Canary Mail - a promising new email-client for Mac with big ambitions

The search for the perfect email client for the Mac continues. At this time, the applicant was a new application Canary Mail. Why you should pay attention to it, we tell in our review.

after closing Mailbox Snooze function has been implemented in almost all the popular email-client. On top of that it began to appear a lot of ambitious newcomers, trying to occupy the vacant niche. Canary Mail, to adopt all the best qualities of the recognized leaders, refers to the latter.

Despite the beta status, the app boasts great potential and their good implementation, which, coupled with the elegant design and user-friendly interface makes it very interesting Canary instance. We can say that this is a free Airmail with firm Snooze from Mailbox, and other popular features of modern email-client.

Canary works with Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo! and other services through IMAP. It is important that all user data is stored locally and is not sent to third-party servers. Visually, the app really like Airmail due to the collapsible folder and background blur. But this is more a compliment than an indication of weakness.

Interaction with messages implemented very well. The universal inbox and gesture control can not speak, they are also working as it should. For convenience, the action buttons are duplicated in the corner of the box and in the message body, but the extra icons are not particularly distracted, remain gray until you hover the mouse over them. Sort using filters and intelligent search that works offline, too, on the spot.

Message editor simple, concise, to the minimum necessary formatting options. There is integration with Dropbox and Google Drive for your investments, a choice of templates and tracking the status of reading your posts. From extraordinary - Search and paste gifok with Giphy. To 9 favorite contacts provided hotkeys new letter (⌘⌥1 - ⌘⌥9).

Demanding users will enjoy the support of Gmail shortcuts and browser attachments, available right in the window with the correspondence. And, of course, Snooze - the most important feature for those who use email as a task manager. Letters can be put off for one of the standard periods or to the selected date manually - they will disappear from your inbox and will appear on a separate tab Snooze.

Canary Mail interesting good balance of functionality and minimalism, seasoned with useful features like tracking the status of reading, as well as flexible settings, which by default is almost matched perfect. Well worth it and responsive development team to respond quickly to requests and wishes of users (on Product Hunt a lot of comments and responses to them).

Now the app is in beta and try it and everyone can. After the release, developers are planning to release two versions: free and paid with a premium-features.

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