Reviews & Comments of Boomerang for Gmail chrome extension

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recurring emails feature requires subscription.....

I have been using Boomerang for years and absolutely cannot do without it. The reminders/prompts have kept things from falling through the cracks so many times, and I love knowing that when I "boomerang" something, it will not get lost. I recently needed to contact support about my account (not a functionality issue), and the quick response and assistance I received was far above my expectations.

Love this plugin but it has really started to slow down Gmail to the point that it is unusable and I keep having to disable the plugin.

'm a busy business owner, and I love to stay in touch with my clients, but it's hard to keep up with my inbox. Fortunately, Boomerang for Gmail makes it easy to follow up with emails that I may otherwise forget. I just added it as a browser extension, and whenever I want to send an email back to myself at some later point, I simply click the "Boomerang" button before sending it. It's also nice that I can think of something late at night and have Boomerang send it in the morning so I have time to react before getting caught up in work again. I love this tool. It makes it easy for me to remember to follow up with emails I may otherwise forget!

I installed this to send myself monthly reminders (aka Recurring Messages). Under Plans and Pricing it says "It is free to use Boomerang, up to a limited number of messages per month." But even before the first reminder was sent, Boomerang informed me that to continue using Recurring Messages, I'd need to subscribe. I get it, but I sure don't need it. Removed. "After the trial ends, all of your Boomerangs and Send Laters will be delivered as scheduled. However, your Recurring Messages will be canceled. If you'd like to upgrade your subscription to allow for unlimited messages and premium features, click the link below to purchase a subscription. Buy a subscription"

great for organizing and helping prioritize my inbox.

How do I uninstall? I am NOT getting my emails like as I should. I need this removed asap. I don't see anywhere that will allow me to uninstall.

Boomerang saved me so much time and hassle at work. An incredible amount. It's easier to use than the native snooze in gmail and so much more flexible (and a ton of other features). Everyone I showed it to ended up getting it as well and loved it. Very, very highly recommend.

Excellent app to help write emails. The green bars (on desktop) have literally increased the quality of my emails to people 200%-300%. I've used Boomerang this last a lot for job and client communications, which need to be pro. Bars go from 1-7, so you can see if your email is trash or closer to gold. Subject Body Question Highly recommended. High Five to the dev team on this one. PS. As a person with writing challenges, this helps a lot with proofing the quality of an engaging, thoughtful email. It is a life gift.

I could not work without that extension! It has brought me back to Inbox 0, and allows me to be so much more reactive. The most useful productivity app in my full toolbox, bar none.

What happen to automatically detecting time/date when scheduling events? That was the feature i used the most..

LOVE the Boomerang Calendar and being able to quickly share my LIVE availability with anyone with a couple clicks. It's by far the best implementation of this. I HATE everything else about this app. Way too many unwanted features that I can't turn off. It takes over my whole Gmail experience when I really only want one button when composing emails. Disabling the extension for this reason, which is a bummer. I already pay for Calendly and would gladly pay monthly to have this calendar feature by itself.. Until then, I am uninstalling this extension.

Worst email tracker ever. I didnt even find any tracking details regarding the send mail. Worst User experience also. cant find any information anywhere. I cant close the help video. why are there so many permissions required. so many clicks. I cant believe they charge all this when there are free alternatives available like mailtrack, openedornot,mail alert

Thank you for a long time. - killed by gmail, proudly

Byfar the best gmail extension ive ever used

it's a paid subscription or free

This works really well except that in gmail the draft I'm working is often obscured by the gmail menu bar and I cannot minimize or maximize. I tried disabling other extensions and the problem persists. Now that Gmail has a send later feature this bug might be really difficult to overlook. Already tried troubleshooting and was told that it was probably another extension.

Boomerang takes over your email and all I want was the availability sharing. They should have a version just for that. In addition, whether or not it even showed up was unpredictable. I tried to share my availability a few times and it wasn't even an option in those emails. Total fail.

False Advertising

DO NOT GET IT!!! You can't get rid of it! NOTHING is letting this uninstall from my accounts. I've disabled this numerous times! The "remove from Chrome" buttons don't respond... STAY AWAY!

Trial software that changes to a really expensive subscription to keep using it after about a month.

Boomerang has changed my life... I own a food buisness and we do a ton of catering, this has helped me miss less leads that can easily "fall through the cracks" of a really busy inbox/leads not responding in a timely manner. I have not been able to get myself to use the app on my mobile device (I still use Apple Mail, which, sucks). I just need to change my behavior. But generally, for the low cost of this product, I think it was worth it, it has calmed my "inbox anxiety" 10 fold!

Bleah, 15$/month for recurring messages. Definitely happening..

#1 in Gmail upgradation extensions, loved it! :) Thanks Boomerang. :D

Today I will sadly be removing this extension. I really like it's goal but each time in the last month I've gone to use it the requirement to agree that the extension has the right to delete all my emails is a permission I'm unwilling to give. So not as a result of bad experience but simply bad permissions.

I've been personally using Boomerang for over 2 years and like it. But I can still not use it for our business. I wish they had an extra feature that would pop up the outgoings an hr before the scheduled time and ask to either confirm to send by the initially set time or snooze it to another date/time. This feature alone can help Service providers/ real state businesses tremendously. Thank you,

I didn't like that I have to pay $15/mo to schedule a recurring message. I understand that there needs to be some fee because Boomerang has to pay for the servers to send the message, but the payments could be more 'pay for what you use' because I'd be happy to pay 50 cents a month or something for the one recurring message I want to schedule.

Can't find any source here or on your website about supported languages for the Respondable feature.

Loved the plugin but now that Google integrated scheduled send, I just don't use it anymore. I feel bad removing the extension, but the other features I just can't see myself using. Thanks for the great service through the years!

Great extension! (Un)fourtunately, Gmail has recently added the Send later and snoozing an email features so I no longer need Boomerang for that.

Okay

I like the functions of Boomerang (scheduled sendouts, scheduled followups)...BUT, ever since I started this service, my gmail seems to have a bug and often have the words 'defined' or 'undefined' pop up in the formatting of my text and it takes minutes of retyping, backspacing, deleting to get the words away - seems like a glitch I'm having with Boomerang implementation, which has proven to not be worth the functions it gives.

Not been working for sometime now, not even after reinstalling the app

I have now used Boomerang for about 5 years across 3 different accounts. The scheduled send feature is great and the feature that I have used the most.I have also enjoyed the "Boomerang" feature. The read receipts are also useful but I have only used that feature 5 or six times over the 5 years I have had the extension. The "pause" function I have yet to find a use for. Today however I am uninstalling the Boomerang extension. Gmail has added a "Schedule Send" feature that renders the "send later" feature obsolete. Gmail's "Snooze" function while different from the "Boomerang" feature does everything I need and want from that feature.I am okay with giving up the Read Receipts as there are other services that provide over receipts 10 per month at no charge. Finally I will not miss the "Pause" function as I have never used it. All in all this is a great and useful extension but Google now provides its functionality, (and does it on mobile) with out me needing to share the contents of my message with a third party. It seems that this idea was so good that Google is taking it and implementing it. The development team should be proud of the work they did here.

Sent an email to my future self, it never arrived and now i can' find it. Very upset ngl

really helpful. use it before very useful for business gmail

Does not really work as expected. You will not find your email in sent box and you can not change email that you plan to send out.

Especially useful to make up for Gmail's functional deficiency.

The Premium Plan is Way Costly for Small Freelancers. After Some time, They keeps on Asking for Upgrade. Nothing wrong in Premium Plan, but Pricing is way Higher.

Only 10 free messages then you have to pay, gmail has provided a send later option now so dont buy it!

Super practical!

Working with a small non-profit, I wear many hats. I'm lucky enough to work with some great folks who always try to respond right away when I send an email. Sometimes I have to contact them with an issue, but I don't want it addressed right now - it's disruptive to current projects. Or, sometimes I'm not ready to address it, myself. Either way, I don't want to drop the ball, and forget to bring it up later! So, I set the email to send the next morning, or next week. I can keep work flow uninterrupted, and nothing gets left out. It's also REALLY helpful keeping track of what I need to follow up on. Boomerang is extremely helpful. Thank you!

Massive time saver, I couldn't do without it.

No such thing as respondable or helpx better etc, cepu, write , say any no matter what and any be perfect

This morning when I installed Boomerang For GMail on another Chromebook. I decided to "Take The Tour." The tour background transistion bleneded in with the rest of the text includding my GMail background photo. I could barely see the 4 slide "Take a tour" demo. Please reduce the transparency so it doesn;t blend in with other text in GMail. Overall: I like Boomerang.

Why are they tracking where I click in the app? I am a paying customer, why track what I do? Also, no Data Protection Policy. Dodgy!

This extension has greatly improved my GMail experience since 2016. Delayed sending of emails, the respondable AI display, and having emails pop back into the inbox after a set time were all very useful and simple features I've loved interacting with. Thank you to the Boomerang team for such a great product. I've enjoyed it for many years, and hope it stays awesome in the future!

Doesn't work. It will only let me "compose" a message to myself, and now I'm just hoping that they didn't get any of my information. >=(

This is getting ridiculous. I have emailed these guys at least 12 times from 4 different email addresses and all messages have been ignored. What is going on there. Please refund the money now. Sincerely and angered, Brian Liebman Third request. I will cancel transaction with credit card company if no response.

Just another tech company with an over priced product that makes it hard to contact them, wastes your time and money, and has answers delayed up to days. Lucky us. The new standard of customer retention. I don't need this product that bad...

Não sei como vivi tanto tempo sem ele!!!! Minha vida mudou com o agendamento de email. Obrigada Boomerang!

Honestly don't know how I'd live without it. And Alex and the team there are so dedicated and are just such good people. Even though I find the product a bit expensive, this is one product I think totally deserves it!

This extension doesn't work as seamlessly with gmail as I would like. I have used a different extension that worked within gmail and I could easily find my drafts. Boomerang opens one or two extra tabs and requires a bit of a learning curve. I'm sure it has a bunch of fun features, but I don't have the time or inclination to learn them. I just needed to schedule outgoing emails within gmail and there's a better app for that.

Where did all my tracked messages go? I can't find that screen. Nm ... found it. Why is it under "manage scheduled messages"? Little things like that are kind of funky. Also I would like to be able to see the email that was tracked in that database (or a link to it or something).

It's got this huge PAUSE INBOX button right on top above the inbox menu. This button is 4x the size of the Inbox link, and I keep clicking it when I try to go to my inbox. I searched and could not find a way to get rid of this ridiculous button. Every time I accidentally click it, I have to sit and wait for the Boomerang dialogue box to open, inviting me to install Boomerang. When I click cancel, another box pops up saying there was an error authenticating. I really like Boomerang for scheduling emails, but this is too annoying and inconvenient to keep loading all these dialogues because the button is the size of a house.

Got excited about this until I realized a lot of the functionality doesn't work with the revamp of gmail. Not user friendly.

Pretty useful for deferred emails, but I can no longer deal with the loss of real estate. The mandatory "pause inbox" button kills my sidebar.

I have been able to use it and already have to rate it. WHY so soon???

only drawback is limited number of uses per month in free version

not good

Too much effort to get it to work, will update review if I can learn how to get it fixed but this is really frustrating.

it makes easy

You have to pay for it- better to use snooze from gmail.

nice

Changed their pricing model so now you need pro to use Inbox Pause schedules

I don't like the automatic image at the end of the email with text "the sender has requested a read receipt. If you do not want to provide one click here". It can't be deleted. The extension immediately puts it again there.

Longtime boomerang user and it just keeps getting better. I have everyone in my company using it now. Great for following up and keeping a clean inbox!

cant use not Australian

I checked for different services/free features for about 2 hour. Then setup /resetup of the needed recurring messages. 2h. Then finding out in a email 1 month later i needed to pay for this service. It was not described on the webpage or when i install it. I alway choose to not activate trial premium features, if possible, because of things like this. I dont find it reasonable to pay 5$ a month for 3 recurring messages a month. If it was a one time fee of 100$ for "lifetime", ok..

Very useful extension . Several time i got mistake on official mail and it helps me. But this site not work on it - https://portalatoz.blogspot.com/

YES!!! My first day using it and I closed a deal because of the notifaction

SLOWED down gmail beyond its usefullness

Boomerang, this piece of programming, has completely changed my way of management.

It used to be great but now they limit the number of emails you can schedule to ONLY 10 A MONTH. Additionally, trying to edit the message after you've schedule it is a nightmare and ruins the formatting originally made in the gmail compose email box. Not worth the hassle for something so straight-forward. Just use another add-on.

I find this useful when I want to send an email later but I am struggling with the Inbox pause. I thought its purpose was to stop emails from coming into your inox until you are ready to have them but I still get emails in my inbox when its paused. Am I using this wrong?

Send Later function doesn't reliably work.

Don't get scammed! Boomerang have been billing me for the last 3 years for the former work email that has been inactive, so I could not have used their services. And yet, they refused to reimburse me. This should honestly be illegal - that is user scamming. I am appalled by their shady and predatory business practices

Really useful extension.

My favorite app ever... can't believe I haven't rated it though I've been a power-user since 2012. Long live boomerang!

Did not send the email. Very bad, glad I tested it first. Now I can't even find how to remove this useless extension.

Geat!

I can't live without it. Superfast. Best of breed.

I've been trying to contact Boomerang support since March 4, and I haven't received any response, so I had to uninstall Boomerang. Posting here to try and get a response: I tried emailing and posting in support with no success. I don't like one feature of Boomerang: where Boomerang shows up as a "move to" option. As background, on gmail, when I click on an email, I choose "move to" so that I can archive the email into one of my folders. I really like my current system: even though I have a lot of folders, I named them in such a way that I don't have to scroll through the folders-- the most important and commonly used folders show up first alphabetically. For example, "career," "financials," and "housekeeping" show up earlier in the alphabet, and so I am able to archive emails quickly. However, when I had Boomerang installed, Boomerang has taken over my "move to" option. I tried renaming the Boomerang folder to "zBoomerang," but that messed up the system. Boomerang support, please contact me and advise: how do I remove Boomerang as an option in my "move to" system? I want to remove the "Boomerang," "Boomerang-Outbox," "Boomerang- Outbox cancelled," and "Boomerang-returned" from my "move to option," as it is very annoying. I already attached a picture of "move to" for reference in my email to support. Also for reference: I tried the "managing labels" settings in gmail and hiding the labels, but it didn't work. I tried nesting the Boomerang labels under a new label I made, "zBoomerang," but Boomerang spawned three new labels called Boomerang, Boomerang-Outbox, and Boomerang-Return.

Couldn't live without it, used for almost two years, I now could easily buy subscription 1 year forward, because I got hooked on Boomerang :)

used it long time ago, don't remember if it was any good, but now i don't use gmail for over 2 years anyway. hail ginbox. uninstalled this for troubleshooting chromebook cpu usage issues (this was certainly not related since it was already disabled anyway).

Extremely useful, and always works as described.

Worked well, then stopped working for a lot of users - said needed to enable 3rd party cookies. We all followed the steps, still doesn't work. They give the same canned email about needing a screenshot whenever you report the problem. Removed it. Trying Right Inbox.

fine

so far no bugs (and I am worried about that). Right now it works beautifully, and I find it fantastic to schedule when I want to deal with what, and to delay messages by a few hours or days to (a) get them done (b) not overheat the speed of the email exchange. Keep at it Baydin, and keep that program nicely on track!

Really useful. Im really happy i found this, it helps me a lot. I wanted to send something later, but i was worried i would forget. But with this, all my problems are solved! Thank you for making such an awesome extension that is very useful! :)

This app is a great idea, but the send later functionality is hit-or-miss. I definitely wouldn't use it for important emails.

This has been a lifesaver. It helps keep me organized and on top of my inbox.

it is a gd apk....

this program is terrible. editing an email to be sent can be sketchy. don't trust this email because it has sent emails immediately even though they were scheduled for a later time after trying to edit them.

Great app. Helps with so many different odds and ends

pop ups

no bad

Great product with great features, but slowed down Chrome to unacceptable levels. I am using multiple GMail tabs though as well as Offline GMail, so maybe Boomerang is simply not made for that kind of power usage.

its gone again.

what a wow

I have a specific need and have used it for over a year but have to re-install every time I want to use the capability to schedule e-mails to be sent later. Tried to trouble shoot with support but that successfully failed.