I spend most of my day in email, and the tools I tried kept getting bigger. More sidebars, more dashboards, more features I rarely touched.
That is why I started building Orvia Mail. I wanted a native Mac inbox that could handle Outlook, QQ Mail, 163 Mail, Gmail, and custom IMAP without turning email into another workspace to manage.
I am curious about your experience. What is the one feature in your current email client that genuinely helps, and what is the first thing you would remove?
Hi Product Hunt,
We are living through a strange moment in software. It has never been easier to add features, and maybe never been harder to know when to stop.
Email apps are becoming workspaces, copilots, dashboards, and everything else. Every feature can make sense on its own, but together they can turn a tool we use every day into another thing we have to manage.
I built Orvia Mail around a different idea: software can be powerful without being loud.
While building Orvia, I removed many things I could have added. The message stays at the center. AI stays in the background. Information appears when it helps you make a decision, not because it can.
Orvia is not trying to reinvent email. It is trying to bring email back to what it should be: read, decide, and move on with your day.
I’m building Orvia independently, and I believe this community understands the difference between what can be built and what should be built.
What is one thing your favorite software deliberately chooses not to do?
Thanks for checking out Orvia Mail.
Read more: https://orvia.aedc.cc/
Download Orvia Mail on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/orvia-mail/id6774558285?mt=12
The iPhone version is coming soon!
Love how calm this looks and the multi-inbox setup is exactly what I need. One thing though, it would be really helpful if you could set per-account send-as addresses or aliases, since I sometimes need to send from a different address than the one I'm reading mail on. That would make switching identities way smoother without messing with settings every time.
@sevillfry Just to make sure I understand correctly: Orvia already lets you switch between connected sending accounts, and the matching signature changes automatically.
Are you referring to multiple actual From addresses attached to a single account? For example, using one Gmail account to send as hello@company.com or support@company.com without connecting each address as a separate mailbox?
@sevillfry Good news, this is already supported in the latest Orvia Mail update. You can now choose any verified Gmail “Send As” address when composing or replying, so switching identities is much smoother.
We’ll continue expanding this to more email providers in future updates. 🙌