Ask HN: Best developer friendly email client for macOS?

by fsto on 10/13/2022, 10:35:06 AM with 7 comments
Help the developer community and suggest an email client for MacOS that truly is the best according to you.

It feels like no developers I know is particularly happy with their (GUI) email client on MacOS.

I'm looking for one that:

  - Stays out of my way and lets me focus on emails.
  - Easy to use without a mouse
  - Minimal amount of clutter
  - Unifies Gmail / Google inboxes and sent emails
  - Doesn't cache every single email on my hard drive
  - Probably more, but you get where I'm going
Clients I've tried extensively:

  - Spark - By far the best I've tried so far. But, and it hurts... I choose not to use them now that Ukraine is being invaded both geographically and digitally. In this case I'm rather safe than sorry.
  - Apple Mail - it works, but sparks absolute zero joy.
  - Twobird - I wish I loved them and I do in 80% of the cases. But they want to merge your todo list and email and as a consequence they don't allow you to archive an email without clicking - two times. There are other similar examples caused by the fact that they really want to be a mix between a todo list and an email client.
  - Airmail - "Apple Design Award 2017 Winner". 2017.
  - Mailbox - Discontinued after Dropbox acquired them.

  • by vpaulus on 10/13/2022, 12:05:29 PM

    I recently used Spike (https://www.spikenow.com/), both desktop and mobile app. The I switched to Spark. Its probably not easy without mouse. And I also did not like the function that they automatically includes a tracking pixel to the mails. Anyways you may take a look.

    BTW for private mails I use paid version of Tutanota with own domain, because of privacy aspects.

  • by mikebos on 10/13/2022, 11:43:30 AM

    You could try Mailmate (https://freron.com), I think it ticks all your boxes. The stable is old, the beta is located at https://updates.mailmate-app.com/2.0/archives/