27 Google Chrome Extensions for Managing Emails

It’s true that most of us use emails to communicate at work. It’s also true that most of us spend more time reading and answering emails than we’d like. 

Did you know the average person spends 28% of their work week just managing their emails? I don’t know about you but from where I’m sitting, spending nearly one-third of your working hours writing and reading emails just seems like a lot to me. 

The obvious fix for this is streamlining the way you manage your emails. Gmail users can do this by leveraging certain very useful Google Chrome extensions. 

In this article, I’ll take you through 27 of the best Google Chrome extensions you can use in 2024, to significantly improve your email productivity.  

Table of Contents

• Enhance efficiency with these 27 Google Chrome extensions for Gmail.
  • 1. Hiver – Manage Communication Channels right from Gmail
  • 2. Inbox When Ready for Gmail – Protect your focus
  • 3. Dittach – effortlessly manage Gmail attachments
  • 4. Batch Reply for Gmail – reply to multiple emails at once
  • 5. Gorgias – reply to emails faster
  • 6. Boomerang – schedule emails to be sent later
  • 7. Zapier – integrate Gmail with thousands of other apps
  • 8. Crystal – customize emails based on the recipient’s personality
  • 9. Grammarly – write mistake-free emails
  • 10. Yesware – automate and track email campaigns effectively
  • 11. Gmail Offline – manage Gmail without the internet
  • 12. Digify – track and unsend attachments
  • 13. Clearbit Connect – find anyone’s email address in seconds
  • 14. BombBomb – record and send video emails in Gmail
  • 15. Block Sender – no more annoying emails
  • 16. Send Anywhere – share large files up to 50GBs on Gmail
  • 17. BitBounce – protect yourself from spam
  • 18. GMass – Personalize email campaigns with ease
  • 19. Mailsuite (formerly Mailtrack) – real-time updates on email behavior
  • 20. WiseStamp – customize your email signature
  • 21. Streak – track, manage and close deals effectively
  • 22. Rename Email – search emails by subject lines easily
  • 23. Right Inbox – manage all your email campaigns
  • 24. Checker Plus – Inbox updates as desktop notifications
  • 25. ActiveInbox – Turn emails into actionable tasks
  • 26. Mailstrom – Declutter your inbox
  • 27. Sortd – Prioritize your emails
• Wrapping up

Enhance efficiency with these 27 Google Chrome extensions for Gmail.

1. Hiver – Manage Communication Channels right from Gmail

Managing team inboxes such as support@ or sales@ from inside Gmail is not very sustainable. Things can get rather chaotic easily:

• Even for simple things like sharing information with a teammate or delegating a task, you will have to rely on CC, BCC, and forwards.
• Email threads will become too long – making it hard to locate information.
• It will be hard to differentiate between internal and external communication. 
• You will have to be logged into multiple inboxes at the same time – yours and shared accounts like marketing@, info@.

Hiver can help you solve all of these problems.

With this extension, you will be able to access any number of shared email accounts such as support@ and help@, right from your own inbox – no more switching accounts! On top of that, you will be able to assign tasks to teammates and track their status.

And that’s not all, with Hiver, you get Email Notes which are like chat messages that appear right beside your email thread. This way teams can stop using email to communicate among themselves. No CCs, no BCCs, and no forwarding messages.

Say you’re managing sales from Gmail, Notes can used to exchange prospect information, offer tips, or collaborate on any roadblocks without having to write a single internal email.

You can choose whom to notify using @mentions. Moreover, these notes stay with the email thread forever.

You’d definitely love

• The ability to do all of the above right from your inbox.
• The ease of getting used to it — pretty much nothing to learn.

Pricing:

Hiver has a free trial for 7 days, and it also offers a forever free plan. The paid plans start at $19/month/user.

See How Hiver Works

2. Inbox When Ready for Gmail – Protect your focus

Every time you see a new email come in, you get a bit distracted. You get an urge to open it and see what’s it about. Therein lies the problem. It might be completely unrelated to what you were doing at that moment, and it takes away your focus.

Inbox When Ready is your way out of this. It helps protect your focus by completely hiding your inbox by default. You won’t be able to see any emails unless you deliberately choose to.

You will still be able to see starred emails or emails under a label, search your email archives and send new emails. This way, you will be able to process and send emails in a distraction-free environment.

You’d definitely love

It lets you define an inbox lockout schedule so you can process emails when you are ready.

Pricing

The free edition of Inbox When Ready adds a small message to your email signature. To remove it, you can upgrade to Inbox When Ready Pro, which is priced at $4/month, paid annually.

3. Dittach – effortlessly manage Gmail attachments

Have you ever gotten really pissed off trying to locate an attachment? I’m sure most of us have. It’s one of those things that slow you down even on the brightest of days.

Enter Dittach. This Chrome extension lets you organize and sort all the attachments you have ever sent or received. It makes your life easier by letting you filter the files based on their type – photos, slideshows, PDFs, videos, music, and so on.

Here’s everything else that can you do with Dittach:

• Search directly from the Gmail search bar
• See thumbnails of all the attachments
• Share, forward, and print attachments directly
• Delete attachments without deleting the email

You’d definitely love:

Despite the heavy lifting it does for you, it is absolutely easy to use.

Pricing:

Free.

4. Batch Reply for Gmail – reply to multiple emails at once

Gmail, in its default form, doesn’t let you reply to multiple emails at once. That’s where this extension comes in. It makes it possible to reply to all the selected emails in one go.

You’d definitely love:

It is very easy to use. All you have to do is select the emails you want to reply, and click ‘Reply’.

Pricing:

Free.

5. Gorgias – reply to emails faster

According to a Missive, people spend a total of 17 hours a week reading, responding and sending work emails both at work and at home.

One way to cut this down is to write emails faster. That’s where Gorgias comes in. This extension increases your productivity by letting you create templates and keyboard shortcuts. Understanding HTML email development can further enhance your ability to create visually appealing and responsive email content, complementing the functionalities offered by these Chrome extensions.

You can define custom keyboard shortcuts for certain long sentences or phrases you use frequently. It will automatically expand and replaces that text as you type.

For instance, you can define a shortcut like hvg for ‘Hiver lets you collaborate on shared inboxes right from Gmail’.  All you have to do is type hvg and press the tab key, the full sentence will appear automatically.

You can also create email templates that can be inserted from the compose window. This is a great way to eliminate unnecessary legwork that involves writing the same email multiple times.

It’s also easy to set up email templates in Hiver. Not only does it save you time from answering repetitive queries, but it also lets you personalize them before you send them over to your customer.

And in case you’ve got multiple canned responses to choose from, you can always use Hiver’s AI bot – Harvey to intelligently suggest templates that are most relevant to your query.

You’d definitely love:

Not having to memorize every keyboard shortcut as it lets you search from inside the Compose box.

Pricing:

Free.

6. Boomerang – schedule emails to be sent later

Sending emails at the right time significantly improves the chances of getting a reply. But Gmail doesn’t have a scheduled email option.

That’s where Boomerang comes in. This extension lets people schedule emails to be sent at a later time.

Boomerang also lets you snooze incoming emails and have them come back to your inbox at a later time. It helps you keep your Inbox clean, without losing track of important messages.

You’d definitely love:

The Inbox Pause feature. It helps you get focused by temporarily delaying the arrival of messages to your Inbox.

Pricing:

It has a free personal plan with basic features. The premium plans start at $4.98 per month.

7. Zapier – integrate Gmail with thousands of other apps

People use Gmail for a lot more than exchanging email – from filing your bills to collaborating on documents. What if you can automate all of this?

That’s exactly what Zapier does. It connects Gmail to the other apps you use like Google Sheets, Facebook Lead Ads, and Typeform to automate the tedious tasks in your workflow.

It is very easy to set up. All you have to do is connect Gmail to Zapier and set up the workflows. After that, you can start the automated workflows with just 2 clicks.

Here’s a list of Gmail workflows you can automate with Zapier:

• Save Gmail attachments to Google Drive.
• Save Gmail emails matching certain traits to a Google Spreadsheet.
• Send an email via Gmail for updated spreadsheets.
• Create Trello cards from new Gmail emails.
• Get new Gmail emails in Slack.
• Save Gmail attachments to Dropbox in the original file format.

You’d definitely love:

There are more than 100 workflows you can automate.

Pricing:

Zapier has a free version to automate personal tasks. It’s paid plans start at $19.99 per month.

Explore the capabilities of the Hiver x Zapier Integration

8. Crystal – customize emails based on the recipient’s personality

These days people have very little tolerance for boring and generic emails. You can’t expect anyone to read your emails unless they are personalized.

You can fix this problem to a large extent with the Crystal Chrome extension. It goes through public data and text and generates personality reports for your contacts. You can personalize your communication style according to the recipient’s personality.

You’d definitely love:

It will give you personality insights on LinkedIn profiles too.

Pricing:

Free.

9. Grammarly – write mistake-free emails

In every email you send, you are representing your organization or your team. A grammatically incorrect message damages your reputation massively. Even minor typos will make you look bad.

Grammarly can stop this from happening to a large extent. Every time you write an email, this extension will check the text for grammar and spelling errors, highlight them, and suggests improvements.

Apart from just typos, it also takes care of subject-verb agreement, article use, modifier placement, misused homophones, and more.

You’d definitely love:

This extension works almost everywhere on the web, including Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, and so on.

Pricing:

It has a free personal plan with basic features. The premium plan is priced at $12/ month.

10. Yesware – automate and track email campaigns effectively

The success of most email campaigns depends on how well you optimize the open, read, and response rates. That’s why the importance of automation and tracking cannot be overstated.

Yesware does both, and at scale. It lets you set up multi-stage personalized email campaigns, track their engagement, and generate detailed reports.

With Yesware, you can track – email opens, link clicks, where or when or on what device your email was opened, and how much time each recipient is spending on attachments.

You’d definitely love:

Yesware’s email tracking feature – it works in real-time.

Pricing:

Yesware has a forever free plan but it’s quite limited in its capabilities. It’s paid plans start from $15 per user per month.

11. Gmail Offline – manage Gmail without the internet

I’m sure you would have faced situations where you wanted to manage your Gmail inbox offline. Typically, an email client would have been the answer.

Now, you can do the same from your browser itself. All you have to do is install the Gmail Offline extension. It lets you read, reply, search, and archive emails without the internet.

All the emails will sync to your Chrome browser the first time you run the extension. Every action you do after that will be queued up and completed when the internet is available.

You’d definitely love:

The interface is extremely responsive and easy to use. You can get used to it quickly.

Pricing:

Free.

12. Digify – track and unsend attachments

Organizations now are more vulnerable than ever to cybersecurity threats. Every time you share a sensitive document, there is a likelihood of it spreading online or people misusing it.

And that’s where Digify comes in. This Chrome extension alerts you when your Gmail attachments have been read. You can track – who has seen them, for how long, from where, how many times, and if your documents are being forwarded or re-shared.

Tracking is only half of the story, you can also:

• Make the attachments accessible only to a select few or to everyone.
• Allow or restrict recipients from forwarding your files to someone else.
• Revoke access to an attachment.
• Permit recipients to print or download an attachment.
• Add another layer of security by setting your own password or passkey for a document.

You’d definitely love:

The attachments can be set to self-destruct upon the expiry of a preset time or after it has been viewed by the recipient.

Pricing:

There is a 7-day free trial available. The paid plans start at $120 per month.

13. Clearbit Connect – find anyone’s email address in seconds

The success of your outbound email campaigns heavily depends on finding email addresses — an exercise that is famously frustrating.

Clearbit Connect does its bit to change that. It lets you find the email addresses of the right individuals in minutes. All you have to do is search for the company, and you get an exhaustive list consisting of the individual’s designation, location, website, job titles, and social profiles.

You’d definitely love:

It gives you the sender coordinates of every email you receive.

Pricing:

Contact sales team for details.

14. BombBomb – record and send video emails in Gmail

Video in email has never really worked. People have always been apprehensive about playback issues, the clutter it causes, and of course, the inability to track what happens after you send them.

With BombBomb, you can record and send video email in Gmail. This will help you build trust and familiarity, and communicate with more clarity. Moreover, this approach saves time as it is easier to speak than type.

What’s more:

• Get live open and play notifications in Gmail, on mobile, and on your desktop
• Set reminders for yourself to follow up if your email hasn’t been opened

You’d definitely love:

You can add any video from your BombBomb library to an email.

Pricing:

A free trial is available for 14 days. The paid plans start at $33 per month.

15. Block Sender – no more annoying emails

An average office worker receives 121 emails per day. A major chunk of this will be unwanted newsletters, social media updates, promotional emails, emails from strangers, or spam. We spend hours daily trying to cope with this never-ending barrage.

The Block Sender extension is your answer. It makes your life easier by giving you a choice to block any incoming email in one click. Every time you block someone, they will get a fake error message.

The blocked messages can be sent to the trash, permanently deleted, or made to skip the inbox and be archived.

You’d definitely love:

It lets you create email filters to block messages:

• From a particular domain or a sub-domain
• If the email body consists of certain phrases or commonly used spam words

Pricing:

There is a free edition that comes with limited functionalities. The paid plans start at $5 per month.

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16. Send Anywhere – share large files up to 50GBs on Gmail

Sharing large files in Gmail is a headache. The size limit for attachments is only 25 MB, so we end up relying on Google Drive or other cloud storage services. And that involves even more steps.

With the Send Anywhere extension installed, the entire process becomes way smoother. Large files up to the size of 50 GB can be attached straight from your Gmail compose window. It appears in the form of a clickable link in the email. The recipient can download the files by clicking on the same.

These links will be valid for 48 hours for the free plan users. While the premium users have the choice of setting an expiration date of their liking. Either way, the files will get deleted from the server upon their expiry.

You’d definitely love:

The recipient can download the files from any device they want to.

Pricing:

There is a free edition that comes with limited functionalities. Paid plans start at $5.99 / month.

17. BitBounce – protect yourself from spam

BitBounce is a free email spam solution that keeps unsolicited email senders at bay by asking them to pay. Your contacts are whitelisted and unknown email senders are asked to pay a paywall price which you can set (average paywall price $0.01). If they pay, you’ll receive their email, and if they don’t, they’ll be pushed to an ‘unpaid’ folder which you can access later. The big takeaway? You can focus on more urgent matters, instead of on spam management.

Bit Bounce uses its native token called Credo which, as compared to other cryptocurrencies, has a low exchange rate and trading volume. Yet, for busy business professionals who are the #1 targets of marketing companies, Bit Bounce is a boon that keeps their inbox personal and spam-free.

You’ll definitely love:

• Autopilot feature – automates payments
• Runs on Credo Cryptocurrency
• Operates directly from your native inbox

Pricing:

Free.

18. GMass – Personalize email campaigns with ease

GMass gives mail merging a personal spin and enhances the response rate of your campaigns through timely auto-follow-ups. GMass makes mass email address search easy with a Build Email List button. Search for messages containing the email addresses of recipients you want to email and click this magic button. You’ll instantly get a window that has all the email addresses mentioned in those messages!

The major gain? You can say goodbye to the tedious CSV files and work with Google Sheets. GMass does bring home a loaded inbox. However, the tool’s flawless integration with Google Sheets takes customized mass emailing to a new level.

You’ll definitely love:

• Google Sheet integration
• Behavior-based campaigns
• Automatic follow-up emails
• The feature that sends campaigns as messages or replies
• Build Email List Button

Pricing:

GMass plans start at $25 per month.

19. Mailsuite (formerly Mailtrack) – real-time updates on email behavior

An email tracking solution with over 1 million users, Mailsuite offers real-time notifications and pop-ups when your emails are opened. It’s especially useful to marketers who are trying to reach out to potential or existing customers via email campaigns, and also serves as an A/B testing tool for emails; you get to know which kind of emails are more likely to be opened.

You stay stress-free and avoid any unnecessary follow-up through emails or texts. Big Plus? The tool is free, easy to use, lightweight and keeps your data safe and secure.

You’ll definitely love:

• CRM integration
• Real-time, event-based notifications
• Click tracking (tells you when links in your email have been clicked on)
• The double checkmark against an email indicating that it’s been opened; helps shape your follow-ups.

Pricing:

Mailsuite has a forever free plan with limited functionality. Paid plans start at $2.99 per month.

20. WiseStamp – customize your email signature

WiseStamp is a professional email signature generator tool that helps you create your email signature within minutes. It’s a free Gmail tool (unless you want to pay for more features) and works with all major email providers like Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Outlook, and Hotmail.

The paid version gives you access to a vast library of templates to choose from and you’ll be spoilt for choice, no doubt! The templates created can be updated and personalized as per your need. So if there’s a sale around the corner or a special holiday greeting that’s due, you can customize your signature accordingly.

One big value add? It makes branding simple and quick. You can spend your time on more urgent things rather than sit with a designer or rummage through a plethora of websites to design a signature!

You’ll definitely love:

• Features for customization
• Good looking templates
• Random sign-off app

Pricing:

WiseStamp’s plans start at $1.5 per seat per month.

21. Streak – track, manage and close deals effectively

The only CRM tool entirely and seamlessly integrated with Gmail, Streak provides 360-degree CRM for 7 different use cases. (Sales, PM, Business Partners, Fundraising, Support, Hiring, and Real Estate).

Email tracking, customized mail merge, email sharing with team members, and color-coordinated emails based on where they’re on the sales pipeline are some of the features provided by Streak.

The biggest plus is that it’s integrated with your inbox, so you can easily convert an email into a task and box it up into the Gmail sidebar; this makes email tracking easy and organized. You have a quick overview of your tasks without leaving your inbox.

You’ll definitely love:

• Personalized email blast
• Email sharing & tracking among team members
• Track outgoing email
• Predefined boxes for your contacts

Pricing:

Streak has a free plan that comes with email tracking, mail merge, and basic CRM features. It’s paid plans start from $49 per user per month.

22. Rename Email – search emails by subject lines easily

As the name suggests, you can rename your email subject lines using the desired keywords. This way you can search for important emails faster, give generic or vague subject lines more specificity so that you don’t lose them in the crowd and you can separate long threads of an email conversation with relevant subject lines.

One big takeaway? You don’t need to wade through each thread till you reach your desired one. The sender remains oblivious to the change unless you reply without changing the subject line back to the original one. The tool keeps your inbox organized and makes emailing an easy and hassle-free affair.

You’ll definitely love:

• Add subject lines to emails sent without them
• Use keywords or reminders for specific clients’ subject lines

Pricing:

They have a premium subscription at $4.99/month.

23. Right Inbox – manage all your email campaigns

It’s a tool that has you covered in almost every way – scheduling, reminders, trackings, auto-follow-ups, sign-offs, and more. If you’re communicating with someone overseas, with Right Inbox you can write your email and schedule it to be sent later, at the appropriate time. If you’re part of the Sales or Support team, you would know how annoying it is to write the same kind of emails repetitively, Right Inbox helps you with templates you can use.

Right Inbox allows you to see who has read your emails, and when and how many times they’ve read them; but doesn’t send you real-time notifications. One big plus is that this tool allows you to jot down notes and ideas related to an email conversation without cluttering your email.

You’ll definitely love:

• Option to send emails later
• CRM integration
• Ability to create email templates and customize them as needed

Pricing:

Right Inbox has a free plan. It’s paid plans start from $7.95 per month.

24. Checker Plus – Inbox updates as desktop notifications

Are you someone who has one eye on your Gmail tab while working on something? Checker Plus helps you get rid of that pirate eye patch by providing inbox updates in the form of desktop notifications so that you don’t need to waste precious time by opening your inbox.

Checker Plus does more than what a normal mail checker does. It allows you to archive your emails or directly open them in Gmail and much more. You get new mail alerts and pop-ups that give you basic details of the email so that you can instantly decide whether to open it right then or later.

You’ll definitely love:

• Voice notifications/read-aloud option
• Remote monitoring inbox and custom labels
• Colour scheme for pop-ups
• Text-to-speech translation
• Option to juggle between multiple accounts without opening the inbox

Pricing:

Free.

25. ActiveInbox – Turn emails into actionable tasks

Riding high on the GTD philosophy, Active Inbox was created to treat every email like an individual task. You can ace all your deadlines by setting up a due date for each of them. While you’re on an email-sending spree, ActiveInbox helps you stay on the right track by giving you easy access to previous conversations, related to the email you’re writing, in just a click.

It also makes the daunting task of following up quite easy by setting reminders and offers you the ‘Send Later’ function where you can set a time for the email to be sent; this helps especially if you’re working with people in different time zones.

While some might say it’s a bit heavy on the pocket for its limited yet attractive features others swear by its efficiency. Its inability to integrate with other project management tools limits its usage to small teams, yet with ActiveInbox you can glide through your day by having just one place to focus on emails and tasks and break your to-do list into digestible chunks.

You’ll definitely love:

• Converts emails to actionable tasks
• Setting up reminders to do follow-ups
• Schedules emails to be sent later
• Get a quick overview of previous conversations before sending an email

Pricing:

ActiveInbox’s paid plans start from $5.37 per user per month.

26. Mailstrom – Declutter your inbox

If Inbox-Zero is one of your 2024 goals, Mailstrom may be of some interest to you. Mailstrom is an email add-on that is configured to identify patterns in your inbox to help declutter in the quickest way possible. The tool is programmed to help users bulk-delete, archive as well as move and sort emails. It works on any email service that supports IMAP.

Mailstrom equips you with a bunch of hacks, tips, and suggested best practices that will enable you to take control of your inbox, in your own way.

You’ll definitely love:

• One-click nlock function to stop clutter from unwanted senders
• Unsubscribe button to opt-out of unwanted mailing lists in a click
• Industry-leading encryption system that guarantees high-level spam protection
• The message sorting option gives you better control to find your emails faster.

Pricing:

Mailstrom’s plans start from $9 per month.

27. Sortd – Prioritize your emails

A chrome extension that takes you closer to Inbox Zero, Sorted helps you sort your emails based on what you want to do with them. It’s a sophisticated to-do list that lets you sort emails into different boards, especially the unread ones, based on the priority levels, like ‘To-Do’, ‘In Progress’, or ‘Done’. You can even sort them based on the function or team involved. This way your inbox remains clutter-free and you get things done.

You’ll definitely love:

• Check emails as done
• Add reminders & notes
• Change subject lines to actionable task names
• Group messages using different color schemes

Pricing:

Sortd has a free plan. It’s paid plans start from $10 per user per month.

Wrapping up

These extensions can dramatically reduce the time you spend in your inbox. But, make sure you install only what’s necessary. Adding too many extensions can take a toll on your computer’s performance.

If you feel you can’t live without certain extensions, use Extensions switcher to quickly enable and disable extensions so that your browser performance is not affected.

A parting note – no matter what add-on you install, always make sure they are secure.