AI email assistant for Gmail
AI email triage that reads every email, alerts you when it's important, and organizes it at a glance.
Sidekick reads the inbox so you do not have to, and only interrupts you for the email that needs you.
"I don't even check my email anymore. If something's important, I get a push notification, and every time a recurring task shows up, Sidekick offers to automate it so I never have to think about it again. Total life changer."
Teach Sidekick how a kind of email should be handled, and the next one is already taken care of.
"I'm honestly impressed how fast Sidekick learns. I tell it once how I want a certain kind of email handled, and the next time one comes in, it already knows what to do. Chatting with each email is so handy."
The same triage covers your phone line, so nothing that matters slips through on any channel.
"I give out my Sidekick number now and it makes me look legit. Instead of a blind transfer, it puts the caller on hold and calls me to ask whether I want to take it. That one detail changes everything."
How AI email triage works
Most email sorting tools stop at smarter folders, and you still read the pile marked important. The Smart Inbox reads it for you, decides, and then deals with it.
Connect Gmail once. Sidekick reads each new email as it arrives and judges it by what it says and who sent it, not by folder rules.
The few emails that need you arrive as an alert on your phone. The rest wait quietly, and a morning brief sums up what came in overnight.
One tap drafts the reply. Meeting requests become calendar events, asks become tasks, and you approve before anything is sent.
Email AI that does the work
Every email is read and judged the way a sharp assistant would, so urgent client email never sits under a pile of newsletters.
Your phone buzzes for the handful of emails that need you, with one-tap buttons to reply or have Sidekick handle it.
One tap and Sidekick drafts the reply. Send it as is, tweak it, or ask for another take. Nothing goes out without your OK.
Say that a sender always matters or a domain never does. That rule applies to every email that follows, with no filters to build.
A meeting request becomes a calendar event. An ask becomes a task. The follow-up happens without you copying anything.
Start the day with a short summary of what came in overnight and the few things that need you today.
Every alert has its own chat thread. Ask what an email means, what was agreed last time, or tell Sidekick what to do next.
No new email app to learn and nothing to migrate. Sidekick works alongside Gmail on your phone and on the web.
The same rules cover your texts, calls, and Slack messages, so one assistant decides what reaches you, wherever it comes from.
Superhuman alternative
Superhuman is a great email app for keyboard lovers, but you have to switch apps and still triage every message yourself. Sidekick Pro keeps your Gmail and does the triage for you.
| Feature | Sidekick Pro | Superhuman |
|---|---|---|
| Reads what each email says | ✓ | ✓ |
| Drafts replies for you | ✓ | Business plan |
| Acts on the email for you | Calendar, tasks, follow-up | Not listed |
| Keeps your current email app | ✓ | – |
| Morning brief | ✓ | Not listed |
| Triages texts, calls and Slack too | ✓ | – |
| Works with Outlook | Not yet | ✓ |
| Price | From $20/mo | From $33/user/mo |
"Not listed" means Superhuman does not list the feature. Details from each vendor's public plans; see the full chart in our email triage tools guide.
A smart inbox reads your email for you and decides what needs you. Sidekick Pro's Smart Inbox connects to your Gmail, reads every new message, sends the few that need you to your phone with a reply ready to go, and lets the rest wait quietly. You keep using Gmail exactly as you do today.
Email triage is deciding which emails need you, which can wait, and which you can ignore, and then acting on them. AI email triage does that by reading what each email says and who sent it, instead of sorting by filters. Sidekick Pro goes one step further and handles the follow-up: it drafts the reply, adds the meeting to your calendar, and turns requests into tasks.
Both, in the useful sense. It works like an AI email assistant that watches your inbox around the clock, and you talk to it like a bot: every email alert has its own chat thread, so you can ask what an email means, tell it how to reply, or have it schedule the meeting, all in plain words.
There are no filters, labels, or rules to build. Sidekick Pro judges each email the way an assistant would, from what it says and who it is from. When you want something handled differently, tell it once, for example that a sender always matters or a domain never does, and that instruction applies to every email from them from then on.
Yes, if you want your email handled rather than just sorted faster. Superhuman is a fast, keyboard-first email app that replaces your email client, from $33 per user per month billed yearly. Sidekick Pro keeps the Gmail you already use, reads every email for you, drafts replies, and acts on requests, from $20 per month. If you use Outlook or want the fastest possible keyboard client, Superhuman is the better fit.
No. Sidekick Pro drafts replies and proposes actions, and nothing is sent or scheduled on your behalf without your say-so. One tap approves a draft; you can edit it first or ask for a different version.
Not yet. The Smart Inbox works with Gmail today. Outlook support is not available yet.
No. Your private assistant data, your email included, is never used to train frontier-lab models.
The Smart Inbox is included in every plan, starting with Plus at $20 per month. Every new account starts with $5 of free usage credit and no card required, so you can see it triage your own inbox before you pick a plan.
Get the Sidekick Pro app on your phone for email alerts and one-tap replies. The same assistant and the same memory also work on the web, in the Chrome extension, and in the Mac app.
Install the app, connect Gmail, and Sidekick starts triaging in about 90 seconds. Free to start, no card required.