This app, which has been only available on Apple’s iOS platform until recently, can now be installed in your Android device through the company’s new beta program. ‘MailTime’ displays your emails as conversations, not as conventional email threads, through its parsing engine, stripping out metadata to display emails in clean bubbles, sort of like SMS text or WhatsApp messaging flows.
MailTime’s philosophy is “Communicate, Don’t Organize”, or, “Life is Too Short for Cluttered emails”, which it puts into play by using an ‘intelligent’ inbox, which sorts out humans from machine-generated mail, like newsletters, discounts & offers, so that you wind up talking to the people you care about & not to machines. It even allows you to simulate group chats using email. To add, remove or switch participants in group chats, ‘cc’ or ‘bcc’, you just swipe & change their status.
Another useful feature is its ability to assign tasks without leaving the inbox. An example given in MailTime’s product page is: “For example, “@Charlie, Please download MailTime”, will put the rest of that sentence into Charlie’s Mentions list, just a swipe away.”
MailTime also inspires itself on Twitter in its efforts to get you to be concise, by preventing you from writing more than 140 characters. It alerts you if your message is too long, although you can still send a longer message if you insist on not heeding the sage advice.
The app can be gotten in Apple’s App Store here & you can sign up for the Android beta here. MailTime is free for 2 email accounts, but every additional account beyond the default 2 will be charged. You will need MailTime Pro to connect with an unlimited number of email accounts. A Slack group is in operation for the beta & you can join here.
MailTime is being jointly developed by Hong Kong-based Mobile Internet Limited & San Francisco-based MailTime Technology Inc.
– This post is merely a startup profile based on publicly available information & not a review. -
Image Credit: MailTime
