https://zapier.com/blog A blog about productivity, workflow automation, company building and how to get things done with less work. Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:50:21 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/best-email-app-for-iphone-ipad You may be happy with a web app like Gmail when you're at your computer, but when you're emailing from your iPhone, you'll want a dedicated iPhone email app for the job. From notifications to going through mail offline, a dedicated app just works better. I've used all sorts of email apps on my iPhone over the years, and to find the best of the best, I spent time testing the most popular iOS email apps. Based on my experiences, here are my picks for the seven best iPhone email apps. The best ema Justin Pot Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/best-email-app-for-iphone-ipad https://zapier.com/blog/best-time-tracking-apps If you spent an hour working on a client project, but no timer was around to track it, did you even do any work? (That's how that saying goes, right?) As a freelancer, I'm responsible for every aspect of my business, from client work to marketing to record-keeping and admin. I keep detailed records of how long every business task and client project takes me, which helps me price my services accurately and avoid overbooking my schedule. But whether you're a solopreneur like me or a 9-5 office wor Kiera Abbamonte Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/best-time-tracking-apps https://zapier.com/blog/zapier-vs-openai-frontier Enterprises have no trouble coming up with ideas for AI agents. But they get stuck scaling them—typically for reasons like messy integration work, data and skills gaps, or trust, governance, and risk concerns. Well, OpenAI just announced something for its enterprise customers running up against those same roadblocks: OpenAI Frontier. But Frontier, which lets you build production-ready agents, is only available to select enterprise customers at the moment. Here, I'll share what we know about the Steph Spector Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/zapier-vs-openai-frontier https://zapier.com/blog/best-ai-app-builder Even using no-code, building a new app can take a big chunk of your time. Setting up data sources requires smart planning and foresight. Building an intuitive user interface takes multiple tries until you find the perfect layout. And tying it all together with bug-free app logic demands attention to detail and many rounds of testing. AI helps in two ways here. The first is by turning your prompt into a first-draft app, speeding up setup. The other is by building solutions with code and placing t Miguel Rebelo Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/best-ai-app-builder https://zapier.com/blog/ai-statistics Imagine your workplace without AI. It's dreary; it's devoid of happiness. Your staff is overwhelmed with work, crucial tasks fall through the cracks, and getting information from other departments feels like negotiating with packs of wild hyenas. Now, imagine your workplace with AI. The sun is shining, the birds are chirping. Everyone gets their tasks done on time, productivity is sky high, and your customers have never been happier. You tell a joke in the break room; everyone laughs.  That's th Ben Lyso Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/ai-statistics https://zapier.com/blog/mailerlite-vs-mailchimp Mailchimp has reached near-GoDaddy levels of recognition among small businesses: when I worked at a marketing agency, clients either had Mailchimp or they had nothing. But there are plenty of other options for small business email software. One of them is MailerLite, which I switched to myself a couple years back. I've used both platforms extensively, and have also evaluated their features in-depth for my MailerLite review and guide to Mailchimp email automation. In preparation for this head-to- Ryan Kane Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/mailerlite-vs-mailchimp https://zapier.com/blog/microsoft-copilot When I first heard that Microsoft Copilot was coming to Windows, I expected an AI agent that automates nearly everything, starting from the OS all the way up to the 365 apps. It's not that: not yet, at least.  Instead, Microsoft is rolling out slowly: small tools in Paint, a cool live AI screen-sharing tool, and chatbots everywhere you go. Cautious, yes—breaking Windows and Microsoft 365 for 1 billion users isn't an option—but that caution is working. Here's what Copilot can do right now and wh Miguel Rebelo Fri, 06 Feb 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/microsoft-copilot https://zapier.com/blog/store-images-zapier-mcp You've generated picture-perfect images in ChatGPT. Now what? Download them one by one, open your file storage app, and manually upload every single file? Sure, that's doable. But it's also slow and heavy on the clicking. Since you're already leveraging AI to work smarter, connect ChatGPT to Zapier MCP—our built-in tool that gives AI assistants the power to act on your behalf. With it, you can generate images and save them directly to Google Drive without ever leaving your chat window. You'll al Steph Spector Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/store-images-zapier-mcp https://zapier.com/blog/create-plus-ai-decks-from-slack-mentions Plus AI takes a smart approach to presentation-building: rather than replacing PowerPoint and Google Slides, it enhances them. With Plus, you can create compelling AI-generated slides from prompts, then easily edit the content in the presentation apps you know and love. As soon as you need to gather context from team conversations and share finished decks, though, working with Plus AI gets manual fast—unless you're using Zapier. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to automatically create and sha Steph Spector Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/create-plus-ai-decks-from-slack-mentions https://zapier.com/blog/claude-api Hallucinations on long documents. Formulaic writing. Code that doesn't run. If your AI app is doing any of this, you don't need better prompting: you need Claude. With its extended context window, nuanced writing that's easy to guide, and strong reasoning capabilities for technical challenges, it feels like a friendly junior worker tuned for collaboration. And with its Constitutional AI training, it keeps safety at the top of the list. There are two ways to integrate Claude into your apps and i Miguel Rebelo Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/claude-api https://zapier.com/blog/openai-api OpenAI combined a powerful AI model and a chatbot experience—and the rest is history. But ChatGPT may not be best for your workflow, especially when you want to automate your AI prompts with complete flexibility. With the OpenAI API, you can automate what you're doing manually, sending one or multiple requests and getting the responses right where you're working—be that a custom-coded solution or no-code app builder. This works both for internal tools where you're stitching more tasks together w Miguel Rebelo Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/openai-api https://zapier.com/blog/best-resume-builder Searching for a job is becoming a job of its own. With so many open positions, tests, and interview stages, joining the workforce of moving up is becoming harder. And with screening software automatically disqualifying candidates, the chances to get some 1-on-1 time with recruiters grow thin. But you have something powerful in your corner: AI-powered resume builders can help you generate a starting resume from scratch, optimize an existing one, and help you adapt it to every single job opening y Miguel Rebelo Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/best-resume-builder https://zapier.com/blog/what-is-deepseek DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company, as well as the name of its model family and chatbot. It made headlines in early 2025 by releasing a state-of-the-art reasoning model that shook things up in Silicon Valley and knocked a few billion off major tech company stocks. Things have settled down since then, and DeepSeek is now one of a number of major Chinese AI players, but it's definitely still worth talking about. Table of contents: What is DeepSeek? Why are DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3 so impressive? Harry Guinness Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/what-is-deepseek https://zapier.com/blog/deepseek-vs-chatgpt OpenAI's ChatGPT is the biggest name in AI chatbots, but it's not the only one. In early 2025, the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek shocked the AI scene with a couple of big technological achievements—it rocketed up the app store charts and generated countless headlines. But now that the new cycle has died down, how does it stack up to ChatGPT in 2026?  Before we dig in, a note on naming conventions. I've been writing about AI models for a decade, and things continue to be confusing: DeepSeek is the nam Harry Guinness Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/deepseek-vs-chatgpt https://zapier.com/blog/claude-ai Claude powers Amazon's new Alexa+ experience, autonomously resolves millions of customer support tickets via Intercom, and helps users build sophisticated apps through platforms like Cursor and Replit. It sits at the center of the "vibe coding" movement, where non-coders create apps just by chatting with AI, and has devoted fans who praise its surprisingly effective therapy-like conversation skills. And yet, on paper, Claude seems limited compared to rivals. It can't generate images or videos, i Ryan Kane Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/claude-ai https://zapier.com/blog/set-up-auto-email-facebook-lead-ads You've set up a Facebook lead ad to find new customers, but how will you know when those new leads come in? Sure, you can download your leads at the end of your campaign, giving you a comprehensive list of all those leads in one place. But if you want real-time updates—so you can nurture those new leads right away—you should send yourself (and your team) a customized email notification when a new lead comes in.  Here's how to set up an email alert with your Gmail account when you get a new lead Ellie Huizenga Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/set-up-auto-email-facebook-lead-ads https://zapier.com/blog/automate-facebook-messenger Your Facebook page is more than just a catalog of products, services, and updates. Prospects and customers can use it to contact you directly. Respond fast and thoughtfully, and you can turn their attention into real business results. If your social team is already preoccupied, though, monitoring Facebook Messenger around the clock isn't realistic. That's where automation comes in. With a few automated workflows (what we call Zaps), you can handle incoming messages, route them to the right peopl Steph Spector Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/automate-facebook-messenger https://zapier.com/blog/automate-gamma You could pour hours into perfecting your presentations. But if the slides themselves look messy or off-brand, your message might not land with your audience. If you think you don't have the time to play the idea generator and designer, there's good news—you don't need to be. With Gamma, you can create AI-generated decks that captivate your audience (and you don't even need a background in design). For presentations that pull from your actual data, you'll want to connect Gamma to your other apps Steph Spector Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/automate-gamma https://zapier.com/blog/gamma-with-zapier-mcp ChatGPT knows how you think and work. That rich conversation history you've built with it noticeably improves its output. But if you're using it to create data-backed presentation copy, then switching to Gamma to plug that copy into polished slides, there's a smoother solution. It's called Zapier MCP—our built-in tool that lets your AI assistants carry out actions for you. When you equip ChatGPT with Zapier MCP, you unlock access to more than 30,000 actions from Zapier's secure integration libra Steph Spector Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/gamma-with-zapier-mcp https://zapier.com/blog/automate-youtube Running a thriving YouTube channel comes with endless responsibilities. And unless you have eight arms, managing your channel, your content calendar, your influencers—let alone optimizing your workflow—can get overwhelming quickly. Fortunately, you don't need to be an octopus or employ a team of assistants to keep up with the job's demands. With Zapier, you can set up Zaps—what we call automated workflows—to handle everything from notifying your team about new video uploads to auto-generating tr Steph Spector Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/automate-youtube https://zapier.com/blog/automatically-copy-events-from-one-google-calendar-to-another Managing multiple Google Calendars—one for work, another for your personal life, maybe a third for side projects—is common. But it can be annoying to keep them all aligned. Plus, if you forget to manually copy an event to another calendar, you might get double-booked, miss an appointment, or have a colleague schedule over time you've already blocked off. To prevent all that fuss, let Zapier automate the process. Set up a Zap (that's our word for an automated workflow) to instantly copy new event Steph Spector Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/automatically-copy-events-from-one-google-calendar-to-another https://zapier.com/blog/workato-integrations Because I'm extremely cool, my idea of a good time is when Zapier adds a new integration for an app I already use. Most recently, that app was Reclaim. The moment I saw the integration go live, I did what any well-adjusted adult with an active social calendar would do: I dropped everything and started building new workflows to automate yet another tiny aspect of my life. That's the thing about integrations: when the tool you rely on actually connects to the rest of your stack, automation goes fr Nicole Replogle Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/workato-integrations https://zapier.com/blog/ai-fluency At Zapier, we've seen that the biggest gains from AI don't come from having access to the right tools alone. They come from teammates who know how to work with AI thoughtfully: people who are curious, willing to experiment, and able to see where AI can meaningfully support their judgment and decision-making. That belief shapes how we hire, onboard, and develop our teams. We expect every Zapier teammate to meet a baseline level of AI fluency—not because everyone needs deep technical expertise, bu Jessica Lau Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/ai-fluency https://zapier.com/blog/best-email-newsletter-software Changes happening across search algorithms and social media feeds make one thing crystal clear: it's never been more important for businesses to own the channels where they communicate with customers. Email is one such channel—and it's stood the test of time. Today, email newsletters run the gamut from small-scale personal notes to massive automated campaigns—and so does newsletter software. No matter how complex (or simple) your email marketing operation is, the best email newsletter software m Kiera Abbamonte Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/best-email-newsletter-software https://zapier.com/blog/best-shopify-apps It can be dizzying for Shopify merchants to scroll through the thousands of available apps, and sometimes, you just want a recommendation. That's why I turned to Shopify merchants and online discussions to find out which apps they use. Keep in mind that depending on what you're selling—and who you're selling it to—these apps might not be the right choices for you. These are the best tools according to the merchants I spoke to and conversations I read, but it's definitely worth browsing the direc Melissa King Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:00:00 GMT https://zapier.com/blog/best-shopify-apps