Simple email tracking for Gmail. Get a read receipt, see when an email gets attention and check tracking after Send.
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1.3.3
updated 14 Oct 2026
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Latest, 16 Oct 2026:226 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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Latest, 16 Oct 2026:5 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About Email Tracking
📩 Know when your messages get attention
Email Tracking is a simple email tracking tool for Gmail that helps you understand what happens after you press Send. This Chrome email tracking extension works directly in your inbox and shows when qualifying activity is detected.
Use email tracking for Gmail for proposals, job applications, client conversations, sales outreach, partnerships, and important follow-ups.
🚀 How it works
1️⃣ Install the Gmail extension and open your inbox.
2️⃣ Write your message normally and press Send.
3️⃣ Check its status later in Sent.
There is no separate dashboard. The result stays next to the messages you already use.
⚪ Gray means tracking is on and nothing has been detected yet.
🟠 Orange means Gmail can still undo the send. Signals wait until the message is sent.
🔵 Blue means qualifying activity was detected.
Hover over the status to see the first event, latest event, and number of events detected.
🔎 Simple and focused
This lightweight email tracking software gives you useful open information without a CRM or separate sales platform. Unlike complex email tracking programs, it stays inside your normal workflow.
Whether you are comparing email tracking tools, looking for an email tracking service, or need a lightweight email tracking extension, the purpose is simple: see whether a sent message generated detectable activity.
Useful for:
- Everyday correspondence
- Individual sales outreach
- Follow-ups where timing matters
The extension supports tracking emails in the web inbox. It works as an email tracking Chrome plugin for everyday correspondence and as a simple option for sales email tracking.
📨 A practical alternative to read receipts
Looking for a Gmail read receipt? Traditional receipts may not be available to every Gmail user and can require confirmation from the recipient.
A small image is added to supported outgoing messages. When it is loaded, the extension can register an event and update the status in Sent.
This provides an alternative for people searching for how to turn on read receipts, read receipts Gmail, or how to add read receipt in Gmail. If you want to know how to get a read receipt in Gmail, you can use the detected status instead of relying on manual confirmation.
💼 When can it be useful?
💰 Proposals and quotations
👤 Job applications and recruiter conversations
🤝 Customer and client follow-ups
🌐 Partnership messages
📎 Contracts and important documents
⏰ Time-sensitive correspondence
Send as usual and return to the message when you need its status.
🧩 One job, no unnecessary complexity
This chrome extension for email tracking focuses on individual messages rather than becoming another sales platform. While third party email tracking can involve CRMs, contact databases, mail merge, campaign builders, and analytics dashboards, this tool keeps the experience deliberately simple.
Write → Send → gray → activity → blue
❓ Questions about read receipts
Users often ask does Gmail have read receipts, how to set Gmail read receipt, or how to turn on read receipts on Gmail.
The extension does not create a traditional confirmation request. Instead, it detects qualifying image activity after Send. The recipient does not need to install anything or manually approve a receipt.
If your question is how to know if someone read your message, remember that no image-based method can prove human reading with complete certainty. A detected event means qualifying activity occurred.
🔐 Understand what the status means
◆ A loaded image may indicate an open.
◆ Privacy technology can sometimes load images automatically.
◆ A recipient can view a message while external images remain blocked.
For this reason, the interface reports an open or activity signal rather than claiming absolute proof that a person read the message.
Events while Undo Send may still be available are hidden. Scheduled Send is not supported in this version.
🌐 Privacy and control
Detection can be switched on or off for one message or for everything. Email Tracking is free with unlimited tracked messages, needs no account and no Google sign-in, and never adds a "tracked by" footer to your emails.
It is not designed to collect or store message bodies, subject lines, attachments, passwords, or authentication cookies for this purpose.
📬 Stay inside Gmail
Staying in Gmail should not require changing the way you communicate. Write and send normally, then check the status in Sent when it matters.
Install the extension and start using simple open detection directly in your inbox.
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