MeetTwins vs Shortwave

MeetTwins lets you skip low-stakes Google Meet calls like daily standups. You write a short brief with your update, the links it may share and the questions it is allowed to answer. Your AI twin then joins the Meet, clearly introduces itself as an AI, gives your update and answers only from that brief. Anything it can't answer is emailed to you afterwards.

The product puts consent first: the twin always says it is an AI, and it waits for the host to let it into the call. You can try it alone first by opening a Google Meet, sending your twin and talking to it for two minutes.

Pricing: you can create a free account that includes 30 minutes of calls with no credit card. Paid plans are $19…

Shortwave is an AI-powered email client for Gmail and Google Workspace. It combines a fast, modern inbox with an AI assistant that can search your entire email history, summarise threads, write replies in your voice and help you organise your inbox.

You can ask the AI questions such as "what did the client say about the deadline?" and get answers with links to the original emails. Shortwave groups related emails into bundles, lets you treat email like a to-do list, and offers scheduling, reminders and team collaboration features such as shared threads and comments. It runs on the web, desktop and mobile.

Good fit if you: use Gmail heavily and want AI to help you find, write and organise em…