The previous Apple engineer’s Mimestream app is a helpful Gmail consumer for Mac

Former Apple engineer Neil Jhaveri has been engaged on an e mail app for Mac known as Mimestream. It’s now out of beta after a protracted testing section of greater than two years. The app makes use of Gmail’s API, so it’s at the moment solely appropriate with Gmail.

Jhaveri, who spent greater than seven years at Apple, labored on the Mail app for the primary iPad and the primary Notes app for macOS. He later led groups engaged on Apple’s Mail app. He left the corporate in 2017 and based Mimestream in 2019. Jhaveri stated the corporate remains to be up and operating with 5 folks engaged on the app. He stated greater than 167,000 folks have used the app in beta.

Due to its familiarity with Apple’s Mail app, lots of Mimestream’s design parts seem like the default app on the Mac, equivalent to using blue dots to point unread emails, a three-column structure, and motion buttons within the prime bar . .

As a local app, Mimestream integrates properly with the remainder of the working system. It helps trackpad gestures, darkish themes, associating e mail profiles with focus filters, and keyboard shortcuts.

The app makes use of the Gmail API, which implies it may simply import issues like signatures, server-side filters, templates, labels, and vacation responses. The app additionally helps Gmail aliases, entries, blocks of code, Markdown replacements, undo ship, and the power to ship and archive. This integration implies that the Mimestream expertise is nearer to Gmail’s web site.

With the brand new launch, Mimestream additionally helps profiles like “Work” and “Private” so you possibly can separate completely different accounts. You can too assign completely different colours to accounts to distinguish between emails within the unified view. As well as, you possibly can set a notification schedule so that you’re not disturbed by pointless notifications.

The app additionally has an extra menu bar: while you click on on the menu bar icon, you possibly can shortly test for unread messages with out opening the app.

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You should use Mimestream without spending a dime with a 14-day trial. After that, it’s important to pay $4.99/month or $49.99/yr. Nonetheless, the startup is providing the annual plan at a lowered launch worth of $29.99 for the primary yr by June 9. Mimestream competes in opposition to different e mail shoppers equivalent to Boxy, Edison Mail, and the app Shortwave from the previous Google exec. It depends on the easy and acquainted interface for Mac customers and tight integration with Gmail to face out from the competitors.