My one wish is that there was a way to open this menu bar app with a universal keyboard shortcut. There’s also a nice (optional) menu bar app you can run that shows your current unread count, and you can click on it to show all unread messages in your inbox. For example, I have my work and personal emails loaded into Mimestream and I use Focus Filters to hide my work emails when my “weekend” focus mode is enabled. In addition to being a blazing fast native app, Mimestream also supports things like Focus Filters, allowing you to only see specific accounts when in specific focus modes on your Apple devices. Native Mac Featuresīut it’s not all Gmail features - Mimestream is also a good macOS citizen. You can even create new filters (like “auto-archive all emails from inside Mimestream, and these are real Gmail filters that run on the server, so you don’t need Mimestream running all the time for these to function. Gmail’s native search is built in as well, letting you search through your whole email history quicker than I’ve seen in any other service (and my account goes back to 2004!). Your labels are applied to messages as you’d expect, and they’re not weirdly hacked into the IMAP folder UI. Mimestream also brings in your inbox categories (promotions, social, etc.) and they live in the sidebar. You can respond to those invites in Mimestream as well as see the statuses of the other meeting guests. For example, calendar invites show up nicely with a custom UI that feels right at home on the Mac. While Mimestream is limited in that it only works with Gmail, that also means that the developer has been able to make sure many Gmail features just work in the app. That’s not a big deal for everyone, but it is for me. This is in contrast to the Apple Mail experience I’m used to where I open the app and wait 5 or more seconds for it to sync with the server and actually show me my new messages. Seriously, it never feels like the app is even breaking a sweat, and like most good productivity software, it keeps up with me no matter how fast I’m working. No email app I’ve ever used has received new emails quicker, synced so quickly, or just let me move around the app nearly as fast as Mimestream. The best part of Mimestream for me is its pure speed. If and when those come, Mimestream will be a great tool for even more people, but as is always good advice, buy products for the features they have now, not for what they may add in the future. The company’s roadmap does show iOS and iPadOS versions in the works, as well as support for IMAP and Outlook accounts down the road. There is no iPhone or iPad app, certainly no Windows app, and there’s no way to use this with your Outlook, iCloud, or any other email provider besides Google. Mimestream is currently Mac-only and only works with Google accounts. I’d usually put the caveats towards the end of a piece like this, but I think it’s important to note early on who this app is actually useful for. Gmail in Apple Mail just isn’t that great, and Mimestream feels like the answer to the question, what if you took all the good things about Apple Mail and then made it sync quickly & reliably, made it work with all of Gmail’s proprietary features, and wrapped it in the fastest app on your Mac? Gmail and Mac Only Mimestream is a native Mac app built by Neil Jhaveri, who worked on Apple Mail at Apple for several years, and it shows in this new project. These apps will often differentiate themselves with added functionality that Apple simply doesn’t do in their app, and often that’s great! We’ve covered a lot of these apps here on The Sweet Setup, and our current pick for the best third-party email app has a ton of things that Apple’s app doesn’t.īut what if you generally like Apple Mail, you just wished it was more reliable, faster, and was a little more customizable? If you’re a Gmail user on the Mac, then Mimestream may very well be the app you’ve been waiting for. There are a million email apps out there for Apple devices, and each of these apps needs to convince people that they should use them instead of Apple’s built-in (and free) Mail app.
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