Shortwave vs Missive
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Shortwave
AI email client for Gmail with Claude-powered search and drafting
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Missive
Collaborative team inbox with AI assistant, real-time co-drafting, and...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Free tier | Free: basic intelligence, limited AI quota, 90 days of search history, 15 threads per AI search and a "Sent with Shortwave" signature | 30-day free trial of Productive, no card required; Missive's docs say it has no free plan |
| Paid from | $18/month (Pro, individual); team plans from $30/seat/month, billed monthly | Starter at $14 a user a month billed yearly, or $18 month to month |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | thousands of business customers (~3,700 in 2026); ~2,000 paying + ~1,600 free as of 2024 |
| Founded | 2022 | 2015 |
| Maker | — | Missive (independent, bootstrapped) |
| Verdict | Shortwave is one of the most complete AI email clients: description-based search across years of mail, automatic summaries, drafting that learns your style, AI filters and one-click inbox clean-up, all on Claude models.... |
Missive is the collaborative inbox agencies reach for when duplicate replies and confused handoffs get expensive. Real-time co-drafting, internal comments invisible to customers, and solid Slack/Salesforce integrations m... |
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