Mimestream for Mac
A native macOS email client for Gmail.
$49.99
In English
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Mimestream overview
Mimestream combines your favorite Gmail features with the power of a native macOS app so you can move through your email effortlessly.
Made for Mac, optimized for Gmail
As a native app written in Swift, Mimestream leverages the full power of macOS to deliver a lightning-fast and instantly familiar experience. Instead of using the IMAP protocol, Mimestream utilizes the Gmail API to enable an enhanced set of features that let you work with ease.
Work smarter, email faster
- Rise above the noise and focus on the work that matters most. Mimestream makes it easy to keep your inbox organized with confidence.
- Categorized Inbox - with support for Gmail’s categories, focus on what matters most and triage the rest at your leisure.
- Multiple Accounts
- Label Management
Committed to Privacy
Your data and credentials are stored only on your device, and the app only makes direct connections to Gmail. There are no intermediary servers, and Mimestream does not collect or sell your email.
Key Features
- Lightweight and Fast - Mimestream is built for speed, and only uses a minimal amount of disk space to cache recent messages
- Offline Access - Fully functional when offline and on the slowest connections-perfect for business travelers and whenever you’re on the go
- System Notifications - Receive macOS system notifications when you receive new messages, so you never fall behind on important threads
- Aliases - Your email aliases are automatically synced from Gmail without any setup and are used for replies when appropriate
- Signatures - Signatures set up in Gmail are automatically synced with Mimestream
- Robust Search - Enter any Gmail search query into Mimestream and get consistent results. Search while offline, too
- Swipe Gestures - Use familiar macOS swipe gestures to quickly triage and archive your email
- Tracking Prevention - Read your email privately - Mimestream blocks tracking pixels from 50+ of the most common tracking services
- Keyboard Shortcuts - Triage your email quickly using keyboard shortcuts, including the option to use familiar Gmail or Apple Mail shortcut sets
What’s new in version 1.6.3
This update improves Mimestream’s compatibility with macOS 15.4.
🚀 New
- A new “In Inbox” option in the message list filter (available for labels only)
- Settings for the message list filter can now be customized per-folder
✨ Improved
- Better first name extraction for participant lists and monograms
- The Accounts list in settings is now grouped by profile
- Revised design of Profile settings
- The Profile settings list now shows icons
🔧 Fixed
- The compose window's “Writing Tools” toolbar button doesn't work on macOS 15.4
- Can't create new labels under specific account/profile configurations
- Signature font size changes aren’t saved
- Unable to add folders to Favorites in certain situations
- Reordering accounts under a unified inbox doesn't work
- Quoted text in some replies sent from Gmail aren't trimmed
- The first screen of onboarding has an animation glitch when pressing "Continue" on macOS 15
- Errors during background sync due to Gmail API batch request sizes exceeding current quota limits
- Tabbing from Subject field goes to the format bar when full-keyboard access is enabled
- Menu extra no longer appears after updating to 1.6.0
- Keyboard shortcuts don't work in deletion confirmation alerts
- Resetting the cache sometimes shows the crash recovery alert
- Quoted text from some versions of Outlook isn't trimmed correctly
- Changing font size in the compose window applies style of the first character to the entire selected range
- Quoting selected text during reply doesn't include any HTML formatting
- Crash due to race condition when handling errors from the Gmail API
- Shift-tab to decrease indent in dashed list switches to round bullets
- (macOS 15 only) Label text in labels popover cut off at the bottom
- (macOS 15 only) Tabbing in the compose window doesn't work after toggling Cc/Bcc rows
- Anchor tags without href sent from Outlook are incorrectly linkified
- Searching for messages using a label name with parentheses fails
- Profile unread count gets truncated when exceeding 3 digits
- Re-selecting the current folder should exit search mode
- Crash when refreshing app licensing state in the background
- Entering day followed by month sometimes doesn't generate correct snooze suggestions
- Adding a signature on reply moves the cursor position
- The visibility state of labels doesn't sync during initial account sync
- Changing text editing cursor position sometimes doesn't update font popup in the format bar
- Links with apostrophes don't work in the link sheet
- Snooze date picker view doesn't accept month or day input until the year is changed first
- Compose window body margins shouldn't scale with text size
🧹 Cleanup
- Accounts can now be dragged between profiles in Settings
- The menu bar extra's menu now shows up to 50 messages
- Avoid accidental label renames by disabling the two click behavior and requiring use of the context menu "Rename" item
- The Template settings view has been re-implemented with SwiftUI
- The existing web view based conversation view underwent a major refactor to build and run on iOS
- Gmail-reserved label names like "Todos" are now prohibited from being created, with explanatory error messaging
- Long email addresses are now truncated in the account settings list
Mimestream for Mac
$49.99
In English
Version 1.6.3
What users say about Mimestream
Value: 5.0
Fantastic. There are a lot people complaining about a $5 monthly fee. Great software costs money to build and operate. Do you want the founder and his team to work for you for free? If you want nice things, pay people to make them. For an app you will use literally dozens, maybe a hundred times a day, $5 a month is extremely reasonable to get the optimal experience.
Features: 5.0
All of the features of Apple Mail + more, as it uses as many of the features of Gmail as it can utilize via the API. They do have a public feature request board, although I’m not sure how closely it reflects their current priorities. Would be good to understand this piece more. I’d love to see a monthly newsletter on updates and priorities ahead.
Reliability: 5.0
Never had any performance issues. Works even better than Apple Mail honestly, which would bug out when viewing larger chains and images. Part of the reason I left Apple Mail was for the performance of Mimestream.
Other user ratings:
Ease of use | 5.0
Customer support | 5.0
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User Ratings
Sep 23 2023
Version: 1.1.0
Mimestream looks great, works smoothly, and has a nice style about it; but it is pricy for what you get. At $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year (all subscription-based) this seems to me to be an expensive way to check (and organize) your email.
It seems to me that GMail's online interface (which is free) is a better deal. If you want a client program then Apple's Mail, Thunderbird or EMClient are good options (and all free). In terms of comparable paid offerings Postbox is $49.99 for a *lifetime license*, Outlook is included with Office 365, and a ProVersion of EMClient is $59.99.
All those free and paid clients can access GMail, though, yes, Mimestream does it very nicely and with some cool features -- but I guess the question is: Are those features worth $50 a year. I don't think so.
Jun 24 2023
Version: 1.0.3
I used this app throughout its beta program and was waiting with much interest in getting the full release. It's a nice and mostly transparent window for the Gmail process and worked well, and I dislike using a browser for email, even though it is basically a browser underneath it all. At any rate, I am totally through with the app now, I don't do subscriptions. I understand the developer's reasons for doing this, but it means that, at least in my case, he's lost a customer.
Mar 29 2023
Version: 0.41.6
MacUpdate: says this: Free
Absolutely Free
but if you go to the site this is what it says.
Why will this app cost money?
Mimestream's core business is developing high quality e-mail software, and doing this requires revenue. Instead of monetizing your e-mail data for advertising or market research purposes, we take a firm stance on privacy, and charge for our software.
Aug 28 2021
Version: 0.26.2
This app shows a lot of promise and I'm already using it as my primary mail client.
Sep 23 2020
Version: 0.6.22
Trying it since a few days and really love it. It's blazing fast and has also very good rendering also in dark mode.. It even looks as an Apple app. The best after Sparrow for Gmail users.
