We believe there are better options available in this category, read below to learn what this software does well, and what they could do better. ⤵
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Team inbox and chat tool that empowers teams to collaborate around email, SMS & social media messaging apps.
While we don't think Missive is the best email app, it does solve two problems really well. The first being that it helps consolidate all your inboxes across different platforms (email, WhatsApp, SMS, social media).
The second, is that it helps team members collaborate on answering to messages. Whether it's via assigning messages to the best person suited to respond, or discussing the best way to respond privately internally via the team chat feature.
If you're looking to delegate your inbox and get your team to help respond to messages, Missive is the ideal solution. You don't need to give full access to your email inbox to team members, just simply assign the emails you want taken off your plate!
Do team members typically need your input when responding? With Missive they can easily send you a private chat message to get your help, right on the platform. All of this makes Missive great for remote teams.
If you're wanting team collaboration on emails, Missive will be a better choice as Superhuman doesn't have these features (yet anyway!). Also, if you're wanting a unified inbox for emails, SMS messages, WhatsApp, and social media DM's, Missive will also be a better choice for you.
ButiIf you're comparing Missive vs Superhuman for solo-use (without a team), Superhuman has a much more beautiful minimal UI and the user experience is also a lot more smooth. Superhuman's interface isn't designed like every other email app out there, they put a lot of thought into making email more simple to use, yet more powerful.
If you're a professional who wants the best email experience, Superhuman is going to be your best bet (it's what we've used here at efficient app for 5+ years).
That said, if you're someone who wants something more budget friendly, Missive is a good choice since they have a free plan.
Missive is a great entry into having a more established Help Desk. We might recommend it for small teams, but for larger teams there are more established tools we'd recommend.
Missive is great for Founders who perhaps are at the point of scaling their business and wanting to bring the greater team in to help support email and messaging tickets. Missive will allow you to start delegating your inbox, and in the meantime, we recommend setting up specific email addresses for different business functions (e.g. [email protected], [email protected]). Missive will be a great tool to help you start to experience this segmentation.
Once your processes are more established, you might want to switch over to a proper Help Desk. The team who built Missive is small (about 3 people), so if you're a more established business, a larger help desk company is probably what you need.
A proper help desk will allow you to have chat features right on your website and separate inboxes for different email addresses (with different team permissions). You will also get great collaboration features like assigning emails to different team members, and leaving notes for one another if further collaboration is needed. Further you get a knowledge base for creating self-service content for customers. Read about the help desk we use, Help Scout or if you want something similar to Missive, check out Front.
All this being said, if you use WhatsApp, SMS, and social media DM's as core messaging components to your business, Missive will be a better choice.
Personalized to your work and beautifully designed—Notion Mail is the only inbox that makes life simpler.
Notion Mail is expected to launch in early 2025, following its announcement at the Make With Notion summit in October 2024.
This offering appears to be Notion's latest attempt to keep their most loyal users firmly planted in the Notion ecosystem while expanding market share.
But there's a twist in all of this. You see, Notion didn't build Notion Mail.
No, no, no—that would require way too much time, thought, and resources!
Instead, they acquired Skiff—a privacy-focused email-app—and stripped away its core privacy features. The result? A Gmail- and Google Workspace-integrated email client with a "Notion-esque" interface and some database integrations. (Outlook users, you're out of luck.)
Is it good? While we haven't tested it yet ourselves, we've watched a few demo videos, and have to say, it seems a touch confusing (Seriously, do you really need Notion database items in your email?).
For now, Notion Mail feels like a shortcut: an acquired app, rebranded with a shiny Notion logo ✨, and marketed as their own innovation.
We've shared more thoughts in our full Notion Mail Review, so check back once it's released for our updated take!
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