gassyantelope

Spark 2 was my go to email app for years and an app I recommended to all my friends. Spark 3 threw all of that out the window. It's a downgrade in almost every way. It's missing features that were in 2, is full of bugs, has awful performance now (freezes, crashes, etc.), and is just not ready for public release. Instead, they focus on new features like AI replies instead of fixing the bugs and trying to have feature parity with Spark 2. You can't even open an email in a separate window, what email app doesn't support that? Spark 3, apparently. The number of bugs, related to basic functionality, is astonishing. Some examples are shift clicking to select multiple emails is broken if the first item you select is scrolled off the screen and copying text from an email you're replying to, while in the reply/compose window, does not actually copy. I can't believe this product was released in the state it's in. It should still be in alpha. It feels like they're trying to force a certain workflow on users, even when users say they don't want that and that it requires more clicks to perform the same tasks that you could in Spark 2. Requiring a subscription for (some) of the same functionality that was in Spark 2 is just the icing on the cake. I'd gladly pay for the Spark 2 experience, but wouldn't use Spark 3 even if everything was free (it's that bad). I realize Spark 2 is still available (for now), but the way they've handled this whole Spark 3 situation has made me lose all faith in Readdle/Spark and I'm moving on. RIP Spark, it was good while it lasted.