What are the best Gmail Extensions?

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I want to know the best of Gmail extensions ( for automation, cold emailing, personalization: merge tags...)

Gilles De Clerck 👾✌️ · Accepted Answer

Full-fledged CRM sitting right next to your emails. Interacts with emails you're viewing, shows you account and company data + interaction history. Let's you create new ones and create opportunities on the fly. Tracks emails, link clicks and website visits.

Blake Barber · Answer

Found it on PH and it's changed my life, love it's tracking and templates! 
Sometimes use "Send later feature" but the most valuable for me is per-recipient email/link/attachment tracking

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré · Answer

Clearbit serves as a prospecting tool that helps you collect emails and fill in the blanks on leads you already have. After receiving a single email, you have instant access to all the senders info, like his or her role, the size of their company, and even how much money it raised.

Kunal Bhatia · Answer

I love Boomerang. I use it mainly for their scheduled emailing and their "Respondable" feature, which tells you how likely your email is to get a response. Helps coach you write better emails.

Allan Caeg · Answer

Vocus.io is a killer Gmail extension for doing outreach.

1. Helps you validate an email address 
2. Has mail merge
3. Does automated follow ups
4. Shows open & click tracking

Those are some of my favorite features in the $5 plan. It offers much more features for teams, account management, customer support, sales, etc

Daniel Wilkinson · Answer

Organize your Gmail into Lists. Drag transforms Gmail into Lists for you to Drag n’ Drop (just like Trello, but for Gmail).

Product Pearson · Answer

Gmail Preview Pane is superb. It allows you to see a preview of your emails, similar to other email clients. This increased my productivity within Gmail massively and I now rely on it all of the time. You have to enable it in Gmail labs.

secretwings · Answer

Has *almost* everything you might need out of a Gmail extension in a single package - open tracking, enhancements when composing mails, a basic CRM/mail merge tool etc. The only major thing missing is a way of organising the mail or turning it into tasks, so you have to combine with another plugin for that - sortd or Handle. 
Considering that so many Gmail plugins only deliver a single feature, and that they often don't play nicely together inside the same Chrome account, the MixMax approach makes sense, and they're adding new features all the time. 
Oh, and it work with Inbox by Google :-)

Ben Lang · Answer

Rapportive on steroids, it's super useful.

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This is a super handy extension to Gmail for unsubscribing from services you do not want to use anymore. Great alternative to Unroll.me - all you need to do is, move the email thread to a label, and you are removed from the mailer list automagically. You can track your unsubscriptions on a Google Drive sheet.

Cody Halff · Answer

FollowUp.cc is a lightweight productivity suite for Gmail that helps organize your professional life. It's best known for simple reminders that trigger in the form of an email, but also includes email open tracking , auto-followups, send later, and a host of other features.

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré · Answer

Turns your email into a task management system.

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré · Answer

Streak is a sales-oriented Gmail plugin for teams that are tired of switching between their CRM and their email. Streak literally turns your Gmail into a CRM, changing the appearance and organization of your inbox.

Lina Yakunina · Answer

Gmelius offers a full automation suite of features, including smart drip campaigns, sequences, boards as well as an advanced collaboration/helpdesk solution.

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré · Answer

WiseStamp is a nifty extension that enables you to place a professional, dynamic signature on the bottom of all your emails.

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré · Answer

The Checker Plus Gmail extension allows you to fully customize email alerts. You can decide which emails will trigger a notification, and how Checker notifies you— whether it’s via push notifications to your desktop, a sound, or it can even read the subject line out to you.

Khalid Zamer · Answer

This is probably the best extension, powerful "Per Recipient"  track open emails & link clicks for bulk mail with the " Mail Merge " feature, integrated with agency Inbound & outreach teams day to day activities, and for personalized sales presentations for prospects & pitch decks for investors using personalized attachment is gold for saving time.

Victor Iryniuk · Answer

A simple-to-learn CRM system inside Gmail inbox. Includes email marketing campaigns, automatic records creation, and G Suite integration.

Ben Raz · Answer

magicly gleaned my inbox
helps me to keep it orgenized

Ben Raz · Answer

great and convinent dark theme for gmail and google

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Mailbutler is an Apple Mail extension that is now beta testing for Gmail.

It adds most of Gmail's missing functions, all in a single plugin: send later, advanced tracking + notifications, snoozing, sharable notes and tasks, follow up reminders, templates, merge tags, email signatures...like, basically features you wonder why aren't already available on Gmail.

Instead of adding a bunch of plugins for each function (that don't necessarily work well together), I think this seems like a better option.

And if you're already using Apple Mail, the features will sync across both platforms and email accounts 👋

Malcolm Ocean · Answer

Locks you out of your inbox at certain times per day, and also forces an extra click before you actually see your inbox. Great for getting to a specific email without getting distracted!

Mohammed Rafy · Answer

I don't get it. Why hasn't anyone recommended this one? :p This is the best one to verify emails and get your leads social profiles.

Nicholas Charring · Answer

Know when recipients open your emails and ignore you!

Kunal Bhatia · Answer

Just installed Nudge last week and use it inside Gmail a lot. Helps give me context on the people I'm emailing without me having to Google them or look up their latest tweets, for instance.

Tkachenko Arthur ~UA~ · Answer

This is must have as extension. it really saves time when you try to create a message

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré · Answer

Gorgias enables you to save templates and then set up keyboard shortcuts to implement them.

Peter Hartree · Answer

This extension will help you check your inbox with reasonable frequency, batch process your email on a regular schedule and minimise the total time you spend in your inbox.

I made this extension to protect my focus and help me improve my inbox workflow. People for whom it's a good fit reclaim an hour every week that would otherwise be lost to their inbox.

Stas Romanov · Answer

I do not need any more extensions. There is everything. Mail has become more than mail :)

Duda Bardavid · Answer

Brilliant way of organizing emails into Trello-like lists!

Chad Carleton · Answer

Use this everyday. I don't take advantage of the sequences, but open notifications and unique URL's for each email are freaking sweet.

Sucheth Rajeevan · Answer

Hiver helps you manage customer support and sales right from your Gmail. With Hiver, teams can collaborate on Shared email accounts like support@ or sales@ without having to leave their Gmail accounts.

Hiver works like a full-fledged help desk, built right into Gmail. It gives you everything you need to do outstanding customer support, without any of the complexities and feature overload that come with other help desk products.

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré · Answer

Assistant.to enables you to view your calendar and select a few different time windows, all without leaving your window.

Rohit Srivastwa · Answer

Trello for gmail, makes life easy!

Baruch Yochai · Answer

Know the time which will fit your another person/customer/partner and schedule the meeting within your Gmail

Douglas Correa · Answer

Allow you to temporary disable/enable extensions so you don't need to remove them and install them back when you want to use. For me it is a must use Chrome Extension

Gilles De Clerck 👾✌️ · Answer

Badass LinkedIn automation

Asaf Rothem · Answer

I also love WiseStamp

Anastasia Popova · Answer

Deskun lets you build customer support system inside Gmail, manage tasks and create todo lists. Also there are free features of read receipts, scheduling, snooze and templates.

Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré · Answer

HelloSign enables you to sign documents with just a few clicks, taking all paper out of the equation.

Sachin Agarwal · Answer

The only way to have project management inside your Gmail inbox!

Lisa Dziuba · Answer

I use Strike for scheduling email, tracking open rates and other marketing tasks.