BlueTicks for Gmail

About BlueTicks for Gmail

BlueTicks adds WhatsApp style read receipts to Gmail. In your sent list, one tick means the message was sent and two blue ticks mean it was opened, so you can tell at a glance which emails were read without opening a separate dashboard or leaving your inbox.

Who it helps: anyone who sends email and then waits. Freelancers following up on a quote, founders doing outreach, recruiters chasing candidates, and small support teams who need to know whether a message actually landed before they send a reminder.

How it works: the ticks appear inline, next to the messages you already sent, in the interface you already use. There is no second tool to open, no weekly digest to read, and nothing to check on another site. If you look at your sent list, you have the information.

What it does not do, said plainly: it cannot tell you where a message was opened, and it does not measure attention. An open is recorded when the message is displayed with images enabled, so a recipient whose client blocks images can read your email without being counted. Treating a missing tick as proof that nobody read the message is the most common way to misuse a tool like this one.

Availability and pricing: versions exist for both Chrome and Firefox. It costs 4 dollars a year, and the free tier covers 30 tracked emails a month, which is enough for occasional use without paying anything.

Use cases: knowing whether a proposal was opened before you follow up, telling a silent recipient apart from one who never read the message, deciding when a reminder is worth sending, and keeping a light record of which emails were read.