keep sending from your domain, inside gmail

Read in Gmail. Reply from your own domain.

Sent in Stone is a Gmail add-on and sending service for people who read their domain's email in a personal Gmail account. You tap a button in Gmail, write your reply, and it goes out from you@yourdomain.com, not from your Gmail address.

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Launching before January 2027

The problem

In January 2027, Gmail stops sending from your domain.

Many freelancers and small businesses run their domain's email through a personal Gmail account: mail to the domain is forwarded into Gmail, and Gmail's "Send mail as" feature lets them reply from the domain address.

In January 2027, Google removes "Send mail as" for non-Google addresses, on the web and in the Gmail phone apps. Forwarding keeps working, so you'll still receive your domain's email in Gmail. But your replies would go out from your @gmail.com address.

How it works

Three steps, starting in Gmail.

  1. Step 1

    You keep reading in Gmail

    Your domain's email keeps arriving in Gmail through the forwarding you already have. Sent in Stone doesn't touch how you receive mail.

  2. Step 2

    To reply, tap our button

    In our Gmail add-on, tap "Reply as you@yourdomain". Our compose window opens, with the recipient, the subject and the quoted message already filled in. You write your reply there.

  3. Step 3

    We send it from your domain

    Your reply goes out from your domain address, and we put a copy back into your Gmail conversation, so the thread stays complete.

What's different from today

It works differently from Gmail's "Send mail as". Here is how.

Sent in Stone is a different way of sending, not a copy of the feature Google is removing. These are the differences you'll notice.

  1. You reply by tapping our button in Gmail and writing in our compose window, instead of picking your domain in Gmail's own "From" dropdown.
  2. Your sent email appears in the Gmail conversation and under a label, not in Gmail's Sent folder. Putting it in the Sent folder is planned as a later upgrade.
  3. Each sent copy arrives in Gmail as a new message, so it can show up as unread or trigger a notification, until you add a simple Gmail filter. We'll show you how.
  4. On your sent copy, Gmail shows your domain's display name instead of "me".
  5. The compose window opens in a browser tab. On a phone, that means leaving the Gmail app briefly (on iPhone it opens in Safari), then switching back.
  6. You need to keep the Gmail phone app up to date for the add-on to appear.
Privacy in plain words

We handle the email you send. We leave the rest alone.

  • We never store the email you receive

    Your inbox stays in Gmail. We don't read it, copy it or keep it.

  • We read one email, only when you tap

    When you tap our reply button, we read the email you're replying to, and only that one, to fill in your reply.

  • We keep delivery records, not content

    The email you send passes through us to be delivered. Afterwards we keep only delivery records (time, status, IDs), not what you wrote.

The details are in our privacy policy.

Pricing

$3 a month, or $24 a year.

One plan, everything included. No free trial; instead, a full refund within 30 days if it isn't for you. Payments are handled by Paddle.

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Who makes it

Made by Semicognito.

Sent in Stone is built and run by Semicognito, a small independent software maker. Questions are welcome at hello@sentinstone.com.

Read the privacy policy, the terms of service and the refund policy, or get support.