Shortwave vs Superhuman Mail
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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Superhuman Mail
Keyboard-first AI email client for Gmail and Outlook, now in the Super...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 7 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Subscription |
| Free tier | Free: basic intelligence, limited AI quota, 90 days of search history, 15 threads per AI search and a "Sent with Shortwave" signature | — |
| Paid from | $18/month (Pro, individual); team plans from $30/seat/month, billed monthly | $25/member/month (Mail Starter, billed annually); $30 billed monthly |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | 75000+ paying subscribers |
| Founded | 2022 | — |
| Maker | — | Superhuman Platform Inc. (formerly Grammarly) |
| 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.... |
Superhuman Mail is still the benchmark for processing a heavy inbox from the keyboard, and its AI layer of triage labels, drafts in your own style and Ask AI is tightly built into that flow. It works on top of Gmail and... |
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