Open tracking and notifications when your email is opened. Cross-platform read receipts provide email tracking for any recipient. Know when your message is opened with Boomerang's mail tracker.
Listing updated:October 9, 2024
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Overview
Read Receipts by Boomerang lets you know whether any message you send has been opened by your recipient, no matter what email app and service they use.

* Know whether your recipient has opened your message (open tracking)
* Get notified with an email when your message is opened
* Works on any mail service, even if your recipient doesn’t have Gmail™
* Boost response rates to emails you send

No more guessing and waiting! Add Read Receipts by Boomerang to your Gmail™ Inbox today to get easy open tracking right inside Gmail™.

Insert read receipts and get email tracking from the Inbox you use every day — no new logins or tools to learn. Get notified with an email when your recipient opens a tracked message, and track every message you’ve sent with a read receipt from a single dashboard. Read Receipts by Boomerang is a simple, integrated mail tracker. 

Here’s how to track a message with Read Receipts by Boomerang:
1.  Install Read Receipts by Boomerang (click the blue Install button at the top of this page)
2. Compose a new message in Gmail™.
3. Click the Read Receipts button in the Compose window
4. Click Insert Read Receipt
5. Boomerang will notify you when your message is read! 

Here are just a few of the many ways it helps to use Read Receipts by Boomerang:
* Make sure your recipient has received and viewed an important message
* Find out when people are opening your emails
* Know when it might be appropriate to follow up, either with another email or a call
* Sending time-sensitive information in your email

When you’re drafting an email and you add a read receipt to turn on mail tracking, you’ll notice an image containing some text is added to the bottom of your message. This image must remain in your message for Read Receipts to work, and it respects your recipient’s privacy by allowing them to opt out of email tracking.


Looking for more email functionality, including click tracking for messages you send with read receipts? Install Boomerang for Gmail™ at www.boomeranggmail.com!

About Boomerang
Founded in 2010, Boomerang is the leading provider of award-winning productivity solutions. Their thoughtful tools allow over 1M businesses to better manage their email and schedules in less time. Boomerang’s popular email innovations include Inbox Pause, email reminders, Response tracking, Send Later and the Respondable AI writing assistant. Boomerang’s scheduling features are based on their patented Magic Live Calendar and have helped users book 120% more meetings and saved over 160K hours of scheduling time. Boomerang’s productivity suite is available as a browser extension for Gmail™ and Outlook™ accounts and as an email client on iOS and Android. For more information, visit boomerangapp.com.
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PricingFree of charge with paid features
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Read Receipts by Boomerang will ask for the permissions shown below. Learn more
Read Receipts by Boomerang will need access to your Google account
This will allow Read Receipts by Boomerang to :
Manage drafts and send emails when you interact with the add-on
View your email message metadata when the add-on is running
Run as a Gmail add-on
Connect to an external service
See your primary Google Account email address
See your personal info, including any personal info you've made publicly available
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