It’s been interesting to see the many new use cases that we now support as a result of this change. We expanded Front for multi-channel use (live chat, SMS, Facebook, Twitter) because even more teams (customer support, success, operations, marketing, etc) need a centralized communication tool that brings all their emails, channels, apps, messages into one place. But, it’s still the main communication tool for businesses, so that’s why we’re tackling the team email inbox problem first. To give more context about our shared inbox, we started by trying to solve the pain points around responding together to group emails like Email isn’t collaborative it’s unclear who is supposed to respond to a group email, forwarding/reply all/CCs are messy, and you can’t even internally discussion an email in the inbox. Yet, now I have a laptop again.I’m Mathilde, CEO and co-founder of Front.
POLYMAIL ROADMAP MAC
At the time, I tried a “let’s only use a Mac for email” philosophy, but was quickly limited by my Mac mini’s annoying lack of portability. My away-from-desk option was an iPad Pro. Maybe we should socialize email apps?Īlas, this thread was a good reminder of something: when I last reviewed my approach to email, I had a Mac Mini. From my perspective, “all I want” should be easy, but what we’re getting is a variety of exciting options that are incompatible with one another.ĭamned competition. A bunch of great clients only work with certain services. Airmail’s powerful, but untrustworthy (from a glitchy perspective, not a data/privacy one, IMO). The trouble is that each client comes with brutal trade-offs. Really, there are some interesting things happening. I guess it’s easy to complain about email. Surely there are other email innovations that I haven’t captured above. It works, but Airmail’s kludgy nature makes it a little awkward. I have created a Screener-like UX with Airmail custom actions and Fastmail rules. It is powerful, with a few unique features (such as Topics), and has a very customizable aesthetic. Postbox is a lovely experience built upon Thunderbird. Yet-another-Gmail-only-client Mimestream is a “Mac-native client for Gmail.” By all accounts, it’s real sleek, and has a rich roadmap with lots of possible features in the future. It’s often discussed around here-e.g., MailMate Rules for Action Required Emails. It offers a lot of “power user” features and Mac-nativeness. There are, however, some celebrated mail clients that work only on the Mac. The above overview focuses only on apps that are cross-platform, or at least can be used on iOS while having some option (web or native app) on macOS. Is that it? Have I missed anything interesting?Įdit: the first few replies reminded me that normal, healthy people do email on the Mac. Newton, Edison, and Polymail all seem to be staying the course-as in, I haven’t heard of them doing anything particularly novel or special in many months. Fastmail has a mobile app-it works like the Fastmail browser experience, and only works with Fastmail. Superhuman still costs extraordinary amounts of money and only works with Gmail accounts. A new version of Spark is supposedly in the works. Airmail continues to be the only option that can do anything with Shortcuts. Otherwise, it seems all the same contenders continue to be not-bad. The developer, Alexander Obenauer, is still doing stuff, so maybe someone here has tried it! It looks slick, and it promises to be cross-platform. Mailpilot (previously discussed e.g., here and here) announced MailPilot 5 sometime in the past year (edit: year or so) but I don’t think there’s been any updates since. Hey’s app is neat and offers some fun features, but requires using Hey’s email service. Discussed earlier on this forum: Shortwave: Ex Google Employees make a new Gmail Client Shortwave is a new Google Inbox-inspired app… that only works with Gmail.
POLYMAIL ROADMAP UPDATE
Last update on the app store was four months ago. Outside of being the first app I’ve seen that supports JMAP (e.g., Fastmail), it doesn’t seem to do anything particularly special.īig Mail was a much-hyped thing that did not seem to stick the landing. Mailtemi is an interesting but seemingly boring new entrant. I don’t even get that much mail… but I hate interacting with what I do get.) macOS and iOS I don’t know why I torture myself looking for a better email app. I have been using Airmail for the past year or more, but it is not super polished. In lieu of that I am constantly trying other options. The mythical app is basically Mail, but with, like, a Share Sheet. (In case you didn’t know, I am constantly in search of the mythical app that will solve my email woes on all platforms. Just checking in with the MPU community… has anything new and noteworthy in email apps happened recently?
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