Former Apple engineer Neil Jhaveri has been working on an email app for Mac called Mimestream. It is now out of beta after a long test phase of more than two years. The app uses Gmail’s API — and that’s why it’s only compatible with Gmail at the moment.
Jhaveri, who was at Apple for more than seven years, worked on the Mail app for the first iPad, and the first Notes app for macOS. Later, he managed teams working on Apple’s Mail app. He left the company in 2017 and founded Mimestream in 2019. Jhaveri said that the company is still bootstrapped with five people working on the app. He mentioned that more than 167,000 people have used the app in beta.
Because of his familiarity with Apple’s Mail app, a lot of design elements of Mimestream look like the default app on the Mac, such as the usage of blue dots to indicate unread emails, a three-column layout and action buttons located in the top bar.
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