Official Google Workspace add-on

Save Gmail emails to Google Sheets

A native Gmail add-on that lives in your message sidebar. Click to save from desktop, iOS or Android. No Chrome extension, no Zapier flow, no copy-paste.

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Free plan includes 25 emails/month. No credit card required.

Also works with Notion, Airtable, Linear and Trello

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To:clients-x7k2m@in.quicktion.io
From:sarah@acme.com
Subj:Re: Project kickoff — timeline attached
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Why Gmail users pick Quicktion for Google Sheets

Gmail users have the easiest path to a structured email archive, but most tools make you jump through hoops — install a Chrome extension, set up a Zapier flow, learn Zapier's syntax, and pray attachments come through.

The Quicktion Gmail add-on skips all of that. It's an official Google Workspace add-on, installed from the Marketplace, that lives inside the Gmail sidebar. You open an email, click the icon, pick where to save it, and the email lands as a structured row.

If you'd rather not click per email, you can also set up a Gmail filter to auto-forward matching emails to a dedicated Quicktion address. Both methods use the same destinations, so you can mix and match for different inboxes.

Works the same way inside the Gmail iOS and Android apps — useful when you want to save an email from your phone without opening a laptop.

For Google Sheets specifically, Quicktion preserves hyperlinks in the cell (using Sheets' textFormatRuns API) so URLs from the email stay clickable, not flattened to plain text the way Zapier's Sheets integration does. Dates are formatted in the spreadsheet's timezone, and attachments upload to a dedicated Drive folder with links back in the row.

From Gmail to Google Sheets in three steps

Setup takes about two minutes. Nothing to install beyond the steps below.

1

Install the Gmail add-on

Add Quicktion from the Google Workspace Marketplace in one click. Works on Gmail web, iOS app and Android app — no separate extension needed.

2

Open any email and pick a destination

The Quicktion icon appears in the right sidebar of every message. Tap it, pick which destination you want to save to, and that's it.

3

Save with one click (or auto-forward)

Each email saves with the body, sender, subject, date and attachments in the right fields. Prefer hands-off? Set a Gmail filter to auto-forward matching emails instead.

What people save to Google Sheets

Each destination can have its own forwarding address, field mapping and defaults. Mix and match across your Google Sheets spreadsheets.

Lead capture log

Form notifications → Sheets rows

Web form notifications, demo requests and contact-form emails become rows in your leads spreadsheet. Name, email, company and message auto-parsed into columns.

Expense tracking

Receipts → expense spreadsheet

Credit-card alerts, receipt emails and vendor invoices land as new rows with merchant, amount, date and category auto-extracted. PDF receipts attached from Drive.

Newsletter analytics

Bulk analysis of inbox newsletters

Archive every newsletter into a spreadsheet so you can pivot-table by sender, topic and frequency. Useful for content research or trimming a bloated subscription list.

Order confirmation log

Shopify, Stripe, ecommerce alerts → rows

Pipe order confirmations and payment notifications into a shared sheet the team can watch. Order ID, customer, amount and product auto-extracted.

What lands in Google Sheets

Every email from Gmail becomes a structured Google Sheets row, not a pasted wall of text.

Save from the Gmail sidebar in one click — the email becomes a spreadsheet row with hyperlinks preserved, dates in your timezone, and attachments linked back from a dedicated Drive folder.

Body, sender, subject and date land in your chosen columns — auto-matched to the spreadsheet's header row via developer metadata.

Clickable links in the email stay clickable in the cell, rendered via Sheets' textFormatRuns API instead of being flattened to plain text.

Dates format according to the spreadsheet's timezone, not the sender's, so rows sort correctly without manual cleanup.

Attachments upload to a dedicated Google Drive folder and are linked from the row, so you keep the files alongside the data.

Quicktion vs the alternatives for Gmail users

How we stack up against other ways to get Gmail emails into Google Sheets.

FeatureQuicktion
Notion Web Clipper
Gmail via browser only
Zapier
General automation
Notion Mail
Gmail-only email client
Works inside Gmail iOS/Android appsReplaces Gmail
One-click save from message sidebar
Auto-forwarding via Gmail filtersPaid
Attachments uploaded as real filesManual
Keeps you in Gmail (no client switch)
Free tier25/moLimitedRequires switch
AI extraction of typed fields

Frequently asked questions

Stop copy-pasting Gmail into Google Sheets

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No credit card required. Works with any email client.