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bytemail
Native Mac email: every inbox, in your notch, no trackers
27 followers
Native Mac email: every inbox, in your notch, no trackers
27 followers
bytemail is a native Mac email app built in Swift. Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo, Fastmail and any IMAP account in one fast window. New mail and sign-in codes grow out of your MacBook's notch, Undo Send flies a paper plane through it, and desktop widgets show what's unread. Tracking pixels are blocked, look-alike senders flagged, and your mail never touches our servers. Snooze, rules, one-click unsubscribe, and an MCP server for Claude and other AI apps. iPhone beta included. 7-day free trial.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Sergey, the maker of bytemail.
I spend most of my day in email, and every Mac client I tried was either an Electron wrapper, routed my mail through someone else's servers, or felt stuck in 2012. So I built the one I wanted: a truly native Mac app, written in Swift, that talks straight to your provider.
What you get:
• Every inbox in one window: Gmail, iCloud, Outlook/Microsoft 365, Yahoo, Fastmail (JMAP) and any IMAP server
• Mail in your notch and on your desktop: new mail and sign-in codes grow out of your MacBook's notch, Undo Send flies a paper plane through it, eyes peek out when your email is read, and Unread, Inbox and Accounts widgets keep your mail on the desktop
• Private by default: tracking pixels blocked, tracking codes stripped from links, look-alike senders flagged. Your mail never touches our servers, and there's no bytemail account
• Inbox tools: snooze, send later, Undo Send, "remind me if no reply", rules, one-click unsubscribe, To Reply, notification senders like GitHub or Jira gathered into one row, multiple signatures, spell check
• Read it your way: chat-style or classic threads per account, resizable panes, Markdown in the composer
• On-device Apple Intelligence: summaries, reply ideas and Rewrite on macOS 26
• One MCP for every inbox: Claude, Codex and other AI apps can search, draft and tidy your mail through bytemail, and sending always waits for your OK
There's a 7-day free trial, monthly or yearly plans, and a lifetime licence. An iPhone app is in public beta on TestFlight too.
I'd love your honest feedback — what would make bytemail your daily email app? I'll be here all day answering questions.
I recently made ByteMail my daily email client. I've tried all the other recommendations for macOS (Spark, Airmail etc.) and I stuck with Canary the longest, because it didn't try to force you to "do email" a certain way, with its own AI triaging... then that team launched a new client, Dove, that did exactly that.
My needs feel, to me, fairly simple, but no client has had them all: native UI, snappy interface, multi-provider compatibility (Gmail and IMAP in my case), a way to interact with it using my own AI tools rather than in-app tokens with a margin on top, and no strong opinions about how you should handle your email. ByteMail seems to fit the bill.
It still has a few rough edges (interacting with Gmail drafts causes the whole client to chug to a halt, for some reason) but it does everything I need without getting in your face. The only "opinionated" part is that it defaults to a "chat" style view that I personally dislike, but you can turn that off per-account with a single click.
Sergey is also a very responsive developer. I flagged up the inability to view threads newest > oldest, and that was fast-tracked up the roadmap into the next release.