Spark Mail

Finally, Spark 3 brings everything you want. I’ve tried countless email apps over the years: Canary, Edison, Airmail, Superhuman, Outlook, Apple Mail, Gmail. In 2025, Spark is by far the best. Simple, helpful, plenty of keyboard shortcuts. It helps me stay on top of email, without feeling overwhelmed. It’s well worth it. Particularly useful for those who like to work to Inbox Zero. Spark also has a similar command centre feature to Superhuman, which is a superpower. Do everything, fast. The best bit is you’re in total control over the features. No need to use AI if you don’t want to. It’s just fantastic. — Edit (17/03/2026): my inbox (Google Workspace) is constantly unable or incredibly slow to refresh. It’s getting very frustrating as I’m having to use my browser to actually use email – defeating the point of having an email client. Both on iOS and MacOS.

I feel very mixed about Spark Mail. Overall it is very good and worth trying. I have found a lot of the shortcuts for manging my inbox super helpful. The AI meeting transciption is great. All of the options for triaging mail in a todo list way has been great. It really had taken me from thousands of unread mails and saying “no” to “did you see that mail” to being on top of my email. That said, I don’t love the look and feel. It doesn’t quite fit in on the 26 OSes. It really needs a new coat of paint. It doesn’t feel like a native app. It feels like an electron app. Maybe it isn’t, I don’t know, but there’s just a 100 little papercuts that make it feel not great. It isn’t an ugly app by any means, but it doesn’t feel like an idiomatic Apple platform app. That said, if you have struggled to keep your email sane try it. If you are a pure function over form person then it may be amazing. I am still not sure how I feel about it. But definitely a capable app.

Nice email organization tool with small annoyances. The good: this has really helped me get my email under control. Searching tools are much better than the default mac email client. First annoyance: This app really isn’t not well integrated with setapp. The is the only app that doesn’t seem to be able to verify my setapp subscription, so I am unable to use things like integration with Things. Second annoyance: this is the only email client I use that constantly wants to reauthenticate with Windows 365 servers — this may be a Microsofy bug, but every other client I have used manages to work around this issue.