ToolShortwave/10 trustMetrics-checked
Shortwave
AI-native email from ex-Googlers — agents and powerful search.
About
Shortwave (shortwave.com) is the AI-native email client from an ex-Google team: AI agents that act on your inbox, powerful search, and smart organization.
The modern alternative to Superhuman's premium polish — AI-first rather than speed-first. Freemium with paid tiers for power users.
What it can do
- AI email agents
- Conversational search
- Smart organization
- Ex-Google team
- Freemium
Setup
- Sign up at shortwave.com.
- Connect Gmail.
- Set up AI agents for triage.
- Search conversationally.
Prerequisites
Gmail account.
Use cases
automation
Works with
Generic APIAny agent (.md)
Trust score — 6/10
/10 trustMetrics-checked
Scored 6/10 (metrics tier). Credible AI email with a strong team, but smaller adoption than Superhuman. Proprietary, provider-estimated adoption. Metrics tier.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 4.5/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
- · AI email client (ex-Googlers); no public repo — adoption estimated
- · released 285 days ago
- · manual review: Shortwave — AI email with agents and search; from ex-Google team; license: proprietary
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.