Mailbutler
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Your inbox, smarter.
Ton
Mailbutler 2.0 — Your personal assistant for Gmail and Apple Mail 📬
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Mailbutler is a light-weight email extension for Gmail and Apple Mail that makes up for all your email client’s missing functionalities, while seamlessly integrating to your inbox's interface. Just a few things that Mailbutler can do: Send Later, Tracking, Signatures, Templates, Notes & Tasks...and so much more!

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Filippo Mursia
Awesome product, I've been using the new beta since it launched and I can only recommend it. Well done!
Fabian Jäger
Thanks @mrdobelina!
Ton
Hunter
Pretty cool update to the impressive Apple Mail add-on Mailbutler, that adds all sorts of handy new features to Apple's default Mail client. Now on Gmail too :) New features include: Send Later - Schedule an email to be sent on a specific date and time Tracking - Find out what happens after you hit send Signatures - Use responsive templates, or create your own beautiful email signatures Message Templates & Snippets - Drag and drop prewritten templates to save even more time Notes & Tasks - Turn your emails into notes and to-dos and share across your team Services Integration - Link Mailbutler to your favourite services: Dropbox, Evernote, Todoist, Asana, Wunderlist, etc.
Fabian Jäger
@t55 Thank you so much for the hunting!
Thijs
Airmail Integration on the roadmap?
Stephen Chip
Mailbutler makes Apple Mail usable! It's impossible for me to imagine what life was like pre-Mailbutler. Now adding support for Gmail completes the product for me (Although I only occasionally use Gmail to send/receive emails). Send later is a great feature when you want to write a bunch of emails on Sunday night but don't want to look like a creepy stalker. You just set it to send at 7:45 on Monday morning. ;-) The ability to unsend a message, a 10 second delay after you hit 'send,' has proved invaluable for me. Sure, we've had that feature for years on Gmail but not on Apple Mail which is the client I prefer to manage my Gmail and other email accounts from. Sometimes you don't know if you have the correct email address. It's why tracking is a such a key feature. You know when your email was opened. How about that email that requires action but you can't get to it right away. Snooze it for an hour or two and then it's back on top of your email feed. Congrats on Mailbutler 2.0!
Fabian Jäger
@stephenchip Thank you so much for the support! 🙏
Manuel
Looks like a nice product. Any idea if this fixes one problem I have with Apple Mail on my Mac? I archive all my messages and there‘s starred messages which show up normally in Gmail, but they won‘t appear in Apple Mail, because they‘re not in my inbox anymore. If Mailbutler makes all my starred messages show up again, I‘d be so freaking happy.
Stacey Moore

I loved the email pause feature and sadly it has been removed. More importantly, the security issues introduced in v2 are a deal-breaker for me. If the makers are reading this, is there a way to still subscribe and use the old version? I deleted my account yesterday, but would start a paid subscription if I can still use the previous version.

Pros:

None for me at this time

Cons:

Security issues, removed useful features

Ian
I've never found a mail app that could match Mailbox which Dropbox shutdown, my inbox has never recovered. The primary feature that I've found missing is the ability to snooze emails to appear when on a computer or mobile device, does Mailbutler do that? Does Mailbutler create more than one label in the primary labels area? Many of the professional features are done by my existing mail app without the monthly cost.
Fabian Jäger
Hello from Berlin! 👋  Firstly, a huge thank you to Ton (@t55) for hunting us. It was 2 years ago when we first introduced Mailbutler, a lightweight plugin for Apple Mail that brings an extensive range of productivity-boosting features. We're grateful to have helped over 100k users to leverage their every day productivity on Apple Mail. At the same time we saw a problem with the growing number of Gmail plugins on the market each offering different and complex functions: they work, but they don't necessarily work together. This is exactly why we've decided to bring the simplicity of Mailbutler to a second platform. Our team worked really hard over the past few months to perfect your experience with Mailbutler, and today we're excited to share with you our biggest update so far: the new Mailbutler is now fully ready for both Apple Mail AND Gmail, with new and improved features. Please leave us any comments, suggestions, or feedback - hearing from you is how we get better. 🙏 Thank you for checking us out, we hope you enjoy your freshly charged inbox! Cheers, Fabian and the Mailbutler team
Roger Fralich
@dotguru Awesome to have the update. Mailbutler adds some essential functionality to the Mail app. I use it all the time.
Ognjen Vukovic
@t55 @dotguru I love it! I will try this for sure. :) Be sure to check out our tool , it will be very interesting to you. https://www.producthunt.com/upco...
Igor Marchuk
as a mac user myself, i never understand why would people pay money to upgrade apple native apps while there are so many free tools around? how will it make apple's native mail app better then, say, Spark mail?
Flowsion
I've tried a lot of different apps and always end up going back to the native Mail app. I think MailButler is made for people like me, who would rather use Mail app than all the other programs out there. It's not necessarily for those who prefer something like Spark Mail, unless you prefer it because Mail is missing a few features and would love to jump back.
Simone Wong
@igor_march Hi Igor! We believe Mailbutler offers a simpler and more intuitive approach to boost email productivity. While Mailbutler is not a stand alone client, we integrate a wide range of functionalities that are missing into Apple Mail / Gmail - this is done seamlessly and with little to no interface change -- which many find annoying when switching to an entirely new email app. Hope this answers your question :)
Glenn Lidstone

The best feature of MB to me was the toolbar icon that allowed you to quickly compose an email. NowI see three tabs in this icon: Activity which doesn't seem to do anything, Notes which allows you to put a note on an email (but this icon only displays the ones you have created), and Tasks (similar to notes). So, it appears the feature I used MB for is now not there at all. :(

Pros:

Notes tab might be useful, as well as the task tab.

Cons:

price, the functionality I used in MB ver1 is no longer there (or at least isn't obvious).

Szymon Sekula
Hi Glenn, The feature to quickly compose whole emails or just paragraphs is still in the new version of Mailbutler. Check out this article which shows two methods of using the Templates: https://support.mailbutler.io/kn... Feel free to reach out to me via szymon@mailbutler.io if you have any additional questions.
Pillow John
The plain truth of it is it's just too expensive. Newton is even too expensive--and you guys are more expensive than Newton. I would totally pay a one-time price--even $30 bucks up front for this. But I'm not paying almost a hundred dollars a year for this stuff.
Joris Crozier

I'm using it since few months and I like it, I'm paying it but since upgrade to version 2, I'm paying for nothing because my datas are on old version, can you transfert it so I can enjoy email traking again ?

Thanks

Pros:

clever, integrated

Cons:

buggy ?

David A. Lindahl
I've been using a prior version of MailButler for several months now and I love the features it adds to Apple Mail. I'm excited to try version 2.0! Read receipts alone make it totally worth it.
Simone Wong
@austriker27 Thanks for the kind words! 😍
Con Schneider

I like Mailbutler v1.x very much.

Mailbutler 2.x should be taken back to the repo for now.

Scheduling a delayed email does not work. The scheduling alone takes 20 seconds and always ends with a SOAP error:

Don't be fooled by the schedule message, it does not work.

Also "unschedule and edit" takes another 20 seconds.

I hate that now everything is in the cloud for Apple Mail even the settings. I get that it makes sense because of their plans, but I for example have zero interest in tracking (I don't want any communication with their servers) or cross platform usage.

The delay sent now is an Apple OS notification and is lacking the additional info with recipients and sender. This is vital for me as I use multiple email accounts.

I have downgraded for now and am enduring that Mailbutler 1.x fails to recongnise my purchase which is just ... 🧐

Talking to support was fruitless.

What a disappointment.

My advice. Stay on version 1.x for now.

Pros:

Compared to version 1 SASS structure I guess

Cons:

Buggy

Orcun Akca
Hey guys! Great work! I enjoy using the freemium. However, the subscription model for an add-on doesnt really makes sense.
Kiwami Livingston

wish I could just pay for it once.. but awesome program that has become a staple on my mail client. I've told all my friends about it.

Pros:

Smooth, lightweight, convenient and very unintrusive

Cons:

subscription

Fabian Jäger
That's so great to hear! Thank you for sharing Mailbutler with your friends too. 🙏
Antonio Volpon

As a subscriber of the service I was eager to try the new Mailbutler version. Mailbutler is probably one the few utilities I use on a regular basis the whole day, and it's a valuable companion for my project management job.

However, I found the newer 2.0 version to be extremely unstable and buggy, so much that I had to reinstall the previous Mac plugin.

Moreover, some of the functionalities it was once possible to disable (like displaying thumbnail pictures on the email list or getting rid of the menu icon) are currently there to stay.

I already emailed the company, hopefully they'll come back soon.

For now my suggestion is: use the gmail extension or remain to the old Mac plugin.

Pros:

complete, clever, integrated

Cons:

buggy

Fabian Jäger
Thank you for the feedback, Antonio! We collected a lot of feedback during beta and we promise it will only get better in every update. 😄 We'll definitely be fixing the issues you mentioned.
Avery Z Chipka

Installation with DayLite Installed results in mail crash and inability to access the mail preferences. Works fine in the old version.

Pros:

New Features

Cons:

Incompatible with DayLite Mail Plugin

Jan Reesman

changed my way of using email

Pros:

unsend, email opened

Cons:

none

Fabian Jäger
That's awesome to hear, Jan!
Ken Emeigh

The only reason I used mailbutler was for its ability to automatically upload large files to my NextCloud server, FTP, WebDav etc. All that is gone now.

Pros:

Non that I use

Cons:

Removed upload services I used