Email tracking without strapping a CRM to your inbox.
Streak is a CRM that runs inside Gmail — pipelines, boxes, and mail merge, with read tracking as one feature among many. To do all that it requests broad Google access to manage your drafts and email. Maildriply does one thing, tracking, and requests only the gmail.send scope.
- It's a full CRM first; email tracking is a small feature inside a much heavier product.
- Granting Streak access to manage your drafts and mail means broad Gmail permissions, not a send-only scope.
- The free tier limits contacts and mail merges; unlimited records and serious tracking start at $49/user/month.
- We request only gmail.send — it is technically impossible for us to read your inbox.
- No pipelines, boxes, or CRM overhead to learn — compose, toggle tracking, send.
- Open and click tracking plus templates are free during early access, no per-seat CRM bill.
Maildriply vs Streak
| Feature | Maildriply | Streak |
|---|---|---|
| Only the gmail.send OAuth scope requested | ||
| Cannot read your inbox by design | ||
| Purpose-built for tracking (not a CRM) | ||
| HMAC-signed click redirects (no open-redirect) | ||
| Free during early access | ||
| Templates with mail-merge personalization |
Based on publicly documented pricing, OAuth scopes, and product pages. Streak is a trademark of its respective owner. Last updated June 2026.
Switching from Streak
Does Maildriply need the same Gmail access as Streak?
No. Streak is a CRM that manages your drafts and email, so it requests broad Google permissions. Maildriply requests only gmail.send, which the OAuth spec makes incapable of reading your messages.
I just want tracking, not a CRM. Is Maildriply lighter than Streak?
Yes. Streak's tracking lives inside pipelines, boxes, and CRM workflows. Maildriply is a focused tracker: compose in the dashboard or the Chrome extension, toggle tracking on, and see opens and clicks in real time.
Can I still personalize bulk emails without Streak's mail merge?
Yes. Maildriply ships templates with {{first_name}}-style mail-merge tokens resolved per recipient at send time, so you get personalization without the surrounding CRM.
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Import nothing, configure nothing. Sign in with Google, connect your Gmail, and send your first tracked email in under two minutes.