The Mailtrack alternative that costs less and covers more inboxes

Vidi vs Mailtrack at a glance

Both tools tell you when an email is opened. The differences are what you pay, which inboxes are covered, and whether a signature shows up on the free tier. Here is the honest comparison.

Why people switch from Mailtrack to Vidi

1. It costs less

Vidi is $2.99/month with a 30-day money-back guarantee — a limited launch price to celebrate our launch that will rise later. Mailtrack’s paid tiers, where the free plan’s signature and feature limits go away, cost considerably more.

2. It also covers Outlook.com and Yahoo Mail

Mailtrack is Gmail-only. If some of your email lives in Outlook.com or Yahoo Mail, Vidi tracks those from the same extension too.

3. No signature, without needing to upgrade

Free Mailtrack adds a “Sent with Mailtrack” signature to every email, which tells the person you’re chasing a reply from that you’re watching. Mailtrack removes this on its paid tiers, same as Vidi does by default — so if you’re already on a paid Mailtrack plan this isn’t a reason to switch, but if you’re on the free plan and don’t want to pay Mailtrack’s higher tier just to lose the signature, Vidi gets you there for less. If you only want the signature gone and are staying put, here is how to remove the “Sent with Mailtrack” signature. And if the renaming has you confused about which product you are even looking at, Mailtrack vs Mailsuite explains what changed.

4. The opens it reports are the ones that really happened

Every tracker counts a pixel fetch. Not every pixel fetch is a person. We measured our own: 730 real opens, broken down — 22% of them were a security scanner, a privacy pre-fetch or the sender opening their own copy, and Vidi never turned a tick green for any of them. A tool that counts all 730 as reads is telling you a proposal was read when it wasn’t, which is the one thing you needed it for.

What switching from Mailtrack actually saves you

Mailtrack’s cheapest paid tier — the one that removes the free-plan signature — starts at €6.99/user/month. Vidi’s launch price is $2.99/month for the same signature-free tracking, plus link-click tracking, plus Yahoo Mail and Outlook.com coverage that isn’t available from Mailtrack at any price. The comparison isn’t close on cost, and it gets wider on coverage: if any of your email runs through Yahoo Mail or Outlook.com, Mailtrack simply can’t track it, paid tier or not.

How to switch from Mailtrack to Vidi

1. Install the Vidi extension from the Chrome Web Store — no account required to try it.
2. Sign in and send an email as normal. The read-receipt tick appears next to it automatically.
3. If you also use Yahoo Mail or Outlook.com, they’re tracked from the same extension — nothing extra to install or configure.
4. Uninstall Mailtrack once you’re comfortable, or run both side-by-side while you get used to Vidi’s ticks.

What Mailtrack costs

The prices below are Mailtrack’s own, and they are worth seeing in full rather than summarised — the cheapest tier is rarely the one that does what you came for.

Pricing verified on 20 September 2026, read from Mailtrack’s own pricing page. Prices change; if you spot one that has, tell us and we will fix it.

When Mailtrack makes sense

Mailtrack has a genuinely free plan, and if you don’t mind the “Sent with Mailtrack” signature or you’re already paying for Mailtrack’s higher tier, it’s a reasonable choice — its paid tiers are just as signature-free as Vidi. Vidi’s edge is price and coverage: Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Outlook.com from one extension, for less than Mailtrack’s cheapest paid tier. If that’s what you’re after, try Vidi, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Weighing up other tools? Compare the Mailsuite, Mixmax and HubSpot email tracking alternatives too.