The short answer
Choose Missive if your team wants a polished desktop and phone app that brings together existing Gmail, Outlook or IMAP accounts, with chat inside every conversation. Choose Nexmail if you want free addresses and shared mailboxes on your own domain, with Slack routing, provider failover and a calendar with booking links, and you are fine working in the browser.
At a glance
| Nexmail | Missive | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free for up to 9 seats; Team plan for more seats, the meeting notetaker and the AI calendar reader | Free tier and paid per-seat plans. Check their site for current pricing and plan limits. |
| Addresses at your own domain | Yes, for every person plus shared mailboxes | Through the accounts you connect, such as Gmail, Outlook or any IMAP mailbox |
| How mail arrives and leaves | Arrives through Resend’s inbound, your own mail server or Gmail; leaves through your own Resend, Brevo, SES, SMTP2GO, SMTP or Gmail account | Through the email accounts you connect to it |
| Assign, labels, internal notes | Yes | Yes, plus team chat inside conversations |
| Slack routing and replies from Slack | Yes | See their site |
| Calendar sync and booking links | Yes: Google, Outlook and CalDAV both ways | See their site |
| AI first drafts | Yes, with the sales pipeline on; a person always sends | See their site |
| Desktop or phone apps | No: runs in the browser, with no IMAP or POP access | Yes: desktop and mobile apps |
How they differ
Client or service. Missive is an email client: it connects to mailboxes you already pay for and gives your team a shared view of them. Nexmail is the place your domain’s mail arrives, with replies sent through your own providers, so you do not need a separate mailbox host for the addresses it handles.
Talking about mail. Missive’s signature feature is chat inside each conversation. Nexmail uses internal notes on the thread, and announces each address in a Slack channel where the team can discuss and even reply. If your team already lives in Slack, Nexmail fits that; if you want discussion inside the mail app, Missive does.
Sending safety. Nexmail checks every send for spoofed links, executable attachments, spoofed display names and unsubscribed recipients, fails over between providers, and has daily ceilings and an emergency stop for outgoing mail.
Apps. Missive has native desktop and mobile apps. Nexmail runs in the browser only.
When to choose Missive instead
- Your team wants native desktop and phone apps.
- You want to keep existing mailboxes at Google, Microsoft or an IMAP host and add collaboration on top.
- You prefer chatting about an email inside the email app rather than in Slack.
- People also want their personal mail, from several accounts, in the same app.
When Nexmail fits better
- You want team addresses at your domain without paying a mailbox host per user.
- Each address should land in its own Slack channel.
- You send campaigns and newsletters as well as replies, with limits and one-click unsubscribe.
- You want booking links, a team calendar and, on the Team plan, a meeting notetaker next to the inbox.
How to set it up
- Create a workspace. Sign up and name your organization. The Free plan covers up to 9 seats and needs no card.
- Add your domain. Open Get started and add the domain you own. Nexmail lists the DNS records it needs, or publishes them for you on Cloudflare, Vercel or DigitalOcean. See Connect your domain.
- Connect a sending provider. Connect Resend in one click, or add Brevo, Amazon SES, SMTP2GO or any SMTP server under Settings → Providers. Add more than one and Nexmail fails over between them.
- Invite the team and add shared addresses. On Teammates, invite people by email and create general mailboxes such as support@, shared with everyone or only the people you pick.
- Send a test and route it. Send yourself a message, reply to it, and, if you use Slack, connect it under Settings → Slack and choose which channel hears about each address.
Questions
Is Nexmail a Missive alternative?
For a team answering shared addresses on its own domain, yes. It does not replace Missive as a desktop or phone mail client, and it does not have chat inside conversations; it uses internal notes and Slack instead.
Can Nexmail connect my existing Gmail like Missive does?
Yes. Connect a Gmail or Google Workspace account (with an app password, or Google sign-in in beta) or any IMAP/SMTP mailbox such as Zoho, Fastmail or iCloud. Nexmail reads the inbox about once a minute and sends as you through that mailbox.
Does Nexmail have a mobile app?
No. Nexmail runs in the browser.
How much does Missive cost?
Missive has a free tier and paid per-seat plans. Prices and limits change, so check Missive’s own pricing page.
Read next
- Nexmail vs Front — Nexmail and Front compared: a free shared inbox on your own domain versus a mature paid customer communication platform, and when to choose Front instead.
- Shared inbox for small teams — A free shared inbox for support@, sales@ and hello@: assign conversations, leave internal notes, route each address to Slack and draft replies with AI.
- Free business email on your own domain — How to get free team email at your own domain: addresses for everyone, a shared inbox and Slack routing, sending through your own Resend or Brevo account.