Alrighty vs Notion Mail

Notion Mail is gone: Notion shut the app down on September 22, 2026, so you can't pick it any more. If you want Notion AI to keep handling your email inside your Notion workspace, Notion's Gmail AI Connector and Custom Agents are its replacement. If you want a mail app again, with Gmail, iCloud and Outlook in one inbox and sorting you describe in a sentence, that's Alrighty.

This page compares three things: Notion Mail as it was, the Notion features that replace it, and Alrighty. Facts are as of November 2026. Notion has removed its Notion Mail help pages, so we link to the copies the Internet Archive saved in August 2026. Alrighty is our app.

Is Notion Mail still available?

No. Notion's shutdown notice said "The Notion Mail app for iOS, desktop, and web is going away for everyone." The app closed on September 22, 2026, on every Notion plan, and the last day to export was September 21.

Your email is safe. "Notion Mail always synced two ways with Gmail, so every email you received or sent in Notion Mail also exists in your Gmail inbox." What didn't survive is what lived only in Notion Mail: custom views and sorting, reminders on emails, and any drafts, scheduled emails, snippets or auto label instructions you didn't export. The Notion product page now shows Notion's AI workspace and agents, with no mention of Mail.

How do Alrighty and Notion's mail tools compare?

	Alrighty	Notion Mail (closed)	Notion now: Gmail AI Connector and agents
Status	Available	Shut down September 22, 2026	Available
Runs on	Mac (Apple silicon), Windows, Linux	Web, desktop, iPhone	Inside Notion
Accounts	iCloud, Gmail, Outlook.com, Microsoft 365	Gmail only	Gmail on paid Google Workspace
Who can use it	Anyone, after a 14-day trial with no card	Every Notion plan	Business or Enterprise workspace owners
Is it a mail app?	Yes	Yes	No; you read mail in Gmail
Sorting	Groups you describe, and Filters	Auto labels from instructions, custom views	A Custom Agent you set up
Replies	Suggested drafts in your voice; you send	Drafts, snippets, scheduled emails	Agents that "read, draft, and send email"
Unwanted mail	Stop mail, Clean up, Filters	Not described in the pages we could read	Not described

Does Notion Mail work with Outlook or iCloud?

It never did. Notion's security page said "Notion Mail currently only supports Gmail. Microsoft Outlook is not supported at this time."

Alrighty adds Gmail with Sign in with Google, Outlook.com and Microsoft 365 with Sign in with Microsoft, and iCloud with an app-specific password, all in one inbox. If you kept a personal iCloud address out of Notion Mail because it couldn't open it, Alrighty puts it next to your Gmail. It can't add Yahoo, Fastmail or other IMAP accounts.

Can Notion's Gmail AI Connector replace Notion Mail?

Only for some people, and only in part. The Gmail AI Connector lets you "Easily find and summarize email threads, search your inbox with natural language" from inside Notion. Two limits matter:

• It needs a paid Google account. It's "Available for Gmail accounts with paid Google Workspace subscriptions," and the person who connects it must be a Google Admin. A personal @gmail.com address can't use it.
• It needs Notion's Business or Enterprise plan. You must be a workspace owner on one of them. Business is $20 a member a month on Notion's pricing page, and Custom Agents are "Free to try, then $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits."

The connector page describes finding, summarizing and searching. It doesn't describe an inbox. You read and write mail in Gmail itself. For more than search, Notion's shutdown notice points to "Agents that can read, draft, and send email via Gmail."

So if you used Notion Mail with a personal Gmail account or on a Free or Plus plan, Notion has no replacement for you. You need a mail app.

How does Alrighty replace Notion Mail's auto labels?

With groups. You give a group a name and a sentence about what belongs in it, and Alrighty's AI files new Inbox mail that fits, across all your accounts. If you exported your auto label instructions, you can paste each one in as a group's description. Sorting into groups is part of Pro and the trial; the Free plan doesn't have it.

Sorting sends each email's sender, subject and the start of its body to Alrighty's server, which asks an AI model. What Alrighty doesn't have is Notion Mail's custom views, which you set up like a Notion database. A group sorts mail. It isn't a view you design.

Does Alrighty have AI like Notion Mail?

Yes, but it's built to wait until you want it, and it doesn't send on its own unless you turn on Send without asking in Settings.

• Replies in your voice. When you're signed in, opening a reply starts a suggested draft, written from up to 12 of your sent emails and up to 12 messages of the conversation. Ask for a change in your words ("say yes to Friday"), or click Shorten, Warmer or Formalize. You send it.
• Questions about your mail. Ask one and get the answer with the emails it came from. Search matches meaning as well as words, and runs on your computer: "when is my flight" finds the airline's confirmation.
• Your own AI instead of a built-in agent. Notion moved email into Notion AI. Alrighty does the reverse: it lets the AI you already use, such as Claude, ChatGPT's desktop app, Codex, Cursor or a local model, read and search your mail through a connection on your computer. That's off until you turn it on with Connect AI. The AI can work in a window you watch, opening mail, writing replies and filing messages. Nothing sends until you click Send.

That last point is the real split. Notion's agents can send email through Gmail. Alrighty's design keeps a person on the Send button, because an email can carry instructions aimed at the AI that reads it.

Where does Alrighty send your mail?

Your mail stays with Google, Apple and Microsoft. Alrighty keeps its copy and its search index on your computer, and your sign-ins stay on your computer, encrypted with a key from your system's keychain. Its AI features send only the emails they need to Alrighty's server, which asks OpenAI for answers and replies and TypeSafe AI's Jev for Clean up and sorting. When you're signed in, reply drafts start by themselves and Clean up sorts senders in the background. Signed out, nothing goes to Alrighty's server.

We couldn't read a Notion page that described where Notion Mail processed mail, so we don't compare the two on this point.

What did Notion Mail do that Alrighty doesn't?

• Run on the web and iPhone. Alrighty runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, with no iPhone or web app.
• Live in your Notion workspace. Mail blocks in pages and email synced into Notion databases. Alrighty doesn't connect to Notion.
• Snippets and scheduled emails. Alrighty has neither, and no calendar. Alrighty is also new, with no long track record. After watching one mail app close, that's a fair thing to weigh.

What does Alrighty add that Notion Mail never had?

• iCloud and Outlook accounts, in one inbox with Gmail.
• Stop mail. One click unsubscribes from a sender every way the message offers, archives their mail, and moves new mail from them out as it arrives. Clean up lists the senders you probably don't want, so you can stop them all at once.
• Filters in your own words for mail that comes from a new sender each time, like cold sales. Mail from people you've written to is never moved.
• Your own AI in your mail, with you on the Send button.

Which should you pick?

• You want a mail app again, with Gmail plus iCloud or Outlook: Alrighty.
• You want Claude or ChatGPT working in your mail, and you click Send: Alrighty.
• Your auto label instructions, as sorting in a mail app: Alrighty's groups, on Pro.
• Your team is on Notion Business and paid Google Workspace, and you want email inside Notion: Notion's Gmail AI Connector and Custom Agents.
• You need mail on an iPhone or the web: not Alrighty. See our Notion Mail alternatives for apps that run there.

For a wider look, see the Notion Mail alternatives, the best email client for Claude and ChatGPT, and more comparisons. Everything Alrighty does is on one page.

Questions

Can I still download Notion Mail?

No. Notion closed the app on web, desktop and iPhone on September 22, 2026, for every plan. Its product page no longer mentions Mail.

Can I import my Notion Mail auto labels into Alrighty?

Not as a file. If you exported your auto label instructions before September 21, paste each one into a new group's description in Alrighty, and it sorts new mail that fits. Groups need Pro or the trial.

Does Notion's Gmail AI Connector work with a personal Gmail account?

No. Notion's connector page says it's "Available for Gmail accounts with paid Google Workspace subscriptions," set up by a Google Admin, on a Notion Business or Enterprise workspace. A personal @gmail.com address doesn't qualify.

Does Alrighty have a free plan?

Alrighty has a 14-day trial with no card, then a Free plan or Pro. The Free plan has a small monthly AI allowance and no sorting into groups, which is the part closest to Notion Mail's auto labels.