Know the moment it’s read.
Email Tracker sits quietly inside Gmail and tells you the second someone opens your email or clicks a link in it. Read receipts land in your Sent list. Nothing else about your day changes.
Works inside Gmail We never read your emails Delete everything in one click
Used daily by people at
- Northlane
- Verity Labs
- Copper & Co
- Fieldnote
- Basalt
- Reva Health
How it works
Three minutes, then never think about it again.
There is no new inbox to learn, no sidebar to babysit, no CRM to feed. You install it once and keep writing email exactly the way you already do.
1 INSTALL
Add the extension
One click from the Chrome Web Store, then sign in with the Google account you already send from.
2 SEND
Write email as normal
Tracking is on by default and off with a single toggle whenever an email shouldn’t be tracked.
3 KNOW
Know when it lands
A desktop notification the second it’s opened, and a green ✓✓ beside it in your Sent list forever after.
What Email Tracker does
In-Gmail receipts
WhatsApp ticks, for email.
Every message in your Sent list gets a tick. Grey single tick means it left. Green double tick means a human opened it. You already know how to read this.
- Grey ✓: delivered, not opened yet.
- Green ✓✓: opened, with the time and the open count on hover.
- Renders natively in the Gmail list, so there’s no separate app to check.
Real time
You’ll know before they’ve finished reading.
Opens and link clicks arrive as a desktop notification the moment they happen, while you’re still in the thread, still holding the context, still the right person to follow up.
- Opens: the first one, and every re-open after it.
- Link clicks: which link, and when they took it.
- Your own opens are never counted. The deck you re-read at midnight isn’t engagement.
Control
Some emails shouldn’t be tracked. That’s fine.
There’s a toggle in the compose window. Flip it off and that email carries no pixel, no rewritten links, no record. It’s an ordinary email again.
- Per-email, not per-account. Decide message by message.
- The toggle remembers nothing and judges nothing.
Landing at 4. Don’t cook, I’m bringing the bread this time — the good one from the place on Ferry Road.
The dashboard
An analytics page you’ll actually want to open.
Most tracking tools bury the data in a table nobody reads. Ours is the part we spent the longest on: opens and clicks over time, the hours your email actually gets read, who keeps opening and who’s gone quiet, and a live feed of what’s happening right now.
Opens & clicks
Opens ClicksBest time to send
by open rate| Contact | Sent | Opens | Engagement |
|---|---|---|---|
| PNPriya Nair | 14 | 41 | 92 |
| MHMarcus Hale | 9 | 22 | 74 |
| EWEllis Wu | 21 | 33 | 58 |
| DODana Okafor | 6 | 4 | 19 |
- PNPriya opened “Series A materials”opennow
- PNPriya clicked northlane.co/deckclick2m
- MHMarcus opened “Contract, redlined”open14m
- EWEllis opened “Invoice #2041”open1h
- SRSam clicked calendly.com/adityaclick2h
Privacy
Tracking, without the creep.
Email tracking has a bad reputation and mostly it earned it. So here is exactly what we do and don’t do, in plain language, with no asterisks.
“I wanted to know if my emails were landing. I did not want to hand my inbox to a growth tool. That gap is the whole reason this exists.”
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Your own opens are never counted
We fingerprint your session so re-reading your own sent mail never fires an open. The numbers you see are other people, not you.
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One click deletes everything
A single button in settings wipes every open, click, contact and email record we hold for you. No email to support, no waiting period.
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We don’t read your emails
The extension needs to see the Gmail page to draw ticks and add the toggle. It doesn’t send your subject lines or your email bodies anywhere.
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No selling, no sharing, no third-party ad pixels
There is no data business here. The free tier is free because the product is small and cheap to run, not because you’re the product.
Pricing
Free. Genuinely, for now.
We’re early and we’d rather have you using it than paying for it. When there is a paid tier it will cover the things that genuinely cost us money to run, and everything below stays free.
Free
Available nowEverything the product does today. Unlimited tracked emails.
Add to Chrome — Free- Real-time open tracking
- Link click tracking
- ✓✓ read receipts inside Gmail
- Instant desktop notifications
- The full analytics dashboard
- Per-email tracking toggle
- One-click delete of all your data
Later
Not built yetWe’re shipping slowly and on purpose. These are the things we’re thinking about next. They are not promises, and they are not in the box today.
- Team accounts & shared history
- Longer data retention
- Export & API access
If something here is the reason you can’t use Email Tracker, tell us and it moves up the list.
Stop wondering whether they saw it.
Install it, send your next email exactly as you would have anyway, and watch the tick turn green.