Ok, I like it enough to fork out $45 which is the current sale price, ending 15 Nov, after which it will increase to $75. (Alright, I admit, there is a slight FOMO at play here)
What convinced me to open my wallet was that it made me feel like a power user and everything is kept locally, so moving mails, processing them, etc does seem fast to me.
I like the old school table view of my Inbox, not that Outlook or Apple Mail’s Sender followed by 3-4 lines of previews. I love the keyboard shortcut support, the Smart Mailboxes and the Rules.
And when I highlight an email, the table view will highlight emails from the same conversation, as shown in blue below:
(I prefer to show all email instead of grouping conversation, which this app allows too)
Search is a separate window, which is excellent. I have the main window and the search window side by side. I wish I could sort by Sender and just type the name of the person in-line to jump to the first email from the sender. Doing this in the separate Search window is my current workaround.
One thing which I dislike in Apple Mail is that it hides the email address of the sender from the email, just displaying the full name. When I get a dodgy email, I want to know who it is from, whether it is someone pretending to be from my bank. Maven showed this fully, so I have no doubt who it is from!
There’s so many little thing that seems to call out for me. There is a free Take Control book on MailMaven. I had this book and the app for 2.5 hours inside a plane, and I was messing around the app offline, processing existing, local mails. I think this is an app MPU will appreciate.