Unibox

I’ve bought Unibox after 3rd party app Airmail upgraded to version 2.0 and increased the price tag a lot while they hadn't fixed most of the problems in version 1.0 yet. To be honest I was eyeing Unibox for a long time, even before I bought Airmail 1.0 but the price tag of this app was a little steep for someone who doesn’t use their mailing app for hours on a daily base. After playing around with this app for a few weeks I really like this app and I wished I bought it sooner. Things I really like: - It has a clean, pretty and well designed layout. - No pop-ups or external windows for creating new e-mails, everything stays inside the main app window. - Toggle between all the attachements and the conversation views. Super great feature! - It’s very, very lean with memory usage what make this app play nice with older Macs that have only 4GB RAM installed, I only setup a single mail-account but this app has never ever taken more than 55MB of memory where Apple’s Mail app took about 350MB on the same account. It’s really pretty when developers stay on top of their game, care about this stuff and don’t get lazy because OS X compresses the memory. Things I think should improve: - iCloud sync. The app settings + mail-accounts should sync through iCloud, when you install this app on another Mac all your stuff should be there from the start without manually have to go through all the steps to re-create the same setup you have on that other Mac where Unibox is installed. - Better handling of text-decorations, buttons for: strong, italic, underline, strikethrough, links, maybe even Emoji’s support. - iCloud pictures, right now it grabs the contacts Gravatar or website icon, maybe we should also have the option to grab someones iCloud/AppleID picture. - iOS version ( coming soon I believe - yay! ) Long story short, it’s not a mailing app with the most features and options in the world but it really is clean, lean and mean!

Pro’s Collects all emails from a sender in one scrollable preview window You can change this to list view, which is very useful You can also change this to gallery view to see all attachments, this is genius! Easy to add email accounts, most of the process is automated and works very well. Powerful functionality, but a lot is hidden… Con’s A lot of the functionality is hidden under obscure icons or simply hard to find, such as the ability to move all message from a sender to Trash, Spam or Archiving, which requires a right click over the contact’s name, it’s simply is not intuitive and is easily missed. Better icons, use of colour and sliding panels that reveal these functions would improve the user experience. I can’t find a way to tag emails, this would be incredibly useful as I could tag emails by project name and more! Naff name! Overall I’m delighted with Unibox and I’m sure you will be too. 4 stars!

If you have a very large inbox like me, you’ll be much happier if you upgrade your memory to 16GB to enjoy your Unibox experience. It was pretty much so slow that I would say it was unusable. But then I upgraded my memory, and ahhh… works like a charm.