BlueTicks for Gmail

BlueTicks adds WhatsApp-style ticks to your sent emails in Gmail. One tick means the email went out, two blue ticks mean it has been opened. Read receipts arrive in real time, right inside the Gmail interface, so a glance at your Sent list tells you where things stand.

Hover a tick to see when, and how many times, an email was opened. A companion side panel lists every conversation with its open status next to your inbox, and surfaces the ones still waiting on a read. Multi-account support keeps the ticks in sync across all your Gmail accounts. Your own opens never count as reads.

Setup is one click. There is no new inbox, no configuration, no OAuth and no access to your Google account. Recipients see nothing: no banner, no notification, no tracking signature added to your messages. Email content is never stored on the servers, subject lines and recipients stay in your browser, and no IP addresses are kept. The extension is built on the GDPR principle of data minimisation.

There is a free tier and the paid plan costs 4 dollars a year.

Available for Chrome and Firefox. Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/blueticks-for-gmail/hipmeeilnlifaoegpfiodlnapplogpkn Firefox Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blueticks-for-gmail/