Summary
An AI email client for Gmail that searches, drafts, organises, and schedules from a single prompt.
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Description
Shortwave is an email client built on top of Gmail with an AI assistant at its centre. Rather than adding a "summarise" button, it treats the whole inbox as something you direct in natural language.
What the assistant does
- Search that understands intent. Ask for "the contract Priya sent about the Q3 renewal" and get it, without remembering exact words.
- Drafting in your voice, learned from your sent mail, with full thread context
- Triage and bundling that groups newsletters, notifications, and low-priority mail so the inbox shows what needs a person
- Scheduling by reading the thread, checking your calendar, and proposing times
- Multi-step tasks — find every thread about a topic, summarise the status, and draft an update
The client itself
Fast, keyboard-driven, with threads grouped into readable conversations, split inboxes, snoozing, and send-later. It connects to Gmail and Outlook accounts and syncs across web, desktop, iOS, and Android.
A free tier covers basic use; paid plans add the full AI feature set and team functionality. Best for people whose inbox is a genuine workload rather than an occasional chore.
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