QuillReply for Gmail™

Email that follows itself up

QuillReply lives inside Gmail. Set a reminder that fires only if nobody replies, turn any email into a task, and draft answers in your own voice. It reads the email on your screen, and nothing else in your mailbox.

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Windows, Mac, or neither. 30 free actions to try it, one time. No credit card, no account required to browse, no mailing list. Also on Microsoft Edge and Firefox.
0Gmail scopes requested
100%of drafts wait for you to hit Send
4task managers, all of them fully supported
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QuillReply's task popover open inside a Gmail conversation, with the reminder set to fire only if they have not replied
What it does

Three buttons where your eyes already are

QuillReply adds its controls inside Gmail itself: beside Archive and Delete, next to Reply, and in the compose window next to Send. No new tab, no dashboard, no copy and paste.

Remind me, but only if they have not replied

Waiting on an answer? Arm a reminder when you hit Send, or afterwards from the open thread. On the day you chose, QuillReply re-reads the conversation in your browser. If a real reply arrived, the reminder quietly stands down. If not, the follow-up lands in your task manager.

It knows the difference between a reply and noise: your own chase-up does not count, and neither does their out-of-office.

When it fires, open the thread and QuillReply drafts the follow-up for you, in your voice, into the reply box. It never sends it. It re-reads the thread first, so if they answered in the meantime it closes the reminder instead of chasing them.

Checked entirely in your browser. Nothing about the thread is sent anywhere.

The Remind me picker in Gmail's compose window: quick time chips, a date and time, and the choice to remind only if they have not replied

Any email becomes a task in one click

The task title and due date are suggested from the email itself. "RE: Q3" becomes "Respond to Dana about Q3 numbers", and "can you get them to me by Friday" becomes a Friday deadline, with the reason shown so you can judge it.

Tasks file to Apple Reminders, Microsoft To Do, Todoist, or Basecamp. Each connects with a single tap: no developer accounts, no API keys, no pasting client ids. No Mac? Apple Reminders still works, through a free iPhone Shortcut.

Basecamp goes further: file the to-do into a specific project and list, assigned to a specific person, and Basecamp tells them. For anyone whose job is passing work along, that is the difference between a note to yourself and the work actually moving.

Save and archive in the same click, and the email is out of your inbox with a scheduled way back.

The New task popover with a suggested title, a due date, the only-if-they-have-not-replied option, and a list picker

Replies drafted in your voice

Point QuillReply at a few emails you wrote and it learns how you sound: your greeting, your sign-off, how formal you run, how long your replies tend to be. From then on, one click drafts an answer that reads like you on a good day.

Nudge it shorter, warmer, or more direct, and your corrections stick; the next draft starts from them. Nothing sends until you press Send.

It remembers per person, too. Nudge a client more formal once and the next draft to them, or to anyone at their company, starts there. Name audiences in Settings ("Clients", "Team") with a line on how you write to each. Every draft says which voice it used.

Your voice profile is a description of style patterns, never stored message text. Per-person corrections are kept under a hashed key, never the address.

The Draft reply popover with a finished reply and one-click adjustments: shorter, warmer, more direct
Always visible

Did I set one on this?

Open any conversation and the answer is right in the toolbar. An armed follow-up shows itself, so you never have to wonder or go digging through settings. When one comes due with no reply, the same spot turns amber and offers the follow-up. The quill in your browser toolbar counts what you are waiting on from other people, and the Ledger behind it lists every open reminder and everything that cleared.

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A Gmail conversation toolbar showing QuillReply's icons and an armed reminder flag reading Reminder Wed, Aug 19 at 9:00 AM
How it works

Install it, teach it, then stop thinking about it

1

Add it to your browser

QuillReply's buttons appear inside Gmail the next time you open it. There is nothing to configure before the first reminder.

2

Teach it your voice

Optional, and worth two minutes: open a few emails you wrote and tap Teach. Three is usually enough for drafts that sound like you.

3

Send and forget

Arm a follow-up when it matters. If they reply, you hear nothing. If they go quiet, the reminder shows up in your task manager exactly when you asked it to.

Privacy

No Gmail permission. None.

Most email tools ask for the keys to your whole mailbox. QuillReply asks for none of it, because it does not need it: it reads the one email you act on, in your own browser, the way you do. To check whether someone replied it re-reads that one thread, again in your browser, and still nothing else.

It cannot browse your mailbox

No Gmail OAuth scope is requested, so background reading is not just something we promise not to do. It is something the product cannot do.

Reply checks happen on your machine

The "did they reply" check re-reads the thread in your own browser. The thread never touches our servers.

Our servers keep no mail

No message bodies, no drafts, no email addresses. Content is processed to produce the draft or suggestion you asked for, then discarded. It is never used to train any AI model. The one thing we do hold is a reminder you filed to Apple Reminders. We keep its title and its note (which includes the subject line and a link back) only until your device confirms it has created the reminder, or 30 days if no device ever does.

At most, one sign-in

Apple Reminders asks you to sign in to nothing at all: it goes through a small free app on your own Mac, or a free Apple Shortcut on your iPhone if you have no Mac. Microsoft To Do and Todoist connect with a single tap, and Todoist's own consent screen says plainly that QuillReply can add tasks and cannot read them. For those, the token stays in your browser, we never store it, and we never ask for an Apple ID. Basecamp is the one exception: it requires every app to identify itself in a way browsers do not permit, so its requests are sent by our server and your Basecamp token passes through with each one. We do not store it either. The privacy policy says exactly what that means.

Read the full privacy policy

How it compares

Honest comparisons, trade-offs included

Every tool in this category made a different trade. These pages say plainly where each competitor is stronger, and what you give up for it.

vs Boomerang vs Superhuman vs Mailbutler vs Right Inbox vs SaneBox vs FollowUpThen
Pricing

Thirty free actions, then five dollars

Free: 30 actions. One time, not thirty a month, every feature and every destination, no card, no trial clock. That is enough to find out whether QuillReply is worth anything to you, and for a light user it lasts the better part of a year.

Pro: $5 a month. Unlimited drafts, reminders and tasks. One price, no seats, no tiers, cancel from the same button you subscribed with.

All your Gmail accounts, and all your computers, on one subscription. Work and personal in the same browser is the normal case, not an upgrade. QuillReply follows you between them, every reminder links back to the right mailbox, and there is nothing to buy twice. Sign in on the desk machine and the laptop and both stay signed in; if you ever lose one, one button signs out every computer at once. Your plan belongs to the Google account you sign in to QuillReply with, and the settings page names it so you always know which one that is.

A free tier that refills every month is not a trial, it is a way for the people most likely to pay to never have to. We would rather be plainly cheap than pretend to be free.

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