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Boxy - Inbox by Gmail, finally on your Mac

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Boxy is the best Inbox by Gmail client for Mac, with a sleek and polished interace, and many native features like Push Notifications, Reader Mode and Markdown Support.

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Marius Masalar
Insta-buy for me—I love Inbox and now it's like I have a native app for it. Brilliant work, folks. Only thing I'm not a fan of so far is the Compose button...the fact that the label overlaps the account switcher on hover seems messy. I'd rather it be a FAB like on the web or somewhere on the left side of the menu bar. Minor quibble but that's just not intuitively where I expect a compose button to be.
Fabrizio Rinaldi
Maker
@mostlymarius thanks a lot Marius, also for your feedback. We care about details so we'll try to fix that!
Marius Masalar
@linuz90 Fantastic, looking forward to your solution. Next question: is extension support on the roadmap? I'm considering adopting Mixmax so it would be great if I knew it would work with Boxy.
Marius Masalar
@linuz90 Also, on the topic of shortcuts: I'd personally rather have ⌘1, ⌘2, etc. switch between accounts rather than switching between Inbox, Snoozed, Done. Could that be an option?
Fabrizio Rinaldi
Maker
@mostlymarius we're also working on better and faster account switching
Igor Bonatto
@mostlymarius I've been using Mixmax since its launch and can't imagine Inbox without it anymore. This is the kind of integration that will make Boxy indispensable :-)
Fabrizio Rinaldi
Maker
Hello Product Hunters! I’m super excited to be here. Thanks so much @chrismessina for testing our app and hunting it! I’m the designer of Boxy, and @frankdilo is the developer. Boxy is a feature-rich Mac client for Inbox by Gmail. We are wrapping the Inbox web interface in a native OS X app that supports notifications, default email client setting, common OS X keyboard shortcuts and multiple accounts. We’ve been working for months to make it work and look great. Among are favorite features there are a Dark theme and a Reader mode (which we love using to read newsletter comfortably, without the distraction of the full interface). We’re also pretty excited about our roadmap for future versions, and we’d love to hear what you think! You can reach us on Twitter at @getboxy or via email at info@boxyapp.co Cheers! PS: here are some coupon codes for you! TTYP9LEAEXE6 33FHXRAKMREP WM9L4PRWAWTH EYN4W47M9XE9 NLJ7X347NYKX A4YJ9J7TLH4T Y77K43MWKRKT HAX9KXPK3EAK MXLM7EJL7F4A 4LX9ATFY777H
Caleb Winters
@linuz90 I really love the Reader mode! Great feature. I've been wanting a desktop version of Inbox for a while now. This is great! :)
Rebecca
@linuz90 love it, needed it, bought it..BUT doesn't seem to want to connect my work email because we use OneLogin. Any ideas?
Fabrizio Rinaldi
Maker
@_rsamuelson we're fixing authentication issues with external services right now, sorry for your problem!
Kacy Fortner
What a beautiful app! I have a quick question. I've noticed that you have "common OS X keyboard shortcuts", but do you have VIM shortcuts or do you plan to add them? It's probably my most favorite feature from Gmail, Sparrow, and Mailbox. Thanks!
Fabrizio Rinaldi
Maker
@kacyf Thanks Kacy! Those would be a nice addiction, you're right. I'll put it on our list and I'll discuss it with @frankdilo to see what we can do :)
Caleb Winters
@kacyf +1 for the VIM shortcuts. :)
Carlos Mondragón
@linuz90 @kacyf +1 on VIM shortcuts!
Jason Glaspey
@kacyf +1 for VIM shortcuts. It's actually a deal breaker for me. Without, I might as well be using Apple Mail. :(
Alex Bush
@kacyf +1 on VIM shortcuts as well. It's a power feature but it increases productivity tenfold.
Jason Rappaport
Been using a Fluid app with Inbox for months, ever since Mailbox became abandonware. Since I used Fabrizio's icon for my Fluid app, I was seriously anticipating this. It's lightyears ahead of using the browser version, and a total joy to use. I *really* wish it had full-screen/split-screen support, though; it's the only app on my Mac that doesn't, and it really mucks up my window organization. I'll also throw in my vote for a better compose button; I do think consistency with Inbox is important, and pretty much everything except the compose button is consistent with Google. It should definitely retain the large, circular plus button in the bottom corner. Another good reason to move its placement: right now it looks like an "add account" button, since it's next to the user's avatar. I also noticed that some elements have rounded edges where they probably shouldn't, like the top of the search dropdown and bottom of composing a new email. The compose button also becomes obscured while searching. Just wanted to report! I hope this remains well-maintained! Can't wait to see updates. :)
Fabrizio Rinaldi
Maker
@goldenchaos Thanks so much Jason, much appreciated! We're going to implement split-screen and full-screen in the next version of the app, it's something we also care about. And we're also working on a separate compose window, that would make a huge difference. Also thank you for pointing out the other little details, be assured that I'll look into everything.
Jannis
No trial version? 😞
Fabrizio Rinaldi
Maker
@jannis unfortunately we didn't make it for launch day, but we are working on a trial version to offer in the future. Hope that's ok!
Brandon Brown
@jannis I was hesitant to buy, but I decided "what the heck, I'll just buy it". After an hour of use, I love it! My only gripe is that the "Open in Gmail" button should probably be hijacked and open in a proper browser window rather inside the app itself. It gets alittle weird and it's hard to get back without right-click > Back, or closing the app and re-opening. All in all, I love it!
Fabrizio Rinaldi
Maker
@brandonb927 can you share details about this bug via the feedback form?
Brandon Brown
@linuz90 can do!
John Alexander
interesting timing after mailbox announced shutting down ;)
Fabrizio Rinaldi
Maker
@johnalxndr still can't believe that happened! They officially announced Mailbox departure when our release was near and already scheduled.
Clark Wimberly
@linuz90 haha such perfect luck! Love it! PS this is pretty damn great
Fabrizio Rinaldi
Maker
@clarklab thanks! :D
Robert Bye
@linuz90 my only gripe is slow account switching and the fact that notifications only work for the selected account. Kind of frustrating 😞 - any aims to change these?
Fabrizio Rinaldi
Maker
@robbyedesign Absolutely Rob, better account switching (and therefore notifications handling) is our top priority and we're already working on it!
Ouriel Ohayon
more promo codes please?
Fabrizio Rinaldi
Maker
Hello again everyone. THANKS for all the love and support, this means much for us. We're seriously amazed by everything that's happening. I and @frankdilo wanted to take a moment to share with you what's happening. We received tons of emails with everything from bug reports, feature requests or questions of any kind. This already proved to be fundamental for Boxy's development. We're about to send the very first Boxy update to Apple (asking for an expedite review) which will address many issues. For instance, we added a new experimental authentication system to login with external services like Google Apps for Business, Okta and OneLogin, and we made the app more reliable, especially when connectivity is low or unstable. Following many indications to do so, we improved shortcuts support a lot: we implemented Cmd+Alt+1, 2, 3 for fast account switching, we fixed the horrendous error sounds for VIM shortcuts, Cmd + "," will open the Inbox preferences pane and Cmd+Enter will send emails more reliably. We're can't wait to tell you more about our future plans. THANK YOU ALL again, especially to @chrismessina for his amazing support and advice, to @ow for trying the app and covering us on The Next Web on day one (without us asking to do so), and to our awesome beta testers. ❤
Mitchell McKenna
Could you add the ability to archive or delete from the notification?
Fabrizio Rinaldi
Maker
@mitchellmckenna that's not easy because of how Inbox bundles email together, but we're looking into that!
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