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Popular Newton Email App for iOS and Mac Shutting Down in September

chucker23n1 said:
That is indeed troubling. They say their offices are in Palo Alto and Bangalore, so they probably have their management and marketing (and maybe, like, a head of software engineering) in Palo Alto and most of their developers in Bangalore. A typical Palo Alto salary would be $110k, but in Bangalore, just $7k.

Sounds like mismanagement.
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The Palo Alto address is a luxury apartment block. So I'm guessing one guy in the valley and a team in Bangalore, India.

Edit: confirmed through LinkedIn

Let's see what happens after Sept 25.
 
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I also loved Newton, and was paying only $24.99 a year for it. The things I must have in any replacement are:

1) Swipe to delete, archive, spam, etc.
2) Snooze
3) Unified mailbox for all accounts
4) choice of threaded views or not

The things I would LIKE to have are:

4) Read receipts
5) Send later
6) Unsubscribe

I don’t want an app to decide what’s important, and I don’t mind paying for an app. Any help in finding a replacement would be great.

Thanks!
 
good, another one of the company that reinvents the wheels. what can you offer that the big name company doesnt? privacy? when the feds come knocking on your door asking for the decryption key, what are you going to do? say no? not only would they bleed you dry at court, the court will most likely demand you to hand over the key or they might just bring you to guantanamo bay and have at it.

a small time company trying to do something the big name company wont? there is a reason why the big named company could survive this long.
 
expiredyogurt said:
good, another one of the company that reinvents the wheels. what can you offer that the big name company doesnt? privacy? when the feds come knocking on your door asking for the decryption key, what are you going to do? say no? not only would they bleed you dry at court, the court will most likely demand you to hand over the key or they might just bring you to guantanamo bay and have at it.

a small time company trying to do something the big name company wont? there is a reason why the big named company could survive this long.
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You have been watching too much Hollywood.
 
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BasicGreatGuy said:
In my opinion, Airmail has a more refined / professional look to it, versus Spark. I also like the plethora of options that Airmail offers, that include integration with many apps. Spark can't compete in this area.

Over the two days (now) that I have been using Airmail, I find my work within it is faster than using Spark.

And most of all, I like Airmail's privacy policy over Spark's.

Edited to add: I really like the email icon use with Airmail. When viewing mail in my inbox, I can quickly and easily see which person or company the email is from by seeing the icon associated with it, which I did not setup manually for each. And Airmail incorporates the correct icons for each mail. Very nice attention to detail, even if it is small detail.
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By the way, you can turn off PGP encryption in Canary mail, which I did for several accounts where it wasn't truly needed. You can also send encrypted mail on certain accounts. Canary also has read receipt which has been very fast (like Newton).The Mac version of Canary has a very nice layout.

The read receipt plugin for Airmail is slower and you have to remember to set it each time you send an email.

Canary has snooze, read receipt, templates, one touch unsubscribe, unified inbox, smart filters, bulk cleaner and integrations with Dropbox, Google drive etc. It also has a dark mode.

Canary has an excellent privacy policy, in my opinion. For now, I am going to use Airmail and Canary.

Just wanted to clarify about Canary since you asked earlier.

Edited to add: From Airmail iOS privacy policy (for those curious)

Data removal policy:
- If you disable the account in Airmail settings, all data for that account is removed.
- If you disable push notifications for an account, all data for that account is removed.
- If you don’t use the app for more than 7 days, all data is removed.
- The new Apple push server will notify us when a user removes the app, so we will remove all data.

In general, we prefer not to collect any personal information or data. We are not in the business of collecting users and selling their data.

- Permission requests for contacts, calendar, and directory access is meant for the app itself and not us.

Does Airmail share my data with anyone?
Airmail does not share your information with any third parties. We are not in the business of selling your data. However, we may disclose information if we determine that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with the law.
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Wow, thanks for all the input! I might try Canary again and play them off against each other. I've ruled out Spark as I don't trust them for some reason...
 
So after two days of searching and coming up with nothing, does anyone have suggestions for a program that has the same visual look as Newton? For me, software starts with its look and then I look into the features. If I have to look at this all day I want something super minimalistic, clean, and refined. Not a bunch of icons on toolbars, two paned list on one side and message on the other. Basically I just want Newton lol....so who else makes Newton besides Newton?

I should add, I've tried (in the past and yesterday) Spark, Airmail, Postbox, Outlook, and probably just about most other ones. They basically all recreate the same visual layout and that's the one thing Newton did differently that made it work for me.
 
randomplaydo said:
So after two days of searching and coming up with nothing, does anyone have suggestions for a program that has the same visual look as Newton? For me, software starts with its look and then I look into the features. If I have to look at this all day I want something super minimalistic, clean, and refined. Not a bunch of icons on toolbars, two paned list on one side and message on the other. Basically I just want Newton lol....so who else makes Newton besides Newton?

I should add, I've tried (in the past and yesterday) Spark, Airmail, Postbox, Outlook, and probably just about most other ones. They basically all recreate the same visual layout and that's the one thing Newton did differently that made it work for me.
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There is no Newton clone. If there were, we would probably be using it, if it had the same features.

I am really going to miss Newton.

If you want minimalist with power, take a look at Canary.
 
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randomplaydo said:
So after two days of searching and coming up with nothing, does anyone have suggestions for a program that has the same visual look as Newton? For me, software starts with its look and then I look into the features. If I have to look at this all day I want something super minimalistic, clean, and refined. Not a bunch of icons on toolbars, two paned list on one side and message on the other. Basically I just want Newton lol....so who else makes Newton besides Newton?

I should add, I've tried (in the past and yesterday) Spark, Airmail, Postbox, Outlook, and probably just about most other ones. They basically all recreate the same visual layout and that's the one thing Newton did differently that made it work for me.
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After a quick check, I went with Canary. It’s a little more cluttered than Newton, but has everything I wanted, and although I haven’t figured out how to see my read receipts, I know it has them somewhere. :D

The only thing I seem to be missing is that Newton used a little color tab on the far left of each email that showed which account the email belonged to....easy to see when in the unified inbox.
 
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dcpmark said:
After a quick check, I went with Canary. It’s a little more cluttered than Newton, but has everything I wanted, and although I haven’t figured out how to see my read receipts, I know it has them somewhere. :D

The only thing I seem to be missing is that Newton used a little color tab on the far left of each email that showed which account the email belonged to....easy to see when in the unified inbox.
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The read receipt for Mac comes from the right side of the upper corner of the screen, just like a MacRumors Forum "new story" notification does.

The read receipt (two blue checkmarks side by side) for iOS will show at the top of the current window you are in (i.e. accounts view) for about 5 seconds and then disappears.
 
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Pardon my ignorance, but this unified inbox, does it differ from what Apple mail provides? I mean, in Apple mail I see mail from all accounts together in one inbox.
 
My work email is only available to me via Exchange ActiveSync. After a tonne of research, Newton is the only OS X email client to support this (yes, it's widely supported on iOS). Not sure what I'm going to do now (and no, entering into a dialogue with IT isn't an option). Any suggestions?
 
Checked out Canary but it was a little cluttered feeling for me. I'm doing a trial now of Polymail and so far I'm liking it. It's not the same layout, but it's still cleaner and more minimalistic than most triple pane email clients. Plus I'm really digging the contact profile that it digs up on each person along with the entire list of all attachments sent, organized by date. So far that's actually saved me time just from not having to scroll through a threaded list opening each message with the little paperclip next to it. I'll see what the stripped down free version looks like after the trial, but so far it's looking like a winner...
 
It's hard to survive when you have a lot of free competitors. But, honestly, it was too expensive. I prefer Spark. It's free and has some cool features like smart inbox and smart notifications. And I like sharing drafts with my colleagues to discuss emails together. It really saves time.
 
Loved Newton, extremely powerful and clean. I have been trying others with the same functions, Airmail and Polymail. So far, leaning to Polymail, price is more, but super clean and fast.
 
monkeymedia said:
Loved Newton, extremely powerful and clean. I have been trying others with the same functions, Airmail and Polymail. So far, leaning to Polymail, price is more, but super clean and fast.
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I find Airmail much smoother and faster, but then again I am beta testing 1.9 lol
 
doc james said:
My work email is only available to me via Exchange ActiveSync. After a tonne of research, Newton is the only OS X email client to support this (yes, it's widely supported on iOS). Not sure what I'm going to do now (and no, entering into a dialogue with IT isn't an option). Any suggestions?
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This is my main reason I used Newton (and CouldMagic previously). I have not found any replacement that can actually do this properly. Microsoft only licenses ActiveSync to mobile client, but somehow Newton got this functionality.

Somewhat related, Windows 10 built-in mail client also supports ActiveSync but nothing else does.
 
kofman13 said:
im legit on the verge of tears. ive been using newton for the last year and it has been the best email client ive ever used and hit every checkbox for me and had features i cant live without now. this is so sad. does anyone have alternative recommendations? Features from Newton that i need for alternative would be:
1. separate read receipts for each recipient in an email thread and number of times they opened( and what device they read from and device location)
2. mail snoozing that would make it "new" in the inbox at a later time
3. "send later" email scheduling.
4. unified inbox for multiple accounts
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You can try Spark developed by our team at Readdle. It works on macOS and iOS, and an Android version comes soon.

We want to build the best email client for business, and we already have millions of users. Spark has most of the features you're talking about. You can snooze emails or schedule them to be sent later, and our smart inbox works with multiple accounts. There are also some cool features for team collaboration: share drafts and links to emails, discuss and create emails with your team.

As for separate read receipts, it's a great idea, and we should definitely think about adding this feature!
 
MHenyk said:
You can try Spark developed by our team at Readdle. It works on macOS and iOS, and an Android version comes soon.

We want to build the best email client for business, and we already have millions of users. Spark has most of the features you're talking about. You can snooze emails or schedule them to be sent later, and our smart inbox works with multiple accounts. There are also some cool features for team collaboration: share drafts and links to emails, discuss and create emails with your team.

As for separate read receipts, it's a great idea, and we should definitely think about adding this feature!
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The beta currently has read receipts enabled, does that not include separate ones?
 
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