Airmail Reviews

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

I've used Airmail for several years now, and like other reviewers here, my initial reaction to their going to a subscription model was negative. Time to look for an alternative. I had been ready to ditch Airmail anyway, primarily for a single reason - "search" (of my multiple connected gmail accounts) was painfully sluggish and incomplete. But, I decided it was worth at least trying the upgrade. After a few hours of use, I'm a believe. Search is fast. Many other things I like about the new interface, but for me, search was the key. I don't mind $3/mo if it allows a company to afford good devs to keep improving the product.

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.

I’m using Airmail 3 for about 4 months now and like it a lot. The GUI can be easily tailored and offers a lot of tweaking. Everything is very fast too when using several mail accounts and bucket load of mails. It has a huge bug though: when importing a lot of mails, sometimes you get duplicates. If this can be fixed, this is definitely a must have mail client with a fair price.

Used Airmail for several months. Having 12 accounts and more than 5000 mails, Airmail is getting really slow, search does not find emails, sync fails, mails got lost and so on. Tried Postbox after this experience and now, I give Spark a chance.

I have been using Airmail for more than three years and found it to be something like a mixed bag. On one hand, it is greatly configurable and has amazing integration with lots of services for easy sharing. Also, the interface can be customised due to the needs. On the other hand, I found Airmail incredibly buggy. I have lots of emails where Airmail says there is no subject, however, opening them with multiple different clients is showing the subject like a charm. Also, I have recurring issues with pdf attachments that will be destroyed. So I definitely like all the fancy options and settings, but am dissatisfied with stability and reliability. The support is amazingly fast, but as soon as it comes down to technical issues they will just reply that the topic is moved to the development department. One will never hear again the status, according to my experience. I would love to use Airmail as my primary client, however, the issues preventing me from this move.

Is this app still displaying attachments as silly *huge* icons with truncated file names? That's a real deal breaker for me. Spark, Canary and even Thunderbird use a much more elegant way to handle attachments.

Lots of low ratings here, probably an early one by me. But Airmail has steadily improved, and is now a powerful and stable app for email power users. The integration through services with other apps is incredible, too many to list and the developers stay up-to-date on new or updated apps (e.g., Bear, Things 3). I own an embarrassing number of email apps and third-party add-ons for Mail and others. I periodically try them. And for the last year, except for an extended evaluation of Spark, I come back to Airmail on all my devices. Not perfect, but the annoyances I used to have are disappearing and the power is increasing.

Love the app concept, but the features work erratically at best. The "bounce" feature is hidden and doesn't work on 80% of emails. The toolbar is hard to customize, and some of it you can't customize. Spam feature is weak (files marked as spam re-appear in the inbox when new spam from the same sender is received). Sorting is erratic. Emails get hidden for no reason. Conversations are hard to organize and comprehend. And a bunch of other annoying stuff. But it is a great concept, and when you run it without the dock icon, it is nicely nested in the status bar for quick access. It has gotten better, however it still needs a bunch of refining to be a contender for Mail.app.

A lot of low rated review and comments here.... Yes lot of stupid users... who have no idea... Don't know what a email client should do for them... I've also evaluated all available email clients.... to replace Apple Mail ... AIRMAIL is the best for us.... 5 Stars

Always with enough space for improvement, Airmail is the best e.mail client around!

best mail app on mac. best mail app on iOS! long time user... know what i say about app's... this is the mail solution for most of us!

A lot of low rated review and comments here. Honestly, I cannot speak about all previous versions but 3.1 is pretty slick. I evaluated several email clients : Mozilla Thunderbird, Postbox and AirMail (free beta). After some days I removed Mozilla Thunderbird because it has too many problems regarding stability and sluggish GUI. Postbox is not bad but I don’t like the GUI at all. Its is counterproductive in many ways and I cannot slim down the GUI to my likeness. Also, in many occasions the preview render of emails, especially with a lot of content, is slow. And I meant SLOW. Therefore browsing mails becomes a pain and frustrating. I don't understand the 5 star reviews of Postbox. They do not reflect my findings at all. Of course my needs aren't the same as others. Still .. its odd. Airmail scores surprisingly very well. The highly customisable GUI is truly fantastic and all window animations are smooth working. Scrolling through mails is blistering fast, something I feel is very important and fails terrible with Apple Mail and Postbox. That said, I do not understand the wipe animations in Airmail for macOS. I mean, there are no macOS devices that have a touchscreen (yet). It is a bit confusion at times. Maybe it has been added to make the transition to the iOS version a bit more comfortable. I think it could be left out. My conclusion is that there is no perfect email client (for me). But Airmail is getting very very close. I now bought it at the AppStore for a fair price.

This program continues to be a "dog". I want to like it but it's so damned slow. I compared (again) the latest version to Canary, Postbox and Mail and it was by far the slowest. Pass. No more.

It seems, on my MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo - Mavericks, Airmail 3 uses much more CPU than version 2, very often 40%!

Anyone having the same problem?

Now at version 3.0.2 (while the dock icon still gives Airmail 2) and the Local Mailbox issues are still there. I've explained exactly what's happening to the devs multiple times, but nothing has ever been done about it. I'm giving up on this one.

ugly garnage font size in mail viewer window is too small ,really a lack of respect for impaired vision people really hope other people wont wasye money in this garbage

Great email application. I would say this is the best email app for Mac right now. This is if you're looking for powerful email client and not a super simple one. GUI is aesthetically clean but the app has many powerful features so there is minor learning curve here.

I used to be quite less than happy with this app. But it has steadily improved, the developers are matching the OS X and iOS features, and it has now for me become quite a useful productivity tool. It's stable (never has crashed on me), fast at startup, and fast in operations (although in the latest version sending seems slower than before, but it's still more bearable than Mail). I don't see how search is overly complicated as one reviewer has said: I type "Rebecca" into the search box, and I get a list allowing me to select messages from Rebecca, to Rebecca, with Rebecca in the subject, etc. Select one, hit Return, and I have my search result instantly.

Snooze feature is nice and also nice that it works across platforms. A simple one-keystroke (D) brings up the panel to select snooze times (which I can also totally configure to my needs). I still find navigation to be funky and unpredictable in certain areas, but I've devised a set of KeyboardMaestro macros to do what I would expect it to do.

Attachment support is good. I like that I can easily send a Dropbox link if I need to send a large file. The Actions preference in v.3 allows me to set an arrow key for most used functions. I have right arrow set to the Move operation, which makes filing messages very easy.

Overall I'm happy and haven't gone back to Mail for quite a while. I was a MailMate user before (it's an incredible app), but I like using the same mail app on all my devices.

Is it tending to feature bloat? Perhaps, but the ability to configure it to my needs and desires is appreciated.

I also like Spark on iOS. They're developing an OS X app, and when that comes out it'll be something to check out. For now, Airmail is my go-to email client, and it works well for me on my MacBook Pro, iPhone, and iPad.

Why is this app rated so low? I tried many mail apps and this is by far the best one!

They've destroyed a once good product. I agree with all the feedback on this discussion. It was a good product, with a few glitches that I could cope with. Version three introduces so many features it's no longer a sleek, fast client. It's a bloated client that is complicated. The features I liked have been changed and no options to change them back. I use Omnifocus and the integration has been changed which really annoys me. It crashes periodically. My mail isn't indexed properly and I have to reset the cache to actually find the emails again. The search is over the top complicated and doesn't work well now. Support is terrible and seems to be becoming worse. I'm not usually vocal about apps but I have to be this time, it was a good product that has been destroyed and I'm very unhappy. Don't buy it, find anything else.

What a pleasant surprise! Switched from Mail Pilot 2 to Airmail 3, and I lov' it. Does exactly what I expect it to do, and I haven't found any major issues with it (yet). That being said: I only have 1 (one) active iCloud mail account. (Well, actually I have more accounts, but these all simply forward incoming mail to iCloud.)

It is not minimal anymore. Please remove this word from the headline.