Shortwave vs Notion AI

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Automate your email with agentic AI

AI writing and knowledge assistant inside Notion

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Description

Shortwave is an AI-powered email client designed to manage, organize, search, and automate your inbox. Utilizing advanced LLMs, it offers conversational AI assistance, custom AI filters, context-aware writing in your voice, scheduling integration, email bundle triage, and secure, private team collaboration.

Notion AI drafts, summarizes, and organizes content directly in your Notion workspace.

Key features

• AI Assistant for conversational email management and delegation
• AI Search to query your email using plain natural language
• Custom AI Filters written in plain English to automatically label, star, or archive
• Inbox Splits to divide your inbox into custom, focused tabs
• Email Bundles to group promotions, updates, or custom labels as single items
• Delivery Schedules to control when emails arrive in your inbox
• Private Team Comments and mentions to discuss emails directly in the app
• Shared Live Threads and read statuses to coordinate with teammates
• Voice Learning AI to draft replies that sound like your unique writing style
• Keyboard Shortcuts to process email workflows entirely without a mouse
• Tasklet Integration to connect to 3,000+ apps and automate workflows
• Google Workspace and Advanced Protection Program support

• Voice fingerprinting
• SEO briefs
• Notion sync
• Team style guides

Pros

• Available across multiple platforms including iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows.
• Employs third-party security reviews and undergoes annual CASA Tier 2 verification audits.
• Saves time by grouping mailing lists, newsletters, and promotional emails into bundled rows.
• Adapts and learns the user's specific voice and style based on sent emails.
• Allows team members to privately comment on live email threads and collaborate without forwarding.
• Guarantees that customer data is never used to train third-party LLMs.
• Enables delivery schedules so you can control exactly when non-urgent emails enter your inbox.
• Provides a clear 14-day full refund policy for paid subscriptions.

• Native to your Notion workspace
• Summarize long documents
• Auto-generate action items
• Q&A across your workspace
• Writing help in every block
• Works inside Notion databases
• Multi-language support
• Simple pricing on top of Notion

Cons

• Longer conversations inside the AI assistant process entire chat history, rapidly consuming daily quota limits.
• Refunds are strictly unavailable once the initial 14-day payment period expires.
• The Business paid plan limits users to roughly 150-300 standard AI requests per day.
• Premium tiers can be expensive, with the Max tier scaling up to $120 per user.
• Compliance options like SOC 2 Type II or GDPR are not self-serve and require manually contacting support.

• Extra cost on top of Notion
• Only useful inside Notion
• Outputs can feel generic
• No brand-voice fine-tuning
• Slower than dedicated writing tools
• Depends on your page structure
• Privacy concerns for sensitive docs
• Limited advanced prompting

Pricing plans

• BusinessUSD30/month
  • • Standard intelligence
  • • AI autocomplete, summaries & attachment analysis
  • • Read statuses, link tracking, snippets & more
  • • Full standard search history
• PremierUSD45/month
  • • Everything in Business, plus Advanced intelligence
  • • 2x more usage
  • • 100 threads per AI search
  • • 2x context tokens
• MaxUSD120/month
  • • Everything in Premier, plus Expert intelligence
  • • 6x more usage
  • • 150 threads per AI search
  • • 3x context tokens

• FreeEUR0/month
  • • For individuals to organize personal projects and life
  • • Trial AI capabilities like generating docs, or autofilling databases
  • • Basic forms
  • • Basic sites
• PlusEUR9.5/month
  • • For small teams and professionals to work together
  • • Everything in Free, and:
  • • Custom forms
  • • Custom sites
• BusinessEUR19.5/month
  • • For growing businesses to streamline teamwork
  • • Everything in Plus, and:
  • • Enterprise Search Beta
  • • Premium connections
• Enterprise—
  • • For organizations to operate with scalability, control, and security
  • • Everything in Business, and:
  • • Advanced security & controls
  • • Advanced connections
• Custom Agents—
  • • AI agents handle repetitive tasks autonomously, so your team doesn’t have to
  • • Free to try, then $10 per 1,000 monthly Notion credits

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