Draftery vs Notion Mail: Which AI Email Tool Is Right for You?

Draftery is an AI email assistant for Gmail that learns how you communicate with each individual recipient. Instead of applying a single writing style to every email, Draftery studies the nuances of your conversations -- how you write to clients versus colleagues, the tone you use with your manager compared to a vendor, the level of formality that fits each relationship.

The result is email drafts that sound authentically like you wrote them, tailored to the person on the other end. Every time you edit, accept, or reject a draft, Draftery refines its understanding of your voice for that specific conversation. The more you use it, the better it gets at capturing the subtle differences in how you communicate across relationships.

Draftery is priced at $19.99 per month with a flat rate that includes approximately 300 drafts. There is no tiered pricing or feature gating -- every subscriber gets the full experience. A 7-day free trial with no credit card required lets you experience per-recipient voice matching before committing. The focus is intentionally narrow: Draftery does one thing -- draft emails that sound like you -- and does it exceptionally well.

Notion Mail is a free email client built by Notion, designed to integrate email directly into the Notion workspace. It launched in early 2025 as a Gmail-only email client that brings Notion's database-driven approach to email management. The core idea is that email should not live in a separate silo -- it should connect to your projects, tasks, and documents.

As an email client, Notion Mail offers auto-labeling, scheduling, and an inbox layout that feels like a Notion page. You can convert emails into Notion tasks, link them to database entries, and manage your inbox alongside your project workflow. The collaborative features let teams share inboxes and work on email together.

AI features are available through Notion AI, which is a $10 per user per month add-on to any Notion plan. With Notion AI enabled, you can draft emails, summarize threads, and generate replies. The AI learns your general writing style and can produce competent drafts, though it does not offer per-recipient voice adaptation.

The pricing is unique in this comparison. Notion Mail itself is free for anyone with a Notion account (including the free Notion tier). The AI drafting capabilities require the Notion AI add-on at $10 per user per month. This means you can use Notion Mail as a basic email client for free, but AI-assisted drafting costs $10 per month -- less than Draftery's $19.99 but without per-recipient voice matching.

Source: Pricing and feature details are based on publicly available information from <a href="https://www.notion.so" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">notion.so</a>.

Draftery and Notion Mail represent two fundamentally different approaches to improving email. Draftery says the most important problem is making every email sound like you wrote it. Notion Mail says the most important problem is connecting email to your broader work context. Both are valid perspectives, and the right choice depends on where your biggest pain point lies.

Draftery's per-recipient voice matching means every draft is tuned to the specific person you are emailing. Your draft to a long-time client sounds warm and professional. Your note to a teammate sounds casual and direct. Your update to an executive sounds concise and data-driven. This happens automatically -- you do not choose a tone or adjust settings per email. Draftery learns each relationship independently and adapts.

Notion Mail's workspace integration means your email lives alongside everything else. An email from a client can be instantly converted into a task in your project database. A thread about a design decision can be linked to the relevant Notion doc. Your inbox is not a separate app you switch to -- it is another view in your workspace. For teams already deep in the Notion ecosystem, this removes friction between communication and execution.

The practical implication: Draftery makes your individual emails better. Notion Mail makes your email workflow more connected. If you spend most of your email time crafting replies that need to sound right for each recipient, Draftery solves that problem. If you spend most of your email time switching between your inbox and your project management tools, Notion Mail solves that problem.

• Draftery's strength: Every email automatically tuned to the specific recipient -- formal to clients, casual to colleagues, concise to executives
• Notion Mail's strength: Email connected to projects, tasks, and docs in one workspace -- turn emails into tasks, link threads to databases
• Draftery's trade-off: No workspace integration, task management, or collaborative inbox features
• Notion Mail's trade-off: AI drafting uses general style matching without per-recipient adaptation, requires paid Notion AI add-on
• The question to ask yourself: Is your biggest email problem draft quality (choose Draftery) or workflow disconnection (choose Notion Mail)?

Pricing in this comparison is nuanced because the tools have different structures. Draftery has one flat price: $19.99 per month for full access including per-recipient voice matching and approximately 300 drafts. There is no free tier and no add-ons.

Notion Mail's pricing depends on what features you need. The email client itself is free for anyone with a Notion account, including the free Notion plan. This gives you auto-labeling, scheduling, and the workspace integration that makes Notion Mail distinctive. However, AI drafting requires the Notion AI add-on at $10 per user per month.

So the direct comparison is $19.99 per month (Draftery) versus $10 per month (Notion Mail with Notion AI) for AI-assisted email drafting. Notion Mail is clearly cheaper for AI drafting, almost half the price. But the feature difference matters: Draftery's $19.99 includes per-recipient voice matching that Notion AI does not offer.

If you are already paying for a Notion plan and the Notion AI add-on for other work purposes, Notion Mail's AI drafting comes at zero additional cost -- you are already paying the $10 per month. In this scenario, trying Notion Mail before Draftery makes financial sense. You are getting email AI as a bonus of a subscription you already have.

If you are not a Notion user, the calculus changes. You would need to adopt Notion as your workspace tool and pay for the AI add-on to get AI-assisted email drafting. At that point, Draftery's focused approach at $19.99 per month is simpler -- one tool, one subscription, one purpose.

Both tools let you try before committing. Draftery offers a 7-day free trial with no credit card required. Notion offers a free tier that includes Notion Mail (without AI), so you can experience the email client before deciding whether to add Notion AI.

Being fair about this comparison means acknowledging where Notion Mail genuinely offers more. There are several areas where Notion Mail has capabilities that Draftery does not, and for some professionals these features will be the deciding factor.

Workspace integration is Notion Mail's defining advantage. If you already use Notion for project management, documentation, and collaboration, having email live in the same environment eliminates context switching. You can reference a Notion doc in an email, convert an email into a database task, and see your email and project timelines side by side. No other email tool offers this level of integration with a workspace platform.

The free email client is a genuine advantage. Notion Mail as a basic email client -- without AI features -- costs nothing. You get auto-labeling, scheduling, and the workspace integration for free. If you want to try a workspace-integrated email experience without paying, Notion Mail is the only option on the table.

Collaborative inbox features let teams share and manage email together. For teams that handle shared email addresses -- support, sales, info -- or need visibility into each other's email, Notion Mail's collaborative features are more advanced than what Draftery offers (Draftery is an individual tool).

Task management integration means emails can become tasks with due dates, assignees, and status tracking. For professionals who receive action items via email and need to track them alongside other work, this built-in connection saves the manual step of copying email content into a task manager.

The Notion ecosystem itself is an advantage if you are already invested in it. Notion has wikis, databases, calendars, and project management. Having email as another view in this ecosystem means fewer tools, fewer tabs, and fewer context switches throughout your day.

Draftery is the right choice for professionals who prioritize the quality and authenticity of their email communication over workspace integration. If the most important thing about your email tool is that every draft sounds genuinely like you -- adapted to each specific person -- Draftery was built for exactly this scenario.

The professionals who get the most value from Draftery over Notion Mail tend to be relationship-driven communicators who email diverse audiences throughout the day. They need their email to a client to sound completely different from their email to a teammate, without manually adjusting tone each time.

Here is who benefits most from choosing Draftery over Notion Mail.

• Professionals who email diverse audiences -- clients, colleagues, executives, partners -- and need each email tuned to the specific relationship
• Gmail users who are happy with their current email client and project management tools and just want better AI drafts
• Anyone who has tried Notion Mail's AI drafting and found the output too generic -- competent but not personalized to each recipient
• Professionals who are not in the Notion ecosystem and do not want to adopt a new workspace platform just for email
• Individual contributors and solopreneurs who need a focused drafting assistant rather than a collaborative workspace
• Writers who want their AI to learn and improve with every edit, building deeper understanding of each recipient relationship over time

Draftery and Notion Mail serve different needs and serve them well. Draftery is a dedicated AI email assistant that excels at one thing: making every email sound genuinely like you, adapted to each recipient. Notion Mail is a workspace-integrated email client that excels at connecting email to your projects, tasks, and documents.

If you are a Notion power user who wants email inside your workspace, Notion Mail is the obvious choice. It is free as a basic email client, and adding AI features through Notion AI at $10 per month is affordable and convenient. The workspace integration alone may be worth it for teams deeply embedded in the Notion ecosystem.

If you care most about email draft quality -- specifically, drafts that adapt to each individual recipient -- Draftery delivers what Notion Mail cannot. Per-recipient voice matching means your emails sound authentically like you wrote them, tailored to the person on the other end. At $19.99 per month, you are paying for focused AI drafting that gets better with every edit.

For some professionals, the answer might be both. Use Notion Mail for workspace integration and inbox management. Use Draftery when the email needs to be precisely tuned to the recipient. This hybrid approach is practical if draft quality matters for specific high-stakes conversations.

Try both and decide what matters more for your workflow. Notion Mail is free to start (without AI). Draftery offers a 7-day free trial with no credit card required. Let the experience guide your decision.