Help Scout vs Sortd

Help Scout is customer support software that brings email, SMS, social, chat, and voice into a shared Inbox. It also provides ticket automation, SLA management, a customer portal, and Docs sites for searchable, branded help centers or knowledge bases. Teams can manage visibility and access with permissions at company, team, or user level, and connect the service to more than 100 tools or apps. Help Scout offers API access and a mobile app. Its Free plan costs nothing and includes five users, one Inbox, and one Docs site, with 100 contacts per month, 10 saved replies, and 10 tags. Paid plans start at $25 per user per month; annual pricing is shown as 16% lower than monthly pricing. Standard and Plus plans offer 15-day trials without a credit card. New accounts receive three months of unlimited AI Answers resolutions. Help Scout states that it is HIPAA and SOC 2 Type II compliant. Support options include email, onboarding, customer success management, and priority support on paid plans.

Sortd turns Gmail conversations into team workflows where each conversation can have an owner, status, and deadline. Teams can use shared Gmail inboxes such as support@, sales@, orders@, and accounts@ without moving mail to another mailbox. Emails can be organized in board lanes, with custom workflows, statuses, colours, and fields. Available views include Kanban, table, deadline, day-planner, and message views, although Starter is limited to Kanban and Planner. Sortd lists Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Zapier integrations; Zapier can connect to apps including Google Sheets, Typeform, Jotform, HubSpot, and Trello. It also offers iOS and Android apps and a Gmail mobile add-on. Essentials includes AI Smart Status; Business adds AI urgency and sentiment features, content-based assignment, CRM tools, and REST API and MCP access. Business includes priority support. Plans start at $10 a month per user when billed annually, and a 7-day trial is available. There is no free plan.