Features
Mailbell does the everyday Gmail jobs from your browser's toolbar, and keeps your mail private while it does.
Notifications
- What you hear about
- All new mail, Primary only, or Important only.
- Per account
- Turn each account's notifications on or off, and give each its own sound.
- Quiet hours
- No notifications overnight, or whenever you choose.
- Sounds
- Four built in, or your own file in Firefox.
- Straight to it
- Click a notification to open that mail.
Reading and writing
- The popup
- New mail at a glance; open a thread to read all of it, HTML mail and attachments included.
- The mail client tab
- Accounts, folders and labels on the left, the list in the middle, the reading pane on the right.
- All inboxes
- Every account's inbox merged by date.
- Search
- Gmail's own search syntax, plus the Primary, Promotions, Social and Updates tabs.
- Reply
- Reply and reply all in plain text, without leaving Mailbell.
- Several accounts
- Gmail and Google Workspace side by side.
Actions
- One click
- Archive, delete, mark read or unread, report spam and change labels, for one thread or a selection.
- Undo
- Every action can be taken back.
- Unsubscribe
- One click when the sender supports it (RFC 8058).
- Keyboard
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Privacy and safety
- Nothing in between
- No server, analytics or telemetry. Mail goes only between your browser and Google.
- Images on your terms
- Remote images and tracking pixels are blocked until you allow them, per mail or per sender.
- Real sender
- The sender's verified domain is shown, from Gmail's own sender checks.
- Safe view
- Mail in Spam, mail that fails sender checks, names that show a different address and lookalike domains open as plain text, with every link's full address shown before you open it.
- Reply-to warning
- You're told when replies would go to a different address.
Handy extras
- One-time codes
- Codes from verification emails, ready to copy.
- Meetings
- Join Google Meet, Zoom, Teams or Webex in one click, or add the event to Google Calendar.
- Themes
- Light, dark or follow the system, in any colour or a two-colour gradient.