# Ellie review (2026): is it worth $19 a month? > AI that drafts email replies in your voice for Gmail and Outlook Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Ellie is an AI assistant that writes replies to email you receive, in your tone and in any language. It can connect to a Gmail or Outlook mailbox and leave drafts ready, or run on demand from a browser extension or an Outlook add-in. The vendor says it writes replies only, not cold emails, and never sends without your check. - **Category:** Email Apps - **Made by:** Ellie - **Website:** https://ellieai.com - **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you write cold or outbound email, because the FAQ says it only replies. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Ellie is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $19 per month (Casual, billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Casual | $19 per month, billed monthly | One person; 25 replies a day through the browser extension only, with no auto-drafts. | | Business | $39 per month for up to 3 seats | 100 replies a day, auto-draft and auto-categorize, shared roles and training, 1 connected account per user. | | Professional | $79 per month for up to 5 seats | Unlimited replies a day, 3 connected accounts per user, priority support and extra seats. | Read from https://ellieai.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Ellie before buying. ## Key features - **Auto-drafted replies:** On Business and Professional, Ellie connects to a Gmail, Google Workspace, Outlook or Microsoft 365 mailbox and saves drafts to the Drafts folder. - **On-demand replies:** A browser extension adds a reply button in Gmail and Outlook on the web; Casual also lists Fastmail. An Outlook add-in covers the desktop apps. - **Writing in your style:** Ellie learns from previous sent emails, up to 200 on Casual and 1,000 on Business, and replies in your tone and language. - **Roles and knowledge base:** Roles give each kind of email its own tone and material, such as help documentation for a support role. Business and Professional accept files and website URLs. - **Auto-categorize:** Business and Professional also sort incoming mail into categories. The vendor says Ellie never sends an email without you checking it first. ## Good for - Professionals who reply to many similar emails each day - Small teams that want shared tone and help-doc knowledge - Microsoft 365 customers who want to buy through AppSource ## Worth knowing - Writes replies only; the pricing FAQ says it will not write cold emails. - Casual has no auto-drafts and works only through the browser extension. - Extra team members are priced starting at $5 per user, according to the pricing FAQ. - The pricing page also shows a time-limited first-year discount that is not recorded here. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Ellie drafts replies to your email in your own tone, in Gmail or Outlook. The $19 Casual plan has no auto-drafts and works only through the browser extension, auto-drafting starts at $39 for up to 3 people, and it won't write a cold email. If you want to start conversations, look elsewhere. - **Value for money: D.** The auto-drafts that make it worth having start on Business at $39 a month for up to 3 seats. Casual is $19, against an email middle of about $8, and has no auto-drafts. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 7 days free with no credit card, and nothing free after that. - **Features: C.** Drafts replies, categorizes mail, and learns from a knowledge base. The pricing FAQ says it writes replies only, never cold emails. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You connect your mailbox and feed it a knowledge base before it sounds like you. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, browser extension and Outlook add-in, covering Gmail, Outlook, Microsoft 365 and Fastmail. No phone app is listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Ellie's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among email apps - Ellie's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 11 of the 122 other email apps we grade, and level with 17. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 57 of 122) and worst on value for money (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $19 a month, against a middle price of $4.92 for the category: 65 of the 76 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 36 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/email ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Ellie you would be making an email client: sending, receiving, threading and searching years of mail. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 94 of the 122 other email apps grade higher. It costs $228 a year. - You could make: Templates: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: An email client: sending, receiving, threading and searching years of mail. - You could not: Filters that read every message as it arrives. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Gmail, Google Workspace and Outlook among them. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Gmail, Google Workspace, Outlook, Microsoft 365, Fastmail, Microsoft AppSource **Tags:** AI features, Inbox filtering, Email client, Templates ## Alternatives - [Fyxer](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fyxer): AI assistant that sorts email, drafts replies and takes meeting notes. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ellie-ai-vs-fyxer) - [MailMaestro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/flowrite): AI email writing and inbox assistant for Outlook and Gmail. 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