Missive

Shared team inbox with real-time internal chat alongside email

What Missive does

  • Shared team inbox with real-time internal chat alongside email
  • Multi-provider AI (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini) via credits or bring-your-own-key
  • AI-powered automations/rules plus built-in translation and summarization

Missive — straight answers

What is Missive?

Missive is listed under Email, Scheduling & Tasks, in the Productivity & Workflow category on Flocci AI Tools. Shared team inbox with real-time internal chat alongside email. It is free to trial, then paid, and it lives at missiveapp.com.

Is Missive free?

Missive offers a free trial rather than a permanent free tier, so access ends when the trial does. If you need something with no clock on it, the alternatives page lists the free and freemium options in the same category.

What can Missive do?

Missive does 3 things the catalog singles out: Shared team inbox with real-time internal chat alongside email; multi-provider ai (anthropic, openai, gemini) via credits or bring-your-own-key; ai-powered automations/rules plus built-in translation and summarization.

What is the best free alternative to Missive?

Zero is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Email, Scheduling & Tasks sub-category and is free. Inbox Zero, Reclaim.ai and Shortwave also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Missive alternatives

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Superhuman

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trial
  • The fastest AI email experience
  • AI drafting, triage and summaries
  • Split inbox and follow-up reminders
  • Free trial

Shortwave

Email, Scheduling & Tasks
freemium
  • AI email assistant for Gmail
  • Auto-summaries, drafting and search
  • AI agents and scheduling
  • Free tier

Reclaim.ai

Email, Scheduling & Tasks
freemium
  • Auto-schedules tasks, habits and breaks
  • Defends focus time on your calendar
  • Smart meeting and 1:1 scheduling
  • Free plan

Motion

Email, Scheduling & Tasks
trial
  • AI planner that auto-builds your day
  • Combines tasks, calendar and projects
  • Reprioritizes as things change
  • Free trial

Taskade

Email, Scheduling & Tasks
freemium
  • AI agents that run projects and tasks
  • Notes, mind-maps and workflows in one
  • Team collaboration and automations
  • Free plan

Fyxer

Email, Scheduling & Tasks
trial
  • Drafts email replies matching your personal writing style
  • Combines inbox triage + AI meeting notetaker + scheduling in one tool
  • Fyxer Chat searches across inbox and meeting notes together

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