Mixmax vs. Mailbutler:  follow-up suggestions, or follow-ups that send

Not by itself, from what Mailbutler documents. Its Smart Follow-ups look at your tracked emails, flag the ones that haven't had a reply, sort them by urgency, and let AI draft a follow-up for you to send (Mailbutler's help article "How do I use Smart Follow-ups?").

Mixmax sends the follow-up for you: write it once, and if they don't reply, it goes out from your Gmail in the same thread. If they reply, it stops.

Mailbutler is a broad inbox toolkit. It has open and click tracking with real-time alerts, professional email signatures you can share with a team, templates, mail merge from contacts, a CRM or a CSV, notes and tasks on emails, and an AI assistant that writes and summarizes emails. It also works in Apple Mail as well as Gmail.

Its entry plan is cheap, at $4 per user a month billed yearly.

It depends on the plan. Mailbutler starts at $4 per user a month billed yearly, and its Smart plan, where Smart Follow-ups start, is $11. Its Business plan, which syncs tracking data to HubSpot and Salesforce, is $24. Mixmax starts at $29 per user a month billed yearly ($34 monthly).

Mixmax also has a free plan with follow-ups that send themselves, and Mailbutler's pricing page lists a 14-day trial instead.

Yes. Mixmax shows who opened your emails and clicked your links, and "Remind me if no reply" brings an email back to the top of your inbox when someone goes quiet. Or skip the reminder and add a follow-up that Mixmax sends for you.

Choose Mailbutler if you want an all-round inbox helper, with signatures, tracking, notes and AI writing, and you're happy to send each follow-up yourself.

Choose Mixmax if you want follow-ups that actually go out when people go quiet, from your Gmail, stopped when they reply. Our guides on how to follow up after no response and on automated email follow-up tools cover both approaches.