Almost every confused message about Unpend comes down to one thing: there are two ways to use it, they work differently, and people try the first while expecting the second. This is the whole distinction in one page.
Last updated 19 August 2026
The popup is a rule you set once. You choose a list, optionally an age cutoff, press Start, and it clears everything that matches while you do something else. Use it when the answer is all of them.
The Network Manager is a table. It loads the whole list back, lets you sort, search and filter it, and acts only on the rows you tick. Use it when some of them are worth keeping.
The popup works on the LinkedIn page you are looking at. That is why the five buttons open a page rather than starting immediately, and why Start stays greyed out until you are on it.
If you open the popup on a random tab and press Start, nothing happens, and it looks exactly like a broken extension. It is not: it is waiting for you to be on the right LinkedIn page. Press one of the five buttons first.
Clearing 900 pending invitations that nobody answered needs no decisions, and being asked to tick 900 boxes would be worse than the problem. That is the popup.
Removing connections is the opposite. Nobody wants to remove all of them, and LinkedIn provides no screen where you can even see the list to decide. That is the Network Manager.
Both cover the same surfaces: sent invitations, received invitations, people you follow, company pages you follow, groups and pending group requests, plus connections in the Manager.
Nothing is exclusive to one or the other in terms of what it can touch. The difference is only whether you are setting a rule or making a selection.
The popup gives you three full cleanup runs free, and a run is unlimited in size, so a backlog of any size can be cleared without paying. Beyond three runs it is Pro.
Loading and browsing the Network Manager is free and unlimited, including search, filters and every view. Acting on a selection in bulk from the table, and exporting to CSV, is Pro.
Because you are not on the LinkedIn page that run works on. Press one of the five buttons in the popup first, which opens the right page, then Start becomes available.
The popup. Set an age filter if you want recent invitations left alone, press Start, and leave it. There is nothing to choose row by row.
The Network Manager. It is the only place you can see your whole connection list, sort it and pick.
Unpend is a free Chrome extension that withdraws every pending invitation in a single run, and shows you the network LinkedIn will not. Three full cleanups free, any size, nothing leaves your browser.
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