Free cold email software.
It sends from your inbox.
Multi-step sequences, open, click and reply tracking, and sending caps that keep your address out of trouble. From your own Gmail or Outlook, free forever, not for fourteen days.
No credit card. 300 emails a month, on one seat.
Campaign: HR managers, 50 to 500
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and four more, out to six months
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What free usually means in cold email
Anyone searching for free cold email software has already been caught by one of these three. They are worth naming, because the plan below is defined by which one it is not.
A countdown
Fourteen days, then a card
Most cold email tools advertise a free trial and call it free. You get the whole product for a fortnight, which is long enough to import a list and not long enough to learn whether the campaign worked.
A cap that bites
A free plan that cannot send
Some free tiers are real but stop exactly where the work starts: fifty emails a day, one sequence, or contact storage with the sending reserved for a paid plan.
Your own inbox
Gmail, and a spreadsheet
The genuinely free option is a mail merge out of your own mailbox. It sends, but nothing comes back: no sequence, no reply detection, no record of who opened what.
Here free means the sending itself. Sequences, tracking, schedules and suppression cost us nothing to run, because they run on your mailbox and your database. What costs money is the AI writing and reading for you, and that is the only part behind the paywall. The limit is 300 emails a month, and it does not expire.
Write the steps once and the sequence runs on schedule.
Your words, your spacing, across email, calls and social steps, with a reply cancelling everything queued behind it.
- As many steps as you want, with the delay you choose between them
- A reply cancels the rest, for the contact and their colleagues
- Custom fields from your list, written into the step
Lists
Three ways to get people into a campaign
A search for the people who match your customers, a list of company domains, or the file you already have. No database to buy first.
A search for the people you want
Describe who you sell to and it finds matching people, one profile at a time.
Spends credits
A list of company domains
Paste the companies and it finds the right titles inside each of them.
Spends credits
A file you already have
Upload a CSV or paste the rows. Duplicates are caught and your extra columns become fields you can write into a step.
Your own columns come across as custom fields, and the CRM sync runs both ways with HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce and ActiveCampaign. Finding people by domain or by search is the part that spends credits. Everything else on this page does not.
A daily cap per mailbox, spread across your working hours.
Gmail, Outlook, SendGrid, Resend and SMTP share one ledger, and the send window follows the recipient's time zone.
- Your working hours, their time zone
- An hourly rate derived from the cap, so nothing sends in a burst
- Gmail, Outlook, SendGrid, Resend or SMTP, all on one ledger
Aria Stone replied. Step 3 cancelled before it sent.
The steps queued behind it are cancelled, for her and for her colleagues.
Opens, clicks and replies, per step and per job title.
A funnel for every campaign, so you can tell a list problem from a message problem instead of guessing.
- Opens, clicks and replies per step
- Reply rate by job title
- Engagement per contact, with the date of the last reply
Reply rate by role
HR managers reply five times more often than CEOs. Build the next list accordingly.
The answer lands on a contact, not in a void.
This is where a cold email tool and a CRM stop being two products: the thread, the meeting and later the payment sit on the same record.
- Two-way sync with Gmail and Outlook, in and out
- Every message, meeting and note on one timeline
- Stripe payments on the contact that produced them
The rest of the free plan
Suppression, mailbox choice, CRM sync. The half of a cold email tool you only notice the week it is missing.
Bounces and unsubscribes, handled
A hard bounce closes the address and an unsubscribe closes the person, across every campaign, not just the one that caused it.
Your mailbox, or a provider
Gmail, Outlook, SendGrid, Resend or SMTP. All of them share one sending ledger, so the daily cap means the same thing wherever the message leaves from.
Replies stop the sequence
An answer cancels the steps queued behind it for that person and for their colleagues at the same company, which is the mistake that costs the most goodwill.
CRM sync, both ways
HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce and ActiveCampaign stay aligned, so the campaign can run next to the CRM you already pay for.
Custom fields on every contact
Whatever your list was holding in its extra columns becomes a field you can write into a step.
Schedules that respect the reader
A send window in the recipient's time zone, an hourly rate derived from the daily cap, and no campaign leaving in a single burst at three in the morning.
Integrations
Fits into your stack.
Connect what you already use. Outsales reads the signals and writes the updates back: there is no new system to move into.
Where this is the wrong tool
Free plans usually discover their limits after the import. These are the four worth knowing before you spend an evening setting anything up.
Tools built for volume, comparedNo inbox warm-up
There is no warm-up network here. If you are starting a new sending domain, warm it somewhere else first, or send from an address with real history.
No mailbox rotation across domains
Agencies sending on behalf of many clients run pools of domains and inboxes. That is a different category of tool and this is not it.
No lead database on the free plan
You bring the list. Enrichment and email verification are part of the automated half and run on credits, so on free the contacts come from your file, your domains or your CRM.
Not built for thousands a month
The free plan sends 300 emails a month. That is a steady prospecting habit, not a volume operation, and the paid plan raises it to whatever your mailbox allows.
Why it can stay free
A sequence sending from your own mailbox costs us nothing that we would have to recover from you later. No model is called, no data provider is queried, no inbox pool is maintained on your behalf. That is why the limit here is a number rather than a date.
What costs money is the AI writing the follow-up, reading the reply and cleaning the record. That side runs on credits, you get 50 of them once, and when they run out everything on this page carries on exactly as before.
See both plansThe free plan, in full
- Seats
- 1
- Contacts
- 2,000
- Emails
- 300 / month
- Price
- $0, forever
Plus 50 AI credits, once, to see what writing and reading for you actually looks like.
When you want it written for you
On the free plan you write every step. On Autonomous the follow-up is written from the thread and the last call, the reply is read and routed, the record is enriched and the sending limit becomes whatever your mailbox allows. The campaigns and the history you built stay exactly where they are.
Frequently asked questions
The same free plan
It is also a free CRM
The sending and the record are one product on one plan. If the contact side is what you came for, the same signup covers contacts, the full timeline, two-way inbox sync and the revenue dashboard.
Sending cold email well
What to send, how often to follow up, and what keeps a campaign out of the spam folder.
Choosing a tool
Writing it