Now accepting early access

AI Email to iMessage: Get Important Emails Delivered as Texts

Most AI email tools give you a better inbox to stare at. Sifta takes a different approach: it reads your Gmail or Outlook inbox, identifies what genuinely matters, and sends you a concise iMessage, right in your existing Messages app. No dashboard, no new app, no badge-count anxiety.

Routing AI-classified email to iMessage instead of a separate inbox tool is a deliberate design choice with a long-term payoff. Every new app you add to your day is friction. Every new dashboard becomes a tab you forget to check. iMessage, by contrast, is already open, already part of your notification habits, and already a place you trust for important communications. Sifta delivers the AI email layer through the channel you are most likely to actually read. That choice also creates a natural conversational interface: you can text Sifta back to act on an alert, ask a follow-up question, or pause delivery, all in the same thread, without learning a new product. The longer you use Sifta, the more it feels less like an inbox tool and more like a colleague who handles your email.

Get Early Access

Quick Answer

Sifta converts important emails into iMessage texts, sending you a plain-language summary of every high-priority email in your Gmail or Outlook inbox directly to your iPhone within seconds of arrival. Sifta monitors your inbox in real time and uses AI to decide which emails deserve an iMessage alert. Most users receive 2-5 Sifta texts per day from a typical inbox of 100-150 daily emails.

Sound Familiar?

Push notifications fire for every email, newsletters, receipts, automated replies, so you learned to ignore all of them. Now you're missing the ones that actually matter.

Email apps that promise 'AI summaries' still require you to open the app, sit at a screen, and decide what to do with each message. You've just moved the friction, not removed it.

When you're in back-to-back meetings, on a flight, or heads-down on work, your inbox is completely invisible. Important emails sit unread for hours.

How Sifta Fixes This

✓

Sifta replaces 77 daily inbox checks with 2-5 targeted iMessage alerts, only the emails that genuinely need your attention, summarised in plain language and delivered to your iPhone.

✓

iMessage is a native, trusted channel. No app to install, no notification permission to grant, no badge count to manage. Sifta appears as a contact in your existing Messages app.

✓

The alert includes everything you need to decide: who sent it, what they need, whether it's urgent, and a one-line summary. You can act, or choose to wait, without ever opening your inbox.

How Sifta Works

1

Connect Gmail or Outlook

Authorise Sifta via standard OAuth in under 2 minutes. No password is shared, it's the same flow Google and Microsoft use for all trusted third-party apps. You can revoke access at any time from your Google Account or Microsoft account settings.
2

Sifta's AI monitors your inbox in real time

Every email that arrives is processed by OpenAI's GPT-4.1 models within seconds. A lightweight noise filter runs first (using GPT-4.1-nano) to identify obvious spam and newsletters. Important messages then pass through the priority classifier (GPT-4.1-mini), which evaluates sender importance, content urgency, action requirements, and whether you are directly addressed or just CC'd.
3

Important emails are summarised and texted to you

When something needs your attention, Sifta sends an iMessage: "From: Jordan Lee | Subject: Offer letter ready to sign | Needs your signature by 5 PM today." You decide what to do in under 10 seconds, no inbox required.
4

Everything else is quietly archived

Newsletters, receipts, automated notifications, and CC threads are silently filed. Nothing is deleted, it's all searchable in Gmail or Outlook if you ever need it. But it never interrupts your day.

What You Get

Works on iPhone, Apple Watch, CarPlay, everywhere your Messages app goes

No push notification fatigue, Sifta only texts you when something genuinely matters

Under-10-second read time: sender, summary, urgency, action needed

AI learns your priorities over time, reducing false alerts week by week

Gmail and Outlook both fully supported, one subscription covers either inbox

Inbox-free days become the norm, not a productivity hack you have to force

Frequently Asked Questions

How does Sifta send emails to iMessage? +

Sifta monitors your Gmail or Outlook inbox in real time via a secure OAuth connection. When an important email arrives, Sifta's AI generates a short summary and delivers it as a text message to your iPhone via iMessage. The message includes the sender's name, a 2-3 sentence summary of the email, and whether a reply or action is needed.

What's the difference between email notifications and Sifta's iMessage alerts? +

Email notifications fire for every single message, newsletters, receipts, automated replies, all of it, so most professionals learn to ignore them entirely. Sifta reads each email with AI before deciding whether to alert you. Most users receive 2-5 Sifta alerts per day out of a 100-150 email daily volume. The alerts are high-signal by design.

Does this work on Android? +

Sifta currently delivers via iMessage, which requires an iPhone. If you use an iPhone as your primary mobile device, Sifta works natively in the Messages app you already use every day. Android delivery via SMS is on the roadmap.

Which Gmail and Outlook scopes does Sifta request? +

For Gmail, Sifta requests: gmail.readonly (to read emails), gmail.modify (to archive emails on your behalf), gmail.compose (to draft replies when you request them), and userinfo.email (to identify your account). For Outlook: Mail.ReadWrite, User.Read, offline_access, openid, and email. Sifta never sends email without your explicit instruction.

Will I get flooded with texts? +

No. Sifta is deliberately quiet. The average user receives 2-5 alerts per day from a typical inbox of 100-150 emails. If Sifta hasn't texted you, nothing in your inbox needs your attention, that confidence is the core value of the product.

Stop checking email. Start getting only what matters, texted to your iPhone.

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