Important messages go to your Imbox non-urgent ones head to The Feed. HEY begins with The Screener, where you authorize or mute people sending you email.

HEY’s thinking is that to revolutionize email, you must start from scratch – so it did. The best email clients try to do new things, but work atop ancient foundations. But if you are, taking advantage of the native app’s capabilities is a smart decision. Given Google’s attitude towards privacy, you might be cool on going all-in with Gmail if you’re not ensconced in the Google ecosystem. You can schedule messages – and even undo them if you tap the relevant button within a handful of seconds. When composing a message, Gmail attempts to speed things along by offering sentence auto-complete – accepted with a rightward swipe.

There are effective spam and muting tools. The app attempts to separate social and promotional email from your ‘primary’ inbox. The native Gmail experience feels alien on iPhone, but is nonetheless sleek and responsive. If you’ve been using Apple Mail for sending and receiving Gmail messages, though, you won’t be aware of those features. Google’s email service is hugely popular, free until you’ve got 15GB of messages, and packed with useful features. It’s worth checking out if you’d like email to be more like messaging and less like, well, email. There are limitations to the free tier – although nothing that would impact on the typical user. And there’s a collaborative notes space for working with others. You can snooze and auto-archive messages. It smartly sorts mail to keep low-priority messages from your main inbox. It all feels very human – very friendly.īut Spike isn’t a gimmick bereft of power-user features.

You then end up with a bunch of threads that resemble what you’d see in Messages. It’s odd, but it works – especially when you’ve been using the app for a while and resist any long-standing temptation to manage your inbox. Spike’s cunning plan is to combine the two, transforming email into a people-centric conversational medium. But the reality is email isn’t going anywhere. They prefer conversing using messaging apps. But if you’re unwilling to pay, Spark is a solid free alternative to Mail, if you feel held back by Apple’s app.įor some people, email is a relic.

And during composition, you can work with templates and schedule when a missive should be sent.ĭuring testing, the app didn’t feel as refined as Airmail, and setting up new accounts was fiddlier. Need to confirm receipt of an email, but don’t fancy typing anything? Emoji-based quick replies exist for that. Ones you haven’t time for can be snoozed.

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