Email tracking for Gmail
EmailTrackApp adds free read receipts to Gmail. A pixel marker fills in green the second someone reads what you sent, with the open time, the device, and how many times they came back to it. Nothing visible is added to your message.
50 emails a month free · no card required · no signature in your email
A read receipt is one invisible image and a great deal of judgement about what loading it means. Most of the engineering goes into deciding which loads to ignore.
Your message leaves Gmail exactly as you wrote it, plus one transparent image nobody can see. We store the subject line and recipient so the dashboard has something to show you. The body of your email never leaves your browser.
When the recipient's mail client loads images, our server receives the request and records the time, the device type and the approximate region. No code runs on their machine: email clients strip JavaScript, so an image is the only signal available.
Spam scanners, link previewers, Apple's privacy relay and your own re-reads all trigger the pixel. We log every one, label it, and keep it out of your count, then show you exactly what was filtered and why.
More honestly answered than most tools will manage. Read receipts depend entirely on the recipient's mail client loading images, and plenty of them don't. Here is what to expect, by client.
| Recipient's email client | What you get |
|---|---|
| Gmail (web and mobile) | Reliable first opens |
| Outlook.com, Yahoo Mail, Zoho | Reliable |
| Outlook desktop | Often nothing — images blocked by default |
| Proton Mail | Usually nothing — remote images off by default |
| Apple Mail with Privacy Protection | Filtered out as a machine prefetch |
| Plain-text and locked-down corporate clients | Nothing |
The rule we hold ourselves to: no data is not the same as not read. The dashboard says "no read receipt yet", never "unread", because the second is a claim the technology cannot support and people make real decisions on it.
Most Gmail tracking extensions give away unlimited tracking, then charge you to remove the footer they put in your email. That is an advert you pay to switch off. We charge on a different axis.
| Typical Gmail tracker | EmailTrackApp | |
|---|---|---|
| Footer added to free emails | Yes, until you pay | Never, on any plan |
| What the paid plan buys | Removing the footer | Volume, history, links, reminders |
| Bot and scanner filtering | Partial | Every event classified and shown |
| Recipient can refuse tracking | Rarely | Public opt-out, honoured before send |
| Recipient IP addresses stored | Usually in full | Irreversible hash only |
| Cheapest paid tier | $2.99–$4.99/mo | $2/mo · $59 lifetime |
The invisible tracker is free forever. You pay when you need more than fifty a month, or when you want the data behind the marker.
Two minutes. Works with any Gmail or Google Workspace account in Chrome or Microsoft Edge.
Install from the Chrome Web Store. No configuration, and no access to your mailbox — the extension reads the compose window, not your inbox.
Create a free account from the extension popup. Gmail reloads and a read-receipt toggle appears in every compose window.
A marker appears next to your sent mail. Hollow means delivered, solid green means read, and a desktop notification arrives the moment it happens.
The questions people actually ask before installing a read-receipt extension, answered without marketing.
A single transparent 1×1 pixel image is added to your outgoing email. When the recipient's mail client loads images, it requests that image from our server, and we record the time, the device type and the approximate region.
No code runs on the recipient's computer. Email clients strip JavaScript entirely, so an image request is the only signal available to any tracking product.
The pixel is invisible, and EmailTrackApp never adds a visible signature or footer to your message on any plan, including the free one. A technically minded recipient can find the pixel by viewing the email's source, which is true of every tracking tool.
Anyone can also turn tracking off permanently for their address on our opt-out page. We check that list before any pixel is issued.
First opens are reliable when the recipient's client loads images. Beyond that there are limits worth knowing. Spam scanners, link-preview bots and Apple Mail Privacy Protection all fetch the pixel without a human reading anything, so we classify and exclude those and show you every filtered event with the reason.
Repeat open counts are a lower bound rather than an exact number, because Gmail caches images through its own proxy. And if a recipient blocks images, no receipt exists at all, which means no information rather than an unread email.
Your recipients can use any email provider and install nothing. Reliability varies: Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo and Zoho web clients report opens well; Outlook desktop and Proton Mail often block remote images by default; Apple Mail with Privacy Protection prefetches every image automatically, which we detect and exclude rather than report as a false open.
On the sending side, EmailTrackApp supports Gmail and Google Workspace in Chrome and Microsoft Edge.
Yes. The free plan covers 50 tracked emails a month with open times, device and repeat-open counts, plus seven days of history and desktop notifications. No card required.
Unlike most Gmail trackers, the free plan never adds a promotional signature to your email. Pro is $2/month billed yearly for unlimited tracking, unlimited history and link click tracking.
No, and any product claiming otherwise is guessing. A pixel request gives a timestamp, an IP address and a browser string. A colleague opening a forwarded copy looks identical to your original recipient checking the email on a different device.
We don't report forwarding, because it cannot be measured reliably and a confident wrong answer is worse than none at all.
Email tracking is legal and commercially standard in most jurisdictions, but recipients are data subjects who never consented. Several EU regulators read the ePrivacy Directive as requiring prior consent for tracking pixels, and enforcement in this area is still developing.
EmailTrackApp stores recipient IP addresses only as an irreversible hash, offers a public opt-out honoured before any pixel is issued, and includes an option to disclose tracking in the message itself. This is not legal advice — take your own for your jurisdiction.
No. The extension reads the Gmail compose window in your browser in order to insert the pixel, and sends us the subject line and recipient address so the dashboard has something to display. The body of your email never leaves your browser, and we request no Gmail API access to your mailbox at all.