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Read receipts

Know when your email was opened.

Turn on read receipts and bytemail tells you when a message you sent is opened, with the time, on your Mac and your iPhone. Opens caused by Apple's Mail Privacy Protection are filtered out, so a receipt means a person opened it.

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01

Read, or not read yet

Every message you send with tracking shows Read with the time, or Not read yet. No guessing whether to follow up.

Read, or not read yet
02

A heads-up when it happens

When someone opens your message, a notification says who and which one. On a MacBook it shows in the notch.

A heads-up when it happens
The details

Everything read receipts does

Opened, and when Each tracked message shows when it was first opened and how often since.
A ping when it happens Get a notification the moment someone opens your message, on your Mac or iPhone.
No false alarms Apple's Mail Privacy Protection loads every image on delivery. bytemail recognises those loads and doesn't count them as reads.
Your choice per message Track everything, nothing, or decide when you send. You can also ask for a standard read receipt instead of the image.
Only the image touches our server A tiny image is all our server sees. Your mail, its text and your recipients never do, and which app opened it isn't kept.
Pairs with reminders Set remind me if no reply when you send, and the conversation comes back if nobody answers.
Questions

Read receipts: common questions

Do read receipts work with Gmail and Outlook recipients?

Yes. The receipt works in whatever app the recipient uses, as long as it loads images. Some people block images, so no receipt doesn't always mean unread.

What about Apple Mail users?

Apple's Mail Privacy Protection loads images on delivery. bytemail tells those automatic loads apart, so you won't see a false "opened".

Are read receipts on by default?

You choose. Set a default in Settings, and switch tracking on or off for any message before you send it.

More in bytemail
Notch and widgets New mail grows out of the notch. Reply, open links or mark it read from there. AI assistant Summaries, drafts, Rewrite and translation, with Apple Intelligence, ChatGPT, Claude or a local model. Keyboard shortcuts Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail or Superhuman keys, or your own.

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  • AI assistant with ChatGPT, Claude and more
  • MCP for Claude, Codex and other AI apps
  • bytemail for iPhone at no extra cost, coming soon
  • Up to 5 devices, Mac and iPhone

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