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It seems Astro (see website) wasn't mentioned in this topic so definitely needs the attention it deserves.
I'm currently using it since someone else mentioned in some other e-mail topic here and here.
Is it the perfect e-mail app? Nope! But for my wishes it is quite ok.
Best parts:
- show attachments above an e-mail message (must, I hate scrolling for each and every email to see the attachment) like Edison Mail (Email by Easilydo) and Outlook also offer
- quite ok UI and speed
I'm currently also using Astro due to an awfull bug that both Edison and Spark have that you can't press a link in an e-mail that shows up with e.g 'link'.
It could improve on some parts though:
* When you delete e-mails in the app and leave the app it isn't always as fast by removing the number of new e-mails on the app icon
* I would like to get rid of the AI icon in the app itself as well or change it to something usefull for me like a quick access to a folder or calendar like Spark has.
* option for multiple signatures in iOS app. I suppose HTML is supported?
* add supports to attach multiple files in one go from the cloud (e.g. Dropbox)
* add support to download and save multiple attachments in one go from an e-mail to a cloud source
* option to remove the bot icon in the app and instead show some quick features (favorite user selected folder(s), calendar if this is added at one point)
* option to either show user icons (gmail) when you show an e-mail conversation or have the option to not show any icons (currently it indicates yellow letters from the first name of the sender/receiver
* search in e-mails older then 1 year and 8 months (if there is an exact limit there or more on the amount of e-mails about a certain subject?) I've noticed with searches there seems to be a limitation so I can't find e-mails from a certain person older then April '16 while I do have these e-mails in my Gmail account in a save folder
* add a calendar and have an option to quickly access it
I'm also not 'liking' the fact that they store my e-mails on Amazon Web services (AWS) as is writen in the security and privacy policies.
- faster search results, sometimes it first indicates that there are no results, but when I search again I can find e-mails
I'm currently using it since someone else mentioned in some other e-mail topic here and here.
Is it the perfect e-mail app? Nope! But for my wishes it is quite ok.
Best parts:
- show attachments above an e-mail message (must, I hate scrolling for each and every email to see the attachment) like Edison Mail (Email by Easilydo) and Outlook also offer
- quite ok UI and speed
I'm currently also using Astro due to an awfull bug that both Edison and Spark have that you can't press a link in an e-mail that shows up with e.g 'link'.
It could improve on some parts though:
* When you delete e-mails in the app and leave the app it isn't always as fast by removing the number of new e-mails on the app icon
* I would like to get rid of the AI icon in the app itself as well or change it to something usefull for me like a quick access to a folder or calendar like Spark has.
* option for multiple signatures in iOS app. I suppose HTML is supported?
* add supports to attach multiple files in one go from the cloud (e.g. Dropbox)
* add support to download and save multiple attachments in one go from an e-mail to a cloud source
* option to remove the bot icon in the app and instead show some quick features (favorite user selected folder(s), calendar if this is added at one point)
* option to either show user icons (gmail) when you show an e-mail conversation or have the option to not show any icons (currently it indicates yellow letters from the first name of the sender/receiver
* search in e-mails older then 1 year and 8 months (if there is an exact limit there or more on the amount of e-mails about a certain subject?) I've noticed with searches there seems to be a limitation so I can't find e-mails from a certain person older then April '16 while I do have these e-mails in my Gmail account in a save folder
* add a calendar and have an option to quickly access it
I'm also not 'liking' the fact that they store my e-mails on Amazon Web services (AWS) as is writen in the security and privacy policies.
- faster search results, sometimes it first indicates that there are no results, but when I search again I can find e-mails
So if Spark didn't have that nasty bug, would it still be your favourite iOS client "overall"?
Thanks to it's broad/powerful feature-set & decent/consistent UX...
Do Readdle finally have an excellent macOS client too?
Seems silly to have a great iOS client, but not an equally good macOS one too (for me at least).
Ideally Android & Win10 too (in that order of preference), but that's prolly asking for too much!
I like their quality of support, I've found them to be super helpful/responsive in the past.
Thanks to it's broad/powerful feature-set & decent/consistent UX...
Do Readdle finally have an excellent macOS client too?
Seems silly to have a great iOS client, but not an equally good macOS one too (for me at least).
Ideally Android & Win10 too (in that order of preference), but that's prolly asking for too much!
I like their quality of support, I've found them to be super helpful/responsive in the past.
Aside of the bug I mentioned Spark is nice (smart search, UI, speed).
It is good but definitely not perfect. I especially want to seem them finally implementing the option to show attachments above a message which Astro, Edison Mail and Outlook do have. I hate the fact to scroll all the way down in an e-mail to see/download the attachment.
Yup, but as you could see in one of my previous posts I hope to see them adding more fixes/features as well.
If Spark fixes the link bug + add option to show attachments above email messages i would switch to their app again immediately due to the great smart search and option to attach multiple files in one go.
Yes, they've got a Mac app and it's quite good. I've been using it as my primary email app on two machines for the past several months.
@ksmith80209 Interesting, I don't suppose you've also used Astro Mail's client for macOS?
Seems Astro also supports Android, one of the few players in this space that do more than iOS/macOS.
I don't think I've come across anyone that does Windows 10 too...
Apart from the expensive Newton Mail, whose support I found to be very bad, esp. in light of $ outlaid!
Ideally Android & Win10 too (in that order of preference), but that's prolly asking for too much!
I like Readdle's quality of support, I've found them to be super helpful/responsive in the past.
Seems Astro also supports Android, one of the few players in this space that do more than iOS/macOS.
I don't think I've come across anyone that does Windows 10 too...
Apart from the expensive Newton Mail, whose support I found to be very bad, esp. in light of $ outlaid!
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I did a two week Newton trial - I like the app except I can't justify $50/yr charge for an email app.
Based on the trial, I liked a few things about the app:
- connected to my office 365 work account (which can't be configured through exchange and hence I cannot use apple mail or calendar)
- push mail and low priority mailbox works really well
- prompt customer support
The things I did not like were:
- limited 3D touch features, e.g can't delete an email from a locked phone notification
- mac app look a feel
- the calendar app has a limited functionality
- cannot turn accounts on/off for different devices
I have tried most other apps as well and if Newton had a better pricing model I would go for it.
For now, the search continues..
Based on the trial, I liked a few things about the app:
- connected to my office 365 work account (which can't be configured through exchange and hence I cannot use apple mail or calendar)
- push mail and low priority mailbox works really well
- prompt customer support
The things I did not like were:
- limited 3D touch features, e.g can't delete an email from a locked phone notification
- mac app look a feel
- the calendar app has a limited functionality
- cannot turn accounts on/off for different devices
I have tried most other apps as well and if Newton had a better pricing model I would go for it.
For now, the search continues..
The hope to add support in the near future according to their FAQ: https://help.helloastro.com/account-settings-and-preferences/email-providers
Astro plans to support IMAP, Exchange, Outlook
- In the future, we expect to support other email providers, including those that use the IMAP protocol such as iCloud, FastMail, and Yahoo Mail, as well as Hotmail, and Outlook.com
- We're also evaluating our timeline for supporting Microsoft Exchange
- However, we don't have a timeline to announce for these yet, as they are much less frequently used as workplace email services
The calendar they added on iOS is really handy. Do you also have the 'problem' though that when you open the app and e.g. have one new e-mail that you first have to scroll up to see it while it is in fact already there. That is a thing since recent updates and they didn't fix it yet.
I noticed this problem yesterday when I had priority mail toggled off. When I toggled priority mail on the problem seemed to go away.
I have priority mail off as well. I just turned it on and restarted the app but it makes no difference here. Seems like a bug though.
Astro is cool but what iOS Developer sets up a Client for iOS without Support for iOS Calendars. Thats just plain stupid. I would rather see outlook and iCloud Accounts supported than a halfbake calender. I am on beta iOS so no Chance of pósting a Review on appstore as Support of astro is a joke.
Great app, very wierd devs
Great app, very wierd devs
Your English is far better than my [insert any other language here]! When you say "untreated" do you mean "unread" email? If so, Spark DOES have an unread email view.
I think he meant "unthreaded", not sure it's officially an English word, "non-threaded"?
I think unthreaded is potentially "more correct"....
Then again, English is riddled with unofficial words that people still happily use...
It's also riddled with organisations who claim to be the authority/gate-keeper for the language.
But I digress....
I think unthreaded is potentially "more correct"....
Then again, English is riddled with unofficial words that people still happily use...
It's also riddled with organisations who claim to be the authority/gate-keeper for the language.
But I digress....