Breef for Gmail™

Save 3 hours a week in Gmail

Sort your inbox into bundles. No more context switching.
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* Free forever. No Gmail permissions required.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ in the Chrome Web Store

Erin Reynolds
Producer
Breef has been a game-changer for me. It prevents mental whiplash.

How to start flying through Gmail the easy way

1. Bundle up your inbox

It takes 64 seconds to re-engage after switching tasks. That's 3 hours a week if you receive 50 emails a day.
Bundles are incredibly easy to make - just tell it who to include.

2. Skim through a bundle in half the time

Add social media's best feature to Gmail...
Infinite scroll lets you fly through emails just like Instagram. No clicks. No hesitation.

Ready to fly through Gmail?

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See Breef in action

The Old Way

  • Slowly try to figure out what each new email is about
  • Always wonder if you're prioritizing the right thing
  • Try labeling and filtering, but give up because it's hard

With Breef

  • Do one topic at a time, and fly through them
  • Go home satisfied that you did what matters
Why I made Breef
by Andy Mitchell - Breef's founder

Does your inbox feel like an interrupting box of surprises, as addictive as a Las Vegas slot machine? Mine too.

Back in 2006, I made the original Gmail addon: ActiveInbox. It's been my work life ever since.

Folks love it as a way to turn emails into tasks, to order Gmail.

But something changed around 2020: email newsletters exploded, and became valuable to read.

Now my inbox is 100x what it used to be, and I can't track every little email anymore.

I wanted control without the effort. Something slick.

At first, I thought the Instagram-esque scrolling would be the coolest thing, but actually bundles turned out to be crazily satisfying. It's like gardening for Gmail: they brought instant, lasting order.

I wouldn't call Breef a side project anymore - I think it has real legs to bring a profound change to our inboxes. Because that 50 year old tech is a mess that dumps emails on you, and bundles is such an obvious answer to tame it.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ in the Chrome Web Store

Erin Reynolds
Founder, Flying Mollusk
Breef has been an email game-changer for me. It prevents the mental whiplash of going through a messy inbox.
Joe Nardi
DJ
Scrolling review of emails is like nothing you have ever experienced before. My email anxiety is at an all time low.
Sasha Torres
I use Breef to fly through my inbox and get rid of all the irritating and time-consuming detritus that collects there in about 1/3 of the time it used to take me. Then I can focus on what's actually important. It's immeasurably reduced my anxiety around the Sisyphean daily task that is email.
Angus Burnett
I think anybody would find this useful for the speed it gives them to go through emails but if you know the simple keyboard shortcuts that already work for Gmail, it makes sorting through your emails an absolute breeze. I can't believe nobody has ever thought of this before.
Vivian Kimball
Great extension that sits right in your inbox, clears out the fluff, then helps you sort the wheat from the chaff so you can focus
Adrian Calderon
Co-founder, chilipepper
I've been absolutely revelling 🥳 in my inbox

✔️ Email management you'll use

When you're swamped you've got no time to manage emails. So Breef is effortless.

Just tell it who to bundle, and you'll never need to label anything again.

And works where you do - within Gmail!

✔️ Privacy: your emails are safe

Notice how there's no cookie banner on this site? We don't track you. We're fully GDPR compliant.

Breef doesn't require permission to read your emails. See our Privacy Policy.

✔️ Your attention matters

"The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy."

- Cal Newport, bestselling author of Deep Work

Pricing

Breef is almost totally free - just pay if you use cloud features.

Breef

Free

  • Bundle your inbox

  • Feed view to scroll through emails

Pro

$4 / account / month

  • Back up your bundles

  • Sync bundles between your devices

Your busy life deserves this

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Free forever. Instant set up. Uninstalls cleanly. No Gmail permissions required.