Blueticks review

Blueticks is a Gmail extension for tracking whether a recipient opens an email. It adds tick marks to messages: one tick means sent, and two mean opened. In Gmail, you can also view when a message was opened and how many times, then review sent and opened conversations in a companion panel beside your inbox.

The product information lists multi-account support, so receipts can be used across Gmail accounts. Blueticks describes its privacy safeguards this way: email content stays off its servers, and the extension does not request OAuth or access to a Google account.

The free plan includes 30 read receipts per month. Personal and Business plans offer unlimited receipts; Personal is aimed at individual Gmail users, while Business is for Google Workspace teams. The tool’s job is specific: show email-open activity, not provide a broader marketing automation suite.

Blueticks keeps its feature set focused. If the question is simply whether a tracked Gmail message was opened, the tick indicators make the answer visible in the inbox. Open history adds timing and repeat-open details, while the companion panel gives you a place to review tracked conversations without leaving Gmail.

The free tier is useful for light use: it includes 30 receipts a month, real-time receipts, open details, the side panel and multi-account support. That gives users a way to try the core workflow before paying, though the monthly cap matters if you track most messages.

The listed annual pricing is low in absolute terms: Personal is $4 per account per year, equivalent to $0.33 per account per month, and Business is $20 per email address per year, or $1.67 per address per month. The Business plan also lists unlimited receipts, one complimentary Personal plan, a 60-day free trial and cancellation anytime. Those prices may suit users who want receipts without paying for a larger email platform.

The free plan’s 30-receipt monthly limit is the clearest constraint. Anyone tracking more than 30 messages a month needs a paid plan for unlimited receipts, so the free option is better treated as a light-use tier than a permanent fit for high-volume tracking.

Price comparison also takes extra care. The published pricing details list annual rates—$4 per year for Personal and $20 per email address per year for Business—but do not publish monthly prices. The monthly equivalents are $0.33 and $1.67, respectively, not stated monthly billing rates. Confirm the checkout terms before comparing them with subscriptions billed month to month. The 60-day free trial is listed for Business; the published details do not list a Personal trial.

There is also a plan-fit split: Personal is for individual gmail.com users, while Business is for Google Workspace teams. Blueticks reports opens, not whether someone read or understood a message. That makes it a narrow signal, and the published information does not establish how consistently open tracking works across recipients or email clients.

Blueticks has a free plan, but it stops at 30 read receipts per month. The pricing details list Personal at $4 per year for one Gmail account, which works out to about $0.33 per account per month, with unlimited receipts. That is the paid jump for individuals who outgrow the free cap.

Business is listed at $20 per email address per year, or about $1.67 per address per month. It includes unlimited receipts, one complimentary Personal plan, and a 60-day free trial. For a team, the per-address charge is the number to watch: costs rise with each address, even though the listed rate is low.

Those are annual prices; monthly billing prices are not published on the vendor's site. We also don’t see paid add-ons listed. The free tier includes real-time receipts, open details, the companion panel, and multi-account support, so the main reason to upgrade is the receipt limit—not access to those listed basics.

Blueticks is described as a Gmail extension, not a replacement for your email service. Switching to it therefore means adding email tracking to Gmail; your existing mail remains in Gmail. The published details don’t document setup steps or a migration tool, so we can’t promise a specific setup time.

Switching away should not require moving your mailbox, but what happens to Blueticks’ open history after cancellation is not published. The published material also doesn’t say whether you can export receipt history, so check that before relying on it as a long-term record. Blueticks says email content stays off its servers and that it does not request OAuth or Google account access; those safeguards don’t answer the separate question of whether tracking history is portable.

We weren’t given Reddit posts or comments to support claims about why users leave. The clearest published reasons to look elsewhere are practical: the free plan’s 30-receipt monthly cap, or the lack of published monthly prices and export details.