Digital Habits: Mail

Email app for Mac, iPhone, Windows and Android built with ❤️ by the Digital Habits Team

Source Available • No Personal Data

An email app for those of us who find email overwhelming

Works with your Gmail, Outlook, and (coming soon) Microsoft Exchange accounts.

Coming to:

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Coming soonApp Store (iPhone & iPad)

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Coming soonGoogle Play

Read the manual & FAQ →View the source →

Make your inbox calm again

Distraction-free, message-style reading, less clutter, and you decide when to see new email.

Five things that make the difference

Threads read like a messaging app

A conversation is laid out the way a messaging app lays one out, instead of as nested quoted replies. Each message is a bubble.

One-click focus

Any part of the app can be turned into a distraction-free full screen: only the thread you are reading, only the message you are writing, only the inbox. Hide the sidebar for a calm view.

Without grouping

Nordvind Air09:12

Your boarding pass

Nordvind Air08:40

Check in for your flight

Nordvind Air07:05

Your booking is confirmed

Library06:30

Your books are due

With grouping

Nordvind Air3 threads09:12

Your boarding pass

Library06:30

Your books are due

Emails from the same sender are grouped

By default, new emails from the same sender are grouped together. No more having your inbox flooded by eight emails from your airline: they are one row.

Check mails on your own terms

Pause new email for an hour, until tomorrow, or on a schedule, so that, for example, you never get work email after 8 p.m. Or hide a whole mailbox on a schedule: your work mailbox can be gone in the evening. If you want, Mail asks you to type a few random words before it lets you look early.

Folders for all your accounts

Easily see the folders of all your accounts, beside your inbox.

Also in Mail

Set your out-of-office reply from Mail

For one account, or for all of them at once.

Filters

Show only the messages from specific senders, and have a filter turn on by itself at set hours.

Pop a conversation out

Pop a thread out into a small chat window that stays on top of whatever else you are doing.

And much more…

Public source code and privacy-first

Your messages stay in a local database, and never go through a server of ours. Mail collects no personal data, only an anonymous daily usage count that you can turn off. The code is published so it can be read and checked.

View on GitHub

Manual & FAQ

Answers to the questions people ask. If yours is not here, write to us.

Getting started

Reading

Staying calm

Writing

Organising

Settings & help

Email team@digitalhabits.org GitHub

Ask a question on GitHub

Ready for calmer email?

Digital Habits: Mail is coming soon to the App Store, Microsoft Store and Google Play.

Coming soonMac App Store

Coming soonApp Store (iPhone & iPad)

Coming soonMicrosoft Store

Coming soonGoogle Play

Digital Habits: Mail

An email app for those of us who find email overwhelming

Make your inbox calm again

Threads read like a messaging app

One-click focus

Emails from the same sender are grouped

Check mails on your own terms

Folders for all your accounts

Also in Mail

Set your out-of-office reply from Mail

Filters

Pop a conversation out

Public source code and privacy-first

Manual & FAQ

Getting started

How do I connect a mail account?

Which mail providers work?

How do I connect a Microsoft Exchange mailbox?

What was the welcome tour, and can I see it again?

How do I remove an account?

Where is my mail stored? Do you see it?

Reading

Why are several emails from one sender one row?

How do I hide the mail list?

How do I pop a thread out into its own window?

Can I move the reading pane, or make the text bigger?

How do I search?

How do I mark something unread, or keep it at the top?

Why do images not show, or why do they?

Can I find a word in a thread, or print it?

How do I see the original message?

Staying calm

How do I pause fetching of new emails?

Can new mail stop by itself every evening or weekend?

Can I make it harder to start again early?

How do I hide a mailbox, for example my work email in the evening?

How do I snooze an email?

How do I set an out-of-office reply?

How do I only see mail from certain people, e.g. after 8pm?

Writing

How do I send an email later?

How do I add a signature?

How do I forward an email?

Can I read other mail while I write?

Can I reply without the earlier mail under it?

Will Mail tell me if I forget an attachment?

What happens if an email is not sent?

Organising

How do I see my folders, or move mail into one?

How do I archive or delete several at once?

How do I delete mail for good?

How do I get mail back out of Junk or Trash?

Can I reorder my mailboxes, or give one a picture?

What are In Contacts and Other?

Settings & help

Can I change the keyboard shortcuts, language or theme?

What are the keyboard shortcuts?

Mail I send from another address does not count as mine. Can I fix that?

A mailbox asks me to sign in again. What do I do?

Something isn't working. Where do I get help?

Ready for calmer email?