FollowUpThen is an email-centric reminder and personal follow-up assistant, officially positioned as "the world's simplest email reminder and personal follow-up assistant." It is trusted by hundreds of thousands of users for over 10 years, emphasizing privacy and security, with no need to connect an inbox, encrypted data, and use only for improving productivity.
Main capabilities and features:
- Email reminders: set and receive reminders via email.
- Spaced repetition: supports reminder scheduling repeated at intervals.
- Cancel follow-up in the same thread: follow-ups can be canceled within the same email subject.
- Cancel upon reply: if the other party replies, the follow-up can be automatically canceled.
- Connect to 4000+ other apps: can integrate with a large number of third-party apps.
- Calendar-managed follow-ups: manage follow-up items in the calendar.
- Recurring follow-ups: supports repetitive follow-up scheduling.
- Persistent follow-up until completion: can keep following up until the task is completed.
- SMS notifications: supports notifications via SMS.
- List upcoming follow-ups: can view a list of upcoming follow-ups.
- Set autocomplete: supports autocomplete settings.
How to use: Officially described as "Email-Based Actions," users can complete the setup and operation of reminders and follow-ups via email without connecting their own inbox. It can also connect to 4000+ other apps and manage follow-up items in the calendar.
Use cases: Suitable for sales scenarios and personal follow-up matters, helping users have everything they need to get things done at the right time, thereby creating "productive moments," optimizing life, and bringing clarity and a sense of freedom in the gaps. The official audience includes sales, authors, investors, consultants, fitness business owners, IT professionals, professors, speakers, database managers, software mentors, doctors, financial planners, talent researchers, and many other professions and organizations.
Version and pricing information:
- Free/Basic: 50 active reminders per month.
- Unlimited + Skills: unlimited follow-ups, with advanced Skills available for purchase.
- Team plan: $4/user/month, including team productivity, all contents of the Basic plan, an independent Skills budget for each member, centralized billing, and team data ownership.
Other information: Officially claimed to have a 12-year history, 30 million follow-ups, hundreds of thousands of productive users, and to have "started sending email reminders before email reminders became popular." Officially emphasizes privacy, security, no need to connect an inbox, encrypted security, and that user data is only used to improve productivity.
Not yet provided: specific refund policy, separate pricing details for each advanced Skill, supported languages, mobile app information, API documentation details, and service availability terms, etc., are not clearly stated in the materials.