Airmail - Lightning Fast Email App Reviews

Some hard work went into Airmail 2 and I respect that. However, without (something like) Smart Folders, VIPs, Flags that sync between iOS mail & Airmail, I just can’t use it for work. **Is there really /no way/ to group certain senders in the sidebar for easy access?!** For the record, I got quick, friendly customer support.

UPDATE 2 : Nope, still having problem with the notification center menu, it is full of deleted e-mails… :( UPDATE : I uninstalled the app and reinstalled it for the third time, and everything seem to be working perfectly! So… really the best mail app i’ve tried! I really like this app. It’s beautiful, classy, it’s customizable. It does anything I want it to, except, the notification center… I really like the fact that you see your e-mails in the notification center and that you can delete them, and archive them right there… But it doesn’t work. Some e-mails i’ve deleted a long time ago are still there. And some e-mails appear in duplicates. And when i delete e-mails in the notification center, they dont dissapear imediatly in the app. But that’s the only problem, so please fix it, and i’ll gladly give it 5 stars!

Airmail is far superior to Apple’s built-in mail. Its features are great for keeping me organised.

I’ve been using Airmail for about 9 months now (and tried many other clients in this time). No major hitches, it’s acted as a reliable app that looks good and works well. Does a very good job of maintaining seperation of work and personal accounts with different image-based signatures, fonts, and styles. The only reason I ever pull up gmail.com nowadays is if I need to do advanced searches (or any search more than 1 word long): but can you expect anyone to ever outdo Google on search features? Two minor gripes: 1. Click responsiveness to "undo" and "sync now" commands is ridiculously slow: atleast show me a loading icon, instead of a fake "inbox zero" message when I load the app first thing in the morning and wait for it to get the latest mail. Also when I click undo, nothing happens for upto 10 seconds. 2. Show an "All Mail" button on the sidebar. After I archive something, it is a pain to dig it up again with Airmail.

An excellent application. It connects very well to IMAP accounts. The interface takes a little getting used to, but once it’s familiar, it just makes sense!

After mailbox shut-down, I switched back to Apple mail. I had given up on third party email clients. Reading a “TheVerge” review prompted me to try Airmail. I’m really impressed. I like the massive amount of customization. It really is a great app. I recommend giving it a try. I’d like to be able to customize the swipes like in the iOS app. Mainly because I want to remove the trash swipe and replace it with a different function. I archive my mail, using an “inbox zero” approach -> and this app works very well for me especially with the new snooze function.

I’m not quite sure how they manage it, but it seems that Airmail does everything you could ever want from an email client while still feeling simple, clean, and easy to use.

This app looks great and functions great. Love the delayed send feature, and the snooze feature. There is a small bug that shows all mail in the notification bar. However, this is easily removed. I do not experience any of the slow issues faced by others. I’m running OS X El Capitan Overall, well worth the money for someone who uses email a lot and is looking for a clean refreshing experience.

BEWARE - Will not print recipients who were cc’d and will not print the current email until after it has been sent. It prints the previous version. Nothing is perfect but the company has not responded to numerous requrests for support.

I was using Mailbox before, then went back to Mail.app when Mailbox announced they are shutting down. Airmail looks like it could easily become my main mail app. It has all the features I am looking for, the UI is nicely designed and based on my limited usage so far it seems to be reliable (too early to tell though really). I was concerned by the fact that the app was constantly using between 30% and 50% CPU, which is just too high for an app that I typically have open all day long. I contacted the developer about this and got a very fast and helpful reply explaining that this should only be during the initial import/indexing of all my Gmail mailboxes. Right now, it is still working away, but I am hopeful that this high CPU activity will indeed stop once the initial indexing is done.

Ive been waiting for a duo of mail apps that work great on both iOS and on my desktop that supports more than just Gmail. Finally Airmail is here, with snoozing and the likes on both, and man I"m happy. The desktop app is generally a little slower to receive more email than my iPhone version, but it syncs and works great. Not only that, the developers are super responsive and continually working to improve the app. I thought Id be forced to wait until Sparkle released a desktop app until Id get solid parity between desktop and iOS, especially after Mailboxs shutdown and Mail Pilots brilliantly planned, but buggy efforts. So very happy. Thank you. And I"m sure customizing swipes is in the future... which will make it perfect. But until then, know that COMMAND D brings up snooze!

Finally, I have a unified inbox that I can manage on my laptop and on my iPhone! I have been using the desktop and iOS version for a few weeks now and I love them both. I have been searching for an alternative to apple mail app’s for a while now and I will definitely stick with Airmail. Worth every penny. Thanks!

Just took a screen grab on retina display…in Mail.app, it fits the width of my composition window. Airmail2: It’s huge - 1700px wide. I use the “optimize image size”…which “reduces” it to 1600px wide. WTF?! What a waste! If this was the feature you were waiting for…keep waiting. Back to Mail.app for me.

I was very satisfied with Airmail 2 at first. Possibility of using colours for each folder, e-mails regrouped into conversations (not just by subject), etc. However, I foud a couple of bugs that really bother me. Firstly, in a tread of e-mails, I’m not able to delete a single e-mail. It deletes all of them. Yet, I can respond to a particular mail in the thread. I also prefer the way Outlook indents e-mails in a thread. Instead, Airplay 2 simply lists all mails as a single e-mail, and it’s quite difficult to distinguish one e-mail from the other. Second, when I rename a folder, the folders do not get automatically resorted in alphabetical order. You need to restart Airmail 2 for this. And finally, when in full screen mode, new windows appear in a different desktop. I believe this problem appered only recently.

I really like how this app handles my mail. The only issue I had (my issue, not Airmail’s as it turns out) was getting Yahoo to work with 2 factor authentifications. I had the same issue with a couple of other email apps that I was trying out. None of the other apps offered any assistance that got me connected to Yahoo. Airmail did. Within hours of fairly prompt email responses from their tech support, Yahoo was up and running. Kudos. And, I get email notifications pronto, not half an hour later.

I love Airmail. After losing archived messages in Apple mail twice, I was looking for something better. Airmail does everything I need and it does it well all while looking beautiful. That’s not the greatest part. I had a glitch with my spam counter (which turned out to be my university servers imap problem) and I had the BEST customer service ever from Brenna at Airmail. She walked me through several possible solutions by email. They were so quick in coming back to me that it was almost like a chat. I’m really not used to such great service, it’s spoiled me for all other providers.

Thank you Scott for solving my flickering problem so quickly. AIRMAIL so far seems more reliable and quicker than Appple Mail

Despite being around for several years, Airmail is still full of bugs, making it a real pain to use it as your main email client. I am hiding "message details", as I prefer to see individual messages in separate windows. Here are the most obvious bugs I see: (1) When you get a new email that is not part of a conversation, Airmail fails to display it. Either you need to close it and reopen it, or press command-J (load images) for the body of the email to actually show. This applies to any standalone email, whether it contains attachments or not. Ive been told by the support team that this is a known bug and they will fix it. (2) Very often (~50% of the time) pressing delete (backspace) does not delete a message. You have to go into the menu and select "messages -> move to trash" by hand. (3) Very very often Airmail does not collapse previous quoted emails in a message, resulting in pages and pages of junk in every message that you have to scroll through to see the next message. Why is it so difficult to detect quotes from previous emails? (4) If I get a lot of new unread messages in a long conversation, Airmail has trouble differentiating between read and unread messages. I very often click on a conversation, and see some messages collapsed (read) and newer messages fully shown (unread), only to discover that many "read” messages are in fact new. (5) With a conversation open, when you send an email, the conversation does not update to show the newly sent message.

I was having no end of problems with Apple’s Mail app. Errors, crashes and freezing. Tried everything. Gave up. Found Airmail and after a couple of days I’m hooked. Lots of great features that Mail didn’t have and solid as a rock. They even have a wonderful 24/7 help chat set up that assisted me twice as I was figuring things out. The operator Sherlyn was fast clear and concise with her instructions and assistance. Still getting used to it, but so far a high recommend .

My transition to Airmail2 on my iMac and Iphone is still a “Work in Progress” but so far I am very impressed. I have had it on the desktop for 3 days and just set up the phone yesterday. I had a question which I submitted from the iPhone app and was very pleasantly surprised with a complete and easy emailed answer, supplied by “Brenna” . With a bit of trial and error and their able assisrance I hope to have Airmail 2 as my go-to email client going forward.