I've used Spark for years. I understand how many are upset by the latest update, but it didn't make that much of a difference to me. I wouldn't say I love the design, but I haven't yet found anything that works as well across devices. I was a Superhuman user for about a year or so back in 2019, and while I loved how simplistic its design was, I couldn't justify paying for it every month anymore.
I was coming back to Spark after a 1 year break and I am underwhelmed by the redesign. All the things I like (sidebar menu, the swipes) are gone. It looks like Gmail now. I don't see a reason to use it anymore.
I have been using Spark for over 6 years, in my opinion it is the best email client for teams and individuals. I have tried many other email apps including Outlook, gmail, Airmail, Apple mail, Thunderbird, Polymail and Edison mail. Spark is unique in the way it categorizes emails into email groups, such as newsletters and notifications, and a grouping for priority senders. They recently added a gatekeeper which can block spam domains and they never get to you inbox. An now Spark has an AI feature which can modify your writing in strong or soft ways of your choosing. When I first started with Spark there was a banner when you opened it "Love your email again" and I can say I still love it after all these years. 💛🇺🇦💙
A really long-time user of Spark. Unfortunately I was unable to use the new spark because it was super slow and the experience was confusing. I had to delete it from my phone and revert back to Spark 2 on my Mac.
Hello! We’re sorry to hear about your experience with the new version. We've worked hard to fix all known slowness issues and optimize the overall experience, and deliver the top requested features by our existing old users of Spark 2, to Spark Desktop. We'd love for you to give it another try and see the improvements. Your feedback is really important to us!
Spark was great until v3 took away their attention from fixing bugs in v2 and killed the third column in v3. Because of the lack of 3 columns, it is pretty much unusable on a tablet or laptop.
Sparks support team has always been a, “that’s great; we’ll tell our product manager” and then nothing happens. This seems to be happening with the third column, which is disappointing.
I switched to Canary mail, which has its own set of issues as they try to throw AI at everything, but if you turn all that off and customize the toolbar a bit, you get what Spark was with 3 columns.
Hi Brad, thank you for the feedback. We are currently working on the 3-column view, and we hope to launch it in the end of February - hope you can come back to take a look once it's done. If you wish - we can even share with you some work-in-progress mockups to get your feedback on them (but I think we might release it to the beta soon so you can test it live)
Hi Brad! I was responding to some other reviews here and wanted to let you know that the 3-column view has been available on Spark Desktop for some time now, along with the remaining key 'feature parity' features requested by our long-time Spark 2 users. If you're up for giving it another try, we'd be glad to have you back!
Disappointed in opinionated UX choices and Hey-style changes that attempt to reinvent my email workflow. I gave it a try for a few weeks but went back to Spark 2.
Email doesn't need to be solved in such a manner. The best email client is the one that lets me quickly triage, respond and defer messages in a versatile enough way that respects the individual user workflows that have been ingrained for years—if not decades.
The only reason I rated it 2 stars instead of 1 is that after the negative feedback and reviews started to roll in they reversed course to keep the older, better app version available and functioning while they worked to restore features that were missing and resolve subscription-based bugs that should have never shipped in the first place.
Once I'm forced to leave Spark 2 I'll be moving to Apple Mail or another 3rd party email client. And I'll be disappointed because none of those are as nice as Spark 2, yet all of them (including Hey) are better than this newest iteration.
This is the only email app that I've stuck with long term. I have around 8 emails accounts that I manage with Spark.
One of the nice to haves with Spark is that if there's a new sending it won't go directly to inbox, they'll ask if to allow the sender or block them. So it doesn't end up cluttering the inbox - and keep spam out of the inbox.
There's also an AI summerisation feature that's also nice, cause I can set emails from certian senders to be always summerised, so newletters are a breeze to go through.
The best feature is probably that I only have log in with one email address when setting up on a new device, and it'll sync all the email addresses. No need to log in to all the accounts one by one.
Problems with crashes in Windows client. It is impossible to use.
User friendly interface and like the AI under the bonnet. I will continue to use as a client for iOS device but will look for another solution for Desktop.
