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Shortwave
Shortwave is an AI email client that helps people organize, search, write, schedule, and collaborate around Gmail.

Shortwave combines an email client with an AI Assistant. It can summarize messages, draft and improve replies, search email using natural language, organize inboxes, analyze attachments, and help schedule calendar events.
Individuals and teams use it for inbox management and email collaboration. It supports shared threads, private team comments, assignments, labels, and channels. Free access is available, while paid plans add larger AI quotas, longer AI search history, advanced intelligence, and more filters. Tasklet provides separate background workflow automation.
Features
- Summarizes emails and provides AI-generated replies
- Searches email with natural-language queries
- Organizes inboxes with AI filters and actions
- Analyzes PDF, text, code, and other attachments
- Checks availability and helps schedule calendar events
- Shares live email threads and private team comments
- Provides AI autocomplete and personalized writing
- Supports AI integrations and web browsing on paid plans
Use cases
- Triage a crowded inbox with AI labels, bundles, and todos
- Draft replies in a user’s writing style
- Find project details across email history and attachments
- Coordinate meetings using calendar availability and scheduling
- Share email threads and assign follow-up work to teammates
Pros
Cons
Pricing
- Starting price
- $30 per seat / month
- Pricing checked
- 2026-09-19
Business
$30 per seat / month
- Full standard search history
- Standard intelligence
- More AI usage
- 5 years AI search history
- 3 AI-powered filters
- AI integrations & web browsing
- AI autocomplete, summaries & attachment analysis
Premier
$45 per seat / month
- Everything in Business, plus...
- Advanced intelligence
- 2x more AI usage
- Unlimited AI search history
- Max 100 threads per AI search
- 10 AI-powered filters
- Smarter AI answers with 2x context tokens
Max
$120 per seat / month
- Everything in Premier, plus...
- Expert intelligence
- 6x more AI usage
- Max 150 threads per AI search
- 50 AI-powered filters
- Smarter AI answers with 3x context tokens