Ellie

What is Ellie?

Ellie is an AI email assistant, built by the indie studio behind tryellie.com, that drafts email replies in your own writing style. Instead of generating generic, robotic responses, Ellie reads your sent mail to learn how you actually write — how long your openers run, when you say "cheers" versus "thanks", and how your tone shifts between clients and colleagues — then produces replies that sound like you wrote them. It runs inside the inboxes you already use: Gmail, Google Workspace, Outlook.com, Microsoft 365, and Exchange Online, via a browser extension (Chrome and Firefox) and connected-account auto-drafting.

The headline workflow is overnight auto-drafting. While you sleep, Ellie reads the threads that genuinely need a reply and writes a draft for each one. By morning, finished drafts are sitting in your Drafts folder — in the right thread, in your voice — so your job shrinks from writing to reviewing and sending. You can also trigger a reply manually from the extension on any open thread, choose the tone, and regenerate until it reads right.

Ellie goes beyond pure style with a knowledge base feature: connect your help docs, website, and pricing pages and Ellie crawls them (refreshing weekly) so support and sales replies cite the right facts, links, and numbers automatically. Assignable roles let you keep different tones and knowledge bases per inbox or teammate — for example, a friendly founder voice on one account and a precise support voice on another. On privacy, Ellie states it does not store your email content on its servers, share it, or use it to train AI models; each thread is read at draft time and discarded once the draft is written.

Ellie's position in 2026 is deliberately narrow: it is a reply-drafting layer, not a full email client like Superhuman or a triage tool like SaneBox. The target user is freelancers, founders, customer-support reps, and busy professionals who answer a high volume of email and want every reply to sound personal without spending the time to write each one by hand.

Ellie Pricing

Ellie has a genuine free tier and three paid plans. A 7-day free trial of the paid features is available with no card required. Last verified June 2026 from tryellie.com.

• Basic — Free: Up to 3 simple replies per day, basic AI model, writing-style training on up to 10 previous sent emails.
• Casual — $19/mo: Up to 25 replies per day, intelligent AI model (GPT-4 class), training on up to 200 sent emails, knowledge base training, and assignable roles for different email types.
• Business — $39/mo per seat: Up to 100 replies per day, intelligent AI model, training on up to 1,000 sent emails, knowledge base, assignable roles, team sharing, and email support.
• Professional — $79/mo per seat: Unlimited replies per day, customized AI model, training on your entire email archive, and knowledge base training. Additional team seats add on from a few dollars per user.

Note: auto-drafting via connected accounts and advanced knowledge base training sit on the Business and Professional tiers; the Casual plan is primarily manual-mode drafting through the extension.

Key Features

• Writing-style learning — Ellie analyzes your previously sent emails to capture your tone, sentence length, vocabulary, and sign-offs, then drafts replies that read as if you wrote them yourself
• Overnight auto-drafts — On Business and Professional plans, Ellie reads threads that need a reply overnight and leaves finished drafts in your Drafts folder by morning, placed in the correct thread
• Native Gmail & Outlook support — Works with Gmail, Google Workspace, Outlook.com, Microsoft 365, and Exchange Online through a browser extension and connected-account drafting
• Knowledge base training — Connect help docs, your website, and pricing pages and Ellie crawls them (weekly refresh) so support and sales replies include the right facts, links, and numbers
• Assignable roles — Define different tones and knowledge bases per inbox or teammate, so a support voice and a founder voice can coexist across accounts
• Tone and regenerate controls — Pick the tone for a reply and regenerate the draft until it reads right, keeping a human in the loop before anything is sent
• Privacy-first handling — Email content is not stored on Ellie's servers, shared with third parties, or used to train AI models; each thread is read at draft time and discarded after the draft is written
• Multi-account training depth — Style training scales by plan, from 10 sent emails on Free up to your entire archive on Professional, sharpening accuracy as you upgrade

Pros & Cons

Best For

• Founders and solopreneurs who answer a constant stream of email and want every reply to sound personal without writing each one from scratch
• Customer support and success teams who pair Ellie's knowledge base with role-based tones to send accurate, on-brand replies fast
• Freelancers and consultants juggling many client threads who want drafts ready to review rather than a blank reply box
• Busy professionals on Gmail or Outlook who like their current inbox and just want the writing handled, not a whole new email app

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