I don't really need AI in my browser. I do like spaces in Arc, and how it handles cleaning up my tabs. The color coding of the sidebar for the various profiles is the one feature I haven't been able to find in things like Orion, Vivaldi, Firefox, etc. By color coding, I mean the ability to make the entire sidebar a different color, which helps me make certain I don't do stupid things in prod.
Agreed; the occasional Raycast AI query using their web extension suits me well.
Haven’t used Arc as my daily driver in a while now, but I used a similar setup with a semi-bright green sidebar as my debugging space when my last project was in active development. I’m rarely at a desk these days so back to Safari for the time being, but one thing I miss the most is Arc’s near-borderless window ‘frame’.
Did they drop data sync? Could have sworn all of my spaces, tabs, folders, favorites and etc synced anytime I logged back in on my other machine (with access to spaces on iOS well)
It’s been a while since I used it regularly though.
It was disabled pending user feedback to allow private external testing of the feature while the app itself was open to public testing via website link.
This was to ensure a high quality, two way support channel could be established when enabling the feature for external testing. (It also ensured Test Flight data & support channels would not become polluted with failed attempts to sign in with gmail or similar)
Swift Mail currently offers partial offline support.
It doesn't provide full offline support by keeping a complete cached copy of all mail data on disk, as an IMAP client might. Any content received from the server will remain accessible offline and during subsequent app launches.
1. Reply button is below the sender's profile symbol in the thread message header.
2. Thank you for the feedback on activating the notification. This should work as anticipated but it's been quite some time since I received feedback related to notification behaviors so I'll certainly take a look.
3. Images and remote content are blocked by default (similar to Mail.app); clicking the 'photo' button (next to the Flag button) in the message header will reveal these images.
4. Expanding threads by clicking in thread message header white space would be a welcome addition and feature request. I'll add this to the planned feature list. Expansion via body content click will require a bit more investigation, however.
These are just a few issues discovered opening the app for 5 minutes. I wish you and the product all the best. And I will be happy to try it again later.
But at this point, I just don't see myself paying a subscription for an MVP/alpha product, with so many visible bugs, and not working (or not intuitive) basic features.
- Clicking a button for every message to see images is a weird decision, to be honest. I understand some people are more paranoid. But both Mail.app and Fastmail web client provide features for privacy to hide your IP for loading images. There are I guess some WebKit context menus, which suggest that I can download the image or open the image in a new window, and when I click it - nothing happens.
- You are right, there is a reply button. Just not where I expected it, considering I was expecting the same behavior/view as Mail.app. But even that - another bug / unexpected behavior - the reply email (From) chosen first from the list, but not the same email account that received the email. Say I received an email on support@example.com, and when I click Reply - the From account is selected to myaccount@fastmail.fm.
- I don't see any ability to attach inline images to messages. Drag and drop of the image from Finder to the Compose does not work. I see that I can attach documents to the messages, but don't see the ability to create inline messages.
So at this point. I already wasted a trial period to see that the state of the app in a very early alpha/beta. I would call it alpha because I believe there are many basic features are still missing. And it is definitely beta because some basic features don't even work, like lists don't update when I receive new emails.
I am sorry. It is just too early. I can't try again later in a few months, assuming you will release some updates soon. Which is very disappointing. I will give it another try, when I see it again, maybe mentioned somewhere else.
Really wish you actually had a TestFlight first to build the app to v1 and collect feedback. I do feel like there is a good potential of the app. And despite even that I really hate the subscription models, I went ahead and gave your app a try.
Thanks for following up below to update some these points. Just want to touch on a few, if I may:
2. An iOS client is planned going forward. The first few iterations of Swift Mail were actually deployed to both iOS & macOS, so there's quite a bit of shared platform code in place already when the time is right. I have a visionOS build up and running already as well, which I think bodes well for that effort.
3. (Trials do exist, as you mentioned below)
4. Swift Mail does provide support for mailto link handling, and it can be set as the default macOS mail client as well. I'm not familiar with linking from Reminders or Notes directly to the Mail app, however, so can't speak to that workflow at the moment.
Any and all feedback is appreciated & encouraged though so please don't hesitate to reach out as needed.
Note - that roadmap is not valid and was meant to be deactivated long ago after I cancelled my subscription during the beta (great experience but couldn't automate release notes with Xcode Cloud). A replacement roadmap and feedback portal should be back online very soon at that same link, however.
