Spark 2.0

Name: Spark 2.0
Rating: 4.0 (10 reviews)

Revolutionary email for teams

4.0•10 reviews•

30 followers

Revolutionary email for teams

4.0•10 reviews•

30 followers

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Four years ago, we decided to build an email product you’d fall in love with. We built Spark as the best email client for people who use it at home and at work. Spark 2.0 brings: - Discuss email with private comments - Create email together - Create links to email - Built-in Calendar - 3rd Party integrations

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We built Spark with a clear mission - to love our email again. Why? Email is an essential tool that is used worldwide. More than 2.2 billion people rely on it as their primary communication medium and that number continues to grow every day. What hasn’t matured and grown with the times is email itself. It’s still the same as it was 25 years ago. However, as it’s grown in adoption and become ubiquitous for communication, so have the demands and volume of email that has ultimately placed a huge burden on its users. The number one complaint people have about email is the vast amount they receive. Their Inboxes are bursting at the seams and they feel overwhelmed and not in control. Their second biggest complaint is that a lot of the email they receive isn’t relevant, social notifications, advertisements, sales, offers, chain letters, and many more. *Step 1: Build the Best Personal Email Experience* Phase 1 was our 1.x release, and we set the bar very high - build the best personal email experience. We kept our focus tight on the main problems - too much email and too much irrelevant email. The Smart Inbox was born. Seamlessly and automatically separating out your email for you into three broad categories: Personal, Notifications, and Newsletters. *Step 2: Build the Best Collaborative Email Experience* Phase 2 is Spark for Teams. While we continue to make all of the features and focus of Phase 1 better with each release, Spark for Teams expands our attention to solving these problems for businesses and teams. There are so many ways to communicate today. You can email, chat, call, have a hallway conversation, etc. Now you have a discussion that has taken place in multiple locations. This makes it very difficult to follow up or track a conversation. What did we decide on X? I think Patrick said to look for the Marketing figures on some website. Where did that happen? Things fall through the cracks, some people are left out, and you’re not working effectively. We added the ability to privately comment in a conversation, in-context with a complete history of the discussion all in one place. Not only can you invite people to chat about a conversation, but you can also invite them to help you create an email, draft a reply together all within Spark. Or, create a link to a specific email message or conversation and share it in internal docs to give your team more context. We’ve also added a full-featured calendar. We believe that events and email have stunning synergies and we can bridge the gap that exists in solutions offered today. Collaborative email was born. *Step 3: Build a Communication Assistant You Can’t Live Without* There are lots of tools out there today that help you manage your Inbox. You have server-side rules, spam filters, plugins, third-party services, and real people who manage your Inbox for you. The tools and the technology are there, but they’re complicated or inaccessible which essentially makes them useless. Unless you are big-time CEO or have an assistant that manages your Inbox for you, to most people these are out of reach financially or technically. We believe we can solve both of those problems with the perfect digital assistant. One that knew you. One that you could trust. An assistant that learned from you and the way you interact with your email. One that understood all of that underlying and unused technology and let you focus on just the stuff that matters. That’s our next step.

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8yr ago

Origami

@denzhadanov I have an assistant. Using the new team features, can I assign email to her and have her assign email to me? Also, can I give other people on my team accesss to some (but not all!) of my emails? Been using your app for months. It’s phenomenal!

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8yr ago

@denzhadanov it's freaking awesome. our entire team already using new features 🤹

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8yr ago

Missive

My name is Philippe, CEO at Missive (https://missiveapp.com/). The 🍒 on the 🍰 is not that @Readdle copied @missiveapp concept, UI, styling and even wording… it’s that they call it innovation! The Spark draft collaborative composer is pretty much exactly like Missive's one. We’ve been doing this for 3 years… and they obviously knew us. If you want to help the trailblazer, try https://missiveapp.com.

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8yr ago

Missive

@readdle @missiveapp @imatincr We launched around the same time as Front got on the map (end of 2014). Our design hasn't change since. Compare initial Front screenshots with ours... we didn't copy anyone.

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8yr ago

@readdle @missiveapp @plehoux Once I saw the features, and even without seeing this reply, Missive came to mind. Well, it's the world we live in. Nothing is really new. People will copy and that's what makes us human after all. That's what pushes us to becoming better. Missive must focus on owning its own market, essentially monopolising email 'clienting' in it's own unique way.

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8yr ago

@readdle @missiveapp @plehoux I have been using Missive for one of my companies (10 team members) and Front for another (40+ team members). It took the team a long time to get used to Missive, as compared to Front, but I personally prefer Missive over Front. The Missive team is great and support is responsive. My biggest pet peeve was there were no APIs. Which the team has started working on. I really wish they would release APIs to post messages into chat conversations so that I can move the team out of Slack.

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8yr ago

Missive

@readdle @missiveapp @kogu Thanks for the mention and feedback. You can now post any content to Missive, see https://missiveapp.com/help/api-... (just email us for API token)

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8yr ago

Tookapic for iOS

@readdle @missiveapp @plehoux When I saw the video above, I was sure Readdle acquired Missive and just called it Spark 2.

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8yr ago

Foreign Ipsum

Great work team! One thing which is still missing in the mobile experience is the ability to add a link for a website to a single word in the email. I have been hoping for this feature throughout the past few releases but to no avail. Do you have plans for this anywhere in the future or should I stop counting on such a simple feature? @denhadanov & @livsik

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8yr ago

I was using Newton, and was fed up of waiting for Superhuman to launch. So decided to give Spark a try. What more can you say, it's free! Highly customizable, the new 2.0 version is great as it integrates calendar right into the app, so you don't have to switch all the time. Time to retire fantastical? (may not just right now, but I think Spark is onto something)

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8yr ago

Are there any plans for an email open notification? Also Hubspot Sales and Drift extension support would be really helpful!

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8yr ago

Everything is great with Spark. I mean there are always bugs that need to be fixed etc. And I like that you guys keep working on it. However, I’ve decided to choose another mail app for me and my tream because of your support. If you want me to be more specific, then you don’t have one. At least nobody does that in your team as a role. And how do I know that? That’s simple. I’ve sent my first request about 2 months ago. Then I sent a couple of reminders, as I didn’t get any response. Then I had another issues so that during all the time I was using Saprk I sent about 4 or 5 requests and the same amount of reminders. For me, as a company founder and CEO it’s quite important to have a relieble tool I use daily. Mail app is something extremely personal and there are many ways to work with it. I’ve spent a lot of time to pick up the most convinient to me that was Spark. And, I totally admit, that this is a good product. Though it has annoying bug that almost ruined my inbox after you release 2.0. Well, I’m an entrepreneur too and I do understand that it will never be 100% perfect and I accept it. Until I know that you guys are within my reach and know about my issues and would like to help me to fix this. With such an attitude I just can’t rely on you as a working or even personal tool. Hopefully, I could restored all my data from Gmail and nothing bad happened. But if there would be something that only you can fix that would be a completely disaster to me and my business. That’s being said you never know what can happen, but at least you need to be sure that you are covered well supported and protected. I dont’ feel that with Spark. Instead, I’m very worried all the time. Maybe this feedback will be helpful for Spark team, only if they will read it of course. But I just wanted to share my experience with other entrepreneurs as I know how it’s important for us to have relieble tools. It’s so hard to build your business, so at least you need a good toolset that won’t hit you in you back. Do you have any questions, I’m happy to answer.

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8yr ago

I am using Spark for more than 6 months and I cannot imagine using anything else! Thank you guys for the great product and the constant improvements. The only "problem" for me is the lack of windows 10 app. Most of my collagues are Windows 10 users and the collaboration features are of no use to us as a team.

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8yr ago

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Reviewers see Spark 2.0 as a capable, feature-rich email client that works especially well for teams, with collaboration tools, smart inbox sorting, broad service integrations, and a generally clean, productive experience across devices. Several users say it is one of the better options for handling multiple accounts or working together on email. Still, criticism centers on execution: some find the 2.0 layout more confusing than the original, Mac and calendar experiences seem uneven, customization feels limited, privacy gives some pause, and one Windows user reports persistent crashing.

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