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Tempo — The email client that helps you focus
Tempo is the minimalist email client that helps you build healthier habits. Take control of your time and do your best work – inside and outside your inbox.
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@dannygreer Happy to hear that! If you ever have a question or comment while giving Tempo a spin, be sure to reach out. We value every piece of feedback.
@luikohl Hey Lui, yeah right now only Gmail and Google Apps accounts. We display it next to the sign up button, though we might have to emphasize it a bit clearly...
We want to provide alternatives and just plain IMAP support down the road, so stay tuned if that's a deal breaker for you for now.
@stockmarr I see it now. Personally I think it could be a bit more explicit. Also since the FAQ really sells your privacy bonafides which made me sure it would work with Protonmail. I'll definitely be up to give Tempo another go when you have IMAP support. Also "Exclusively support for Gmail & Google Apps." Should either be "Exclusive support for Gmail & Google Apps." or "Exclusively supporting Gmail & Google Apps." As a fellow Berliner wishing your project viel Glück! :)
@luikohl @stockmarr plain IMAP support would be amazing. Or at least support for Gmail's built-in "Send as" feature, where you connect your POP3 email to Gmail and you can receive and sent email using that address. I am heavy user of that feature so I'd really appreciate it so much!
I guess I don't really need to rant on pricing. There is a limit to what people would feel comfortable paying, and I think a combination of 7-10 with premium features could be one option. That said the UI/UX is phenomenal and highly recommend! Happy customer for 3+ months. You actually do focus on the writing and less on anything else.
@artivilla Thanks Arti. Yes, hearing loud and clear on the pricing. We ll surely have another thought about that. In the meantime, please keep sending your feedback!
Best email client I've ever used. Like really. And I tried many. Love how it keeps you focused on the things that matter, helps you prioritise and gets out of the way. Inbox anxiety? Gone!
And the upcoming mobile version is going to take the awesomeness to a whole other level! Hope its going to be available on both android and ios. Would be a shame if this becomes another "sorry ios only" product.
@jonashaefele So happy to hear Jonas! And don't worry, we're working on both platforms right now 🙂
Hi everyone – and thanks Tomaž!
We started Tempo because we found ourselves spending more and more time in our inboxes while being the proudest of the work we did outside of them. So we decided to build a different email client from the idea that email in itself is not a goal.
We’ve designed Tempo to help us build better habits around how we work with email.
- We’re optimising for a better work life – not more emails sent per minute.
- Give us the tools to take control of our time
- Enable us to focus to do our best work, whether that’s design, code, slides or an actual email.
It won’t be for everyone, but we’re confident it will be extraordinary for some.
Let us know how it works for you and, as always, pet peeves and ideas are more than welcome!
Best,
Sebastian
Thanks! that's really valuable feedback. We want to be realistic about what's needed to make this product self sufficient, but we don't exclude the possibility of making it more affordable if we see that doing so would increase the number of paying users.
Tempo is a breath of fresh air in a cluttered email client product world.
Been using it since the early days and you can quickly see that Sebastian and the team made this with a clear goal of freeing user from the daily email routines that were not perfect.
Typography is simple and honest, layout is innovative and well thought and the whole experience of going through your emails is crisp and effortless.
Also cant wait for the Mobile version to finally delete my other clients. Keep up the good work guys.
Much love from Slovenia <3
@sth2do Yeah, we've though quite a bit about it but to really work for email it requires to "invert" the colours of the emails as well so you don't end up with a dark interface around the white content. Having to switch between reading black-on-white for the emails and white-on-black for the interface is pretty uncomfortable. Long story short, we want it, but haven't found the best way just yet (except for forcing text-only, but that would destroy most newsletters etc.) Stay tuned and let me know if you have any ideas for what would work for you.
@sth2do @stockmarr take a look at the outlook android app and outlook web app. they invent emails and it looks great :) Please add a dark mode!!
@yigitpinarbasi Oh no! As wrote above, we really want to make Tempo sustainable so that we can keep the light on without selling like most other products end up doing. But we get the 15 seems high. We ll consider what we can do, including a freemium version or maybe (given the positive response) we can be even more ambitious with the user target and lower the individual prices. Annual pre-paid prices with heavy discounts are definitely also an option. In the meantime please give it a try and let us know what you think. We won't start charging for a while (at least until we have a solid mobile version).
I just signed up for the beta the other day and I'm loving the minimalism of the app. One thing I'm missing though is the delete/trash button. I only archive mail I want to keep, the rest I delete.
Any plans of adding a trash button? @stockmarr
@danaudne Hold the Option ⌥ key and the archive buttons switch to delete. We've been talking about making a general setting for the default.
@stockmarr @danaudne I’d love to just have both buttons. I use both the delete and the archive functions all the time. I don’t want to have a single button that does both when there is so much space where a second button could be ;)
I've been a user of Tempo since from the very early days, maybe the earliest beta release. I do love the simplicity and the focus it brings my day to day.
One thing I should point out here is the visual design. All the details are well though through and feels very refreshing by style. Even the waiting, loading animations are beautiful and very different than the style you see in every software nowadays.
I have been using tempo since 3 days ago. I has become my email client by default. The former was Spark that is also great. I have try many email client like gmail and Tempo looks greats. Let me share some insights:
Design and interaction are great. You have to get used to a new concept like the "workspace" but it's a great idea to get focus.
- Quick reply are great. I miss the possibility to add files. Some response is just a file attached.
- I have 6 accounts connected to Tempo. I would like to be able to distinguish each mail / account with some color. Maybe a point like unread.
Definitely design is super. Now the question is: it's worth 15$? I do not think so.
Firstly I think superhuman has open the space for people willing to pay for email client. Sure the market is huge taking into account that we spent a lot of time in email. I also think Tempo has to put a price on theirs product but subscription is not the model that fits this category. For the maker is very appealing having a recurring cash flow like being netflix or spotify, but products or services are totally different. With email client every month you are having more or less the same product (I now more features will be added but does not make the difference) while in Netflix you have thousand of hours of new great content. In Netflix you pay for new things not to see Stranger Things 1 again.
So I thing subscription is not a great decision from a financial and strategic point of view. I know plenty of people that after using superhuman during few months stop paying (and using) for it. So engagement is a great challenge. Do not forget that there are plenty of good free alternatives out there. Superhuman could do great because is a signal status product made from SV for SV guys. And now it's has a lot of hype, but hype eventually passes.
Concluding, I definitely would pay 50€ for a great email client like tempo, but not a 15$ monthly fee. I would like to continue using Tempo but if not I will come back to Spark that as I said is also great.
Thanks an congrats for Tempo.
PD: There is a bug in signatures, It's no possible to name more than 1.
@mikedane7 Hi Mike. Yes, Tempo is currently only available as a desktop app for MacOS. The mobile app for iOS will launch this fall, and Android will follow in the weeks after.
Best email client ever! ❤️Happy to pay for it, because I wanna be productive and also have my data safe. It will definitely worth it.🚀
@evapavlikova Thanks a lot for supporting us along the way Eva, much appreciated!
Love it. Definitely at a great price point as well when comparing to Superhuman.
Granted it's been less than a day but I really enjoy the workflow that Tempo has placed around email. Constraints are very important to me. Tempo + smart Gmail Filters is a massive shift in the right direction.
Once the mobile app is released, I'll be more than happy to switch from Spark to Tempo fully.
ps. when you do release a mobile app for iOS, please include Siri Shortcuts integrations 👨🚀
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