Airmail for iOS - One of the best Mac email clients, now on iPhone

@ravivyas84 I was surprised as well at first, but my second thought was, well, Mailbox was free and look what happened. At least by charging they make the case that they're here to stay and are self-sufficient. After Sparrow and Mailbox I want a client that is going to last longer.

@ravivyas84 It's $5. For an app that you would use all the time, that's pretty inexpensive.

@xoalexo Agree there, but they are competing with Microsoft & Google who are providing free clients. Also they need to reach a critical mass to survive while being a paid app.

@manigandham Not for a majority of folks from India & China. Just to clarify I did buy the iOS App too. But most of my developers friends here don't pay for apps.

@ravivyas84 I'd love to hear from the makers on this. My guess is they've taken a look at the whole field of email apps (I know Boxer is also 4.99) and decided premium is the market they want to reach.

@ericdiepeveen You still need to enter your passwords

@ravivyas84 You are right. Worst feature ever! :D

@ericdiepeveen On the bright side, the login page has 1Password integration. Win!

@ravivyas84 @ericdiepeveen This was one of the BIG requests from our beta testers, personally I feel all apps should be integrating 1Password.

@zaccoffman @ravivyas84 @ericdiepeveen would be nice if that 1Password integration was also on the services login pages like OneDrive and such :)

@qewler there's a bunch: http://imgur.com/a/EWPzF

@xoalexo OMG, take my money! :)

@qewler @xoalexo No Fry meme?! Let us know what you think of the app :)

@zaccoffman What do I think? Let me start with a long story long... I'm the overall iOS email geek (Mac OS too as well). I've got all the email apps installed since day 1. (Spark, Outlook, Gmail, Cloze, Molto, Inbox, CloudMagic, Boxer Pro, MailPilot, Tipbit, Dispatch, Mera, SquareOne, Cannonball, mainbox, ArkMail, InboxCube, Mailmag, Inky, Hop, Geronimo, Slidemail, myMail... the list goes on). I know, what all of them are lacking and what they're good at. Before Airmail for iOS showed up i was mainly focusing on using Spark. Why? I used to like Boxer mainly because of the gestures control, then I stopped since they abandoned development of the app on iOS. I used to like Mailbox R.I.P. I used to like Acompli, till Microsoft deleted "3rd swipe option" with outlook. BTW - WHY??? Spark somehow was exactly something what I needed. After a while I end up using Spark for managing my 5 private accounts. I don't why. Just was more right to private use. But hey, there are like 4 work accounts I still had to manage. I was on constant search for an email app that will let me do whatever I decide to do. Call my crazy, but on my Mac i'm searching for a "lighter' email experience (which is somehow done nicely by CloudMagic for Mac and let's see how Polymail will evelolve). But when it comes to iOS I'm in need of "customize everything". Having that said, I think I finally found that on iOS - this is the Airmail app. What do I like about it: - unlimited swipes gestures (BTW, It's interesting how did you manage to solve "short" vs "long" swipes in form of a movable list items. I think no one ever done it this way before) - email listings with account colors (despite it's not new and we seen it before, I just like how it's done in Airmail, design wise. It's more clear to me. - email icons + number of lines (awesome I can set from 0 to 4) - multi language support from day 1 (bravo). - works very fast and doesn't crash (at least so far) - proper HTML formatting for most of the emails. And hear me out, this is huge. I've got some email newsletters that were handled good only by mail.app and not any other iOS email client. I'm happy - 3d touch from day 1 - also great What could be improved: - I'd like to customize icons in email detailed view (let's say I'd like to add a "move to folder" icon to the bottom menu instead of having it in top right dropdown - which is still good it's there) - i"m not a big fan of "unified Trash folder", like at all - No idea what is the "sun" and "chat" icon in the search box. I mean I finally got it, but the first look was rather "Huh?" Is the full/empty circle for unread email is not good anymore? ;) Overall, I'm satisfied with the experience and Airmail just got into my iPhone's home screen. I think developers done really nice job here. Good luck in the future.

@qewler this is the kind of feedback we love - not just the stuff about how great the app is 😉 we're always improving so lists like this help tremendously.

@xoalexo does it provide swipe gestures? That and Mailbox's speed is what I miss the most.

@happygezim yes, it provides swipe gestures very well! Speed is fast as well

@xoalexo Does the iOS and Mac app provide swipe gestures to create a to do list or reminder like mailbox? I need a simple solution for this I have the mac app, but can't really imagine investing another 5$ on the iOS app if they're still underdeveloped and don't really support the features I needed

@zaccoffman Is iPad support in the works?

@ravivyas84 that it is!

@zaccoffman Does Airmail offer smart notifications like Spark does? I'm a BIG Airmail user on my Mac but when it comes to iOS I like how Spark gives me only the notifications I need. I wear a Pebble watch so that's another reason I like less notifications. My wrist doesn't buzz all the time for everything arriving. Thanks in advance for reading my question!

@aaroncrocco Not sure how Spark does their notifications, let me travel to the dark side :-p once things die down a little to see

@zaccoffman Thanks! Essentially Spark analyses my email on my phone (not server side) and decides if the incoming message should trigger a new mail notification. This stops all the things I want to get (Storium, newsletters, etc) from cluttering my lock screen / Pebble. However if an email comes from my Mom, it can tell it's from a person or important & then notify me.

@andym_dc How is Polymail on mac? I've heard it's pretty much the spiritual successor to Mailbox, while Airmail feels more like Sparrow. What do you think?

@xoalexo I didn't have the pleasure of trying Mailbox or Sparrow. It wasn't until I left a government job and went back to school that I really needed an email app. That being said, Polymail really has what I want/need. Send later is huge for me, as I like to work late, but don't want to have my emails arriving to folks at 3:30am or something. Also, email tracking for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that with all the letters in my last name, I've found that sometimes emails from me go into spam folders! So, it helps me know if/when I should follow up. Anyway, I digress. I also think outlook for Mac is solid. Powerful and well organized. But compared with everything else, Polymail stands tall among its competitors.

@andym_dc @xoalexo The product are much different, we do no store user messages

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@tomflemming This could be very interesting

@steveraffner Hey Steve, appears to be rolling out still to most store fronts - while it tends to be ready for release, it does seem that Search is really falling behind.

@zaccoffman @steveraffner even in the US store I had to search for the full app name including the stuff after the - this morning.

@xoalexo @steveraffner One thing we've seen results for so far is "Airmail Bloop", but even in testing here, that seems to only populate a result under Watch apps. Hoping to see this clear up ASAP.

@zaccoffman bought it right now - good news I found it in app store with airmail keyword alone

@steveraffner Finally! We've been monitoring the search results since we hit launch.

@ourielohayon
we did spot that... a little too late.