Sektra vs Missive: the Missive alternative that keeps your mail where it is
Missive blends email and team chat into one new app. Sektra keeps mail in Gmail or Outlook, syncs with it, adds WhatsApp, and builds the layer chat cannot, a durable memory of every client.
Sektra and Missive at a glance
Missive prices and features from its public pricing page, verified October 2026.
What Sektra keeps that a shared inbox tool leaves behind
Commitments and open questions
Every promise and every unanswered question, tracked per client across email and WhatsApp. Archiving a thread does not lose it.
Silence watches
Ask Sektra to watch any client and it tells you the day they go quiet. The morning digest lists everyone who owes you a reply, so a check-in lands before the renewal call.
An assistant that acts
Ask what was promised and get a cited answer. Hand it the work and it assigns, drafts, reminds and watches for you.
Questions, answered
What changes when a team moves from Missive, and what stays the same.
We are on Missive today. What changes?
The team keeps a shared inbox with assignments, mentions and notes, and mail stays in Gmail or Outlook for anyone not on Sektra. What is added is the assistant, the record of every client, and action items that follow through.
Does Sektra have team chat?
Internal notes and mentions live on the thread, next to the client conversation they are about, and a typing indicator shows who is already replying. Sektra does not replace Slack or Teams; it posts new conversations, assignments and service level alerts into the channels you map and links back to the thread.
Do we have to roll out a new app to the whole team?
No. Sektra connects to the mailboxes you already run through Google or Microsoft sign-in, and teammates who are not on Sektra keep working in Gmail or Outlook. The history is read on connect, so the record is complete before anyone changes habits.
Missive vs Front: which shared inbox is better?
Missive is one app for email, chat and SMS at a lower per-seat price; Front adds routing rules, SLAs and a longer channel list at a higher one. Both organize the day's queue. A team that needs the record of what was promised to each client, with mail left in Gmail or Outlook, is the team Sektra is built for.
Can we run both during a trial?
Yes. Sektra syncs two ways with the Gmail or Outlook mailboxes you already run, so connecting it changes nothing about your current setup. Every new workspace starts with 7 days of Pro and no card is required. That is enough to run the two side by side on the same mailboxes and decide.
How does pricing compare with Missive?
Missive runs $14 to $36 per user monthly on yearly billing across Starter, Productive and Business, with its AI assistant listed on each plan. Sektra Standard is $29 per seat billed annually ($35 monthly) and Pro is $59 annually ($69 monthly). Every AI feature is in the plan price, and each seat adds credits to a pool the whole team shares.
Seven Missive alternatives, sorted by the reason you are looking
Seven Missive alternatives, free to $105 per user: Hiver to stay in Gmail or Outlook, Help Scout for support volume, Sektra for WhatsApp and named clients.
Missive alternativesSektra against the rest of the field
Decide on your own inbox
Run Sektra beside Missive for 7 days and see which one the team reaches for.