I’m currently using Airmail which entices me with the baubles and what not but email is becoming a chore to integrate into any workflow that I see value in. I’m going to take a test drive and see if the functionality is enhanced by the more simplistic interface and does it provide enough integration with my other apps to form a cohesive system.
Looks like the management system it’ll be using doesn’t quite fit with how I want to work with my emails, but super glad something like this exists (or will soon). I’m keen to try it out anyway.
I requested for invite earlier this year, from what I remember they use subscription and the price is high (IIRC >USD5/mo). I cannot find the invitation email, so I cannot recheck it.
Yes, it’s subscription. I got my beta invite months ago but I was asked to enter my credit card details even for a free / beta trial, which entailed remembering to cancel for a product I was just testing and seeing if it could work for me… I then said “no thank you” and moved on.
I got my invitation a couple of days ago - subscription is $6.67/month $67.99/year or $249 lifetime, with a 7-day free trial.
But you have to enter payment details to start the trial, so that’s a “no” from me. To be fair, I very much doubt that there would be anything to tempt me to pay a sub for a Mac mail client, even if it works (hello, Airmail, I’m looking at you), since both Apple Mail and Spark do a decent job for free and MailMate does an excellent job for not a lot. The MailPilot site doesn’t show anything compelling enough for me to be likely to change may minds, so the faff of subscribe/unsubscribe to trial something I’m unlikely to want doesn’t appear worthwhile
Mail Pilot seemed promising when I tried it but it was nowhere near ready (September 2020). Since then I did not hear anything really exciting and thus keep using MailMate. But if they manage to finish the app and its iOS counterpart, I will definitely check it out.
