Alrighty vs Superhuman

Pick Superhuman if your team works in Gmail or Microsoft 365, reads mail on a phone or the web as well as a computer, and will pay $25 or more per person each month for speed and built-in AI. Pick Alrighty if you have iCloud, Gmail or Outlook accounts, want unwanted mail stopped for good, and want the AI you already use, such as Claude or ChatGPT, to work in your mail with nothing sent until you click Send.

Every fact below comes from each company's own pages as of November 2026, and each one is linked. Alrighty is our app, so we say plainly where Superhuman is the better pick.

Alrighty vs Superhuman at a glance

	Alrighty	Superhuman
Runs on	Mac (Apple silicon), Windows, Linux	Mac, Windows, iPhone, Android, and the web through Chrome
Accounts	iCloud, Gmail, Outlook.com and Microsoft 365	Gmail and Outlook (Microsoft 365)
Price	14-day trial with no card, then a Free plan or Pro	$25 or $33 per member a month, billed yearly
Where mail is kept	With your provider, plus a copy and search on your computer	Its blog says on your machine; its privacy policy says it receives email content
Unwanted mail	Stop mail, Clean up, Filters, phishing checks	"Unsubscribe once and for all" and Split Inbox
Built-in AI	Suggested replies, answers from your mail, sorting into groups	Superhuman AI on every plan; more on Business
Your own AI (Claude, ChatGPT)	Off until you turn it on; you click Send	Superhuman Mail MCP on Business; sends after your approval

Does Superhuman work with iCloud?

No. Superhuman's mail page says it is "Built for teams that use Gmail or Outlook," and its MCP page asks you to "Connect all your Gmail and Outlook accounts." Neither page mentions iCloud, and there is no way to add an iCloud, Yahoo or Fastmail address.

Alrighty takes all three of the big ones. iCloud connects with an app-specific password, Gmail with Sign in with Google or an app password, and Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live and Microsoft 365 with Sign in with Microsoft. They all land in one inbox, with one search across them. Our iCloud setup guide shows the steps.

Alrighty has a limit of its own here. It can't add Yahoo, AOL, Fastmail or any other provider. If you have one of those, neither app fits, and our Superhuman alternatives list covers apps that do.

Is Superhuman or Alrighty cheaper?

Alrighty costs less. It starts with a 14-day trial that needs no card, then you keep a Free plan or move to Pro. Free has a small monthly AI allowance and no sorting into groups. Pro has both. Pro's price is not set yet, so we can't give a number.

Superhuman's plans page lists three plans:

• Starter: $25 per member per month, billed annually. Superhuman AI, team collaboration, calendar and scheduling, and group coaching.
• Business: $33 per member per month, billed annually. Adds Auto Drafts, Ask AI, custom auto labels, the Superhuman Mail MCP, and HubSpot and Salesforce.
• Enterprise: "Let's talk!" Adds single sign-on, an admin console and team analytics.

That's $300 a year per person for Starter and $396 for Business. Starter and Business allow up to 25 seats. Billed monthly, they are $30 and $40 per person a month. It mentions no free plan and no free trial.

Is Superhuman worth $25 a month?

It is if you live in email all day, on a team that uses Gmail or Microsoft 365, and you'll use what the price buys. Superhuman sells speed first. Its mail page promises you'll "Fly through your email twice as fast as before," with keyboard shortcuts for every action and Split Inbox to "Split out emails from your team, your VIPs, or your most used tools." Starter also includes calendar and scheduling and group productivity coaching.

If speed isn't your problem, the price is harder to justify. Alrighty doesn't compete on keystrokes. It is built around two other problems: mail you never wanted, and getting your own AI into your inbox. Our list of the best email apps for productivity compares the apps that do sell speed.

Where does Superhuman keep your email?

Superhuman's own pages don't give one answer. A blog post about its SOC 2 report says "your inbox is never stored on our servers." Its privacy policy, effective July 6, 2026, covers all of its products and says "We receive the content you upload or enable our products to access, such as emails and drafts." The policy has no separate section for Mail, so the two statements aren't reconciled.

Alrighty's answer has three parts:

• Your mail stays with Apple, Google or Microsoft. Alrighty keeps its copy, and does its search, on your computer.
• Your sign-ins stay on your computer, encrypted. No Alrighty server holds them.
• AI features send only the emails they need to Alrighty's server, which asks a model. Answers and replies go to OpenAI. Chat titles go to Together AI. Clean up and sorting go to TypeSafe AI. Signed out, nothing goes to Alrighty's server.

Alrighty also sends usage and crash data to PostHog by default, never mail content. Share usage data in Settings turns it off. Our privacy page names each company.

Can Superhuman's AI send email for you?

Yes, if you let it. Superhuman's mail page says its assistant can handle "sending fully written emails on your behalf." Its MCP page says Claude and ChatGPT can "draft emails in your voice and send them on your behalf," and that "By default, every send requires your approval." The MCP is on the Business plan, at $33 a month per member, and it connects your calendar as well as your mail.

Alrighty draws the line in one place. Claude (the desktop app and Claude Code), ChatGPT's desktop app, Codex, Cursor, VS Code or a local model can read and search your mail once you turn it on with Connect AI. That AI can also work in a window of its own while you watch: open mail, write replies, file messages. Nothing sends until you click Send in that window, because an email can carry instructions aimed at the AI.

Two other differences matter:

• Superhuman's MCP covers Gmail and Outlook. Alrighty's covers iCloud too.
• With a local model, your mail never leaves your computer to be read. With a cloud assistant, it goes to the company you connect.

The MCP setup guide has the steps, and our email MCP servers list compares the options.

Which has more AI built in?

Superhuman. Starter includes Superhuman AI, and Business adds Auto Drafts, Ask AI and custom auto labels written by AI (plans). Its privacy policy says "we restrict our AI service providers from training their models on user content" but doesn't name the model company. Its pages don't say which AI features are on when you start.

Alrighty's own AI is narrower:

• Suggested replies. A draft in your voice, written from up to 12 of the emails you sent before and up to 12 messages of the conversation. Ask for a change in your own words ("say yes to Friday"), or click Shorten, Warmer or Formalize. It's always a draft, and you send it.
• Answers. Ask a question and get the answer, with the emails it came from.
• Sorting. Pro sorts your mail into groups.

Not all of it waits for you. There is no single AI switch. Signed in, opening a reply starts a suggested draft by itself, and Clean up sorts senders on the server in the background. Only your own AI stays off until you turn it on.

How does each one deal with unwanted mail?

Alrighty goes further here. Its tools:

• Stop mail. One action ends a sender's mail. It unsubscribes every way the message offers, archives their mail, and moves their new mail out as it arrives. It unsubscribes only from senders whose mail passed DMARC, so a scammer never learns your address is live.
• Clean up. It lists the senders you likely don't want, such as scams, cold outreach and newsletters you never open, so you can stop them all at once.
• Filters. Describe a kind of mail in your words, like cold sales pitches, or set rules. New mail that fits goes to Archive before you see it. Mail from people you wrote to is never moved.
• Phishing checks. A sure phishing message goes to Junk, and a likely one stays with a warning. These run on your computer.

Alrighty does not screen first-time senders. A new sender's mail lands in your Inbox, and you stop the ones you don't want.

Superhuman's mail page shows a feature captioned "Unsubscribe once and for all" and Split Inbox for sorting what comes in. The page doesn't describe blocking a sender or clearing many senders at once. For a side-by-side of unsubscribe tools, see the best email unsubscribe apps.

What does Superhuman do better?

• Phones and the web. Superhuman has native apps for Mac and Windows, apps for iOS and Android, and a Chrome extension. Alrighty runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, with no iPhone, Android or web app.
• Teams. Shared billing, up to 25 seats on Starter and Business, single sign-on and an admin console on Enterprise.
• Calendar. Calendar and scheduling come with every plan. Alrighty is mail only, with no calendar.
• Sales tools. Business connects to HubSpot and Salesforce.
• Built-in AI. More of it, with Auto Drafts and Ask AI on Business.
• Track record. Alrighty is a new app.

Which should you pick?

• You have an iCloud address, or a mix of iCloud, Gmail and Outlook: Alrighty.
• You want newsletters, cold outreach and scams gone with one click: Alrighty.
• You want Claude or ChatGPT working in your mail without paying for a business plan, and to click Send yourself: Alrighty.
• Your team is on Gmail or Microsoft 365 and you want speed, shared billing and admin controls: Superhuman.
• You need your mail app on iPhone, Android or the web: Superhuman.
• You want a calendar in the same app: Superhuman.

See what else Alrighty does on the features page.

Questions

Does Superhuman have a free plan or trial?

Its plans page lists no free plan and mentions no free trial. The lowest plan is Starter at $25 per member per month, billed yearly. Alrighty has a 14-day trial with no card, then a Free plan.

Which AI models do Superhuman and Alrighty use?

Superhuman's privacy policy doesn't name its AI providers. It says it restricts them from training on customer content and lets you decide whether Superhuman itself trains on yours. Alrighty's privacy page names OpenAI, Together AI and TypeSafe AI.

Can I use Superhuman's MCP with iCloud mail?

No. The Superhuman Mail MCP connects Gmail and Outlook accounts, the same accounts the app takes. Alrighty's connection reads iCloud, Gmail and Outlook from one place.

Does Superhuman have a real Mac app?

Yes. Superhuman lists native apps for Mac and Windows, but its page doesn't state a minimum macOS version or whether it needs Apple silicon. On a Mac, Alrighty needs Apple silicon. It downloads about 350 MB for its search model on first launch.