Sparked by this Quora question, I thought of giving the definitive answer, in 2024, of your options to send a recurring email using Gmail.
What is a recurring email?
Good question! A recurring email is one that you schedule once, then gets sent over and over again… on a schedule you choose. So if you want to send an email titled "Give me a report on SEO progress" every week.
Does Google let you send recurring emails?
No. Gmail does NOT allow you to send recurring emails. You can send an email later, but not send the same email, again and again. For recurring emails, you need to use a 3rd party service.
What can I use to send recurring emails from Gmail?
There are third-party tools that can help you do that. Here's are the best tools to send repeating emails, as of June 2024:
- Recurrr.com – free tier, then $9/mo
- Boomerang for Gmail – $15/mo (clunky interface for recurring, but does a lot more too)
My advice: If you're looking to add superpowers to your Gmail with a feature-packed email suite, choose Boomerang. If you only need to send recurring emails, choose recurrr.com. Yes it's our software, so we're biased, but we use it ourselves and love it, and it's the reason we created it – to send recurring emails. If that's the problem you're looking to solve, look no further – start sending recurring emails today, for free.
Full disclosure – there were a few more tools that helped send recurring emails in the past, but they're now dead, unmaintained or bad:
- mailboss.org – discontinued;
- later.io – free or $3/mo, but goes to SPAM;
- mailconductor.com – impossible to use;
- schedulethatemail.com – discontinued;
- gmass.com – can only send every week/month;
- sendrecurring.com – old and unmaintained;
For a detailed comparison of all your options, check out our top 11 tools to send recurring emails in 2024.
Other tools that haven't even made the list above:
- https://recurringemail.com/en
- https://recurring-emails-for-gmail.com/en
- https://www.rightinbox.com/blog/how-to-send-recurring-emails-in-gmail
- https://www.sendrecurring.com/
- https://www.mailboss.org/
- https://www.gmass.co/blog/recurring-reminder-emails/
- https://schedulethatemail.com/
- https://www.mailconductor.com/
- https://later.io/
- https://www.sendlateremail.com/
In conclusion, we've done our research so you don't have to. If you want to send recurring emails in 2024 from Gmail, you cannot do that from Gmail itself, you have to use a third party app. The best 2 options for you are:
- Boomerang for Gmail (does a lot more than recurring emails, that's both good and bad)
- Recurrr.com (free tier, no credit card required)
If you do try out our software, please let us know what you think about it – we're looking to improve every little bit of it.
Also, if you're an Outlook user, check out our guide on how to send recurring emails using Outlook. And if you want to understand why this practice is so powerful, see the top 10 reasons to send recurring emails.