keywords and messages, add your accounts and paste in your Meta keys, all in forms. Try a comment to see what would be sent, then publish with one click.
It runs on your own computer. Install Node.js (free) once, then copy and paste these lines into your computer's Terminal app, one at a time. Put your GitHub username in place of YOUR-NAME. The login line opens Cloudflare in your browser so you can sign in.
HushReply
# the first time
git clone https://github.com/YOUR-NAME/hushreply
cd hushreply
npm install
npx wrangler login
# every time after that (opens in your browser)
npm run dashboardChange a keyword, click Save, then Commit & push. HushReply updates itself within a couple of minutes. Dashboard guide
Yes. HushReply is free, and it runs on Cloudflare's free plan in your own account. That's enough to answer about 500 keyword comments every day, and comments without a keyword cost nothing. If you ever need more, Cloudflare's paid plan is $5 a month.
Not for your own accounts. Meta lets an app that only works on your own Pages and Instagram accounts skip its review process. You'd need Meta's approval to run HushReply on other people's accounts.
Yes. It uses Meta's own official feature for answering a comment with a private message, the same one the big tools use. It never logs in as you and never scrapes anything. Meta's rules: one private message per comment, sent within 7 days of the comment.
It must be a public Business or Creator account, with “Allow access to messages” turned on in Instagram's message settings. It works on comments on your own posts.
Not out of the box. Running it on accounts you don't own needs Meta's approval process. Each client can set up their own free copy instead.
No. The Deploy button asks for everything it needs, and the dashboard turns rules, accounts and keys into forms, so you never edit a file by hand.
The dashboard runs on your computer, so you install Node.js once and copy-paste a few commands. With one Instagram account and one Page you can skip it and edit rules in GitHub's web editor instead.
Yes. It's open source (AGPL-3.0 license): use it, change it and run it for free. If you offer a changed version as a service to other people, you share your changes too.
Free and open source, running on your own Cloudflare account.