A few weeks ago,
Mailbox
, a free iPhone email application was released before the hype of many technology journalists as well as users. I got curious, so I downloaded the app, registered my location on the line (the developers didn’t want to overload their servers all at once) and waited.
A few weeks later (queue now has over 800,000 users and it’s moving slowly) I can finally use the app, so here are my impressions:
Interface and Design
If there’s one app aspect to it, it’s that its interface is clean and minimalist, at least when compared to the original iPhone Mail app. The moment you open it, you will be prompted to enter your Gmail account and sync. This may take a few minutes, but after a short while, all of your Gmail messages should show up on the screen.
The only elements that are displayed on the home screen of the application are on the top navigation bar. On it you will find Menu button Compose, compile and a set of three buttons for navigating your messages (but we’ll talk about those later).
Other than that there is nothing else, which to many people can be a good thing, but I find it a bit lacking and “dry”. Navigating through your messages is pretty straightforward. You tap an email and you’ll be taken to the main message or the latest in its thread if it’s a conversation.
Snooze message: Is it really worth it?
Which brings us to one of the main selling points of Inbox: The ability to manage your messages as if they were to-dos or simple tasks.
Swipe the message to the right slightly to mark it as done. Swipe right further to delete. In a similar way, swiping a message to the left will let you schedule it later or put it on a preset list.
The pretty impressive scheduling function allows you to “snooze” messages later, for tomorrow, weekend or any other day. Similarly, archiving messages to a list also allows you to separate business messages from personal messages or any other lists you may want to create.
On the app’s home screen, you can view your archived or scheduled messages in the navigation bar at the top. Of course, you can also mark messages as done or schedule them from within each email.
So is this feature really useful?
I think yes and no.
On the one hand, it’s certainly pretty cool to get rid of a full inbox once in a while. However, if you don’t manage this in a disciplined way, you will end up with loads of delayed messages waiting for you to process them.
In short, if you have a full inbox, Inbox can really help or can make matters worse.
It is worth mentioning that mailboxes now support Gmail only, so if you’re a heavy Hotmail or iCloud mail user, you’re out of luck. The developers have promised to add some extra features, but some will cost money.
The ultimate Gmail push notification, but at a cost
By far the most compelling feature of Inbox is push notifications, something Gmail users have always lacked on iOS.
Inbox offers a great, fresh and efficient notification system. However this comes with a cost.
To provide notifications, your messages are redirected to Inbox’s servers, where they are compressed before being sent to your iPhone. This means you’ll have to trust Inbox to keep your information private and secure. Not everyone likes that, but if you want push notifications for Gmail, this is the only way currently.
So is Mailbox worth the wait?
In the end, this is completely up to you. I think if you only use Gmail for email and don’t mind almost no customization options and going through non-Google servers, you’ll find Inbox much better than Apple’s own Mail app or even Google’s Gmail app.
However, if you’re like me and you rely on other mail services, prefer a smoother experience and you can manage your email yourself, apps like Sparrow should provide the overall interface design and experience. much better.
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