Free Tool Friday: Is Rapporto a Replacement for Rapportive?

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Sep 5, 2014

This article is part of a series called Free Tool Fridays.

Note: This is a part of the Free Tool Friday series with Dean DaCosta. Each Friday during July and August, Dean will provide a short description of one of his favorite browser addons, apps, or extensions.

Rapporto is a new addon tool that recently hit the Chrome store. Some are touting it as a replacement for Rapportive which had its functionality downgraded after it was bought by Linkedin. Unfortunately, Rapporto does some of what Rapportive did, it doesn’t do it all. Specifically, Rapportive allowed a user to enter a list of possible email addresses and highlight each one to identify which is correct. Unfortunately, that’s the feature missing from Rapporto.

Below is a view of the type information that is shared on the right side of your inbox when you receive a message from someone in Gmail.