Shortwave vs Titan

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…

Titan is an AI assistant that runs as a real Mac app rather than in a browser tab. You talk to it, it sees the screen you are looking at, and it can act inside the apps you already use, such as Notion, Mail, Calendar, Spotify, Chrome, Terminal, Slack, Linear and GitHub. It can also remember what you tell it, so conversations don't start from nothing every time.

Because Titan sees your live screen, you can ask things like "what does this error mean" without uploading a screenshot. It can open things, fill things in and send things, and it can point at what it means by drawing on the screen you are already looking at.

Pricing: Titan is free to download and free to start, with a small mon…