These two are not really competitors. inboxmcp is a connector that hands your mailbox to an AI client you already pay for, and everything after that is yours to assemble. Pidgy arrives with the assembling already done. The interesting question is not which has more features, it is how much of the work lands on you after you sign up.
inboxmcp is a hosted MCP connector, run in Germany, that gives Claude, ChatGPT or any other MCP client read and write access to an IMAP mailbox for a couple of euros a month. It is a good piece of engineering and it is only a pipe: no interface, no ranking, no drafting, no chasing, and no memory of what you asked it yesterday. Pidgy is the finished agent. It reads Outlook and Gmail, ranks what needs you, drafts in your voice, plans the work into your week and flags what has gone quiet, with nothing to configure. Choose inboxmcp if you want to build your own assistant and enjoy doing it. Choose Pidgy if you want the assistant.
Ninety unread messages after a weekend. Switch between the two to see where your hour goes.
You supplied: the prompt, the judgement about what counts as urgent, the tone, the memory, and the follow-up habit.
You supplied: the send click, and your own judgement on two edits.
A connector gives you access to the mailbox. Access is the first job of five, and the other four are where the hours go.
Solved, and solved well. Any IMAP mailbox, hosted in Germany, works with any MCP client. This is the part it was built for.
Connects to Outlook and Gmail directly and reads them as one inbox. EU hosted, and your mail is never used for training.
Yours to describe, every time you ask. The quality of the answer tracks the quality of your prompt, and two people on the same mailbox get different results.
Ranking is built in and tuned for work email. Ninety messages come back as five that need you, with the reasoning visible.
Your AI client writes it, in whatever register you described. Sounding like yourself means explaining what that sounds like, again, in every session.
Drafts in your voice, learned from mail you have already sent, with four tones to switch between. You press send.
Nothing runs between your questions. A thread that stalls on Tuesday stays stalled until you think to ask on Friday, which is the week the chase gets dropped.
Watches sent mail for replies that never came and surfaces the thread with a nudge drafted, so the chase does not depend on you remembering.
This is the one that decides whether the setup survives. It works while prompting is still a novelty and quietly stops on the first genuinely busy week.
The sorting, drafting and chasing happen whether or not you open it, so a bad week costs you the week rather than the system.
It deserves a fair hearing, because for the right person it is the better answer.
MCP is an open standard, so the same connector works with Claude, ChatGPT and whatever replaces them next year. Any IMAP account counts, including the old one your accountant still uses.
From roughly EUR 2.99 per mailbox per month, on top of the AI subscription you already pay for. Nothing else on this page is close on price.
If you want triage that works a particular way, you can prompt it that way. A finished product decides some of that for you, and that is a real trade.
Pidgy has free browser tools that run the same extraction and drafting on text you paste in. No account, no mailbox connected, no MCP server. Useful as a like for like check against whatever your AI client currently returns.
Paste a long thread and every ask comes back with an owner, a deadline and the line it came from. Run the same thread past your own prompt and compare what each one missed.
Paste what you received, say what you want to get across, get three replies back. This is the drafting job without the pipe and the prompt in between.
Pick how a draft should land and see word by word what changed. Tone is the part that costs the most prompt effort in a build-it-yourself setup.
One of these you configure. The other one you open.
Request private accessPrice per month is the easy number. These are the other two.
inboxmcp does no thinking. Whatever Claude or ChatGPT plan you are on carries that load, and heavy mailbox work is not a light query. Budget the connector and the client together.
A triage prompt that works is worth keeping, which means storing it, editing it when it misses something, and sharing it if a colleague wants the same setup. That is a small internal product.
The connector is German hosted, and then your mail goes to whichever AI vendor you attached, under their terms. Worth checking against your own client confidentiality obligations before you connect a work mailbox.
Answer honestly rather than aspirationally. Most people know which way they lean by the second one.
If wiring up an MCP server sounds like a good Saturday, inboxmcp. If that sounds like a chore you will half finish, Pidgy.
A prompt-driven setup needs you at the keyboard to produce anything. If the busy weeks are exactly when you need the help, you want something that runs without being asked. That is Pidgy.
Then the question is not only where the connector is hosted, but which AI vendor ends up holding the content and under what terms. Pidgy keeps it inside one EU-hosted product that does not train on your mail. With inboxmcp, read your AI vendor's terms first.
Pidgy reads Outlook and Gmail, ranks what needs you, drafts in your voice, plans the work into your week and flags what has gone quiet. You press send.
