The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

I use some of these apps daily as a prompt to make my writing more concise and, hopefully, more enjoyable. I considered dozens of apps and did in-depth testing on the top contenders to narrow it down to these six apps. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 21, 2025

Zapier AI Workflow Automation Best For: Automating repetitive tasks across apps Zapier, already a go-to for no-code automation, launched AI-enhanced Zaps in 2025. In 2025, Jaspers new Brand Voice feature ensures that all contentfrom blog posts to email sequencesmatches your businesss tone and style.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

Explore now The Zapier ChatGPT plugin lets you connect thousands of apps (like Google Sheets, Gmail, or Slack) and automate tasks directly inside ChatGPT. This saves you the time and hassle of context switching, as you can just ask ChatGPT to perform a task in another app for you. No unnecessary writing needed from you.)

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

These apps offer the AI, automation, documentation, and reporting features that you need to keep the lead pipes (the ones pronounced leed , not led ) flowing smoothly. How we evaluate and test apps Our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

By far the most extensible of the bunch, Zapier connects with apps like Google Sheets, Trello and Gmail to trigger a range of productivity tasks. “We’re working to develop plugins and bring them to a broader audience,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

Remember when Apple launched the App Store and the early novelty of app discovery? Now we roll our eyes whenever a product requires an app download because it just adds to the landscape of apps that don't talk to each other. Does your app have an email integration? Can your app use webhooks?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A Y Combinator-backed app called Needl is helping users with that. Needl is a cross-platform application that lets you search across your local file system and accounts like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Notion and Slack. Users can customize shortcuts to launch the app and jump to the home view. Image Credits: Needl.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

CEO Dave Rogenmoser tells TechCrunch the funding will be put toward building out Jasper’s core products, improving the customer experience and bringing Jasper’s technology to more apps. Jasper leverages AI to generate content for blog articles, social media posts, website copy and more. ” Image Credits: Jasper.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

I spent a bunch of time in each of these apps, and here's how the Airtable vs. Google Sheets showdown went. Though both can do many similar things, Airtable is a database app and Google Sheets is a spreadsheet app. But not a lot else. Unless you're really , really , really into it.)

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

ChatGPT is an app created by OpenAI that lets users interact with its AI models: GPT-3 (on the free version) and GPT-4 (in early access for paid users). The app takes the prompts you write and passes them to the AI model. Most of the apps on this list are also powered by OpenAI's GPT models. Chat experience. Extra features.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier. Then, you can automatically send that email via Gmail or log it in your CRM for review.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We also wanted tight integration with our email client (Superhuman (best) or Gmail , including pixel tracking of when emails were opened. 3) Email-focused CRMs : Streak and Copper do the best job of keeping the entire experience within the Gmail inbox. Salesforce offers Pardot, a company they acquired. . A number of players (e.g.,

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

You could tell them how long you've followed their work, what you enjoyed about the last blog post they wrote, or how their product might be improved—with tact of course! It's much like writing a compelling headline for an article or blog post that you want people to click on. For your email to be read, it has to be opened.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Or write an email with GPT-3 —then send it via Gmail. Leap AI Leap AI is an artificial intelligence platform that lets users add AI features to their apps. The app's aim is to let users build next-generation apps with image, text, video, and audio AI.

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Campaign Monitor

APRIL 27, 2022

First things first: Don’t try to send your newsletter manually using Gmail, Outlook, or any other standard email service provider. You’ll run into similar restraints with any app that’s not dedicated to email campaigns. A CTA , whether you want readers to click through to your blog, send feedback, or engage in some other way.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

It's a smarter, faster way to set up employees with all the apps, permissions, and hardware they need before they even figure out where the bathroom is. Automated provisioning is a system of automatically preparing IT resources (like devices, apps, and user permissions) based on an employee's role, department, and seniority.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 18, 2011

Even in the Squarespace app, which is gorgeous, adding links with a copy and paste is difficult. There's also a plugin for using Readitlater, which has quickly become my favorite app. The Readitlater app is fantastic, and is absolutely a must download. I'd venture to say that it's the single best app available for the iPad.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

Imagine an AI email app that automatically screens your incoming emails. There could well be an AI agent using a large language model (LLM) to determine where to sort your email, or it could just be some Gmail filters. Is that an agentic AI system, an AI email agent, or just a fancy set of filters?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

If you find that the tool itself isn't quite right for you, don't write off the intention behind the app—keep searching till you find the one that works for you. Source: Expandi In a post on Expandi's blog, Ilya Azovtsev shares a detailed how-to for using the add-on.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

That's why, at first, I wasn't sure if I had the technical savvy to try out Leap AI , a nifty image-generation tool that works on JavaScript and that folks can integrate into their own apps. The main difference between those apps and Leap AI are the models. directly in any browser first. Design products.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I use Superhuman , an email app which speeds up my email processing, and also gives me background information on all of my correspondents. See their blog post on multiples.). That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 23, 2023

", it's time to get friendly with the block button in Gmail. These Gmail features all serve a unique purpose to help keep your inbox safe and organized. How to block emails on Gmail on a computer Everyone has that one distant relative that sends you random, mildly offensive emails on the daily. Tap Report spam.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

7) Reading: I read most of my books in the Kindle app off my iPhone. I find that Gmail runs best in Firefox. The one thing I really don't have a routine about is blogging. I call my grandmother at least once a week, and make sure I see her at least once every two weeks. until I feel like I got the gist. no stick.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

And having to download reports or copy information to your other apps can be as much of a bottleneck as leaving everything in your inbox in the first place. Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. New to Zapier? Sign up for free.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier. Automatically keep Glean up to date Glean searches are only useful if the app has access to your team's latest work.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I use Superhuman , an email app which speeds up my email processing, and also gives me background information on all of my correspondents. See their blog post on multiples.). That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

For Google Workspace users who don't want to hop in and out of their Google apps and customer relationship manager (CRM), there's Copper. This CRM is built to work right inside Gmail, Calendar, and Google Drive, so your team can manage deals without wasting time switching tabs. Read our guide to using Copilot.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

You can start by automating individual tasks with simple workflows—what we call Zaps—and grow into orchestrating entire systems across apps, teams, and data. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. That's where Zapier comes in.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 2, 2025

With Zaps—our automated workflows—you can connect Browse AI to thousands of apps, enrich scraped data with AI, and send it exactly where it needs to go. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Here's how to get started.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. Use interfaces, data tables, and logic to build secure, automated, AI-powered systems for your business-critical workflows across your organization's technology stack.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 16, 2023

The good news: Gmail has mass delete features that allow you to do a clean sweep of everything instead of essentially cleaning up spilled rice grain by grain. Here's how to delete all of your emails in Gmail. Log in to your Gmail account. Check the box at the top of your inbox, to the left of the refresh button.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 19, 2023

Spend less time in your inbox Automate Gmail If you're using Google Workspace, you can create up to 30 email aliases per account, and it won't affect your monthly bill. If you're using a personal Gmail account, there's also a Gmail alias trick to get the job done. Here's how to add an alias in Gmail.

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APRIL 3, 2023

It's a tool that helps anyone connect apps and automate workflows—without any complicated code. Open your camera app, point it at the QR code first, and you'll get the QR code's message or link in a notification. Tip: Want to use a different form app? Here are some of the best form apps. New to Zapier?

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Campaign Monitor

MAY 17, 2023

Keep in mind that mobile apps like Gmail will generally cut off anything after 40 characters unless the reader drags the notification down to expand the info. To learn more about email testing, check out our blog on A/B testing. Knowing which email clients your subscribers use can be helpful, but this isn’t always possible.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Combine user interfaces, data tables, and logic with thousands of apps to build and automate anything you can imagine. Keeping all your customer, company, and operations data up to date and in sync across your apps, especially when someone inevitably updates something. Search for and select your trigger app. New to Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

I personally have five Gmail accounts, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and my iPhone. Personal CRMs, like Dex or Clay , will pull contact info from all of your connected accounts into a single app. Some accounts (like Gmail and Google Calendar) will stay in constant sync with the personal CRM. Others might be a one-time import.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2011

We now know that the medium has changed the news industry leading to blogs, real-time reporting, integration of text and video, two-way discussions, stories surfaced based on what your friends are reading, etc. Many of my daily deal email offers get auto-sorted in Gmail and I never see them. The Impact of Mobile Phones on Advertising.

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