It automatically checks multiple email accounts (up to 16[1]) at regular intervals - the default period is 15 minutes, or manually at any time.

It also permits users, after reading, to reply to emails received with simple text-only messages.

Dave Fishman of The Johns Hopkins News-Letter called it, "[t]he best e-mail program ever.

"[2] Charles Bermant of the Seattle Times called ePrompter the "Product of the Year" in 2001.

The 3.0 beta version was promised to users on the ePrompter website for several years until the forum was closed down in 2016.