No, Forage connects to your Gmail account and works seamlessly with any mail app that you use to view emails in that account. You can continue using your preferred email app while enjoying Forage's inbox organization and your Daily Summary email.

Forage manages your email directly inside your favorite mail app. It connects to your email account and works in the background to filter emails as they arrive. You can continue checking your email in Gmail, Apple Mail, Superhuman, Spark, or wherever else you check email.

Forage uses AI to sort emails into preset categories. When it determines which category an email should be in, it will apply an Auto Label to the email. It learns your preferences based on feedback you provide. You can also set custom rules to decide how specific senders are handled.

A label is added to every email that Forage categorizes. Based on your rules, the email will then be left in your inbox or moved to a folder. All emails processed by Forage remain searchable from any email app.

Please note: If you set any category to "Move to trash", those emails will be deleted after 30 days when Gmail empties your trash.

This can happen if you've set that Auto Label to "Keep in Inbox" in your Preferences. It can also happen if you have created a custom rule that keeps that sender in your inbox.

Yes, you can choose when your daily summary emails are delivered in the Preferences screen.

Yes, you can choose between Once Daily or Twice Daily summary emails. You can also choose when you'd like these emails to be delivered. You can adjust both of these settings on the Preferences screen.

Yes! Forage comes with default email categories like Calendar, Events, Transactions, Updates, Promotions, Newsletters, etc. These are designed to keep your inbox organized.

You have full control over how Forage treats these categories. Whether you want emails in these categories delivered directly to your inbox, summarized in your daily summary email, or automatically archived to reduce clutter, Forage lets you customize the experience to fit your needs.

You can customize Forage to fit your needs in the Preferences screen.

Yes, you can create custom rules for specific senders! In the Preferences screen, you'll find a section titled "Custom Rules". Click the “+” button in that section to create your own rule.

If an email is categorized incorrectly, you can let Forage know in a few ways:

In the Preferences tab of the app, you will find three different treatments that can be applied to your emails.

When you unsubscribe from a sender, Forage will follow the unsubscribe link in the email and execute the unsubscribe for it.

It is common for senders to not respect your unsubscribe request, so we also add a Custom Rule to your Preferences that moves any future emails from that sender directly to trash.

In some cases where the sender doesn't have an unsubscribe link, Forage will send an email to that sender to request that your email be unsubscribed from their mailing list.

When you unsubscribe from a sender, you will also have the option to Archive All emails from them that may still be hanging around in your inbox.

Delayed Archive helps keep your inbox tidy by automatically archiving emails in your inbox after a set period. This is useful if you want a certain sender or type of email to show up in your inbox, but you don't want those emails to pile up over time.

You can set the Delayed Archive duration for any category of emails, or any specific sender (via Custom Rules). You have the option to archive emails after 24 hours, 3 days, or 1 week from the time they arrived.

Personal conversations are excluded and will not be touched by Delayed Archive.

No, Forage will not categorize personal emails that you send to yourself.

By default Forage does not delete your emails. Emails that are included in your daily summary are archived and moved to a label/folder (not deleted). Archived emails are still searchable in Gmail and visible in folders.

However, there are two scenarios where emails can be deleted:

The Move to trash option does not delete emails immediately. It puts the emails in Gmail's trash folder, where it will be deleted automatically by Gmail after 30 days.

Please refer to our help article Delete your account for instructions on how to uninstall Forage and delete your email data from our service.

All changes that Forage makes to your emails are reversible. Please refer to our help article Delete your account for instructions on how to do this.

Forage does not process or handle personal conversations. Our AI focuses on categorizing and summarizing content & notifications (like calendar invitations, newsletters, promotions, events, transactions, and updates) leaving personal correspondence untouched and private. Personal messages are identified using basic information like sender name, subject line, and unsubscribe link detection to ensure privacy. AI is not used on these emails. If we add features in the future to help with your personal correspondence, those features will be opt-in.

Yes, security is paramount to our team. We will never sell your email data or use it to train AI models. Our features are designed to protect your personal data while delivering groundbreaking functionality. Forage uses only basic information, like sender name and subject line, to identify and exclude personal conversations from processing.
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We undergo regular security assessments to ensure compliance with Google's Restricted Scopes verification process. This includes passing the Cloud Application Security Assessment (CASA) conducted by TAC Security, Google’s recommended ADA CASA Assessor.

After your 7-day free trial, we offer a variety of paid subscriptions:

No, Forage does not offer a free plan. However, we do provide a 7-day free trial for all new users, giving you the opportunity to explore features before committing to a subscription.