Sortmail vs Fyxer

Your inbox, sorted into categories you choose — without paying for an assistant bundle.

Sortmail does one job and does it properly: every message filed into categories you can rename or add to, a reason on each, and corrections that become rules. One flat personal price, every mailbox you add included at a fixed rate.

Sort my inbox free See the comparison

Connect a mailbox and Sortmail sorts your last 30 days (up to 1,000 messages) for free, showing where each one would go and why. Nothing in your mailbox changes until you choose a plan, and you can cancel in one click.

Your inbox: 18 messages instead of 247.

INCOMING

247

new messages

sortmailfiling

In your inbox18

Receipts31

Newsletters64

System134

Arrived247
In your inbox18
Receipts31
Newsletters64
System134

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Why switch

Why switch to Sortmail.

Categories you choose

Rename, recolour or add your own, up to 8. Fyxer’s categories can’t be added to or renamed.

Pay for sorting only

Fyxer’s Starter plan bundles drafting and a meeting notetaker into a per-user price. Sortmail is sorting, at one flat price.

More of your mail, sorted first

Sortmail sorts your last 30 days, up to 1,000 messages, before you pay.

Side by side

Sortmail vs Fyxer.

Every claim about Fyxer links to their own page.

Sortmail and Fyxer, feature by feature
What matters	Sortmail	Fyxer
Categories you can rename or add	YesFive to start; rename, recolour or add up to 8.	NoYou can’t add, rename or remove categories.[1]
Pay only for sorting	YesOne plan with every feature; new mail sorting unlimited.	NoStarter bundles organisation with reply drafts and a meeting notetaker, per user.[4][6]
More than one inbox on the entry plan	YesAdd mailboxes to the one plan at a fixed rate.	NoStarter covers one inbox; multiple inboxes need Professional.[4][5]
Sorts your existing mail	YesYour last 30 days, up to 1,000 messages.	PartlyYour 300 most recent emails at setup.[2]
Works on personal Gmail	YesFree Gmail, Workspace, Outlook.com and Microsoft 365.	YesGoogle Workspace and personal Gmail; cloud-hosted Microsoft 365.[3]

Yes YesPartly Partly, or with a catchNo No

The proof

What you get, and what it looks like.

Your categories

Five to start. Rename them, or add your own.

Every account starts with Actionable, Personal, Receipts, Newsletters and System. Rename any of them, recolour them, choose which stay in the inbox, or add your own — Clients, School, Travel — up to 8. Sortmail sorts into the categories you set, not a fixed list.

With Fyxer: Fyxer’s categories are fixed: you can’t add, rename or remove them, only choose which appear in your inbox.[1]

Your categoriesRename, recolour, add

ActionableStays in inbox
PersonalStays in inbox
ReceiptsFiled
ReadingFiled · renamed
SystemFiled
ClientsStays in inbox · added by you

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You can see why

Every filed message carries its reason.

Open any message and Sortmail shows what decided it — one of your rules, your own correction, sender signals or the model — and, where it weighed evidence, how sure it was. When something lands in the wrong place, you know whether to fix a rule or just move it.

Your order has shippedHarbor Goods · [email protected]

Why this is hereReceipts

Decided bySender signals

Confidence94%

Sender[email protected]

Where it wentSortmail/Receipts, out of the inbox

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One flat price

Every feature, one plan, no credits.

There is one plan with everything in it: no tier to upgrade to, no AI add-on, no per-message charge. Sorting new mail is unlimited under the fair-use policy, so a busy month costs the same as a quiet one. A second mailbox is a fixed add-on at half the plan price.

With Fyxer: Fyxer is priced per user, and Starter bundles organisation for one inbox with reply drafting and a meeting notetaker.[4][6]

Plans to choose betweenOne

Features behind a higher tierNone

AI add-on or creditsNone

A heavy month vs a light monthSame price

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Corrections stick

Move a message once. It becomes a rule.

Put a message in the right category and Sortmail saves a rule for that sender in the same step. The rule outranks the model from then on, and it is listed on the Overrides screen where you can remove it. On Gmail, moving a message between Sortmail labels in any Gmail app counts as the same correction.

You move “Weekly product digest” to NewslettersSystemNewsletters

Rule saved: sender is [email protected] → NewslettersListed on Overrides. Remove it any time.

Next week’s digest files itselfWhy this is here: One of your rules

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Unsure stays in the inbox

When it isn’t sure, it doesn’t hide the message.

If the model answers below its confidence floor, or nothing can place a message, Sortmail labels it with its best guess and leaves it in your inbox, asking where it goes. Your answer becomes a rule. Mail it is unsure about is never filed out of sight.

Needs youStill in your inbox

Priya from Northwind — Quick question about the invoiceSortmail wasn’t sure — where does this go?

Sam Okafor — Can you review this by Thursday?Actionable · The model · 91% sure

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Bodies never stored

Classified in memory, then forgotten.

Sortmail keeps a fingerprint of each message — the sender, a keyed hash of the subject, the category and why it was chosen. The database has no column for a message body. Rules and header signals decide first; only when they cannot does a masked extract of at most 400 characters go to a model, and that can be switched off per mailbox. Your mail trains nothing.

Kept

Sender address
A keyed hash of the subject
The category
Why it was chosen

Never stored

The message body
The subject as text
Anything to train a model on

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Pricing

Every feature. One price.

Sortmail’s prices come straight from our billing code.

Billed	Founding	List
Monthly	$8.99 / month	$12.99 / month
Yearly	$79 / year$6.58 a month	$99 / year$8.25 a month
Every 2 years	$139 / 2 years$5.79 a month	$169 / 2 years$7.04 a month

Founding price for the first 500 subscribers, kept for as long as the subscription runs. Each extra mailbox is $4.49 a month at the founding price ($6.49 at list), or half the plan price on yearly and 2-year plans.

Starter, billed annually[6]per user, billed annually$22.50 / month
Starter, billed monthly[7]per user$30 / month

Like for like — one inbox organised, billed yearly: Fyxer is $22.50 a month. Sortmail is $6.58 a month at the founding price ($15.92 less) and $8.25 at list ($14.25 less). Starter is Fyxer’s lowest plan that organises an inbox. Sortmail’s one plan is built for exactly that.

On the 2-year plan, Sortmail works out at $5.79 a month at the founding price — about 19¢ a day for an inbox that only holds what needs you.

Zero risk

Try it on your own mail. Pay only if it earns it.

See it sorted before you pay

Connect a mailbox and Sortmail sorts your last 30 days — up to 1,000 messages — and shows where each one would go and why. Nothing in your mailbox changes until you choose a plan.

Leave in one click

Cancel from Billing — no call, no form. You’re emailed 21 days before every yearly or 2-year renewal and 3 days before a monthly one. Your labels stay if you go.

Founding price, locked in

$5.79 a month on the 2-year plan, $6.58 on yearly, $8.99 monthly. Limited to the first 500 subscribers, and kept for as long as you subscribe.

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FAQ

Questions, answered.

Can I rename Sortmail’s categories?

Yes. Rename or recolour any of the five starting categories, choose which stay in the inbox, and add your own up to 8.

Does Sortmail draft replies?

No — it never drafts or sends mail. It keeps your inbox down to what needs you, so the replies you write are the ones that matter.

Does Sortmail work with Outlook.com?

Yes — Outlook.com and Microsoft 365, plus free Gmail and Google Workspace.

How much does Sortmail cost?

One plan with every feature: $8.99 a month, $79 a year or $139 for 2 years at the founding price, kept for as long as you subscribe. Once the 500 founding seats are gone, new subscribers pay $12.99, $99 or $169.

Is an AI reading all my mail?

No. Your rules decide first, then header signals such as mailing-list headers. Only when neither settles it does a masked extract — sender, subject and at most 400 characters — go to a model, and you can switch that off per mailbox. The model provider is contractually barred from keeping or training on it.

Does Sortmail store my email?

It stores a fingerprint of each message: the sender, a keyed hash of the subject, the category and why it was chosen. Message bodies are never written to its database, and it never sends, drafts or deletes mail.

Sources, checked 27 September 2026

You can’t add, rename or remove Fyxer’s categories, but you can decide which appear in your inbox and which are filed away. docs.fyxer.com
At setup, Fyxer organises your 300 most recent emails into categories. docs.fyxer.com
Supports Google Workspace, personal Gmail accounts and cloud-hosted Microsoft 365 / Exchange Online. docs.fyxer.com
Starter includes organisation for 1 inbox and calendar, reply drafts in your voice and a meeting notetaker. fyxer.com
Professional adds organisation for multiple inboxes and calendars. fyxer.com
Starter, billed annually — $22.50 a month, per user, billed annually. fyxer.com
Starter, billed monthly — $30 a month, per user. fyxer.com

Competitor details are taken from each company’s own public pages on the date above and can change after it. Sortmail’s own details are read from the code that enforces them. Fyxer is a trademark of its owner; Sortmail is not affiliated with it. Spotted something out of date? Tell us at [email protected] and we will correct it.