Notion Kills Notion Mail

Notion revealed today that it will wind down Notion Mail on September 22 across web, desktop, and iPhone.

“We launched Notion Mail with a belief that your inbox should think like you—more personal to how you work and over time, more capable with AI,” a Notion statement explains. “As Notion agents have gotten more capable, we’ve seen more users hand off email workflows to them. Today, more than half of Notion Mail users manage emails without ever opening their inbox. So, we’re going all in on using agents to run your inbox.”

Notion announced Notion Mail in October 2024 and released it for web and desktop the following April, with the iPhone client arriving in August 2025. But it was always an odd offering. Instead of being a standalone email client, it was just a frontend for Gmail, and it required Notion AI, a paid service that starts at $10 per month for individuals and $15 per month for business users. I suspect that had more to do with its lack of usage than people interacting with their inboxes using AI agents.

In addition to its core “everything” app, Notion still offers Notion Calendar, which, wait for it, is a frontend for Google Calendar. It’s not clear whether that will continue or whether Notion’s plans for a modern alternative to traditional office productivity solutions like Microsoft 365 and Google Docs are no longer a priority. I suppose it’s possible that Notion sees Notion AI and agents as the way forward.