Canary Mail
AI email client built for privacy
Start new thread

Canary Mail - Easy, elegant email for Mac

by•

Canary Mail is the mail app you need, security and features in one, wrapped up and delivered to you! There is a lot more you can do with it - everything is systematized, organized and with an easy User Experience!

Add a comment

Replies

Best
Maker
Hi PH, we're excited to be here again! Special thanks to Kate & Ben, for being very responsive and helpful! Canary is an exciting new email client for Mac that offers a full set of powerful features with one key difference - your emails are not stored on a 3rd party server. Every facet of Canary has been designed in accordance with our core philosophy of ensuring complete user privacy and offering reliable & snappy performance. Unlike other apps/services, using Canary is not contingent on providing access to your data. Over the last couple of months, we’ve worked closely with our amazing group of beta testers to continuously refine & enhance performance and UX to ensure that Canary is a joy to use. For a limited time, Product Hunt users can download and try the beta right away via our website! Website : Twitter : Slack (feedback / support - Tweet for an invite) : Features: -Read Tracking -Snooze -Unified Inbox -Gmail Labels & Filters -Attachments Browser -Quick Reply -Powerful Search (that also works offline) -Universal IMAP Support (including Exchange EWS/OWA) P.S. - Canary for iOS is in the pipeline, launch date & signup details will be announced on Twitter shortly.
Is it supporting filter the unread email only ? When I try the beta version before and that function is not included.
Maker
Yes, it does now!
A quick question, why do when I click archive some mails get archived and some don't ? Maybe because I have over 250+ archived emails or ?
Maker
Hi Nikola, please send us your email (Twitter DM?), so that we can invite and debug via Slack
Is scheduling on the road map?
Wowowow. Awesome work, you guys. Was just pulling out my hair a few days ago over the sad state of desktop mail clients, and voila, here you are. As for desktop clients, there are barely any contenders, and even among the best there are too many compromises. In my opinion, Canary nails most of what I want, and it does so with with panache. On a related note, I think it's silly that so many of the new mail app developers keep B-lining for mobile. Yes, everything is going mobile, but the mobile mail space is already super crowded, and the existing solutions are just fine. Apple's Mail app for iPhone isn't amazing, but it gets the job done, whereas Apple's Mail app for desktop is a buggy monstrosity. If you accept that mobile and desktop will probably merge at some point in the not-too-distant future, it makes sense to penetrate the market from the other angle (desktop), where the competition is small-time at best. Anyway, great job again, and team. Just made this my default mail client. P.S. The one thing Canary needs is an undo send feature. Super croosh.
Maker
"Canary nails most of what (you) want, and it does so with with panache" makes for a great tagline 🙃 Glad to have you onboard, Ben! And yes, we're working on undo send.
Re. undo send: Woohoo! Glad to hear it. As for the tagline, you're very welcome. Keep up the good work!
Great job! I was using Polymail but the bugs added up and became too much of an issue for me. This mail app has been great for me --- no bugs so far, great interface, super fast and all the features I need. Well done!
It is really a wonderful email client. Very fast, responsive and with tracking, auto-theme, attachement view etc. it has some great features. Can't wait to beta test the iOS version!
iOS just announced. About 250 free spots left. If you join via my link I'll get ahead in the queue 😉
I'm already #2 😉💪🏼
wow! speedy. 🏅
Looks like a beautiful UI. I'm using Nylas and Polymail right now. Looks like everyone is aiming at the same feature set: read receipts, snooze, send later, etc. The one thing that isn't talked about a lot but is probably the single most important thing (as I'm realizing) is security. > How does Canary handle email to be secure? Data at rest / in transit policies, etc.
Maker
Thanks Desmond! Canary uses SSL to connect securely to your email provider. The local database on your Mac is also encrypted. And most importantly, we do not ask for or store your credentials, access tokens and/or emails on our server - unlike many other new apps/services.
That's great to hear! So all email is stored locally, very cool. How do you technically handle send later?
Maker
We don't have Send Later yet - we'll add it only if we can do it well without a server component!
Got it. Well best of luck, I'm excited to try it out :)
How do they make money? 😕
Maker
Hi Steven, Canary is in beta currently, which is free to try. We'll have both free and paid versions when we launch on the App Store!
You might want to add that to the site. Honestly the first thing I looked for was "how is this app monetized." For core apps (email, calendar, etc) privacy, data security, and - by extension - monetization strategies are quite important to me.
Maker
Good point, will update the site with this info.
I'm a big, big fan of Canary Mail but I'm a bit confused as to what it is doing on the featured page of PH. I'm happily running the lastest beta-version 0.6 (123). Is that the official release? And what the heck does '2.0' mean? Has there been a version 1.0 that I have missed completely?
Maker
Hi Ton, we're still in beta! But since the app has been redesigned with a lot of new features since we were first featured on PH in Feb, this post is titled 2.0 (123 is the correct, latest version) 😊
Now it makes sense! Looking for it right now.
Awwwright. That explains the 2.0. Just wondering what'll happen when Canary Mail 0.6 will turn 1.0. A whole lot of Googling I suspect :-)) Version numbers aside I'm looking forward to the Slack'd daily new features extravaganza of Canary Mail for iOS :)
For years I've been reluctant to use a desktop client for no particular reason, but I'm converting now! Everything has been great so far and I'm up and running. Questions: is there a way to make my Unreads "sticky" at the top? That seems to be my only request at the moment! Great work.
Maker
Hi Danny, thanks for the note! You can preview unread emails by selecting the 'Unread' filter via the top bar. But making them sticky is also a nice idea - we may add that soon :)
Cool! Cheers man and keep up the good work.
Hey, Looks like a great app. Two questions, how do you think it differs from a Polymail. Can you send later and stuff?
Maker
For starters, we don't store emails on our server - Canary connects directly to your email provider, which means there's never any downtime on our account. And we already support most IMAP providers.
And what about any Send Later options? Do you support Zoho?
Maker
Yes, Zoho should work. We may add Send Later if we find a way to do this reliably without a server component.
Thank you very much. Do you have any Slack channel or something for anyone to be more informed to your updates?
Maker
Yes, please DM us your email and we'll send an invite!
At first I thought: "Not ANOTHER email client for Mac, how many more are there gonna be!?" But I must admit you guys have done a great job. A performant native mac application, that's what I want! I won't name any, but there have been a few email clients built on electron, which is basically a chrome wrapper with some native app features, and these apps are just as powerhungry as chrome itself. A No-Go for a simple Mail Client. I really want to give this a try!
Maker
Hi Enes, thanks for your note. Happy to have you onboard!
123
•••
Next