Boomerang adds integrated meeting scheduling and email productivity tools to Gmail and Google Workspace accounts, helping users focus on what matters.
Purpose: Boomerang is mainly used for email management and meeting scheduling, reducing the hassle of back-and-forth emails and improving work efficiency.
Key capabilities:
- Meeting scheduling: Provides Meeting Poll (invite participants to vote on the best time), Bookable Schedule (set up and share bookable time slots, with support for multiple calendars, Zoom and Google Meet integration, dual time zones, etc.), Share Free/Busy (lightweight sharing of free/busy status, works across domains), Suggest Times (schedule a one-off meeting within a single email), Team Scheduling (enterprise-grade collective and round-robin scheduling). One-click calendar scheduling without leaving your email, and the patented Magic Live Calendar always stays up to date.
- Scheduled email sending: After composing an email, click Send Later and use the calendar picker or natural language (such as "next Monday") to set the send time.
- Follow-up reminders: You can choose to be reminded only when no one replies, or to be reminded whether or not there is a reply, ensuring follow-ups are never missed.
- Read Later (Boomerang email): Move emails out of the inbox and have them return at a specified time as unread, starred, or pinned.
- Email reminders: Set reminders for bill payments, birthday/holiday greetings, sales follow-ups, cross-time-zone communication, travel confirmation emails, and more.
- Respondable: An AI assistant based on millions of email data points that helps in real time to write more effective emails that are more likely to get replies, providing tone and writing insights.
- Inbox Pause: Pause new emails from entering the inbox until the user is ready to deal with them; you can set emails to automatically turn off during non-working hours, block out focus time, or receive emails in batches only a few times a day, reducing distractions.
How to use: Add Boomerang to Gmail for free. It supports Firefox 38+, Chrome 5.0+, Safari 5.1+, Opera 15+, and Edge 39+ browsers, and works with Gmail and Google Workspace mailboxes. Using some features on iPhone requires a subscription.
Use cases:
- Need to coordinate meeting times among multiple people and avoid repeated back-and-forth communication.
- Want to schedule emails to be sent at a specific time, such as reminding others at a particular time or communicating across time zones.
- Need to follow up on important emails and ensure timely replies.
- Want to temporarily move emails out of the way and handle them later to keep the inbox tidy.
- Need to reduce email distractions and focus on completing important projects.
- Want to use AI to help write more effective emails.
Limitations: The material does not provide specific pricing information, details on the differences between free and paid features, or other platform support beyond what is mentioned. Some features (such as use on iPhone) require a subscription, but specific subscription plans are not provided.