Mail Deck 1 Privacy

Every inbox you’re signed in to, in one panel.

Mail Deck sits on the Chrome toolbar and brings together the unread mail of Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL, Proton Mail, Yandex Mail and Mail.ru. Read, archive, delete or put mail off till later without opening a tab. It works through the session your browser already has, so it never needs your password. And it is quick at all of it.

Install from Chrome Web Store Free, open source, no account needed
The Mail Deck panel: unread mail from Gmail, Yandex Mail and Yahoo Mail mailboxes, with a sign-in code and two messages waiting for a reply, and an open message with its AI summary

Works with your mail

  • Gmail
  • Yahoo Mail
  • AOL Mail
  • Proton Mail
  • Yandex Mail
  • Mail.ru

Gmail works as soon as Mail Deck is installed. For the others, sign in on the service’s own site as usual, then turn it on in Settings → Other mail. Chrome asks you to allow that service’s sites, and turning it off takes the permission back. There is no password, app password or account of ours to set up: Mail Deck reads each one with the session your browser already has, the way it reads Gmail.

Not everything is the same everywhere. Proton mail opens on Proton’s site, because it is end-to-end encrypted; the panel shows its sender, subject and time. Mail from Yandex Mail and Mail.ru cannot be archived from the panel. Search, stars, Google Meet, labels and the Primary tab are Gmail’s. The other services have no public interface for this, so Mail Deck follows their own web apps, and a change on their side can stop one until Mail Deck is updated.

Fast, all the way through

A closer look

The AI assistant: what is important in the unread mail, with a numbered link to each mail, and an answer about a plan review An open message with Reply with AI: quick choices and a drafted reply, ready to send The panel opened over a website: that site’s mail on top, from two inboxes, with its sign-in code ready to copy

What it does

An assistant, if you want one

  • Chrome’s built-in model
  • ChatGPT plan
  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI
  • Google Gemini
  • xAI Grok
  • DeepSeek
  • Mistral
  • Qwen
  • Kimi
  • Z.ai GLM
  • Groq
  • OpenRouter
  • YandexGPT
  • Ollama
  • LM Studio

Ask your mail in plain words: “when is my flight?”, “what did Anna say about the budget?”, “invoices from October”. The assistant searches every Gmail account, reads what it finds and answers with numbered references to each mail. “What’s important?” sums up your unread mail, and “write to Anna that…” drafts a new mail. In an open message it summarizes the conversation with its dates for Google Calendar, drafts a reply in the thread’s language, and answers questions about it. Send it from the panel, with five seconds to undo, or open it in Gmail. Unread mail is sorted into waiting for your reply, important, and newsletters you can clear in one go.

Its buttons are there from the start and offer to turn it on; nothing is sent until you do. Chrome’s built-in model is free and runs on your computer, so your mail stays there. So does a model you run yourself with Ollama or LM Studio. Or sign in with your ChatGPT plan through OpenAI’s official Sign in with ChatGPT, or use your own API key from one of a dozen providers, OpenRouter’s hundreds of models among them. Requests go from your browser straight to that provider, with no servers of ours in between, and keys and sign-ins stay on this computer. A foreign-language message gets Translate, by Chrome’s own translator, with no assistant needed.

The AI assistant: what is important in the unread mail, with numbered references to each mail, and an answer about the Q4 plan review

One key per action

The keys go by position, so they work with any keyboard layout. J and K work in an open message too, and the next one can open by itself after an action. Star and search are for Gmail; archive works everywhere but Yandex Mail and Mail.ru; Summary needs the AI assistant.

Nothing in between

Mail Deck has no servers and no analytics. It talks only to Google and to the mail services you turn on, each with the session your browser already has, and never sees your password. The AI assistant adds one more only if you choose one: that provider, straight from your browser. Tracking pixels in your mail are kept out before they load.

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