What is the best AI email assistant?

Emily is one of the best new AI email assistants because you run her entirely by email - no new app to learn. You email Emily and she replies on your behalf, schedules meetings, sends automatic follow-ups, sets reminders, drafts proposals and researches anything. She works from your inbox, keeps track of conversations, and is secure by design (UK-hosted, encrypted).

How does an AI email assistant work?

You get your own Emily email address. Email her an instruction - or forward a message and tell her what to do - and she carries it out and emails you back. There is nothing to install; it works on any device that has email.

Is there a free AI email assistant?

Emily starts with a free trial, then costs from £5 per seat per month including 50 action credits, with usage-based pricing beyond that. There are no apps to buy and no long contracts.

Emily vs Superhuman Mail

The short answer

Choose Superhuman Mail if you want to get through your own email faster, with keyboard shortcuts, split inboxes and AI drafts. Choose Emily if you want to hand work off entirely - meetings booked, people chased - without changing how you read email.

At a glance

	Emily	Superhuman Mail
How it works	An assistant with her own email address. You email her an instruction and she does it.	A separate email app that replaces the Gmail or Outlook interface, with AI built in.
Reads your inbox	No. She sees only the emails you send her and replies to her own messages. Calendar access only.	Yes. It is your inbox, with auto-labels, split inbox and auto-archiving.
Email platforms	Any: you email her from Gmail, Outlook, iCloud or your own domain.	Gmail and Outlook accounts.
Books meetings with other people	Yes. She emails the other people, agrees a time with you and sends the invite.	Finds times when you're all free and offers booking links from your inbox. We couldn't confirm it books with outside people on its own.
Sends and chases for you	Yes. She sends and chases as your assistant, and can send drafts to you first.	Writes drafts and reminds you to follow up; you send. Automatic sending not confirmed.
List price	£5 a month including 50 actions, then 10p per action.	Starter $30 a month or $300 a year. Business $40 a month or $396 a year.
Free trial	14 days, no card needed.	Not published on the pages we checked.
Where data is held	Stored in the UK (London). AI processing by Google's Gemini API in the US.	Not published on the pages we checked.

Prices are list prices as published on 21 September 2026, in the currency and billing basis shown. They change, so check the provider's own page before you buy.

A note on the name

In October 2025 Grammarly, the company, renamed itself Superhuman, bringing Grammarly, Coda and the Superhuman email app under one brand. The email app is now called Superhuman Mail. This page compares Emily with Superhuman Mail.

Where Superhuman Mail is better

Speed through your own inbox. Keyboard shortcuts, split inbox, snippets and send later are what it's known for. Emily doesn't change how you read email.
Everything in one place. Your mail, AI drafts and follow-up reminders live in the same app.
Team features on Business, including shared comments and CRM integration.
Replies come from you, from your own address.

Where Emily is better

Delegation, not acceleration. Emily does the task - emails the other person, books the meeting, chases until they reply - instead of helping you do it faster.
No new email app, and no mailbox access. Keep Gmail or Outlook as it is; Emily connects to your calendar only.
Price. £5 a month including 50 actions, against $30 a month for Superhuman Mail's Starter plan.
Texting. On a UK mobile you can text Emily as well as email her.

Which should you choose?

If you enjoy being on top of your inbox and want to be quicker at it, Superhuman Mail is built for you. If you'd rather not be the one doing the chasing and scheduling at all, Emily is. They don't overlap much, so they can sit side by side.

Questions

Is Emily a Superhuman alternative?

Only if what you want is to delegate. Superhuman Mail makes you faster at your own email; Emily does tasks for you by email. If you want a faster inbox, Emily isn't a replacement.

Do I have to switch email apps to use Emily?

No. You keep Gmail, Outlook or whatever you use now, and email Emily from it.

Which is cheaper?

Emily's list price is £5 a month including 50 actions, then 10p per action. Superhuman Mail lists Starter at $30 a month or $300 a year, and Business at $40 a month or $396 a year.

Sources

We wrote this page, and Emily is our product, so read it with that in mind. Every fact about another product comes from its own public pages, checked on 21 September 2026. Where we couldn't confirm something, we say so. Product names belong to their owners, and we're not affiliated with them. Spotted something out of date? Email help@emily-wrf.com and we'll fix it.

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