Shortwave is designed from the ground up to help you manage multiple accounts. We make it easy to sign into all of your accounts across devices and quickly switch between them. Multi-account support is available for all users, even those on the Free plan. Additionally, the Shortwave Pro and Business plans allow you to share access to paid features across multiple signed-in accounts.
Here’s a quick overview of how to add and access all of your accounts in Shortwave.
Our Pro and Business plans are designed to provide our paid features to all of your accounts for one flat rate. The Pro plan gives paid features to up to 3 signed-in accounts, and the Business plan gives paid features to up to 10 accounts. The Personal plan only supports a single @gmail.com or .edu account. See our pricing page for more details.
To share paid features between your paid account and other free email accounts, simply sign all of your accounts in on the same device, and your free accounts will get paid features automatically.
Having separate inboxes for your accounts helps reduce context switching, as checking work emails vs personal emails requires different mental effort and can disrupt your focus when trying to get deep work done. While currently there is no default option to view a unified inbox in Shortwave, you can easily sign into multiple accounts on each device and quickly switch between them following the above instructions.
If you still prefer to view all of your emails from multiple accounts in a unified inbox, here are some suggested workarounds:
You can also configure auto-forwarding to bring emails from any non-Gmail accounts like Outlook, iCloud, Fastmail, etc., into Shortwave.
Each Gmail or Google Workspace account that you sign into Shortwave with has a default account address as well as potentially multiple email aliases. Default account addresses and aliases are different from accounts and should be managed directly from Gmail.
You can update your primary "Send as" alias and other alias settings through your Gmail account settings. To change your default account address, click "make default" for the account you want to set as primary. When you make changes in your Gmail settings, you can quickly sync these updates via Settings > Support > Refresh Gmail data.
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