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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Get through your inbox 2x as fast (for teams of all sizes).
Superhuman is an email client made for busy professionals who want to enhance their email experience. If checking your emails is often an overwhelming, dreadful feat and wish there was a way you could spend less time on email, then Superhuman could really enhance your day-to-day. We've been using Superhuman for over 5 years here at Efficient App and couldn't see life without it.
Superhuman has a beautiful, minimal design and will help you get through your email faster. If you get more than 10 emails a week, consider Superhuman as a part of your productivity toolkit.
Sign up here for a free month of Superhuman.
Superhuman is a layer atop of Gmail or Outlook. You no longer have to even log into Outlook or Gmail as when using Superhuman, you navigate your emails straight from the Superhuman web app, desktop app, or mobile app.
On the computer, you can use Superhuman without even touching your mouse, navigating email super fast through keyboard shortcuts alone (you can still use your mouse if you wish though!). If this sounds intimidating, don't let it! When you sign up for Superhuman, a specialist will take you through a 30-minute onboarding call, teaching you in the in's and out's of the tool.
With Superhuman you get through your emails super fast. Easily snooze emails for later, answer quickly using Superhuman's AI feature, and create Inbox Splits to help triage through specific types of emails in chunks. After using Superhuman for 2 weeks, our bet is you won't want to go back to life without it, it's a killer productivity app.
Sign up here for a free month of Superhuman.
If you typically collaborate on emails with others on your team, Superhuman won't solve your team email problems. Instead, consider a help desk that will give you access to a shared inbox where collaborating is easy.
If you often use email extensions (for example from Copper CRM or folk), then Superhuman might not be best suited for you as it doesn't support these extensions. In this case, you might want to consider if it's worth the trade off (for us it is).
There is no discount on annual pricing for Superhuman, although if you sign up using this link you will get your first-month free.
Clean up your inbox in minutes: bulk unsubscribe from newsletters, automate your emails with AI, block cold emails, and view your analytics. Fully open-source.
Inbox Zero (not to be confused with what Superhuman refers to getting through all your emails) is a layer atop your Gmail that helps you to easily unsubscribe from newsletters and automate label/forwarding flows all via AI.
The area that we use and love with Inbox Zero is where it helps us tame our email inbox, sort of like Mailman, but it focuses more on actually leveraging AI to automatically take action on your email (or unsubscribe if you're getting many newsletters but not reading any of them:
Inbox Zero has a relatively basic email client built in, it's marked as "beta" and feels quite beta, so be warned, it looks quite clean, the simplicity is appreciated.
We just think you might feel like quite a bit is missing if you were to consider even using Inbox Zero vs Gmail. It's clear that Inbox Zero is more built as an email tool, a layer in-between your email and your email client, and to that it does a good job.
One thing to keep in mind with Inbox Zero (and how it differentiates from its competitors) is that it is an open source email client with thousands of stars on GitHub, so go and check out the code yourself if you'd like:
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