Gmail unBrowsered
I’m a pretty heavy gSuite user(gmail,calendar,docs) for the most part I’m fine using them in a browser, my browser of choice happens to be Safari, When I got a chance to try the then beta Mailplane out, I jumped at it, it’s not bad, it made managing my five gmails accounts pretty painless, and the drag and drop file attachments was interesting, but ultimately it’s just a browser with a few sexy tricks, and I don’t think those tricks justify the soon-to-be 24 dollar price tag. So I needed an alternative..of course Safari is perfectly fine, and 40% of the time that’s what I use even when Mailplane was open, but searching I went anyway.
Hana is interesting in a laughable way - if you turn off safari’s address bar, hide the bookmark bar - you have hana, it offers not a single differentiator over Safari - other than no navigation, but wait….it’s $19.91, I nearly laughed myself sick… I can only assume they paid a bunch for the sassy icon.
So I won’t be using Hana, but I found a gem in my travels, Webmail.app, a little bit of webkit, served up by Michael McCracken, it only does gmail, it’s devoid of sexy tricks, and it’s rock freekin solid, I’d love for it to deal with my five gmail accounts, but I may solve that problem differently.
Webmail.app really shines when you set it as the ‘compose’ app via G-Mail notifier, that marries the menubar display with Webmail’s single-minded approach.
I suppose eventually i will have tried every application the world has to offer, here’s two more I can strike off my list.