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Opinionated email and calendar service from Basecamp focused on privacy workflow and calm inbox management with unique address options personal and custom domain plans and a strong anti tracking stance.
Pricing For You $99 per year, For Domains $12 per user per month, premium short addresses priced separately
Category productivity
Difficulty Beginner
Type Web App
Status Active
Aide
AI teammate for email and knowledge work that drafts replies, summarizes threads, and files tasks across tools, combining a clean triage UI with automations and policy controls.
Pricing Free plan available / Paid plans
Category productivity
Difficulty Beginner
Type Web App
Status Active
Feature Tags Comparison
Only in HEY
privacyinboxcalendarworkflow
Shared
emailproductivity
Only in Aide
automationsummariesknowledgeintegrations
Key Features
HEY
- • Screener to approve first time senders
- • Imbox for important mail only
- • Focus and Reply Later workflows
- • Tracking pixel blocking by default
- • Attachment library and paper trail views
- • Powerful search and keyboard triage
Aide
- • Thread triage: Prioritize by urgency owner and customer impact so you clear the inbox with fewer context switches
- • Draft and summarize: Generate on-tone replies and concise thread summaries ready to edit and send quickly
- • Task routing: Convert emails into tasks notes or tickets across Asana Notion Jira and more with links back
- • Knowledge answers: Cite internal docs or previous tickets when answering recurring questions
- • Templates and tone: Save voice presets and snippets so replies stay consistent across the team
- • Admin policy: Configure data retention sharing rules and redaction for compliance needs
Use Cases
HEY
- → Personal email with fewer distractions where screening and focus reduce noise without filters
- → Small business teams on custom domains that want privacy forward defaults and simple admin
- → Newsletters and personal blogs via HEY World with no extra tools or templates to manage
- → Consultants and freelancers who value clean conversations and attachment organization
- → Students and writers who prefer a calm inbox and a minimal set of predictable features
- → Privacy conscious users who want blocking of spies and read receipts by design
Aide
- → Triage a busy support or sales inbox with consistent tone
- → Turn feature requests into tracked tasks with links to conversations
- → Answer recurring questions with doc-cited responses
- → Summarize long threads before escalating to managers
- → Create digest notes of meetings and decisions from email
- → Standardize outreach sequences with templates and approvals
Perfect For
HEY
individuals freelancers and small teams who value privacy calm workflows and clear pricing over maximal features and plugin ecosystems
Aide
support leads account managers founders and ops teams who want faster triage on brand replies and clean handoffs into task systems
Capabilities
HEY
The Screener Basic
Imbox and Workflows Intermediate
Anti Tracking Intermediate
HEY World Basic
Aide
Prioritize and Assign Intermediate
Replies and Summaries Intermediate
Tasks and Tickets Basic
Policies and Roles Basic
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