![]() This means you get all of Gmail’s (and Google’s) best features, instead of just a stripped down inbox. There’s no learning curve with Kiwi because it’s Gmail for the web, unleashed from the browser. Just sign in with your existing Gmail account(s), and you’re up and running. Getting started with Kiwi is super simple. This means you get the same Gmail you’ve used in Safari or Chrome, but with the added beauty of desktop notifications, easy account switching, gestures, and more. Kiwi ( $9.99 in the Mac App Store), originally on Kickstarter as Gmail for Mac, is a Mac application that offers the ease of use of the Gmail desktop web interface, as well as Gmail’s customizations, features, and settings, but in a native Mac application. Neither of these are the perfect solution, but a new app, launched today, is looking to create a native desktop experience out of the web-based email service. This leaves most users sticking with the stock Mail.app on the Mac, or using Gmail in their browser. With the extreme popularity of Gmail, it’s no surprise that there are almost as many iOS email apps supporting the service as there are photo apps in the App Store.īut what about on the Mac? A search of the App Store yields only a handful of apps – most of which are pretty worthless (take my word for it). I use it, everyone here at MacTrast uses it, and you probably use it (or know someone who does). ![]() Probably the most widely used free email service available. My quest for the perfect Gmail client continues.Gmail. Personally, I think Wavebox comes out on top in the comparison, but it still has kinks that I would like them to work out.Įverything else I've tried - Outlook, Mailbird, Thunderbird, eM Client - sucks in different ways. I've been hunting for a great Gmail client for a long time, and sadly, all three of them are far from perfect. Performance and battery life is nearly on par with Wavebox. Also no back/fwd buttons, just like Wavebox. Like, wtf! A tabbed interface would be better, but not sure if it would go with their overall UX philosophy. For heavy Gmail users of multiple accounts and constant back-and-forth between mail, calendar, keep, docs in those accounts, it can easily lead to fifty independent windows in the space of an hour. You can turn off "compose in new window", but rest everything - calendar, drive, sheets, docs - keeps opening in a new window every time you click the buttons. Their selling point of "everything opens in a new window" is a major nuisance for me. I suspect it is not merely a browser-in-a-box electron clone, but a lot of things are implemented from scratch. Kiwi - The most well designed in terms of their design language, and over designed in other ways. It is often much easier to just hit a back button to, say, go back to you search results or to previously viewed emails. Strangely, it does not have a forward and back button like Shift has, which is a pain in the ass for me when navigating in Gmail. The Slack integration and the ability to use different websites in their own wrapper/tab is really great. Wavebox - Evolved from Wmail, which Shift was forked from. The calendar and drive integrations work reasonably well. Performance and battery life penalty is probably the highest among all three. All three of them are deficient in different ways, so here's my 2 cents. I've been trying out all three (Windows clients) for some time now (Kiwi has been available only recently).
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