Comparison
HubSpot’s email tracking is genuinely good — but it lives inside the HubSpot CRM, logging contacts and nudging you toward Sales Hub plans. If you just want to know whether your email was read, you don’t need a CRM to do it. Vidi is a standalone read-receipt tracker for $1.99/month as a limited launch price.
Both tell you when an email is opened. The difference is whether that answer comes wrapped in a CRM, what it costs, and whether the tracking is silent.
| Feature | Vidi | HubSpot email tracking |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A focused read-receipt tracker | Tracking inside the HubSpot CRM |
| Requires a CRM account | No | Yes |
| Logs the recipient as a contact | No | Yes, by design |
| Honest handling of automated opens | Yes — machine opens labelled, not faked | Reports raw opens |
| Also works on Outlook.com & Yahoo Mail | Yes | Gmail & Outlook via extension |
| Starting price | $1.99/month (limited launch price) | Free tier, then Sales Hub pricing |
HubSpot is built to capture every contact and open into a sales database. For a client pitch or a personal email, you often don’t want that record to exist. Vidi shows you the read status privately and builds no CRM profile of the person.
HubSpot’s free tier limits tracked notifications and steers you toward paid Sales Hub plans. Vidi is a flat $1.99/month launch pricing — a limited launch price that will rise later — with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Vidi only turns the tick green on a genuine human open and labels automated pre-fetches (like Apple Mail Privacy Protection) honestly rather than counting them as reads. More in Apple Mail Privacy Protection and open tracking.
If you already run your sales pipeline in HubSpot and want tracking logged against every contact, its email tracking is a natural fit. Vidi is the better choice when you send important personal or client-facing emails and just want to know they were read — without a CRM in the middle. If that is you, try Vidi with a 30-day money-back guarantee, or compare the Mailtrack alternative and Saleshandy alternative.
Vidi turns every important email into a clear grey-tick / green-tick answer — across Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Outlook.
$1.99/month launch pricing, locked in for as long as you stay, or pay once and never pay again · 30-day money-back guarantee · Cancel in two clicks