@jleebiz There is an article in the related links section that discusses some of the differences which may make it better in some ways. I've invited the Airmail team here as well. Maybe they will chime in.
@erictwillis@jleebiz Hey, I'm actually a part of their support team, so I'll act as a spokesperson. One way I'd say it's better than the default Mail app is that it works. In my personal use I feel it's not only faster but cleaner, especially on 2.0
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@zaccoffman wait, what? Because it works? Look, I'm an Airmail user. I could sing its praises. But it doesn't make sense that someone who does support for it can only say it is better because "it works". Mail.app "works".
@f I agree, my answer was quite short. I feel Airmail provides the best experiencing in handling email than any other client. Our streamlined unified inbox is presented in such a clean way that email doesn't feel like a chore. The real selling point is the speed, I don't know others' opinion on email, but the faster I can open read + reply, the happier I am, Airmail blazes for me through my 6+ accounts (all with 10k plus emails).
Hopefully that clears up a little more than my previous "it works" statement.
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I've been using Airmail since the first version. Honestly I preferred the UI and detail on the old version more than the current one (purely talking aesthetics)
@brianbreslin I've heard this from a few fellow users so far. I was taken aback slightly when I first saw it. The more I used it with Yosemite it just felt... right?
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@brianbreslin Same, the re-design did Airmail no good.
Plus I don't use any of the "new" features, such as extensions, markdown mail composing, or the older one to treat mails as "to-dos".
I just want a sleek desktop (for offline availability) mail client to combine a plethora of IMAP/Exchange mailboxes into one unified inbox.
That's what Sparrow had done so well. Airmail for me always had some hickups, like that the global search scope didn't cover the Gmail accounts for a long, long time in 1.4. (Just to be clear: That issue is solved!)
I'm hesitant to upgrade, right now.
@boettges The global search scope for Gmail was a bit of downer for us for a while. I can say in 2.0 with the updated engine and database management it works flawlessly for me (that is for an account with 22,000+ in the Gmail/GoogleApps account and 46k in my iCloud email). While my opinion may be a little bias, I didn't think I would use the extensions for much, but it has sped up my workflows of emailing photos/PDFs as it utilizes Yosemite's Sharesheet styling.
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@zaccoffman@boettges i have over 100k emails across my gmail accounts in airmail, and honestly i end up loading gmail in browser or mailplane to search a single account at a time as the results in airmail for search were spotty.
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@zaccoffman I've been using it with Yosemite, and felt the interface lacked depth, and was TOO plain.
Assuming this will be seeing a bit of traction this week due to the death of Mailbox. We're working on getting a Snooze function added before Apple cuts for their Holiday break.
@zaccoffman this would convince me to stick with it. Also an iOS app. I've resulted to using Outlook for its speed and snoozing, but outlook OSX is a turd. I'd rather have an all in one. I suffered thru Mailbox's terrible OSX app simply for their iOS app. Airmail is world's beyond Mail app and Mailbox IMO. But without iOS, if Outlook makes changes to align with the app.......
Heh, I remember when Airmail was $1.99. Tried out the beta for a while. Wasn't totally sold but I went to purchase it anyways and it had gone up to $9.99. Now it looks like $19.99 is the new price point (after the current promotion). I'm guessing there has been a ton of work since the $1.99 price, and honestly, this price point is probably more reasonable and sustainable. I do wonder if people will pay that much for a mail client though, since mac mail is supposedly getting much better too.
@jscheel That $1.99 promo was awesome, it's actually what led me to Airmail after Google killed Sparrow. Using it is what eventually led me to wanting to join their support team. The team will obviously keep an eye on the market to see if there are any massive drop-off of users with the $19.99 price point, but many are taking advantage of the 50% off pricing.
After Chrome, Airmail is the program I use the most frequently at work. It's a massive time saver, especially for anyone who has more than one email account they need to keep track of.
I didn't think it could get much better than it already was, but I've been using the Beta 2.0 version for a couple of days and I love it even more.
My only complaint is that when I archive or delete a message, the next one doesn't show up until the "message removal" animation is done playing.
@gdeglin This was actually something that stood out to me in the beta as well (more so earlier betas). I can say, I just tried it in my current inbox on 2.0 (official) and the animation is really sped up so you go directly to the next one now.
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