Shortwave

What is Shortwave?

Shortwave is an AI-powered email app. It offers AI search, summaries, drafting and inbox organization, and adds team features such as shared threads and comments. The vendor positions it for individuals and for teams at companies of all sizes.

Key capabilities of Shortwave

• AI Assistant: summarizes, autocompletes, analyzes attachments and keeps saved prompts and memory.
• AI search: finds emails by description rather than exact keywords.
• Inbox organization: uses AI filters, splits, bundles, delivery schedules and unsubscribe tools.
• Productivity tools: todos, snooze, follow-up reminders, snippets, read statuses and link tracking.
• Team collaboration: shared threads, comments, assignees, shared labels and channels.
• Privacy: tracker blocking and privacy mode, with CASA Tier 2 compliance reported.

How Shortwave works

You connect your mailbox and use Shortwave as your email client. The assistant searches and summarizes threads, drafts replies and applies filters you describe in plain language. Calendar and CRM auto-BCC are supported, and AI integrations can connect through MCP.

Who uses Shortwave?

Professionals who spend much of their day in email and teams that share inboxes, such as sales or support groups.

Shortwave pricing

Pricing is per seat per month: Business $30, Premier $45 and Max $120, with higher AI search limits and more advanced models at each step. The vendor lists a 14-day free trial and does not show a free plan.

Shortwave alternatives

Superhuman is a premium email client built around speed and keyboard workflows. SaneBox sorts email with rules and AI without replacing your client. Twain focuses on AI writing of replies.