Airmail Users Frustrated About Sudden Switch to Subscription-Based Pricing on iPhone and iPad [Updated]

[dysamoria]

Bait and switch... isn’t that technically illegal in many regions?

I will never subscribe to software.

 

[bitcloudrzr]

If it makes any difference, they have reversed the decision and only new features will be considered premium.

Airmail 1.8.26 July 2019

• ** New Features will be Premium Only **
• Themes, Day, Night, Blue, Ruby (Premium Only)
• Realtime Inbox Monitoring
• Backend Services, Snooze, Send Later
• Premium Support
• Block Tracking Email (Premium Only)
• Agenda Integration (Premium Only)
• Improved Rendering
• Push notification service has been restored for all users that purchased the app.
  Backend services should be operational for all users in few days.

https://airmailapp.com/ios

 

[Rodan52]

If it makes any difference, they have reversed the decision and only new features will be considered premium.

Airmail 1.8.26 July 2019

• ** New Features will be Premium Only **
• Themes, Day, Night, Blue, Ruby (Premium Only)
• Realtime Inbox Monitoring
• Backend Services, Snooze, Send Later
• Premium Support
• Block Tracking Email (Premium Only)
• Agenda Integration (Premium Only)
• Improved Rendering
• Push notification service has been restored for all users that purchased the app.
  Backend services should be operational for all users in few days.

https://airmailapp.com/ios

 

[Rodan52]

Amazing huh? They actually sent an email to me explaining that they had made changes to their original proposal for long term premium users such as myself. This in response to my grumpy email to Bloop on the day they stuck that green star icon on my iOS versions.
I told them they were, “closing the gate after the horse had bolted." I replied from my iPad, I hope the noticed the signature.

Sent from my iPad using Spark

 

[mavots]

Airmail has always been a horrible, buggy email client. For several years since its launch, the developers have been treating their users like beta testers more than supplying a finished product.

I have been a beta tester of theirs for several years and I was really disgusted with the attitude of their developers. Not very nice people to deal with when you ask questions and suggest enhancements.

They have taken away some great product features, and when users complained about the deletion on their forums, have failed to put them back. One such feature is smart direction email deletion. Apple Mail is great with this feature that it automatically detects which direction you want to delete messages in the queue. Airmail had this feature, got rid of it, and refused to put it back.

I stopped using Airmail about two years ago after seeing how rude their developers were to their beta testers and their unwillingness to listen to their users about features.

Hope this puts a nail in the coffin for their software.

Thank you!!!
I have had a problem with searching my older emails. Basically on of my accounts (my primary one, Airmail is unable to search. Others are fine, and all works on my Macbook.
Support has been horrendous, almost non-existent, and useless.
My issue seems solvable but the documentation sucks and without some kind of support, I have no choice but to jump ship-perhaps back to Outlook from where I came.

 

[NJRonbo]

Thank you!!!
I have had a problem with searching my older emails. Basically on of my accounts (my primary one, Airmail is unable to search. Others are fine, and all works on my Macbook.
Support has been horrendous, almost non-existent, and useless.
My issue seems solvable but the documentation sucks and without some kind of support, I have no choice but to jump ship-perhaps back to Outlook from where I came.

Good choice!

I have spiced up Apple Mail by using MailButler.

It offers some really terrific add-ons including avatars in the email list.

 

[compwiz1202]

Charging users so they can receive Push Notifications

And then freaking say it's not a core functionality. Notifications are sure as heck core to using an email app, especially for work where missing an email could be very costly.

 

[Rodan52]

I hope someone at Bloop reads this stuff. I am one of the many that abandoned Airmail after thier business model change.
I dont agree that it was such a bad product and I had it from inception, before there was an iOS version.
When the iOS version was released I was overjoyed because at that time there were very few cross platform email clients. Either way it was a much better app than Apple Mail for my purposes.
Nowadays I'm using Spark on all my devices and it gets better at each update.

 

[mavots]

Nowadays I'm using Spark on all my devices and it gets better at each update.

Spark? Thats a new one to me. I rely heavily on filters, how does Spark handle them? Also-I assume it syncs across devices, yes.

 

[NJRonbo]

SPARK has been my email client of choice for iOS and I have used both Airmail and Outlook

 

[avkills]

I don't know about anyone else, but Airmail 4 looks different on my laptop vs. my desktop (colored folder icons triangles on laptop, circles on desktop), also accepting calendar invitations has never worked on Airmail v4. Version 3 was fine. This current version is faster, but very buggy in my opinion. I also thought that when I purchased the "pro" version subscription on my Mac that the pro version would be across all devices. Screw bloop I am looking...

Tried Spark but didn't like the way it handled multiple accounts.

Guess I will try Canary. I hate outlook, always have.

The stock mail ap in Mac OS pretty much blows and if you have a **** load of emails it will eventually crash and become unusable garbage. I have not had any issues with the stock mail client in iOS though.