Unified inbox for all your email accounts in one place, sorted by AI
Paste any email you received and watch Inboxes decide what it is, how urgent it is and whether it needs a reply. Connect Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo or any IMAP mailbox and every message lands on one board, already sorted.
In short
Inboxes is a unified inbox: it connects every email account you own, Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, Zoho, GMX, or mail on your own domain, over IMAP and puts all of them on a single board. As each message arrives, an AI model reads it, assigns a category (Important, Newsletter, Notification, Spam, or Other), and flags spam, so the inbox you open is already sorted instead of five raw piles. Your mail stays on your existing provider and nothing is migrated: archiving and spam moves are written back over IMAP, and replies go out over SMTP from your own address. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, and plans start at $49 per month billed monthly (less billed yearly).
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Why a unified inbox
What scattered email actually costs
Most professionals do not have an email problem. They have a several-inboxes problem. The numbers below are why a single sorted board saves real hours, and they come from named industry research, not from us.
| The number | What it means | Source |
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| 28% | Share of the average knowledge worker's week spent reading and answering email, about 2.6 hours every workday. | McKinsey Global Institute |
| 121 | Business emails the average professional receives per day; executives and multi-client consultants see 200 to 300 or more. | Radicati Group, 2024 to 2028 |
| 2+ | Email accounts the average professional keeps (one work, one to two personal), each checked in its own tab or app. | Radicati Group, 2026 |
| 361B | Emails sent and received worldwide every day in 2024, and the daily total keeps climbing. | Radicati Group, 2024 to 2028 |
The pattern behind those figures is simple: the volume is high, it lands across more than one account, and the sorting still falls on you. A unified inbox attacks all three at once. It puts every account on one board and has AI categorize and de-spam each message as it arrives, so the hours you would spend switching and triaging go back into your day.
What you get
One board, sorted for you
Email clients make you check every account separately and drown you in the same noise. Inboxes pulls all of it into one place and lets AI do the triage before you ever look.
One login instead of five
Sign in once, in the browser, and every account is there. No juggling five webmail logins, no switching profiles, no desktop client to install and keep configured on every machine. Open a tab anywhere and your whole email life is on one board.
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Every mailbox on one board
Connect Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, Zoho, your own domain, your side project, all of them, into a single unified inbox. Any provider that speaks IMAP works: paste your server and credentials and the mail flows into one place. No more tab-hopping between webmail logins.
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AI reads and sorts your mail
AI reads each incoming message and files it as Important, Newsletter, Notification, Spam, or Other. Real spam and junk get flagged and set aside so the board you actually look at stays clean. The sorting runs on the content of the mail, not brittle sender rules you have to maintain.
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Never read a cold sales pitch again
Gmail has no answer to this: cold outreach is not technically spam, so it lands in your inbox forever. Here you write one rule in plain English, "anyone pitching me SEO, web design or agency work", and matching mail is filed away before you see it. Same for fake security reports, recruiter spam, and partnership pitches. The AI reads intent rather than keywords, so it is designed to catch the polite, handwritten ones a keyword filter walks straight past. It is a model making a judgement, not a rule with a guarantee, so expect it to be right most of the time rather than every time.
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Your rules, written in plain English
Describe what you want in your own words and the AI applies it to every mailbox: send it to spam, mark it important, archive it, or answer it. Add as many rules as you like, scoped to one mailbox, one shared inbox, or everything. No filter builders, no regex, no conditions to maintain.
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Never see the same noise twice
One click on any message and mail like it is archived forever. Trim the subject down to the bit that repeats, or let the AI recognize the type instead. That is the difference that matters: Instagram's "look back on your memories" nudges get archived for good, while its security alerts still come through. No filter builder, no regex, two clicks from the message that annoyed you.
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Answers written before you open it
The questions you get every week, how do I cancel, where is my invoice, how do I reset my password, arrive with the reply already drafted. Set your standard answer once and it is offered verbatim, ready to send in one click. Nothing is ever sent without you pressing send.
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Shared inboxes, all on your login
Group mailboxes however your work is organized: all your support addresses on one board, everything automated on another you glance at monthly. Move mailboxes between groups and give each group its own sync rhythm. Every plan also lets you invite people to the same board: two on Solo, three on Growth, ten on Scale. They see the same mailboxes, boards and rules and answer from the same addresses.
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How it works
Connect your accounts, let AI sort them
No migration, nothing to install. You add each mailbox over IMAP and the AI takes it from there, giving you one sorted, threaded board.
> connecting your mailboxes over IMAP
Connect your mailboxes
Add each account with its IMAP server and credentials: Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, Zoho, GMX, your own domain, anything that speaks IMAP with an app password. Add as many as your plan allows. Inboxes reads them; your mail keeps living on your own provider.
> AI categorizing + flagging spam
AI sorts every message
As mail arrives, AI reads it and assigns a category and a spam verdict. Every message lands as Important, Newsletter, Notification, Spam, or Other, and junk is flagged, so the unified board you open is already triaged instead of a raw pile.
> one board, threaded and in sync
Work from one board
Read, tag, thread, and search across every connected account from a single view. New mail is pulled in continuously and archiving is written back to the server, so the cleanup you do here is real cleanup at the mailbox itself.
AI sorting
AI reads your mail so you don't have to sort it
Every message that arrives is read by an AI model that assigns it a category and decides whether it is spam. It works from the content, not from rules you have to keep updating, so the board stays clean on its own.
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Automatic categories. Important, Newsletter, Notification, Spam, and Other are labeled as mail lands, across every connected account, so related mail groups itself without manual folders.
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Spam caught by content. Junk and phishing are flagged and set aside based on what the message actually says, catching things that slip past a provider's built-in filter.
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Used only to sort your mail. The AI reads messages to categorize and flag them, nothing else. We do not train models on your mail or use it for ads, and your mail stays on your own provider.
Pricing
Flat plans. No per-message fees, no sales calls
Every plan is the full product: unified inbox, AI categorization and spam detection, threads, tags, and archiving synced back to your provider. Plans differ by how many mailboxes you connect and your sorting volume, not by which features you get.
Solo
One owner plus one helper, every account on one board
$24.50 /mo
$294 billed yearly
- Connect up to 5 mailboxes
- 6,000 AI credits a month
- 2 people on the shared board
- Unified inbox across every account
- AI category and spam detection on every message
- Threads, tags, and search across senders and subjects
- Archiving and spam moves synced back to your provider
- Your own subject and sender rules
- AI draft replies you review before sending
- Group mailboxes into separate boards
- A copy of every reply in the mailbox's Sent folder
- Read state refreshed from your provider
- CSV export by category, mailbox and date
- Weekly summary email of what needs a reply
Growth
Busy professionals juggling a stack of inboxes
$39.50 /mo
$474 billed yearly
- Connect up to 15 mailboxes
- 9,500 AI credits a month
- 3 people on the shared board
- Unified inbox across every account
- AI category and spam detection on every message
- Threads, tags, and search across senders and subjects
- Archiving and spam moves synced back to your provider
- Your own subject and sender rules
- AI draft replies you review before sending
- Group mailboxes into separate boards
- A copy of every reply in the mailbox's Sent folder
- Read state refreshed from your provider
- CSV export by category, mailbox and date
- Weekly summary email of what needs a reply
Scale
Running work and personal mailboxes side by side
$79.50 /mo
$954 billed yearly
- Connect up to 40 mailboxes
- 19,000 AI credits a month
- 10 people on the shared board
- Unified inbox across every account
- AI category and spam detection on every message
- Threads, tags, and search across senders and subjects
- Archiving and spam moves synced back to your provider
- Your own subject and sender rules
- AI draft replies you review before sending
- Group mailboxes into separate boards
- A copy of every reply in the mailbox's Sent folder
- Read state refreshed from your provider
- CSV export by category, mailbox and date
- Weekly summary email of what needs a reply
Agency
Anyone carrying inboxes for a lot of clients at once
$174.50 /mo
$2,094 billed yearly
- Connect up to 120 mailboxes
- 43,000 AI credits a month
- No cap on people on the shared board
- Unified inbox across every account
- AI category and spam detection on every message
- Threads, tags, and search across senders and subjects
- Archiving and spam moves synced back to your provider
- Your own subject and sender rules
- AI draft replies you review before sending
- Group mailboxes into separate boards
- A copy of every reply in the mailbox's Sent folder
- Read state refreshed from your provider
- CSV export by category, mailbox and date
- Weekly summary email of what needs a reply
Need more mailboxes or sorting volume? Contact us and we will size a plan.
Your mail always stays on your own provider; Inboxes reads it over IMAP to give you one sorted board. Cancel anytime from your account.
FAQ
Common questions
Inboxes is a unified inbox. You connect all of your email accounts into one board, and it becomes the single place you read and manage mail. On top of that, AI reads each message to categorize it and flag spam, so the inbox you open is already sorted instead of a raw pile from five different providers.
Yes. Inboxes is an all in one inbox app: it connects Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, AOL, Zoho, Fastmail, ISP mail and your own domain over IMAP and puts every message in one unified mailbox, each row tagged with the account it came from. AI sorts the combined stream as it arrives. Microsoft 365 and Outlook.com are the one exception, because Microsoft retired the app-password login.
Unified mail is used to read and answer several email accounts from one screen instead of signing in to each one. Freelancers merge client and personal addresses, owners merge support and billing mailboxes across products, and households merge an old ISP address with Gmail. Replies still go out from the right address, and Inboxes adds AI sorting so the merged pile arrives categorized.
Any provider that supports IMAP with an app password: Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, Zoho, GMX, Fastmail, and mail on your own domain. You add each account with its IMAP server and credentials, and it appears on the shared board alongside the rest. Microsoft 365 and Outlook.com are the exception and cannot be connected: Microsoft has retired the app-password login we authenticate with.
As mail arrives, Inboxes passes it to an AI model that reads the content and assigns a category, Important, Newsletter, Notification, Spam, or Other, and decides whether it looks like spam or junk. Because it works from the actual content, it catches things that simple sender rules miss, and you do not have to maintain filters by hand.
A shared inbox is a named board that several mailboxes feed into. If you are coming from Gmail there is no equivalent, so here is a concrete example: you run three products, each with a support@ address customers write to and an app@ address that only sends receipts. Put the three support@ mailboxes on one board and every customer email across all three products becomes a single sorted list. Put the noisy app@ mailboxes on a second board that checks once a day, and they stay out of your way until you want them. You name the boards, you decide which mailbox goes where, and moving a mailbox between boards is one click.
More questions on the full FAQ page, including how connecting a mailbox and the AI sorting work.
Universal inbox
Universal inbox, unified inbox and all inboxes are the same thing under five names
People search for this product using whichever phrase their last email app happened to use. They all describe one screen holding the mail from every account you own, and that is what Inboxes builds.
A universal inbox is a single view that collects messages from every mailbox you connect, so you read and reply in one place instead of signing into each account in turn. Inboxes is a universal inbox in the browser: connect Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo, Fastmail or a mailbox on your own domain over IMAP, and every message lands on one board where an AI model gives it a category and flags spam before you open it. The mail itself stays on your provider, and archiving or moving a message writes straight back over IMAP.
Universal inbox
The phrase people use when the accounts come from different providers. It is the case Inboxes is built for, because IMAP does not care whose server the mail sits on.
Unified inbox
The term Apple Mail and Thunderbird use for their combined views. Same idea, but theirs lives on one installed machine while this one follows the browser.
All inboxes
What iPhone calls the top of the mailbox list. It shows everything at once but sorts nothing, which is the gap the AI categories close here.
Unified mailbox
Common in Outlook and Android circles. Worth knowing that Outlook and Microsoft 365 accounts cannot connect here, because Microsoft has retired basic authentication.
All in one inbox
How people describe it when they are tired of switching tabs. The practical test is whether one screen holds every account without forwarding mail anywhere.
Email aggregator
The technical name for the same job. There is a longer explanation on the email aggregator page.
Does Gmail have a unified inbox?
Not on the web. Gmail lets you sign in to several accounts and switch between them, but gmail.com never merges them into one list, and only the Gmail phone app has an All inboxes view. A Gmail unified inbox on a computer means an IMAP client: connect each Gmail account with an app password and they sit on one board beside Yahoo, iCloud and your own domain. That gives you a unified Gmail inbox that also holds your other providers, which is the Gmail combined inbox most people are looking for when they search.
It is also the route Google now points to. As Gmail removes Gmailify and POP fetching from other accounts in January 2027, its own help page recommends configuring a desktop client over IMAP and SMTP to manage multiple accounts in one place. The workarounds that still exist, and what each one breaks, are in our guide to a unified inbox in Gmail, and the clients compared are on the email client for Gmail page.
Which unified email inbox app is worth paying for?
A unified inbox app, or any unified inbox software, is worth paying for when it does the three jobs a built in combined view does not. It connects accounts from different providers, not just several of its own. It runs on every computer you use without an install on each one. And it sorts the merged list, because unified email that only stacks five inboxes into one longer pile fixes the tab switching and nothing else. Inboxes is built around those three: IMAP for any provider that issues an app password, a browser board, and an AI category on every message.
The free options are real and worth knowing about first. Apple Mail, Thunderbird and the Gmail phone app each have a unified inbox app view of their own, but each one lives on a single device, and a unified inbox Gmail builds on the web does not exist at all. If one machine and no sorting is enough, use those. If you read mail on a work PC, a laptop and a Chromebook in the same week, compare the unified inbox plans against the time you spend switching accounts.
Whichever name you came here for, the questions worth asking are the same three: which providers can it actually connect, does it sort the mail or just pile it up, and does it need installing on every machine you use. There is a fuller answer in how to create a unified inbox, and a side by side of the apps that offer one on the best app for multiple email accounts.
Works with the mailbox you already have
A unified inbox for your provider, on your computer
Most of the big US mail providers either never made a desktop app or have taken theirs away. Here is where each one stands, and how its mailbox joins the same board as the rest.
By provider
Gmail
Google has never shipped a desktop program for Gmail, and it removes Gmailify and POP fetch from other accounts in January 2027. See the Gmail desktop app page.
Yahoo
Yahoo withdrew its Windows app and tells computer users to open a browser, where one Yahoo account is all you see. See the Yahoo Mail desktop app page.
AOL
AOL charges a monthly fee for a Windows only program, yet publishes the IMAP settings that let any client read the same mailbox. See the AOL Mail app page.
iCloud
The iCloud for Windows app syncs photos, files and passwords. It contains no mail reader at all. See the iCloud Mail app page.
Xfinity and Comcast
Comcast offers no desktop mail program and is moving its mailboxes onto Yahoo in phases through 2026. See the Xfinity email app page.
Spectrum and Roadrunner
Spectrum makes no mail app for any device, so the address lives in webmail or in somebody else's client. See the Spectrum email app page.
AT&T
AT&T hands the app question to Yahoo, and every mail program needs a secure mail key instead of your password. See the AT&T email app page.
EarthLink
EarthLink has nothing for a computer, but it still takes a plain password over IMAP, which makes it one of the easiest to connect. See the EarthLink mail app page.
CenturyLink
CenturyLink ships no mail app, and its Windows guide still points at a Microsoft program that stopped working in 2024. See the CenturyLink email app page.
Windstream and Kinetic
Kinetic no longer issues windstream.net addresses and parks accounts after 180 days without use, so the one you have is worth keeping active. See the Windstream email app page.
Optimum and Optonline
Optimum deletes an inbox after 90 days of inactivity and has issued no new addresses since 2021, to existing customers included. See the Optimum email app page.
Cox
Cox handed cox.net mail to Yahoo in 2024, so every mail program now needs a Yahoo app password rather than your Cox password. See the Cox email app page.
TDS
TDS stops hosting email after October 31, 2026. Addresses kept on Everymail cost 3 dollars a month and need a new password in every mail program. See the TDS email app page.
Frontier
Frontier handed its mail to Yahoo in March 2024, so frontier.com and frontiernet.net need a Yahoo app password in every mail program. See the Frontier email app page.
Astound
Astound runs four mail platforms for rcn.com, astound.net and Grande, and blocks IMAP from every EU country. See the Astound email app page.
altafiber
altafiber gives fuse.net, zoomtown.com and fioptics.com addresses no mail app, and in our test its servers did not answer from Europe. See the Fuse net email app page.
Armstrong
Armstrong publishes one IMAP host for zoominternet.net and zoom.email addresses, and in our test it timed out from Europe. See the Armstrong email settings page.
Breezeline
Breezeline makes no mail app, and the imap.breezeline.com host that many guides list does not exist. See the Breezeline email app page.
Verizon
Verizon retired its email in 2017, so a verizon.net address now runs on AOL and needs an AOL app password. See the Verizon email app page.
GCI
GCI nearly shut its email down in 2024, now charges 4.99 dollars a month per gci.net address, and still makes no app that reads mail. See the GCI email app page.
Hawaiian Telcom
Hawaiian Telcom makes no mail app and has taken its email setup guides off its website, though hawaiiantel.net still takes your normal password over IMAP. See the Hawaiian Telcom email app page.
Consolidated / Fidium
Consolidated, now Fidium, makes no mail app and runs six legacy domains, and myfairpoint.net and fairpoint.net sit on two different mail systems. See the Consolidated email app page.
Comporium
Comporium makes no mail app, and of the two outgoing ports it lists for comporium.net, only 587 answered from outside its network in our test. See the Comporium email settings page.
Midco
Midco charges 1 dollar a month per address since January 2026, issues no new ones, and makes no app that reads mail. See the Midco email app page.
Mediacom
Mediacom caps the whole account at 1 GB and returns new mail to the sender once it is full, so forwarding everything into it backfires. See the Mediacom email app page.
By computer
Windows
Microsoft shut down the built in Mail app on December 31, 2024. Here is what reads IMAP mail on a PC now. See the Windows Mail app replacement page.
Mac
Apple Mail merges accounts on one Mac. The case for something else starts with the second computer. See the email client for Mac page.
Chromebook
ChromeOS has no mail program of its own, and Gmail on the web never merges other providers into one list. See the Chromebook mail app page.
Linux
Thunderbird and Evolution are installed per machine. A browser client opens the same board on any distribution. See the email client for Linux page.
Any IMAP mailbox
Own domain, hosting company or small provider: if it offers IMAP and a password, it connects the same way. See the IMAP email client page.
One limit applies everywhere: we connect with a password or app password over IMAP and use no OAuth, so outlook.com, hotmail.com and Microsoft 365 work mailboxes do not connect here.
Put every mailbox on one board
Connect your accounts and let the AI sort your mail from the first message. One inbox for all of it.