Email

A Sparrow-class Gmail client that's insanely fast

Email is a Gmail client in the spirit of Sparrow: one fast, focused window for your mail on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Everything you see comes from a local database on your device, so the inbox opens instantly, search returns before you finish typing, and archiving a message never waits on a spinner.

Search 100,000 messages in 25 ms

Everything is local SQLite. Nothing waits on the network.

The Email unified inbox on macOS with color-coded sender avatars.

Reply without leaving the thread

An inline reply bar on every conversation.

A conversation open in Email with the inline reply bar at the bottom.

A conversation with the inline reply bar on iPhone

A conversation with the inline reply bar on iPad

Know who you're talking to

A people panel turns every thread into a mini-CRM.

The Email people panel showing participant cards for a conversation.

A composer that gets out of the way

Sparrow-minimal: recipients, subject, and a clean sheet to write.

The minimal Email compose window with a draft reply.

Every account. One inbox

Unified across all your Gmail accounts, instantly searchable.

The whole inbox, side by side

Every account in one list, the conversation right beside it.

Email's unified inbox beside an open conversation on iPad

A mini-CRM in your mail

The people panel remembers every thread with everyone.

Fast is the feature

Your mail lives in a local SQLite file, and every screen reads from it directly. Full-text search answers in 25 milliseconds at the median on a 100,000-message mailbox. Archive, star, label, delete: each action commits locally the same frame you trigger it, then replays to Gmail through a durable queue, so the app never makes you wait for the network.

Hackable to the bone

Your mail is yours, in a documented SQLite schema you can open with any tool. Insert a row into the pending_op table and the app performs it, so scripts can archive, label, and send. Hook scripts run on mail and UI events, and App Intents put your mail in Shortcuts and Spotlight.

Details

Native macOS, iOS, and iPadOS app; buy once, use everywhere
Local-first: instant launch, instant actions, offline reading
Full-text search, 25 ms median across 100k messages
Unified inbox across all your Gmail accounts
Customizable, color-coded swipes on trackpad and touch
Inline reply bar and a people panel on every conversation
Documented SQLite schema, pending_op write API, event hook scripts, Shortcuts
No subscriptions, no analytics, no mail routed through our servers

Requirements

macOS 14.0 or later, iOS 17.0 or later
A Gmail account

Gmail is a trademark of Google LLC. Email is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google.

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