Does Kiwi for Gmail use less resources than gmail in Chrome/Safari?

[questionwonder]

I've been using gmail inside Chrome and Safari for years, but want a less resource intensive app.
I don't like Outlook, Apple Mail, etc as they don't have the same page layout as gmail in my browser (which I've become custom too and like)

Can anyone tell me if the Kiwi for Gmail app for Mac uses less resources (CPU, Memory, network calls to N other services, etc)?????

 

[RabidMacFan]

I've been using gmail inside Chrome and Safari for years, but want a less resource intensive app.
I don't like Outlook, Apple Mail, etc as they don't have the same page layout as gmail in my browser (which I've become custom too and like)

Can anyone tell me if the Kiwi for Gmail app for Mac uses less resources (CPU, Memory, network calls to N other services, etc)?????

Kiwi for Gmail looks like it's an Electron app, which uses Chromium for the GUI. Basically, it will probably use the same amount of resources as running gmail in a chrome browser. If you want a less intensive app, you can use any standard IMAP client - though you already said you don't like Outlook and Apple Mail, which are probably the best mail clients to choose from.

You can try Spark or Canary Mail, but I haven't tried them myself.

 

[questionwonder]

1. I just want an email app that has the same main layout style as gmail (inbox all on front page as a large list, with no specific email open at any time and opening and viewing a specific email shows on a single page by itself) What I don't like is how Outlook and mail show a small column of a list of emails and the email itself next to that column
2. I don't like Outlook and Apple mail downloading 50K emails and storing them on my machine. I know I can set that number to be much lower but I don't like caching emails on my machine at all.