Skim - Free, open-source AI email client for Windows
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Skim is a free, open-source (MIT) email client for Windows.
✂️ Minimal on purpose: no calendar, no rules engine, no bloat. Fewer buttons, less cognitive load.
⚡ Native Rust core (Tauri 2): ~5 MB installer, sub-second cold start, instant full-text search.
🔒 Local-first, offline-ready, zero telemetry.
✦ AI on your terms: bring your own Anthropic or OpenRouter key and Skim drafts replies in your voice and answers questions across your whole mailbox.
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Honestly the 5 MB installer is kind of wild for an email client, opened it up and was reading mail before my coffee was ready. The bring your own AI key approach feels right too, no weird data stuff happening behind the scenes.
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@kevserauj4 glad you liked it! 🫶
love that it's local-first and tiny, but honestly a unified inbox view would be a game changer for me. like, one screen where i can see all my accounts side by side instead of toggling between them. would make it feel even more minimal and way faster to triage.
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@rem1219681 oh this one I love. You actually nudged me over the line - unified inbox is happening.
The plan: all your mailboxes merged into one view by default (not just the inbox - sent, archive, everything), Each message tagged with a little colored dot + letter so you always know which account it's from. And if you ever want the old one-account-at-a-time mode, it stays a toggle.
Wrote it all up here, design + open questions - would love your take:
https://github.com/nikserg/skim/issues/10
Thanks for the push 🙌