Turn your tab strip into a reply queue. One click opens any Gmail email as a focused, badged reply tab. Deal with it now.
Users
4
store count
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
1
total ratings
Store rank
#265K
#221K among extensions
Version
3.0
updated 18 Sep 2026
Users
monthly, 1 months
Latest, 16 Oct 2026:4 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
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Latest, 16 Oct 2026:1 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About Reply Queue for Gmail
Short description (under 132 characters)
Turn your tab strip into a reply queue. One click opens any email as a focused, badged reply tab. Deal with it now, in order.
Detailed description
You already keep browser tabs open for things you need to deal with. Reply Queue makes Gmail work that way on purpose.
You know the loop: read an email, can't reply right now, mark it unread and hope you see it tomorrow. Or star it and never look at the starred folder again. Or snooze it so it can interrupt you later. Multiply that by 30, 50, 100 emails a day and your inbox becomes a list you re-read five times without answering anything.
Reply Queue fixes this with the most natural to-do list ever made: your tab strip.
HOW IT WORKS
Click the Reply Queue button next to Gmail's pop-out icon (or press Option+D / Alt+D)
That email opens in a background tab - it loads while you keep working, so you never wait
The tab is unmistakable: green badge, green favicon, arrow in the title
Reply tabs open in a clean focus view - no inbox, no sidebar, just the one email you owe a reply
Reply, close the tab, done. Closing the tab is your "done" signal
Your open reply tabs ARE your queue - visible, ordered, impossible to forget
WHY TABS BEAT SNOOZE
Snooze hides your work. Reminders interrupt you later. Labels are where emails go to die. An open tab sits there in plain sight until you deal with it - which is exactly why it works.
WHAT IT NEVER DOES
Never reads, stores, or transmits your email content
No analytics, no tracking, no external servers - there is no server.
Runs only on mail.google.com, nowhere else
Minimum permissions: just "tabs," which is the feature itself.
Built by a founder who processes a retail brand's inbox every morning and got tired of a desktop full of pop-out windows.