Airmail (email client)

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Airmail
Developer(s) Bloop SRL [1]
Stable release
iOS4.0.7 / August 18, 2020;3 years ago (2020-08-18) [2]
macOS4.1.6 / August 6, 2020;3 years ago (2020-08-06) [3]
Written inObjective-C, C++
Operating system macOS, iOS, watchOS
Available inEnglish, Arabic, Burmese, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
Type Email client
License Proprietary
Website airmailapp.com

Airmail is an email client [4] [5] [6] for iPhone and macOS by Italian company Bloop SRL. [1] It was based originally on the Sparrow client. [7]

Macworld reviewed the application in 2013 [8] and concluded that "Airmail is a great-looking email client, and does a few things quite well, but it has a few annoying quirks".

In July 2019, the company changed its licensing model, some features becoming available only to paid users of the application. [9]

Awards

In 2017, Airmail 3 was a winner in the annual Apple Design Awards. [10]

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