Sparrow
By Sparrow
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Description
Discover a new way to mail on your Mac.
Sparrow is a minimal e-mail application designed to keep things simple and efficient.
No gimmicks here... just your mail and nothing else.
Sparrow supports IMAP and POP:
You can use the following mail providers with Sparrow:
- Gmail (classic and Google apps)
- MobileMe
- Yahoo!
- AOL
- Any custom IMAP server
- Hotmail, MSN, Live ...
Features:
Conversations:
Quickly flick through threaded conversations on your Mac like never before.
Quick Reply:
Responding to your mail as never been so simple. Click, write, and send in the same window.
Facebook Integration:
See the profile picture of your friends and even 'Add friends' directly from Sparrow.
Unified Inbox:
All your mail in one place.
Labels and Folders:
Create and edit labels and folders right from Sparrow. Easily keep a clean and tidy inbox.
Formatting Bar:
Change fonts, add bulleted or numbered list. Sparrow makes it easy to customize your mail.
Quick Look:
Simply press space to preview all your attachments.
Inline Attachments:
Drag & drop images and documents straight into your mail.
Cloud Attachment:
With Dropbox & CloudApp, sending a mail with attachment has never been simpler. Drag, Drop and sync.
Notifications:
Stay up to date with your mail stream on selected accounts.
Alias:
Sending mails from different addresses has never been this easy.
Priority Inbox:
If you use Gmail, Sparrow supports Priority Inbox.
Minimal Mode:
Hide message previews and the sidebar. See more mail at a glance.
Extended Sidebar:
View all your folders, labels, and mail accounts straight in the main view.
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‘We recommend giving Sparrow a try’ - Ars Technica
‘Sparrow is an awesome first step to a true native Gmail client for Mac’ - TechCrunch
‘I am insanely pleased with Sparrow’ - Stephen Fry
‘Sparrow aims for simplicity in a way that is rather inspired’ - TUAW
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Learn more about Sparrow on www.sparrowapp.com
What's New in Version 1.6
New features:
- POP support
- Esc on Quick Reply saves as draft
- Empty spam
- Unified inbox shows starred, sent, drafts, etc.
- Inbox zero message
- Composer: tab toggle now works for selecting the sending account
- Pull to refresh updates list of starred messages / unread messages / priority messages
- Shift-cmd-option-M toggles Extended Sidebar
- App startup time improvement
Bug Fix:
- Fixed avatar behavior (thanks to Ellis Hamburger)
- Improved charset decoding
- Remove flickering when message list is empty
- Fixed scrollers behavior in sidebar
- Random scroll in the list when switching folder
- Parsing issue with Asana mail
- Periodical log clean up
- Improved contacts synchronization from Gmail
- Draft icon aligment in conversation view
- Refresh folders list periodically
- Avoid marking conversations as read automatically when it was previously selected and mailbox is empty
- Handle additional international subject reply and forward prefix
Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Still hoggin' CPU, Still no Undo
I was hoping that 1.6 would solve some longstanding issues. Nope. Your CPU usage will hover between 9 and 21% for your 'ancient' Core2Duo. Why? I dunno, other than they like wasting electricity. Also, there is still no undo function. If you move an email to archive, and want it back, ha ha… you get to go to all mail, and move it back to your inbox.
The short story here is it's a very polished UI with a poor experience. For me, using the web interface is still faster to process email, and offers more flexibility in usage. Sorry, Sparrow, you fail the questions three, still.
From good to bad to worse
I have been using this app since the beta version. Since then it has always been my primary email client. However, certain bugs and problems have persisted and progressively gotten worse believe it or not.
The search feature was never great, but for me it has consistently gotten worse. I have had to resort to opening gmail in the browser to conduct searches. Now, with the latest update 1.6, the search does not seem to be working at all. This is making the app more useless everyday, as I use the search feature often.
The other issue that is more annoying than anything else is the fact that everytime I return to the inbox it brings me back to the same email that is three months old! Everytime. Then I have to proceed clicking the inbox link until it decides to return to the latest email. Sometime it simply stays stuck and I can not get it to return to the latest email at all.
I have sent countless emails to support, but the only solution they offer is to delete my gmail account and then add back again, which does nothing to solve either problem. That is the solution they give me when they bother to respond at all.
Great app, but switch back to the old notification sound
The new notification sound is cringingly bad.
- $9.99
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: May 17, 2012
- Version: 1.6
- Size: 10.3 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish
- Seller: Sparrow SARL
- © 2010-2011 Sparrow SAS
Requirements: OS X 10.6 or later
