Comparison
Streak is a full CRM built into Gmail — powerful, but a lot of product if all you actually want is to know when your email is read. Vidi does that one job simply: a grey tick when it sends, two green ticks when it’s opened, nothing to set up, $1.99/month launch pricing.
Streak and Vidi both track opens, but they’re aimed at different people. Streak wants to run your sales pipeline. Vidi just tells you if your email was read.
| Feature | Vidi | Streak |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A read-receipt tool, one job | A full CRM inside Gmail |
| Setup required | Install and send — no config | Pipelines, boxes, stages to set up |
| Read status at a glance | WhatsApp-style ticks in your inbox | Tracking within the CRM |
| Honest handling of automated opens | Yes — machine opens labelled, not faked | Reports raw opens |
| Works beyond Gmail | Yes — also Outlook.com & Yahoo Mail | Gmail only |
| Starting price | $1.99/month (limited launch price) | Free tier; paid CRM plans cost more |
Streak is genuinely good at being a CRM. But a CRM is something you have to feed and manage. If the only reason you installed it was to see whether your emails get opened, Vidi gives you that answer with nothing to configure — install it and send.
Vidi shows the status as the ticks you already understand from messaging apps, and only turns them green on a genuine human open — automated pre-fetches are labelled honestly, not counted as reads. See Apple Mail Privacy Protection and open tracking.
If some of your email lives in Outlook.com or Yahoo Mail, Vidi covers those too — Streak can’t.
If you want to manage deals, contacts and a pipeline inside Gmail, Streak is the better fit — tracking is just one piece of a much bigger tool. But if you only need to know when your email is read, that’s all Vidi does, and it does it cheaply. Try Vidi, with a 30-day money-back guarantee, and see if the simpler tool is enough for you.
Vidi turns every important email into a clear grey-tick / green-tick answer — across Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Outlook.
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