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The AI Email Summary Tool That Delivers Your Inbox to Your Phone

An AI email summary tool should save you time, not create another thing to check. Sifta reads every email in your Gmail or Outlook inbox, generates a clear summary of the ones that matter, and sends them to your phone via iMessage. You get the signal without the scroll.

Most email summary tools fail in the same way: they summarize everything that arrives, which means the summaries themselves become a new firehose to scan. Sifta starts from the opposite assumption. The AI first decides whether an email is worth your attention at all, and only then writes the summary. That filtering step is what makes the summaries useful. When a text from Sifta arrives, it is for an email you would have wanted to know about, written so you can decide what to do in under ten seconds without opening the original. Long threads are condensed to the latest position, asks are made explicit, and any deadline or amount is preserved in the summary so you do not need to hunt for it. There is also a writing quality benefit when you respond from a summary. Because the summary distills the actual ask, your reply tends to be tighter and more directly addressed to the question. The follow-up loops that often happen with email, where two people miss each other's points across three exchanges, become less common when the starting summary is clean. Over a week of use, the summaries become a kind of personal news feed for your inbox, where you can scroll back and see exactly what mattered without re-reading any of the original messages.

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Quick Answer

Sifta is an AI email summary tool that reads every incoming email in your Gmail or Outlook inbox and generates a 2-3 sentence plain-language summary of the messages that genuinely matter. Summaries are delivered to your iPhone via iMessage so you get the key information without opening your email app. Sifta summarizes only the emails worth your time, not every message that arrives.

Sound Familiar?

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Long email threads take minutes to parse when all you need is the answer in the last message.

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You've tried email clients that promised to summarize your inbox, but they still require you to open an app and look at a screen.

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By the time you batch-read emails at the end of the day, some of them needed a response hours ago.

How Sifta Fixes This

Sifta's AI reads the full email content, not just the subject line, and generates a 2-3 sentence summary that captures who, what, and what action is needed.

Summaries arrive via iMessage on the device you're already using, no separate app, no extra notifications to manage.

You can reply to the text to take action: archive, flag, or signal that you've seen it. Sifta handles the rest.

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What You Get

Read any email in under 10 seconds with AI-generated summaries

Catch up on your inbox during a commute without opening email

Respond to what matters immediately, not hours later

Reduce the cognitive load of reading long threads from start to finish

Frequently Asked Questions

How accurate are the AI-generated summaries? +

Very. Sifta uses GPT-4 to extract the core message, required action, and urgency level from each email. The summaries are designed to give you everything you need to decide whether to act, without opening the original.

Can I read the full email if I need to? +

Yes. The summary includes a note about where to find the full email if you need context. The original is always waiting in your inbox.

What if I want summaries for all emails, not just important ones? +

Sifta is tuned to summarize only important messages by default to avoid noise. But during onboarding you can adjust the sensitivity threshold so more emails qualify for a summary.

Does it work on iPhone only? +

The iMessage interface works on iPhone and Mac. If you need SMS-based delivery (Android or other devices), that option is available too.

How is this different from a daily email digest? +

A daily digest batches everything and delivers it once or twice a day, which is too slow for anything time sensitive. Sifta runs continuously and summarizes individual important emails the moment they arrive, so a customer escalation or investor reply reaches you in seconds, not at 5 PM in a wrap-up email. You can still ask Sifta for a daily catch-up summary if you want one, but real-time delivery is the default.

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Sifta is in early access at $49/month. Works with Gmail and Outlook. Setup takes 2 minutes.

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