Mail Notifr for Mac

1.3.5

1.3.5

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Worked perfect so far... Until i set up the 2-step verification. Now a password error pops up. Any solution? Thx.

Hi, What is the security warranty users have about the developer's ability to access users emails at any moment? Thank you.

This is great and worth twice the price. Sorry I didn't find it earlier.

the best out there....

Just updated to version 1.2.1 in the Mac App Store. Changes menu icon to the ugly and annoying blue filled envelope - please bring the old red outlined menu icon envelope.

This would be the perfect notifier to replace the Google Notifier that will die on Jan 31, 2014 except for one problem. If installed for multiple users, the menu bar icon turns red and has the new message count badge for only the first user. When you add a second user, the app functions fine, but the icon doesn't alert the second user to new messages. This problem occurs when the first user logs out and the second user logs in.

Can't get it working after upgraded to Mavericks Hopefully there will be an update soon as its really a great app - one of my "must have"

Brilliant app. It no longer shows up in the iStat Pro widget for it's memory usage which is great. I am on 10.7 and have not experienced any crashes or problems.

Do NOT upddate on 10.7. It crashes every few minutes and brakes the system. Back on 5 Stars when it is repaired.

At 90+ MB memory usage - compared to Google Notifier's 11 MB - it doesn't feel small.

Good application! Just Retina support please for icon in menubar and application will perfect

I've tried just about every other Gmail notification system out there, and I always go back to this one. It's clean, it's simple, and does exactly what I need. Best of all? It's open source, on GitHub, even! Mountain Lion Notification Center support is minimal, but even with some basic integration this would blow every other paid and buggy app out there away!

Is the app signed with a dev ID? Is the Sparkle updater using signed updates?

Really nice to see this back - it's the best free option for multiple Gmail accounts.

really...??? Over a month since the official release of Mountain Lion and still crashing Notifr keeps me from updating my main computer to MLion

Not compatible with Mountain Lion GM, crashes on startup.

Crashing a lot on 10.8.

I've had to discontinue use of this as Activity Monitor reports it's using 100% of cpu, causing my system to get extremely hot. Too bad because it could be a very useful tool.

Thanks a lot, Notifr with version 0.6.1 works again.

Same problem as with the first Lion test version - combining all counts and subject lines from each account into every of them. For example - when I have 3 unread emails in account 1 and none in the other 6 accounts the Notifr shows the total count of 21 unread messages and shows subject lines of all 3 unread messages from account 1 in every of the other 6 accounts. So, I completely removed Notifr from my system (including all preference files) and did the clean install of Notifr 0.6 - now I can only setup 2 accounts in the Notifr, I can't add any more accounts. And the count is 6 unread messages (while in reality there are only 3 unread messages in account 1 and none in account 2) and all 3 subject lines from account 1 show up in account 2 as well.

Just wanted to say that this build: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/471268/Gmail%20Notifr.app.zip works perfectly on Lion. This is what I've been looking for and I love it, so thank you!

I love Gmail notifr but it seems not to work with Lion.

Just what I needed. Tried every notifier and SSB for my Gmail accounts. This one is simple, elegant and unobtrusive. With my 3 accounts it fits the bill perfectly. Keep it alive :)

Just what a need. Very simple, low profile, just use growl to inform my new e-mails. Perfect.

This could be a very nice app, but now it eats three times more RAM than Google's own notifier. Why should I change to this?

Since you give the app your login credentials to check for new mail in all accounts, which the app does just fine, is it possible that when you select "Go To Inbox" that the app can automatically log you into the correct account? It did take me right into the inbox of the first selected account, but when i closed that out and wanted to go into my other account, it reopened the first account. So I logged out of the first account in the browser and decided to try it that way, but then it just brings me to the gmail login page and I would have to manually enter my credentials for the 2nd account. Am I doing something wrong here or is this just a limitation of this app? It would be perfect if it could do this, as the official app has this ability.

Great little app but will it ever support Google Calendar? That would replace the official Google Notifier completely on my system.

Will it ever be 64-bit?

Are there any future plans for this to auto log-in to the website when you choose "Open Inbox" like Google Notifier does?

I beg of you to support 10.4.x

Is it possible for Gmail Notifr to redirect mailto: links to your mailbox (create new email) like the official Google Notifier? Would be nice indeed, then I could drop Google Notifier altogether.

I am afraid, that this software does not support proxy settings (to be behind the proxy may be one reason to use this soft, when POP3 is disabled) :-( But overall it's OK

Just released a fix version for this (v0.4.4), please update it via "Check for Updates...". I have some problem signing the update under Snow Leopard so it's a little bit late:) You could also download a beta version with some new features: http://ashchan.com/gn-beta.zip .

I have just upgraded to Snow Leopard, and now the gmail notifr doesn't show the number of mails beside its icon on toolbar. Any suggestion?

Dev, please consider making it Tiger compatible.

Nice job, James! Very useful little app. Thanks also for offering up your time and expertise to develop this without even attaching a price tag!

Doesn't seem to work here.. It just makes my Macbook hang for 3 minutes, and the terminates itself. :(

WOW! the new icon is astonishing, amazing, gorgeous! looks great .. a futuristic 2009 icon that I liked so much! The application is better than ever. Less memory, less threats again ... check updates, numbers of inbox .. all of sudden the best notifier. I strongly recommend instead any other. Easy 5 stars.

**********!!!! I just downloaded and installed v 0.4.1. Wow! James Chan is to be congratulated. This is great. It works perfectly. On a side note, I wrote a review the other day and gave 0.3.5 six stars out of five and v 0.4 just one star. Mr. Chan and I have corresponded, and I have told him my difficulties and he has been very generous with his time to try and resolve this. I hope that has been helpful to him because this works great. This gets 10 stars out of five.

As far as Gmail notifiers go it does not get better than this. Simple to use and not a memory hog. The fans of the 0.4.0 icon will really like this new one.

This app was working fabulously until the menubar icon was changed. I have four gmail accounts, and I could use this to monitor all of them. Once the menubar icon changed, all the app does now is generate a spinning beach ball. I emailed the developer several days ago but haven't heard anything back. I would give v 0.35 six stars out of five and one star for v 0.4--it gets one star for not crashing my system and I can shut it down with Activity Monitor. If someone still has a copy of v 0.35 please send a copy to dfwrites@gmail.com. Thank you.

'Reply' Thanks a lot the Dev answer. I really appreciated. I agree all with you. And also I am sure you are doing a great job. I would never use the Google Notifier because I refuse to use their's daemons. You are doing a great improvement programming in Ruby! Update is a good option to be there, and the icon is amazing. I can not image what else you could improve, but let's see, I am sure your mind is ahead! keep going ...

Sorry, but for the first time I have to say that the previous version (0.3.5) was better than the actual (0.4). The former doesn't have update but: it is lesser (400KB x 1700KB), uses less RAM memory (11MB x 17MB), and less system threats (1 x 5). What's happening?! I am back to 0.3.5 But thanks a lot, I love this program and the new icon. It's really Leopard and cool with the others (system icons!).

Please make a Tiger version..

Wow! I really liked the new icon. It's cool and bold. Really better than the Gmail icon, I think. Thanks.

Great little app. for ease of use. I prefer the old icon too though so will stick to older version.

Please give us the option to use the old icon! It was much better. Thanks

I have switched to this application as the "official" Gmail Notifier does not always bring me to my in box but to an error message lately.I really can't understand why any of the ignorant a-holes gave me minus marks when I made an honest mistake taking Gmail Notifier for Gmailnotifr. There are a lot of unpleasant people lurking around waiting for just such a common error for them to criticize. I guess they think they are without fault.,

Sorry I got this one confused with the official Gmail Notifier which I like better. It has more features.

I put the previous version back as this version does not have the Google Calendar incorporated within it.The Calendar in the menu bar is useful and you probably can get it anyway at the Google Calendar web site but I like the style of the previous one vs this version.

I like the idea that it can work with several Gmail accounts, however it crashes every time I hit the "+" button in the "Accounts" tab, thus rendering it useless.

Having used Gmail Notifr for a few days, I thought I'd return and give it a more objective review (as promised) now that it's working for me. First up, I'd like to give kudos to the developer, James. There was a problem with 0.3.0 in saving usernames, and he worked quickly and non-stop until he'd resolved the problem. Top marks!! I haven't tested this for multiple users, I only have my single account to monitor, but it did that without any problems at all. The ability to adjust the polling of the Gmail server is a nice feature. There are a few things missing that the Google Notifier does that Gmail Notifr doesn't. A "Compose Message" menu item would be useful. I think the message list could possibly be expanded on too. Google Notifier, for example, displays a tooltip with the beginning of the message in it. I find this very useful. One or two people have commented on the memory usage of the 'official' google notifier, however, I've had both running side by side for a few days and Activity Monitor is telling me that Gmail Notifr is using a little more (19.52 MB) than the Google Notifier (16.87 MB). Gmail Notifr does what it is meant to do, well, and with a very responsive, and nice, developer to boot. However, in my situation, I have decided to stick with the Google Notifier because I don't need multiple account checking and I also like to have the list of events from my Google Calendar. I use Busy Sync to synchronise my Google Calendar to iCal, but I'm yet to find a nice solution to listing events and emails nicely as the Google Notifier does. I wish the developer all the best with this project, and I will certainly be keeping an eye on it.

Username problem is now fixed, but three things still annoy me: 1. The menu bar envelope is very difficult to see...it needs more definition, or perhaps several icon options from which the user can choose. 2. Growl notification only offers the inherent Mac sounds...let folks choose the notification sound from anywhere on their computer. 3. I still have to keep the Google Notifier installed for menu bar access to the Google Calendar. I'm sure this will evolve into a good utility because it lets you do some things the official Google Notifier doesn't, like multiple accounts and selectable time intervals for checking email.

New accounts aren't being added with 0.3.1.

Its a shame that it doesnt work on Tiger (10.4.11).. Otherwise I would have downloaded it.. So developer come on and make this thing also work on Tiger, for now I have to stick with Gmail Notifier by Google..

I have not used this program prior to version 0.3.0, so I have no preferences or accounts previously set for this program. How on earth do I add an account?!?!?!?!? No matter what I do, my username and password are not stored, all I ever get is a username of 'username'. Is there some jiggerypokery needed here, or is this a bug introduced in 0.3.0 for new users of Gmail Notifr? I'll review my rating once I manage to actually use the program :^)

Simply awesome. Never had a prob with this little gem. Does what it says and does it very well.

Great app. Keep up the good work. So far I find that this is more stable than the official Google Notifier on a Mac. Hopefully in the future previewing messages will be supported.

uld be good to be able to use Gmail Notifr as default application for mail in the sites con mail redirect. keyboyard shortcuts for open inbox and new message like gmailstaus. gmail notifr is more stable of gmailstatus great work, regards.

This is an amendment to my previous review. OK, so it's been a bit over a month since I originally tried this app out on October 30th and a lot has changed! Everything that Google's Notifier can do Gmail Notifr can do. What's more, it tends to do it better by actually checking as regularly as you tell it to and allowing you to customize how it tells you of new messages. It now has full Growl support and no longer alerts you of the same new messages. The only thing I requested — which was rather an off-hand request — that hasn't been implemented is support for multiple accounts. But, you know what? Google's Notifier doesn't even do that so I in no way count it against Notifr. This is a great little app. Without a doubt I think it should be used instead of Google's own app. This one is more responsive and more customizable. Well done to the developer! I've fully switched now and highly recommend you get this app. It has a very responsive developer who quickly adds features his users request. What more could anyone possibly ask?

i use this to show me notifications of my gmail hosted app email... works great, and the developer is constantly upgrading this app...

How is this pronounced? Like Notifer? And what's that supposed to mean then?

This is an app that has potential but still a ways to go before it's ready to dethrone Google Notifier. There are some nice things about this app, such as the fact that it allows you to choose how often to check for new mail. For some people this might not be a big deal but it's still nice to have the option. It also looks rather nice and seems pretty stable. There are also a few small flaws though. First and foremost is the lack of Growl support. Just by adding Growl support this app would already be every bit as good as Google Notifier and it's something the developer has stated he plans to implement soon, which is great. Another issue is a small one but still very annoying, you can't copy and paste in passwords. For most people this probably isn't a problem. But if you're like me and use 1Password then you have a randomly generated 18 character alpha-numeric password with a symbol or two thrown in. This is not fun to type out... Copy and paste would be much appreciated. The final issue is more of a request as it's something that even Google's own Notifier does not have. I would like the ability to check multiple accounts. As a web designer I have a few Google accounts since I use DreamHost and they host their web mail with Google. Because of this I have a few accounts. Right now I have them all feeding into one main account but I would definitely prefer having them all separate if the option was given. Needless to say I'll be keeping a close eye on this app and very much look forward to the next version. If it has Growl then I'm in. If it has support for multiple accounts all the better.

This notifier is lacking the one feature that I really need: an audio notification; apart from this, I cannot see how notification is practical useful at all.

Love it. It would replace that God-awful GMail Notifier if it had Growl support. Also, is there any way to set what browser it uses to open your inbox? For instance, I use a Fluid SSB, and I would love it to open my inbox in the SSB rather than my default browser.

Thanks for this...works great...love the pref feature to have mail checked at an interval of my choice. Would love to see something similar for yahoo mail(ymail). Thanks again and good work.

nice, been looking for something that can notify me of my mail on google hosted accounts ... this does the trick! thanks!