I'm based in the UK and with the introduction of this new Investigatory Powers Bill I've been looking for an alternative to using my custom gmail address to reduce the amount of personal data that will be readily accessible to government departments.

I've come across Proton that is based in Switzerland and data is only disclosed to the Cantonal Courts of Geneva or the Swiss Federal Supreme Court and the user is notified of such activity.

Same goes for Fastmail

We do not participate in, or co-operate with, any kind of blanket surveillance or monitoring. (We also point out that Australia does not have any equivalent to the US National Security Letter, so we cannot be forced to do something without being allowed to disclose it.)

Whereas the likes of Spark Mail are openly subjected to –

We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We transfer your information in the event a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding and you agree to and do hereby consent to our assignment or transfer of rights to your personal information.

Furthermore AirMail is also running analytics service Bit Stadium Gmbh which happens to be a Microsoft product.

There are so many email apps these days that all basically do the same thing. I've tried so many and just stick with Google Inbox for now.

It made me laugh though seeing an [Airmail] folder in the demo.

Anyone know how this is sustained? Spark looks like it's free to use.

It's beautiful, no doubt.

But is it better than Airmail? Within 5 minutes of using it I'm staring at my Inbox and I have to read the names of the Senders to distinguish each one. The way Airmail includes an icon for each Sender is enormously useful when you're receiving high volumes of emails – being able to quickly scan your inbox to find something is essential for those who use their inboxes as to-do lists.

Add to that a very long and tiered folder structure for all the clients, which Arimail automatically differentiates with coloured icons, and it makes it easier to find things and sort them.

I'm all for a nice a clean design, but not at the expense of productivity.

However, this completely blows Polymail out of the water.

Great app and I tried it today for the first time and I'm making it my default email app.

Does anyone know why it's free? Will they be charging later down the road like Nylas?

Been using the beta for about a week now, and it's grown on me. Closer to Sparrow than anything we've had before.

I've been enjoying the Spark iOS app for a while now and am excited that there's a Mac app. I have noticed one little pain point and that's in the reading pane. Sometimes, more not than often, when I try to scroll down to see the rest of the email it gets stuck and I have to scroll up to get it unstuck. Just a minor glitch in an otherwise stable app.

Looks really good! I'm going to give it a try, I was a heavy Sparrow user and fan, lets see how close this one comes!

This app, and it's marketing, look fantastic. Bravo my friends, bravo.

I've tried the iOS app a few times, but keep gravitating back toward Outlook. I also question the free thing. I hope they won't pull a CloudMagic and all of a sudden decide to charge a ridiculous fee with no warning.

I wonder why they use a custom font on the iOS app. On macOS it looks like they picked SFUI which I think is a lot better for email.

Is it better than Airmail? I kinda love it, but the search is really slow. Is spark better?

How is Spark versus Polymail? Anyone tried both?