Shortwave vs. Hiver in Gmail

Shortwave is the smartest email app on planet Earth. Email is the backbone of modern business communications. Every day, billions of emails are exchanged inside and between businesses discussing everything from investment decisions, to high-stakes negotiations, to product designs, to major purchases. Email is the one tool that connects everyone — employees, customers, vendors, even the CEO. The biggest decisions are made in the email inboxes of business leaders. And yet, the inbox you rely on every day has not fundamentally improved in over a decade.

Hiver in Gmail transforms Gmail into a powerful agentic helpdesk. Support teams can manage shared inboxes, collaborate on conversations, automate workflows, and use AI to handle requests more efficiently, all without leaving the comfort and familiarity of their Gmail inbox. Hiver also offers Hiver Omni, an omnichannel customer service platform that brings email, chat, voice, Slack, SMS, and social into one queue. Unlike Hiver in Gmail, which works inside Gmail, Hiver Omni is a standalone platform with its own interface.