Quiet by default
Peekat shows a count and a short list, and interrupts you only for mail that needs you now: a sign-in code, a person waiting, something you marked as critical.
Peekat Email
Stop checking email.
A quiet Gmail notifier for your browser. Peekat tells you about the mail that matters, lets you read and clear it without a Gmail tab, and keeps your mail on your device.
Coming soon for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. Free.
Read and clear in place
Open a message from the toolbar, the side panel or a full page. Mark it read, archive it, or move it to Trash without opening Gmail.
Every account, one place
See the unread mail of each Gmail account and its inbox categories, with honest counts that never claim “all clear” when Peekat cannot tell.
Your mail stays on your device
Peekat has no server. It talks only to Google, and keeps what it needs in your browser. No account with us, no analytics, no ads.
How Peekat uses your Gmail data
Peekat works with the Gmail account you choose. When you select Connect Gmail, Google asks you to allow Peekat to read and manage your email. Peekat uses that access only for the features you see in it:
- Your email address: to show which account a message belongs to and to keep accounts apart.
- Unread messages in your inbox and its categories (sender, subject, a short preview, date, labels): to show the list, the counts on the toolbar icon, and notifications for new mail.
- The full content of a message: only when you open it in Peekat, to show it to you.
- Changes to a message’s labels, and moving it to Trash: only when you ask: opening a message marks it read in Gmail, and the Mark as read, Archive and Delete buttons do what they say. Peekat never deletes mail permanently.
If you skip that step, Peekat can use the Gmail account already signed in to your browser instead, for the same features and under the same rules.
Writing and replying open Gmail’s own compose window; Peekat does not send mail. Everything Peekat reads stays in your browser on your device. It is never sent to us or to anyone else, never used for advertising, and never used to train AI models.
The use of information received from Google Workspace scopes will adhere to the Google User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Read the full Privacy Policy. You can remove Peekat’s access at any time in your Google Account.
Who makes Peekat
Peekat Email is made by Felix Lyu, an independent developer. Questions and support: hi@felixlyu.com.