Spark, The Popular Free Ios Email Client, Is Now Available For Mac

• Spark The Popular Free Ios Email Client Is Now Available For Mac Free

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The hunt for the best, most modern and powerful email client. Posting this to help other people out. You may disagree, but these are unfiltered opinions after 2 days of research and testing and I stand by every word. I was looking for a unified experience on both macOS and iOS, where I wanted a perfect client on both the Mac and on iOS. It needed to support modern features like Snoozing emails and Send Later, across both platforms, in a unified experience across all platforms. In the end, I discovered that NO good unified experiences exist yet.

Apps are either strong on Mac but have no iOS app, or strong on iOS but no Mac app, or they have apps on both platforms but are awful. The good news is that the two best of the best email clients are BOTH coming to Mac: EasilyDo's Email and Readdle's Spark. In the end, I chose Spark (which I’ve been using for months), and uninstalled EasilyDo.

Readdle's email client Spark is now available on macOSSpark is a neat email client with a few tricks up its sleeve. While it has been available on iOS for a while, Readdle is launching the app in the Mac App Store today so that you can use the same email client on all your Apple devices. Spark (iOS, macOS) Best email app for cutting down time spent in email. Every email doesn't need a lengthy reply. Sometimes a thumbs-up or crying face is all you need. With Spark, that's all you have to send, and in the end, that saves you time. After you read an email, tap Quick Reply to send an instant emoji response and archive the message in one step.

The speed of EasilyDo is great, but the AI isn't all it's hyped up to be and isn't worth using a mediocre email client. Their development team is huge, though, so they have a CHANCE at becoming the best. Nothing beats Spark for sheer stability, advanced features and beautiful, intuitive GUI.

And if you're a newcomer to Spark, you are going to love the 'Smart Notifications', which will only alert on important emails and prevents your phone from beeping 20 times a day when you get automated newsletters. While waiting for the Spark Mac app, I’ll keep using Apple Mail on the Mac side. This works okay, since I do most of my email work on the iPhone. So it's a sad day. I wasn't able to replace my Apple Mail client on the Mac yet.

But the good news is that Spark for Mac is very close to being ready for beta testing (should be out before the end of the year). EXTREMELY GOOD: Readdle's Spark: + Overall the best email client. It just works. All the time. I've used it for months. Will have paid addons later, but the core will always be free. + Beautiful GUI.

+ Extremely stable. + Massive development team (over 100 people). + All of the advanced features you expect from an email client, and they are implemented EXTREMELY well. Quick Replies. Swiping between emails. Swiping to perform actions.

+ The layout of the application is so logical and intuitive. Much better than EasilyDo. And it's even customizable. And for examples of the deep customization. + Calendar integration. + Integrates with Dropbox and other file services.

+ All of your Spark settings sync via iCloud to all of your iOS (and soon Mac) devices. So you don't need to set things up over and over again. + You can easily drag to select multiple emails and move/archive/delete them all at once.

+ You can swipe between emails. Very intuitive and fast. + You can customize the email viewer toolbar to have your most used actions easily available. + Very, very fast search (almost but not completely as fast as EasilyDo Mail, which was written with fast search in mind). + Automatically categorizes emails as either Notifications (important automated letters), Newsletters (automated junk), and Personal (real people). And it groups your inbox into those 3 categories, so that you can easily see a glance of new personal emails, new newsletters, etc. + Advanced search.

You can say things like '@booking.com OR @airline.com' to search by more than one thing. You can search for documents with attachments from the last week, and so on. There is a natural language search engine: and + Lets you save searches as “Smart Folders” (which isn't possible in EasilyDo) so that you can have your own custom-made, auto-sorted email folders. For example, you could make a folder called 'Flights' and save a search to it which looks for all emails from all airline booking and hotel sites you use, which means that it automatically groups all emails matching the search into a 'virtual' folder no matter which folder those emails actually exist in. With that feature, you can easily create your own Flight 'assistant', Hotel Booking 'assistant', etc. With this Spark 'Smart Folders' feature, you've basically got 'EasilyDo's' email categorization feature totally replicated, and you have full control over what ends up in what smart folder.

+ Strong funding (think 100's of millions of dollars). Readdle are extremely successful iOS developers with tens of millions of sales sales across dozens of applications for over half a decade. This means they're even better funded than EasilyDo (who seem to live mostly on a few million dollars in seed/investment money).

+ Very fast development of the iOS app; about 1-2 updates per month since the launch in May of 2015, and they were very fast to introduce iOS 10 support. + Their Mac client is finally getting close to beta-ready, after a year of teasing us. They've now been teasing with screenshots and tweets since Halloween of 2016. Their desktop client will bring the iOS Spark features to the desktop and challenge all of Airmail’s most important features - for free. + Is able to only notify you about IMPORTANT emails, if you turn the 'Smart Notifications' feature on. It does this by detecting what emails are automatic, generic newsletters, and ignoring those. This means that it only alerts for Notification/Personal email.

This is a HUGE feature and I love not being annoyed 20 times a day by notifications saying I've got random newsletter emails. (This isn't possible in EasilyDo). +/- To provide the 'push notifications' about new emails, they have to store your email password (just like EasilyDo does) to let their servers check your email periodically to tell your device when there are new emails. The difference between EasilyDo and Readdle is as follows: EasilyDo has paid a team responsible for the database systems of major banks, to set up their servers and ensure that there are strict access protocols and 'airlocks' to limit any damage. Readdle, on the other hand, uses Amazon's AWS servers for hosting, which means that they get very hack-proof servers (since Amazon manages the security). But AWS isn't bulletproof.

Readdle have never had a breach, but I can say for a fact that their 'let's set up a database application on Amazon's AWS' isn't in the same league as EasilyDo's 'let's hire banking security experts to set up an extremely secure and compartmentalized system where any illegal breaches are logged and easy to detect and will do as little damage as possible'. That being said, Readdle's AWS system is secure enough for me. The edge here goes to EasilyDo, though. They have promised automatic “AI sorting/grouping” of emails forever (the GUI has said 'Coming soon' for those features since early 2015 when the Spark app came out).

This feature will automatically group emails into AI folders like 'Flights', etc. And I am sure it will be good when it comes out, since it's quite easy to code something that recognizes emails from various popular airlines, stores, etc, and sorts those emails and extracts their details to display them at a glance.

I am sure they will pull it off one day when they've got time for it (after they're done perfecting the core experience and getting the Mac client out too). And their AI solution will definitely be entirely client-side and very private. In October of 2016 they answered a guy on Twitter by saying 'we will get to it later.'

Just a small update: In early December, Readdle contacted me to let me know that my bug reports and suspicions were correct, and that it lead them to find the two most serious bugs (vanishing messages, and re-appearing 'zombie' emails that come back from the dead). They said they hoped to have an update within a week of that email, but they haven't released any new updates to the software since then. They're probably taking a well-deserved Christmas and New Years break.

Spark The Popular Free Ios Email Client Is Now Available For Mac Free

But rest assured: They are fully aware of the two most serious bugs. And those bugs exist in Spark for iOS too. But they will be fixed on both platforms soon. Maybe a month at most. They're a high priority but are pretty hard to fix since the issue is an architectural problem in Spark itself and the way it chains 'Undo' timers. But it's fixable and will be fixed.

Keep an eye on their changelogs! In other good news: They now have 100 employees. Spark is really going to take off soon. I'm just waiting for the two serious bugs to be fixed, and then I'll move to it full-time.

Well, I'm kind of using Spark on both iOS & Mac on and off, as it still isn't mature enough to replace Apple Mail in my opinion. But from the little I used both I quickly found disadvantages. Below I'm listing all my annoyances about the features still missing in Spark on both platforms. Spark for Mac: 1. User can't choose whether the newer mails in a conversation string appear on top or at the bottom. They appear at the bottom by default - a nuisance.

Doesn't show ALL the CC’d recipients right away. You have to click on the list separately to display all of them each and every time. Total number of mails in Smart Inbox / Inbox.

In recent update (1.2) they added this feature, but why is it showing only 569 mails, while Apple Mail shows 1,023 mails?! Err, that's a huge discrepancy!! 'Save All' option for pic attachments is not always available: when I receive an email with pics attached as ICONS it's all good - I can click the 'Save All' button to save them. However, when pics are not attached as icons (I believe it's called 'inline attachments'?) they will load and open within the email.

Then I'd have to save each and every one of them separately as no 'Save All' option is available. This is seriously annoying. 'Search' option is far from smart.

At times it works and at times it returns 0 results. For example, if I go to a certain Gmail folder and want to look for emails from e.g.

Mum it returns 0 results. When I type her email instead of her nickname it WILL show her emails, however.

Can't choose different font when composing an email. No spell check when composing an email. Support for icons of senders' accounts? Add arrows to the left of emails in Inbox to indicate whether you have already sent a reply or not. Spark for iOS: Well, first of all it hasn't been updated since October! (But allegedly a big update is coming 'soon'.

Hopefully.) 1. Applies to the iOS version as well (with 3. Not even available on iOS yet). They should add similar TOOLBAR for text formatting when composing an email as on Mac version! With options for italics, bold, underline, text color, text alignment, etc. Mac version currently doesn't let you choose font color, though.

Option to ’Save All’ (e.g. Pics) to iPhone’s Camera Roll at once. I have been in an endless circle with email apps. I have pretty much used all of them multiple times to see if any have gotten to the point that I like. I have tried spark several times an while it is good (mac version still needs more work) I prefer outlook (have office subscription) but even outlook doesn't quite do it for me. I keep changing. I even have postboox on mac I got in the anarchy bundle.

They have no ios app but I have been always looking for the holy grail. I did airmail beta on ios and never thought a lot of it. Fast forward. I broke down and got airmail for both ios and mac a couple of weeks ago. It's a world away from what it used to be and I am done changing. Well worth the 15.00 for both mac and ios that will keep me from switching.

I know I am comparing a pay app to free ones but sometimes it really is worth it. I thought cloudmail was good before it went subscription but airmail is better.

Email by easilydo Is good. In fact it was what I was using before airmail. I know airmail has been known for bugs, very much so early on and I considered it a joke, but I have not seen single bug either mac or ios. I think they are finally past the bugs. I have been in an endless circle with email apps. I have pretty much used all of them multiple times to see if any have gotten to the point that I like. I have tried spark several times an while it is good (mac version still needs more work) I prefer outlook (have office subscription) but even outlook doesn't quite do it for me.

I keep changing. I even have postboox on mac I got in the anarchy bundle. They have no ios app but I have been always looking for the holy grail. I did airmail beta on ios and never thought a lot of it.

Fast forward. I broke down and got airmail for both ios and mac a couple of weeks ago. It's a world away from what it used to be and I am done changing. Well worth the 15.00 for both mac and ios that will keep me from switching. I know I am comparing a pay app to free ones but sometimes it really is worth it. I thought cloudmail was good before it went subscription but airmail is better.

Email by easilydo Is good. In fact it was what I was using before airmail. I know airmail has been known for bugs, very much so early on and I considered it a joke, but I have not seen single bug either mac or ios.

I think they are finally past the bugs. Click to expand.I've been following all versions closely and trying them out. If you are a Gmail user, I recommend Spark. If you are an IMAP user, you should not use Spark yet. The most critical remaining issues are: - Their bugged Undo-timer system is not yet fixed. It can make messages vanish if you try to do something with a message before its previous Undo-timer action has been performed.

Basically, the thing you do with a message in Spark's GUI actually only happens on the server about 4 seconds after the 'Press Undo to undo this action' message. In the meantime, Spark FAKES the previous action. If you then try to do ANOTHER action on the fake-message, you will screw up Spark in countless ways (because the undo-timered, fake-actioned message will not be in the GUI's location on the actual server). They'll need to fix it so that undo-timer actions are instantly performed if the user tries to do a 2nd action.

Or perhaps they want to make it add all additional actions onto the undo-timer to let the user undo both actions (which would be a nightmare to program, but would ultimately be nicer for end-users). Either way, they have not figured out a bugfix yet, so I guess they're aiming for the second, harder solution I mentioned. On IMAP (but Gmail works fine), you sometimes will not see all messages in a folder. That's critical and unusable. I am back to using Apple Mail instead. Apple Mail and Spark side by side will sometimes see two totally different folder contents (and refreshing or restarting Spark does NOT fix it).

Mail & my official webmail always show all emails. Spark doesn't always show all emails.

Which is horrible. I guess Spark tries to do some lazy sync and local caching of folder contents and doesn't realize that a folder has changed, so it doesn't refresh folder contents from the server.

I've submitted videos and photos of this to the Spark team, and they're aware of the issue. But until this is fixed I'll never again use Spark.

Always seeing all of my new messages is pretty damn critical in an email client. Today I broke my 6 month love story with Spark on iOS too. Because I noticed the exact same problem on iOS: Stuck, non-refreshing folder contents on IMAP.

Obviously both the iOS and Mac versions of Spark share the same engine. I'm now using Apple Mail on both iOS and Mac. And it's pretty good. Just tap Edit Mailboxes in the iOS client, and enable the 'All Drafts, All Sent, All Trash and All Inboxes' and you will get unified folders for all accounts. And be sure to set the accounts to choosing sent/drafts folders on-server instead of storing those emails in local on-phone folders. And lastly, be sure to set the discard-action to Trash instead of Archive, to get a true Delete icon in the message viewer.

Apple is smooth enough for me until Spark sorts out their IMAP problems. I look forward to being a full-time Spark user as soon as they fix the issues. Click to expand.Not sure what Will means above.

Here is what I meant in Apple Mail: Settings App Mail Accounts repeat for every account Account Advanced Move discarded messages into deleted mailbox. With that tweak, the middle-center button is a trashcan when viewing emails, letting you easily delete anything. I almost never archive after reading so I needed this.

As for swipes, mine are on default (Settings App Mail Swipe Options Swipe left: flag and swipe right: mark as read). Click to expand.You're welcome! Also note that after doing the 'discard to trash' tweak to get a trashcan in Apple Mail's viewer, you can still tap and hold on the trashcan to choose 'archive'. But since I archive maybe 1 in 100 emails, I needed the trashcan to be the default action.

With the trashcan, and the unified sent/trash/drafts/inbox folders to quickly check both of my accounts at once, I am now.very. happy with Apple Mail until Spark gets their engine fixed. Apple Mail is rock solid at IMAP. Sure, Spark has a very good GUI, and is fun to use and nice to look at, but until they've fixed their IMAP refresh bugs, I'm never using it anymore.

Missing emails and not being notified of new emails in IMAP folders is terrible. But once that's fixed, I'll be back instantly!;-) Everything else is already pretty close to perfect in Spark.

You're welcome! Also note that after doing the 'discard to trash' tweak to get a trashcan in Apple Mail's viewer, you can still tap and hold on the trashcan to choose 'archive'.

But since I archive maybe 1 in 100 emails, I needed the trashcan to be the default action. With the trashcan, and the unified sent/trash/drafts/inbox folders to quickly check both of my accounts at once, I am now.very. happy with Apple Mail until Spark gets their engine fixed. Apple Mail is rock solid at IMAP. Sure, Spark has a very good GUI, and is fun to use and nice to look at, but until they've fixed their IMAP refresh bugs, I'm never using it anymore.

Missing emails and not being notified of new emails in IMAP folders is terrible. But once that's fixed, I'll be back instantly!;-) Everything else is already pretty close to perfect in Spark.