# HEY

> Email service and calendar with sender screening, from 37signals

HEY is a standalone email service from 37signals. Signing up gives you a new @hey.com address, or a custom domain on HEY for Domains, instead of a client for an existing Gmail or Outlook account. First-time senders wait in a Screener until you approve them, while newsletters and receipts are routed to their own Feed and Paper Trail. A calendar is included, and mail is read in HEY's own apps because IMAP and POP are not supported.

- **Category:** Email Apps
- **Made by:** 37signals LLC
- **Website:** https://www.hey.com
- **Runs on:** Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 4, 2026

## Pricing

HEY is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $99 per year (HEY for You, annual billing only).

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 30-day free trial of HEY for You, no credit card required. HEY for Domains has no free trial.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| HEY for You | $99 per year | A personal @hey.com address with HEY Calendar, 100GB of storage, apps on every platform and a HEY World blog. |
| HEY for Domains | $12 per user / month, billed monthly ($10 for the first user) | Email on your own domain for multiple users, with thread sharing, private team comments and email aliases. |
| HEY for Families | $179 per year, in total | Adds up to 4 additional people, each with their own @hey.com address, calendar and account. |

Read from https://www.hey.com/pricing/ on Oct 4, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with HEY before buying.

## Key features

- **The Screener:** First-time senders land in the Screener, where you approve or block them before any of their email can reach your Imbox.
- **Imbox, The Feed and Paper Trail:** Mail from approved senders goes to the Imbox, newsletters are shown in a feed-style reader, and receipts and confirmations are filed in the Paper Trail.
- **Reply Later and Set Aside:** Move emails that need an answer into a Reply Later pile and work through them in Focus & Reply. Set Aside keeps messages on hand for reference.
- **HEY Calendar:** A calendar is included with HEY for You and HEY for Domains and lives in the same apps as email.
- **Spy pixel blocker:** Blocks tracking pixels in incoming email and identifies the companies trying to track whether you opened a message.
- **Workflows and Collections:** Workflows track an email through stages you define, and Collections bring several related threads together on one page.

## Good for

- People ready to move to a new email address and a different inbox routine
- Anyone who wants to approve senders before they can reach the inbox
- Small teams that want email on their own domain with thread sharing

## Worth knowing

- HEY is its own email provider, not a client for Gmail or Outlook; existing mail history is not imported, only forwarded going forward.
- IMAP and POP are not supported, so HEY works only in its own apps.
- HEY for You is billed annually only, and HEY for Domains is billed monthly with no free trial.
- There is no free plan.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.6 out of 5 from 4,325 ratings in the United States, read Oct 5, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1506603805

**Tags:** Email client, Calendar, Templates

## Alternatives

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## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 4, 2026:

- https://www.hey.com
- https://www.hey.com/pricing/
- https://www.hey.com/features/
- https://www.hey.com/faqs/

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