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20 Shortwave alternatives

Shortwave: An AI email client for Gmail that searches, drafts, organises, and schedules from a single prompt. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Google, Scheduling and Email, ranked by how much they have in common with Shortwave.

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  1. Reclaim.ai (Dropbox)

    Smart scheduling for Google and Microsoft calendars — defends focus time, habits, and breaks automatically.

    Also: Google, Scheduling

  2. Zinley, Inc.

    A personal AI representative with its own phone number, inbox and computer that takes calls, works your email and runs tasks under rules you set.

    Also: Email, Scheduling

  3. Pilot Alpha Labs

    AI executive assistant for founders that schedules meetings, writes the follow-ups and even places phone calls - over SMS, email and Slack, with no new app to install.

    Also: Email, Scheduling

  4. Superhuman

    AI email app for Gmail and Outlook (formerly Superhuman) that auto-labels mail, drafts replies in your voice and answers inbox questions.

    Also: Email, Scheduling

  5. Build AI assistants that handle email, scheduling, CRM updates, and follow-up without you writing a workflow.

    Also: Email, Scheduling

  6. Google Labs

    Google Labs' household agent: a shared daily brief across up to six family members, with calendars, tasks, meal plans and school paperwork handled for them.

    Also: Email, Google

  7. An AI calendar that schedules your tasks for you and reschedules everything the moment the day changes.

    Also: Scheduling

  8. AI agent platform for marketing: its Riley agent turns briefs into on-brand posts, ads and videos and schedules them after your approval.

    Also: Scheduling

  9. Spark LLC

    Managed OpenClaw in the cloud — a private, always-on AI agent that runs scheduled routines across 100+ apps and reports back in your chat.

    Also: Scheduling

  10. Zesterv LLC

    Turns topics, notes or documents into editable decks inside Google Slides, PowerPoint, ChatGPT or its web app, with a free tier.

    Also: Google

  11. AI presentations that live inside Google Slides and PowerPoint, rather than in yet another proprietary editor.

    Also: Google

  12. Google

    Google's browser workbench for prototyping with Gemini models, then shipping the same prompt as production API code.

    Also: Google

  13. Google

    Google's AI research notebook (formerly NotebookLM): ask cited questions of your sources and turn them into audio, video and study guides.

    Also: Google

  14. Google

    Google Labs tool (formerly Galileo AI) that turns prompts, sketches and screenshots into app and web UI designs and front-end code.

    Also: Google

  15. Google

    Gemini, formerly known as Bard, is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Google.

    Also: Google

  16. Google

    Google's agent-first development platform, where you manage a fleet of coding agents across editor, terminal, and browser.

    Also: Google

  17. Google

    Google's asynchronous coding agent: hand it a GitHub issue, walk away, and come back to a reviewed pull request.

    Also: Google

  18. Clipto, Inc.

    Local-first AI memory for your media: index terabytes of video, audio and documents on your own machine and search them in plain language.

    Also: Semantic Search

  19. AI notes workspace whose agent tracks tasks from your notes and meetings, with voice capture and an MCP connector for Claude and ChatGPT.

    Also: Semantic Search

  20. Glean Technologies, Inc.

    Enterprise Work AI platform — permission-aware search across every company app, plus an assistant and agents that act on the results.

    Also: Semantic Search