Rapportive: Gmail add-on Review - why 5 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Aug 08, 2019

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What is Rapportive: Gmail add-on?

Rapportive is a social media contact extension that is integrated into Google Apps and can look for information that your contacts have made publicly available. It can show your contact’s photo, recent tweets, location, social media profiles and other details that are available online when you are looking at their email.

Rapportive was founded back in 2010 by Rahul Vohra, Martin Kleppmann and Sam Stokes with a view to show users everything about their contacts right from their inbox.

Who is it best for?

Rapportive is designed for Gmail users as an add-on and is suitable for those who are looking for a solution to get rich contact profiles in their email service. The solution is also available as an add-on for Safari, Firefox and Mailplane.

Main features and functionalities

Rapportive can help users to check who their contact is with images from their Facebook profile, where they are and if they are nearby, what do they do by checking their LinkedIn profile and their activities in MailChimp. It’s easy to find the details of a person that is publicly available in Facebook and LinkedIn using this solution and users can grow their network by following them on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, leave notes on their profile and mention recent tweets or shared interests.

What is the actual cost?

ITQlick pricing score is 4.4 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for Rapportive: Gmail add-on.

Pros

• Rapportive is available for most of the popular browsers including Safari, Firefox and Chrome
• Rapportive supports leaving notes about someone on their profiles unlike other similar tools
• The Gmail social media contact extension can show users their contacts’ activity in MailChimp

Cons

• Rapportive is not available for Internet Explorer yet like other similar tools
• Rapportive doesn’t offer any option to share contacts which can be a problem for some users
• The social media contact extension offers limited options per person search comparing to other similar tools

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of Rapportive: Gmail add-on vs alternative software solutions.

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