- Create your account at icebox.cool with your email address, or sign in with Google or Microsoft.
- Connect the mailbox you want Icebox to work on. Icebox needs one to do anything, so this comes first.
- Give it a few minutes. Icebox reads your recent mail, works out who is waiting on you and starts drafting replies.
- Open the Queue to see who is waiting, then Approvals to review the replies the agent wrote.
- Prefer an app? Get Icebox for Windows from the Microsoft Store. It uses the same account.
- Gmail or Google Workspace: choose Connect with Gmail and sign in with Google.
- Outlook.com or Microsoft 365: choose Connect with Outlook and sign in with Microsoft.
- Any other mailbox (iCloud, Yahoo, Zoho, your own domain): choose IMAP and enter the server, port, email address and password your provider gives you.
- To add another mailbox later, go to Settings > Email Accounts.
Tip: Gmail does not accept your normal password over IMAP. For a Gmail address, always use the Gmail button.
- Needs you lists the people who wrote and are waiting on your answer. Each one says why it is there.
- Needs an action lists automated notices from the last 30 days that ask you to do something, like a bill or an expiring card. Nobody is waiting on a reply.
- Click Reply to answer, Done when it is handled, or No reply needed to clear it.
- Filed by the agent shows what Icebox read and set aside as needing no reply, so you can check its work.
- Each draft shows the email it answers, the proposed reply, and why the agent believes what it wrote.
- Confidence shows how sure the agent is. If it flags One thing to check, read that part before sending.
- Edit the reply directly if you want to change anything, then click Send reply.
- If the email needs no answer, click No reply needed. Click Reject if you would rather write it yourself, or Skip to come back to it later.
- If the reply confirms a meeting, sending it also adds the meeting to your calendar.
Tip: In the Windows app, a draft the agent is unsure about takes two clicks: the first shows what to check, the second sends.
- Open Clear my inbox. Icebox lists every sender in your mailbox, biggest first.
- Review the suggested clean-up: marketing goes to Trash, and notifications and receipts are archived. People you write to are never included.
- Untick any sender you want to keep, then click Clean up now.
- Tick Keep it clean to do the same with a sender's future mail.
Tip: Nothing is deleted for good: Trash keeps it, and every step can be undone for 30 days.
- Connect Google Calendar from the Calendar page.
- When someone asks to meet, the agent's draft offers times you are actually free.
- When you send a reply that confirms a time, Icebox adds the meeting to your calendar.
- Free gives you the full email client for one mailbox. It does not include AI.
- Personal Plus adds the AI agent for your own inbox. Business plans add shared inboxes for teams that answer customers.
- Credit packs pay for AI you ask for, like summaries and translations, on any plan. Credits never expire.
- Change or cancel your plan in Settings > Billing. You keep access until the end of the period you have paid for.
- Annual plans can get a prorated refund within 14 days of purchase. Monthly plans are not refundable.
- Mail is not arriving: open Settings > Email Accounts. If a mailbox asks you to reconnect, sign in again.
- An email is missing: check Quarantine, where Icebox holds suspicious mail for you to review.
- Gmail says your password is wrong over IMAP: remove that mailbox and connect it again with the Gmail button.
- Nothing in the Queue or Approvals: the agent needs a few minutes after you connect a mailbox, and it is not included in the Free plan.
- Still stuck? Contact us and we will help.