Airmail Reviews5.0

C'mon folks, they're asking $10/year which covers both Mac OS and iOS versions. There are other email apps with subscriptions charging $8 *per month* for a single platform. Developers are entitled to a living wage. Let's evaluate this application in terms of its features and how it compares to other email clients.

Frankly I have nothing to complain about it, they reduced the annual fee and $10 is nothing. Totally nag free. I have access to 6 email accounts inc icloud and gmail. It works and syncs everything fine between my mac, iPhone and iPad, can customise lots of stuff. Way better than mac mail or any of the others and I've tried them all.

C'mon folks, they're asking $10/year which covers both Mac OS and iOS versions. There are other email apps with subscriptions charging $8 *per month* for a single platform. Developers are entitled to a living wage. Let's evaluate this application in terms of its features and how it compares to other email clients.

I used Airmail in the past but ever since they walked the subscription model I left the ship. Even if you have the 'old' license, you are 'awarded' by popups for joining the subscription. I truly hate that. I wend back to Mail on macOS 11 which is, to my surprise, incredible good and fast.

TERRIBLE customer service. Like others on here I have paid for a subscription but every time I launch the app I get a NAG screen telling me I have to subscribe. I've emailed the app developer, followed the instructions and NOTHING works. This app is a waste of time! Avoid at all costs.

I needed support and they just blocked me!! Maybe is only one guy developing this app. Don't waste your money. Spark is better tons times!!

I Paid for Airmail, and now I'm getting a popup everytime I open the program that asks me to subscribe to Airmail Pro. The devs are not responding to my questions about this.

It's a piece of junk. Pure & simple. Most frustrating support service.

Sick of popups to try to sell subscription software after buying it.

I am generally satisfied with Airmail. But, now there is constant harassment from Airmail to upgrade to a yearly subscription to Airmail Pro. This is unacceptable. Is this going to continue forever??? It is becoming a good reason to try something else.

I already paid for this app, and now they want me to pay for a subscription... to read my mails, in 2020? No thank you.

Needs to have password protect or enable face id

The Beta works great in Big Sur

I paid for the Airmail Pro on Yearly subscription. I am most disappointed with this App. When it started, it was OK, does what it was meant to do. Had a few things I did not like, like I could not zoom out so I can see more on each page. I was willing to tolerate it. But on 17June2020, the whole app just hung and could not let me even get out. I am contacting Apple to ask for a refund to this piece of Junk.

The search feature is horrenddous. I'm going back to MacMail. Shame on your airmail. What a waste.

Used to be good, now just TERRIBLE. Cannot maintain a "stable connection to the server" and lots of display oddities. Search engine is really weak. No one available and almost impossible to submit issues to tech support. Avoid like the plague.

Constant isssues with sending & receiving, no solutions AT ALL from helpdesk. Just sucks.

used to love this, move to pro version and just constant isssues with it not pulling in mail, or sending. dropping the connection saying as stable connection couldn't be established with my mail server, apple mail no issues, so why Airmail ? I never had an issue prevous with the old version, just regret upgrading and now having to use Apple mail as its become unusable. very disapointing, something that has happened when they upgraded it is causing the isssue, lots of people having it so Airmail for god sake work out the issue and fix it.

I chose Airmail pro free version just to try it out. It looks great but after the trial expires it keeps asking me to pay for Airmail Pro if I click on one of my old mails saved in a folder. Also on my iPhone it permanently and annoyingly keeps a button on Airmail Pro at the bottom reminding me to buy the Airmail Pro. I find this annoying and therefor will be deleting Airmail Pro. I might have gone Pro if there was a buy option but I simply don't agree on subscriptions.

would be a good app if It could handle calendar invites correctly. It loses all information of the .ics files. I'm back to apple mail with mailbutler. Works perfectly.

Had a very bad experience with the fonts. Have they fixed it yet? I contacted support several times but they never got back to the issue. Finally uninstall and revert back to Mail. Did they every fix up the issue or did they just leave it there?

I like the interface, however, the autocomplete of addresses includes a list of virtually every email address to which you ever sent an email, not just recent addressees or contacts. Inevitably, you will have 20-30 suggestions and the one you want is somewhere in the middle of the list. There is no way to restrict or limit the suggestions. I switched back to my old email client after one day.

"Pro" version subscription after you bought full version? And, BTW "pro" version uses too much CPU for animation effects and space is not optimally arranged, I instantly hated it. It is "office" application, it is not visit to the Zoo.

Version 4 is excellent email app quick and stable also lets you drag emails out to the desktop as eml files which can be read or imported to any email app. Spark is good but you cannot store emails locally or drag them out of the app to store!!! Post box is a close second still no avatars and other small touches as in Airmail Postbox also uses standard eml files which makes saving and moving emails a sinch!

v4 is soo much better!

Well that was pretty stupid. I'm older and have limited eyesight. I have my screen at a resolution of 1280 x 720. The older AirMail window size could be accommodated to fit well within that. This new version goes beyond the edges of the screen. I can understand that younger programmers don't fathom eyesight problems, although you would think there might be some sensitivity to ADA needs. Regardless, this program is no longer viable for me.

Too much whining about it being a subscription product. These people have to make a living just like you do. If it bugs you, use Apple mail, it's a free email client. The one feature that kept driving me back to Apple mail every time was how SLOW the search was. I now find it faster than Apple for simple searches and getting better for advanced searches. I don't use advanced searching much, if ever but, its good to know they have that in the works. ****** Airmail PLEASE allow us to set the dang tones (or individually disable) sounds/notifications for received and sending mail. I have it disabled because the defaults are annoying for me.

Spark is better, Thunderbird is better, Sweetmail is better, and of course number one is PostBox. NO subscription.

Subscription after having bought the app? No thanks

This is another company that's trying to convert a existing application into a revenue stream. The new version offers a "Pro" upgrade that's $2.99/month which is an in-app purchase. Time to buy a Voodoo Doll for the CEO of this company and allocate pins for it.

This used to be a good replacement for Apple Mail, but it's now buggy. On occasion freezes up the whole system; sometimes doesn't show particular emails (unless I do a search for a particular item); the folder display is unwieldy, cumbersome, and sometimes misses items (e.g. the display all selector doesn't). The final straw was having to take out a subscription after having bought the app. So now it's back to Apple Mail

I was using this for almost a year. I like being about to use custom icons and colors for accounts because it made it easy to know what account a message came from. Glitchy and about every 2 months I'd have to remove an email account and reinstall it, which would fix the problem They they decided we'd have to pay monthly or yearly for push notification... I already bought the Mac and the iOS versions and then they change the rules. No thanks, back to using Apple Mail on the Mac and iPhone.

I cannot live without this application. Very good!

Best mail.app alternative for me. Much faster compared to the default Apple Mail app.

Airmail will not setup for my Spectrum account... same error message everyone seems to be getting that I'm now reading AFTER I shelled out $10 because Airmail was touted as being one of the best for Spectrum. I get ""The settings are not valid: A stable connection to the server could not be established" . All of the settings are absolutely correct and I've got lightening speed and a great connection. Irritating !!!!

I have a problem with Airmail 3.6.50: if I delete a message by putting it in the trash and then I delete it from the trash ... the same message reappears some time later if I ask to raise the mail. For information, all my email accounts are pop and I do not have this problem with the Apple Mail application.

My version is 3.6.43 (527) and that fixed the broken plugins in Mojave, so it's running very well on 10.14. Name the email client and I've tried it. For all alternative email apps available for both macOS and iOS, this continues to be the best choice for me. Each update adds reliability and speed.

By far the best mail client for macOS. Using it for years with no problems. Thank you for the ongoing updates.

Also: in my case Airmail doesn't work with Private Internet Access VPN. From their FAQ on their "support" page: Does Airmail work with a proxy server or VPN? In some cases Airmail may not work with your proxy server or VPN settings. Right. Thanks for a solution aholes.

Looks nice. But still these *H U G E* silly icons for attachments and no way to select (cmd and/or ctrl and/or shift click) multiple / the ones you need and save. Mega deal breaker.

Clients often send me Office documents, PDF files, zip archives, pictures etc in one email. How am I supposed select some of the attachments? For an email client and user experience point of view this is terrible. I can see why this app was a WWDC design winner in 2017. Apple's Mail handles attachments almost the same.

The current version is 3.6.1

Superb Mail replacement. Great GUI, very customizable and handles large amount of mails very quickly. Recommended !!

is it still using ridiculously large icons for attachments?

I've tried every non-OS email app since the beginning (going as far back as QuickMail, Claris Em@iler, and the like) and, after numerous false starts and disappointments (sigh; Sparrow), I stumbled upon Airmail. It does indeed do just about everything I need it to do, and it does it quite well. Some features are great and are now can't-do-without: the ability to snooze a message for any specified time-frame, the quick & easy way to file (I live & die by email filing). Some features are still perplexingly absent: the ability to send later or at a specific time (yes, you can do it BUT ONLY if you're using a Gmail/Exchange account, not an iCloud one), the inability to turn off color-coded folders, the inability to adjust fonts/sizes in the sidebar (where the folders reside). I'd also like the ability to view a la Messages (not meaning sort-by-sender like it is in the app, but take a look at Unibox, which sorts email like Messages sorts messages), and simple UI tweaks like maybe adding a divider line between days in the Inbox, or the aforementioned ability to turn off color-coded folders and/or adjust the sidebar a bit more (not just the fonts but also the overall width, which is limited). Overall, however: since its release, it's the email client I keep coming back to -- that's something I used to say about Apple's own Mail but not for a long time. Like Morgan-Alex notes in a separate review, there's never going to be a perfect email client for me until I make it myself, but since I've got zero coding ability, I'll be sticking with Airmail.