Airmail for IPhone Is an Email App for People Who Love to Customize
iOS: Airmail has long been our favorite email app in the uncluttered Mac app market , and today it has made its way to the iPhone, where it faces much fiercer competition. While it doesn’t have one trick to set it apart from the others, it allows you to do just about anything you want with it.
At first glance, Airmail is a traditional email application. You get the basics like a unified inbox, support for most email providers, and a customizable sidebar for email navigation. Airmail has some modern rules, like the ability to snooze emails, save them as notes, or turn them into tasks, but airmail doesn’t reinvent the wheel here. In short, unlike other email apps on the iPhone, Airmail doesn’t reimagine email, it just processes email, which is pretty good anyway. What really sets Airmail apart from the likes of Spark or Outlook is its insane amount of features for power users.
Airmail is arguably the most highly customizable email application I’ve ever used. You can change simple things like account colors, icons, or label colors. You can set highlighting for both read and unread emails. You can change the message preview duration. You can configure radio buttons for deleted images, spam folder search, set default attachment download times, and even change the appearance of notifications. Airmail also integrates with many third-party apps like Wunderlist, Trello, 2Do, and Fantastical, and you can even set up custom swipe actions to send emails to those apps. For people who don’t like a lot of notifications, Airmail also has a VIP option similar to the one built into Apple Mail, so you only get notifications from people you approve. It’s crazy how much you can tweak here, just enough to display best in GIF:
It’s hard to go through all the possible customization options in Airmail, but rest assured if you’ve been yearning for an email app that you can actually play with, Airmail is the way to go.
Airmail ($ 4.99) | ITunes App Store