Dealing with email is both frustrating yet important.
With email, the main difficulty stems from finding the key pieces of information in your overwhelmed inbox. And because everyone uses email in a different way, it's incredibly hard to create a perfect email app.
Solving this problem was the original vision behind Spark , which many believe provides the best email experience on iOS (we've won "The Best of the App Store 2015" award by Apple). The key to it was solving those two problems mentioned above. It fixes what's broken in your email.
Because Mailbox shuts down today, we believe that Spark might be the best replacement for it. Let me tell you why…
Mailbox Tribute
Mailbox was a rare example of great product design . It had a true Apple-like approach: the Mailbox team took a very complex problem (email), stripped it down to the smallest bits, and then reconstructed it as a simple yet very powerful solution.
Email snoozing, short and long swipes on email, gradual rollout with the queue to join the app users — all of these things were pioneered by Mailbox. As developers of an email application ourselves, we are among the few who can really appreciate how many very complex product design problems the Mailbox team had to solve along the way. And as the appreciation of their skill, almost every modern email app learned something from Mailbox ,including Inbox by Gmail, Microsoft Outlook and Spark by Readdle.
Only a truly amazing team could have done something like this, so it's no wonder that they were bought by Dropbox only 37 days after Mailbox's public release.
What's next for Mailbox users? -> Spark.
If you are a Mailbox user, you have to find a replacement for your email app today.
The great news is that email clients have come a long way since the release of Mailbox… I may be biased, but I believe the two best alternatives to Mailbox are Spark by Readdle if you are professional and Inbox by Gmail if you are a general user of email.
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In the past two years we've been taking feedback and refining Spark to create an amazing experience for busy people and professionals who rely heavily on email.
Why you'll love Spark
I. Smart Unified Inbox
Smart Inbox rearranges incoming emails in your Inbox to surface unread emails first. Also, it separates emails from real people from the less important automated emails and newsletters and groups them by email account.
II. Smart Notifications
Smart notifications come with Smart Inbox! Spark will only notify you when someone really important sends you an email. Think of it as a magical and automatic VIP list for your contacts.
III. Custom Email Snoozing
If you can't finish a task today, swipe your email to snooze for tomorrow or another day. Tune available Snooze times to your liking and customize the way you want it.
IV. Smart Search
Search was broken in 100% email apps. It was equally frustrating and cumbersome, and it was super hard to find stuff you need. That's why we fixed it using Natural Language detection.
Now you can simply type "email from Alex with a pdf attachment last week" and Spark will you the list emails that fit that criteria.
V. Integrations
We've made Spark to work with any cloud service so you can save and attach files from Dropbox, swipe to Evernote and much more.
VI. Magic sync across all iOS devices
Once you set up all your accounts on iPhone (I have five) they will automatically sync with my iPad and Apple Watch. This is a big deal.
VII. Personalization
As I told you before, we did over 100 in-depth interviews with people and found out that EVERYONE uses email differently. That is why a perfect email client should be able to tackle those various scenarios.
Getting started with Spark
Here are 50 great tips on how to start using Spark and solve the email pain. The video will also answer all your questions and concerns of why it is so much better than the stock Mail app.
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You can download Spark for the App Store for free.
Shaping the Future of Email
We are committed to create the best email experience across all platforms and shape the future of email . Email is like a digital ID and it is not going anywhere. So the ultimate goal is to change the Future of Work and empower people in a personal, human way (unlike all those corporations). Readdle is all about productivity, right?
Spark 2.0 will introduce a paid business model for teams, while individual users will be able to use it for free. We are going to be around for a long time and will make an impact.
We would love to hear your thoughts and comments.
