Release Notes v0.1.88
This release brings instant inbox search, smarter sorting for long emails, and a lighter, smoother day-to-day experience.
Find any email in seconds
Press Cmd+F and start typing — Quartz now searches across senders, subjects, recipients, and the full body of your mail. Matches are highlighted as you go and ranked so the most relevant results rise to the top, so the message you're hunting for is never more than a few keystrokes away. Hit Esc to step right back out and return to your inbox.
Long emails, now sorted right
Really long messages used to trip up automatic sorting. Now Quartz retries them with the full email in view, so even the longest threads land in the right place. Any emails that failed to sort before are automatically re-processed — so your inbox catches up on its own, no action needed.
Improved
Stay in the loop while syncing — AI status and the live count of emails being processed now stay visible even mid-sync, so you always know what's happening.
Lighter on your Mac — the on-device AI now releases memory when it's idle, keeping Quartz leaner in the background.
Email text is a touch more compact, making longer messages easier to scan.
Fixed
Your signature no longer disappears when collapsing a quoted Apple Mail reply.
Replies
Honestly, search on Mac, especially when it comes to mail, has been painfully bad for years, so this feels like a genuinely useful upgrade.
Is this search only across emails for now, or does Quartz index anything beyond the inbox too?
Quartz
@marie_saxon, we only search across body and other fields of emails. We can't find anything in attachments yet.
local-first Mac email client is the niche i didn't know i was waiting for. every cloud-side email tool wants to ingest the inbox for "training" or "personalization," and i never had a clean way to say no to that without leaving gmail entirely.
quick one: does the local index persist if i'm offline for 3 days? half my "long emails" arrive while i'm on a plane and i need search to work without phoning home for it.
also, is the entire search index on-device or is some embedding step still remote? asking because that's where most local-first products quietly break their promise.
Quartz
@thenameisarian, search is local. We search local base of email and don't call any APIs when you search.
Unfortunately, we don't so semantic search right now but we're experimenting with it. We have local model for embeddings we already use for RAG during email categorization. Right now everything is done locally, we don't even maintain any servers :).