Show HN: CloudMagic Email for Mac

[moonlighter]

After trying different email clients (Sparrow, Mailbox, Airmail, etc) just to see most of them getting abandoned, I've decided to simply stick to the native email clients provided by OS X and iOS and use fastmail.com with a custom domain name. Fastmail is about as flexible as it can get, their IMAP support for OS X mail.app is fantastic and their push notification service is actually better than Apple's (Fastmail pushes 'new/read/unread/delete' notifications, whereas Apple only pushes 'new'.

[overcast]

Seriously, try https://www.uniboxapp.com/. I've been using it on my Mac since beta, and now they have an iOS version. I haven't looked back since. It organizes email by person, like text messaging.

[busterarm]

I tried to stick with the native mail.app but found it to be buggy and broken in too many ways to be usable. Airmail seems to be working fine for me and doesn't seem to be abandoned.

[Fastidious]

Does it require a CloudMagic third party server to operate, or it is a plain vanilla email client?

[evergre]

Yes it does. Back story - https://medium.com/@rohitnadhani/cloudmagic-for-mac-is-here-...

[thecosas]

The FAQ seems to imply that having a CloudMagic account just makes it so that you don't have to set up your email accounts on each device: http://help.cloudmagic.com/article/create-cloudmagic-account...

They definitely use "the cloud", but their FAQ may be able to answer some of your questions there too: http://help.cloudmagic.com/section/security/

[actsasbuffoon]

The mobile apps are free. How does that work? Developing an app takes time (especially one that looks this polished), and running servers costs money. I don't see any ads in the client, so you must be making money some other way.

Combined with the fact that my emails would have to pass through your server, that makes me uncomfortable.

[evergre]

Yes, mobile apps would be free, serving as 'trials' for the desktop app, which is paid.

CloudMagic Mac app has already reached #2 in Top Paid App on Mac App Store within hours of launch.

Over a period of time, we'll introduce more power features like email tracking, CRM integrations, etc.

I think we are building a ethical independent business here.

[rrggrr]

Love the minimalist approach - but not for business use. I use MixMax ( https://mixmax.com/ ) every day and the additional functionality its provided has been a big deal for me. More is more in a business use-case I think.

[evergre]

Rohit from CloudMagic here. To build these 'additional functionality' on all platform, you need to roll out your own clients. We've started with the table stakes, stay tuned for those power features, across all devices. Extensions don't work on mobile devices and 70% of emailing is done on mobile today.

[alain94040]

[call for ideas] Got any idea for what an email client should do? Add yours to the list of issues on https://github.com/alain94040/coolbox

[Fastidious]

I will drop by and write some of my ideas. What I absolutely do not want is for the client to rely on, yet another, third party servers/services.

[avitzurel]

In the demo I see the mouse move around over too many icons. What about Gmail shortcuts?

I rather not use the mouse at all during any email interactions.

[evergre]

http://help.cloudmagic.com/article/mac-shortcuts/

[tunesmith]

I was sure that "focussed" was a spelling error, but it's apparently allowable, if less common than "focused".

[PauloManrique]

Hopefully someday I'll understand why such apps are released for a system with less than 5% market share.

[evergre]

CloudMagic supports Gmail push