AI productivity tool for Gmail™: triage, summarize, draft, extract data from emails & attachments.
Listing updated:July 28, 2026
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Overview
Write less. Do more.

Kerna is the AI productivity assistant for Gmail™ that turns hours of inbox work into a few clicks — triage, summarizing, drafting, and replying, right where you already work. No new tabs, no copy-pasting, no switching apps.

Professionals spend over a quarter of the workday on email. Kerna gives that time back — and handles any of 45 languages while it does.

📥 START WITH WHAT MATTERS
- Inbox triage: Kerna scans incoming mail and surfaces what's urgent, what needs a reply, and what can wait — so you work the messages that matter first [NEW]
- Stop scrolling a full inbox trying to decide where to begin

⚡ CATCH UP IN SECONDS
- Summarize any email — brief, standard, or detailed
- Summarize an entire thread with one click — what was said, what was decided, what's still open
- Summarize attachments — pull the key points from PDFs and documents without opening a single file [NEW]
- Full translation in 45 languages (not just summaries), with automatic language detection — read any email as if it arrived in your own language

↩️ REPLY IN ONE CLICK
- Generate a reply with 7 tones: Formal, Casual, Friendly, Direct, Enthusiastic, Diplomatic, Empathetic
- Pick from 8 intents: Agree, Decline, Ask for Clarification, Provide Info, Follow Up, Thank, Apologize, Negotiate
- Replies come back in the email's original language, automatically
- Creates a threaded Gmail™ draft you review before sending — you always control the final send
- Save custom reply prompts for the situations you handle again and again

✍️ COMPOSE WITHOUT THE BLANK PAGE
- Draft a professional email from a template or a one-line instruction — pick department, topic, and details
- Quick Improve for a fast grammar fix, Advanced Improve for a full rewrite
- Translate any draft into any language before you send
- Import recipients from Google Contacts™

🗂️ CAPTURE DETAILS — WITHOUT RETYPING
- Extract contacts automatically (name, email, phone, role)
- Extract calendar events with conflict detection — Kerna warns you before you accept a meeting that clashes with your schedule
- Extract action items as clear, ready-to-do tasks
- Smart Focus: define your own extraction fields (e.g. "ticket number", "contract value", "deadline")
- Save anything Kerna finds straight to Google Tasks™ or Google Calendar™ — no copy-pasting between apps

👥 SCALE IT ACROSS YOUR TEAM
- Create teams with a shared token pool
- Set individual or default member limits
- Share custom prompts so everyone works from the same playbook
- Admin dashboard with usage tracking

⚙️ MAKE IT YOURS
- Full interface in 45 languages
- Set your default language, tone, and summary level
- Configure Smart Focus fields for your industry
- Preferences save automatically

🎯 WHO KERNA IS FOR
- Anyone who loses hours a week to a crowded inbox
- Sales and account teams moving deals forward
- Support teams clearing high-volume queues
- Operations, procurement, and partnerships managers
- Founders and executives who'd rather run the business than manage email
- Teams working across more than one language

🔒 PRIVACY & SECURITY
- Independently assessed under CASA Tier 2 (Cloud Application Security Assessment)
- Servers and data processing within the European Union
- Email content is processed in-memory only — never stored on our servers
- Zero Data Retention (ZDR) agreement in place with OpenAI, our AI provider — email content sent for processing is never stored at rest and never retained for abuse monitoring
- PII redaction applied before AI processing
- No model training on customer emails — not by us, not by our AI provider
- AI-generated content clearly labeled with a disclaimer
- GDPR-compliant with self-service data deletion
- Full privacy policy: https://www.kerna.io/privacy

💼 SUBSCRIPTION TIERS
- Free: Core translation, summarization, and reply generation
- Standard: Advanced AI models and higher token limits
- Pro: Custom prompts, Smart Focus, and advanced text improvement
- Business: Team management and shared prompts
- Enterprise: 25 seats, detailed reporting, and priority support

Works entirely within Gmail™ — open an email, click Kerna, get results in seconds.

Start free at kerna.io.

Gmail™, Google Contacts™, Google Tasks™, and Google Calendar™ are trademarks of Google LLC. Kerna is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Google LLC.
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Kerna AI Email Assistant will ask for the permissions shown below. Learn more
Kerna AI Email Assistant will need access to your Google account
This will allow Kerna AI Email Assistant to :
Manage drafts and send emails
View your email messages when you interact with the add-on
View your email messages and settings
View your email messages when the add-on is running
Run as a Gmail add-on
Manage drafts and send emails when you interact with the add-on
See, edit, share, and permanently delete all the calendars you can access using Google Calendar
View and edit events on all your calendars
See, edit, download, and permanently delete your contacts
See your primary Google Account email address
See your personal info, including any personal info you've made publicly available
Create, edit, organize, and delete all your tasks
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