Spark makes multiple accounts a breeze, automatically groups your emails a-la what Gmail does but it actually works well, syncs accounts between devices, quick actions, and a lot more. Shortly, it's brilliant and I love it. I have no affiliation, I'm just a very happy user, I recommend you give them a try if you're looking.
But I don't want them to add more features than what they already have. It's fine as is.
I wouldn't bind myself to a mail client that tied me to a specific hardware vendor. Even if I was Apple only (which I'm not) I don't want to be in that position again.
Been there with Google Inbox. I want one client that is going to stick around and works on all my devices.
There's a lack of innovation in the email client space.
Even if this doesn't win, I'm excited to see you guys are working on this problem!
- let me archive things
- let me search my email
- let me do email-y things (reply, forward, reply all, etc.)
- display HTML and plain text email in a way that doesn't hurt my eyes
- get out of my way
I don't need or want advanced categorization, animated flourishes, or even folders. I use Spark as my email client because it works just fine.
Spark is toying with charging, which I think is fine. If it's not too much, I'll pay.
This Big Mail seems too feature-laden for my tastes.
I want a UI that allows me to effortlessly triage my emails. I want search and filtering to be fast and well thought through. Just ticking off items in a feature matrix leaves a lot out of the picture.
But I need sort even more. And it's frustrating the inability for "modern" email clients to do away with it. Gmail is the culprit.
Does Spark allow you to sort your folders?
But this is an email client that’s more expensive than Fastmail & at $78 annually is less than Hey. If you bring your Gmail account that’s all it is: $78 per year forever.
A comment in this thread brought up Apple as a buyer of the Big Mail parent company. I think it’s just as likely that Google would.
For me the cost is too much. I’m paying $130 for years of Fastmail (for email service & their free clients on a custom domain with a ton of extra features).
I’ve set up rudimentary filters & email groups to come close to Hey’s features. (Yes, I also paid for a year of Hey.) I’m constantly trying new email clients & will likely give Big Mail a shot when it goes live.
But sticking with something that costly is unlikely, it’s also hard to say when I’d do this given the short trial period. I need a week of trial time where I can focus a little time setting up and comparing to clients I’ve already tried & the one I use now.
That’s just to say it looks lovely!!! Cheers! I’ll give it a try.
I mean, they're already taking 30% of their paycheck. That's about as "employed" as they want them to be, since they make $2.10/month for every active user on their service.
> and the Mail app acquires this feature set?
Wishful thinking. The Mail developers have dropped the ball for the past 5 years, I wouldn't expect them to start releasing a good client now.
No other email experience has let me get through my backlog as fast as Inbox did.
This ignores the average user problem, which is getting real communication lost in the mentioned sauces. I say that because big bucket filtering is almost always circumvented by email campaigns. I was an early user of Gmail when they introduced this feature, and almost as soon as it was useful it was not, because advertisers figured out how to play the game.
However, I'm not in favor of a new mail client enough to pay $7/month in perpetuity, unless it's pure magic.
I'm on iOS now, and I miss this feature of Android gmail so much. iOS gmail just has one notification sound, even for different accounts, which is really frustrating.
No thanks.
Not moving from Superhuman
It would make it much easier/logical to handle conversations.. and make it easier to identify fishing and to delete/prune messages.
Why is there no Bing mail? I guess Microsoft doesn't want to cannibalize their Outlook offering... but Bing mail would probably appeal to an entirely different crowd.
It is nitpicking, but it suggests there could be other QC issues that are more significant elsewhere in the business.
