Getting started
Sign in, connect Gmail, send your first tracked email from the dashboard or from Gmail itself, and read the analytics in under five minutes.
Welcome. This page walks you from zero to your first tracked send.
1. Sign in with Google
Head to app.maildriply.com/login and choose Continue with Google.
Signing in asks only for openid, email and profile, so we know which Google account you are.
It gives us no access to your mail.
2. Connect Gmail
Sending is a separate, second step. Click Connect Gmail to start sending and approve one more permission:
gmail.send: send email as you, which also places each message in your Sent folder.
On Google's consent screen, make sure Send email on your behalf stays ticked before you click Continue. Without it we can't send from your Gmail.
That's the full list: four scopes across the two steps. None of them can read your inbox.
The Gmail API has scopes that grant full inbox access. Maildriply does not request any of them. If we ever wanted to read your mail, Google would show you a new consent screen first. Why we only ask for gmail.send has the details.
3. Send your first tracked email
You can send from the dashboard, from Gmail itself, or from an AI assistant.
From the dashboard. Click New email in the sidebar. You'll get a compose window with:
- To: one or more addresses, separated by commas or new lines. Each recipient gets their own copy with its own tracking.
- Subject and body, plus an optional template
- Track opens & clicks, on by default
- Send test to me, to preview the email in your own inbox first
You can send now or schedule it for later.
From Gmail. Install the Chrome extension and compose in Gmail as usual. A tracking toggle appears in Gmail's compose window, and Gmail delivers the message itself.
From an AI assistant. Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients can send tracked email with an API key. See Connect AI assistants (MCP).
When a tracked email is sent, a 1×1 tracking pixel unique to that recipient is added. Click tracking is off by default: turn on Track link clicks for an email and its links are rewritten to signed redirects through our tracking domain. Links whose text is itself a web address are left as they are.
The message goes out from your own Gmail account. Your sender reputation stays yours, and we're never the relay.
4. Watch the dashboard
The dashboard at app.maildriply.com updates in real time. You'll see:
- Sent (30d): recipients who got a real (non-test) send
- Open rate: unique opens divided by sent recipients
- Click rate: unique clicks divided by sent recipients
- Today's usage: to help you stay inside your daily sending limit
Opens are approximate, so treat them as a trend and clicks as the stronger signal. See the analytics overview and our post on how open tracking actually works.