IIRC they had made another attempt a few years back and it didn’t go very well. Let’s hope this one’s a solid one, as there is no great email client for apple devices since Spark’s gone electron unfortunately!
They are also the makers of a good News app alternative (with RSS support) called Big News which I use on the side and although it’s nothing ground-breaking, it does feel very much like an Apple app. Fingers crossed their email solution feels the same!
After the (fairly) disastrous launch last time, I don’t have high hopes, but I wish them the best – even with Mimestream, the world of non-Electron email apps on the Mac is a dreary place. I’d love to see more, and better, options.
Agreed. The first version was an opinionated “Mac-assed” app which had clearly had a lot of love poured into its development.
But it wasn’t obvious (to me) how it solved any valuable problems better than the competition. And it was objectively expensive (compared to other email apps) and subjectively expensive (in terms of my perceived value of its features and UX)
Been using Spark Desktop (while being subbed as well) for now. For me the biggest benefit of Spark (amongst others), is its smart notifications. I’ve never been notified of anything unimportant, while I haven’t missed anything important either. It just works.
Depending on what your needs are, your preferred style, and your willingness to pay large ongoing costs, I’d classify Spark and Superhuman somewhere between Good and Great.
Probably because Mail.app is good enough for almost everybody so it does not merit the effort. If memory serves, the main contenders are Mimestream, Mailmate, and Canary which I believe are 100% native.
Subscription-based but no pricing given, and iOS only for the testflight. I’m wondering how many people on iOS are even in the market for a mail app. Keeping in mind, of course, that this isn’t a back-end service at all - it’s just a mail app. So it’s different from Hey, Fastmail, etc.
You just described every email client I’ve every used. Most of the email improvements of the past thirty years has occurred on servers.
IMO, with the exception of security everything else is just a variation of the features that have been bolted on to clients over the years. The best email client is the one you like the most.
Correct - but most of the mail clients I’ve used aren’t positioning themselves to charge me a substantial monthly fee for their use. The stuff I’ve seen where a subscription makes sense to me have typically included some sort of back-end magic or a bundled service (Hey, Sanebox, etc.).
