Why do the terms and conditions appear to have been lifted from Apple? <a href="https://getbigmail.com/terms" rel="nofollow">https://getbigmail.com/terms</a>
For those saying they wish their email was better, I can't recommend Spark [0] highly enough. It's currently macOS, iOS & Android, and Windows is in the works. It's free for regular use and offers premium features for teams etc.<p>Spark makes multiple accounts a breeze, automatically groups your emails a-la what Gmail does but it actually works well, syncs accounts between devices, quick actions, and a lot more. Shortly, it's brilliant and I love it. I have no affiliation, I'm just a very happy user, I recommend you give them a try if you're looking.<p>[0] <a href="https://sparkmailapp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://sparkmailapp.com/</a>
MacOS/iOS only without even a "coming soon on..." message.<p>I wouldn't bind myself to a mail client that tied me to a specific hardware vendor. Even if I was Apple only (which I'm not) I don't want to be in that position again.
We need a Firefox moment for Email!<p>There's a lack of innovation in the email client space.<p>Even if this doesn't win, I'm excited to see you guys are working on this problem!
My email needs to do only a handful of things:<p>- let me archive things<p>- let me search my email<p>- let me do email-y things (reply, forward, reply all, etc.)<p>- display HTML and plain text email in a way that doesn't hurt my eyes<p>- get out of my way<p>I don't need or want advanced categorization, animated flourishes, or even folders. I use Spark as my email client because it works just fine.<p>Spark is toying with charging, which I think is fine. If it's not too much, I'll pay.<p>This Big Mail seems too feature-laden for my tastes.
It really looks like Hey for IMAP. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Fastmail already has a Hey vs Fastmail comparison page on their site. Most of Hey’s great features can be made as features of other email service providers and/or clients.<p>But this is an email client that’s more expensive than Fastmail & at $78 annually is less than Hey. If you bring your Gmail account that’s all it is: $78 per year forever.<p>A comment in this thread brought up Apple as a buyer of the Big Mail parent company. I think it’s just as likely that Google would.<p>For me the cost is too much. I’m paying $130 for years of Fastmail (for email service & their free clients on a custom domain with a ton of extra features).<p>I’ve set up rudimentary filters & email groups to come close to Hey’s features. (Yes, I also paid for a year of Hey.) I’m constantly trying new email clients & will likely give Big Mail a shot when it goes live.<p>But sticking with something that costly is unlikely, it’s also hard to say when I’d do this given the short trial period. I need a week of trial time where I can focus a little time setting up and comparing to clients I’ve already tried & the one I use now.
Even the website is very Apple-esque. How long before they get acquired by Apple and the Mail app acquires this feature set?<p>That’s just to say it looks lovely!!! Cheers! I’ll give it a try.
It’s good to see a proper client, and not yet another system where your emails sit inside yet another cloud.
It’s also good to see Fastmail as a client from the get-go.
And it’s good to see the iOS and Mac focus.
The combination means this has a chance of combining a new feature set with privacy and security.
But the downside is subscription payments for a client
I want someone to just make Google Inbox UI again. The best thing was grouping by dates where I could select and archive or delete an entire month once I had reviewed what was in it.<p>No other email experience has let me get through my backlog as fast as Inbox did.
This looks like it's optimized for senders, which are on average advertisers or companies trying to drive engagement or sales.<p>This ignores the average user problem, which is getting real communication lost in the mentioned sauces. I say that because big bucket filtering is almost always circumvented by email campaigns. I was an early user of Gmail when they introduced this feature, and almost as soon as it was useful it was not, because advertisers figured out how to play the game.
I'm all in favor of a new mail client. I'm still using Thunderbird, and it isn't great for searching deep historical archives of mail or handling a few gig of old mail archives.<p>However, I'm not in favor of a new mail client enough to pay $7/month in perpetuity, unless it's pure magic.
Does it support different notification sounds for email from different senders? How about different sounds for different accounts?<p>I'm on iOS now, and I miss this feature of Android gmail so much. iOS gmail just has one notification sound, even for different accounts, which is really frustrating.
Why doesn't anyone add an option to categorize e-mails by the sender and receiver like a messenger?<p>It would make it much easier/logical to handle conversations.. and make it easier to identify fishing and to delete/prune messages.
I thought this said Bing mail at first sight.<p>Why is there no Bing mail? I guess Microsoft doesn't want to cannibalize their Outlook offering... but Bing mail would probably appeal to an entirely different crowd.
I always wonder how typos make it to production on the front page, in bold. "Big Mail is packed with advance features to make your inbox smarter"... (for those missing the typo, it should be _advanced features_)<p>It is nitpicking, but it suggests there could be other QC issues that are more significant elsewhere in the business.