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Boomerang for iPhone - Email app + voice assistant from inventors of email snooze

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Boomerang, the most-used extension for Gmail and Outlook, comes to the iPhone with its new email app! Use it for email, plus use your voice to get a morning briefing, reschedule meetings, find addresses and phone numbers, delete marketing email and more. Plus new gestures, new search features, and everything folks love from Boomerang on the web.

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ayemoah
Maker
Hi folks, Moah from Boomerang here. Pretty excited to share what we've been working on for the past year. Love to hear what you all think.
Tigran Hakobyan
@ayemoah You guys did it again! Congrats to Boomerand team :)
ayemoah
Maker
@tigranhakobian thank you!
Andreas Kambanis
This looks incredible! Huge applause to the team who put it together! One request: When I open the app and signup, I see I have over 4,000 unread emails. That's due to the promotions/social tab in Gmail which I barely ever check. When you get support in there for those tabs this will be a real winner.
ayemoah
Maker
@andreaskam Hi Andreas, you're right. The Gmail tabs is one of the next features we're adding in the upcoming releases. Thanks for trying it out.
Christopher Nolte
@andreaskam agreed, can't really use it as a main email app before then because the notifications and counter are off. Will still use it for the oldschool boomerang features though :). Also, would be great to get the briefing without voice commands, especially since it often doesn't recognize any of my words (i'm on 8 Plus).
Alex Moore
Maker
@andreaskam @chris_nolte Try 3D touching the app icon; you might like what you see!
Tom Pryor
@ayemoah Super. Until then I can’t use either
Konstantinos Asim
First impression is good! I am keen to try out the AI assistant. Though as with other apps I cannot migrate from the official iOS Gmail app since there is no support for the "Send from" feature. I have multiple Gmail addresses (personal & business)that I manage through one personal Gmail account, simply by choosing from which connected email address I want to send an email from. Hope you will consider adding this functionality in the feature :)
ayemoah
Maker
@k_onstantinos Hi there, we do have send from/alias support. It's in Settings > Account Settings > Send From Address. Let me know if you're having trouble hooking up your send from addresses.
Stephen Lubin

They can release for the iPhone but I still can’t use it on Apple mail. I’m sad because I want it that badly because it’s that good.

Pros:

It’s an incredible and powerful tool

Cons:

It does not work with Apple mail. I’m completely integrated to the Apple ecosystem and I can’t use Boomerang

ayemoah
Maker
iCloud support is something we'd love to add soon.
Scott Fisher

I would like one place to go for unread emails for all accounts and for Brief Me too include info from all accounts.

Pros:

Pause, schedule and brief me

Cons:

Single interface for all accounts

ayemoah
Maker
Hi Scott. Thanks for your feedback! We are looking into Unified Inbox Support. It's especially tricky with Brief me for performance reasons but hopefully we can support it.
lbrkr
Great looking app only thing stopping me is lack of iCloud support. Will that be coming ?
ayemoah
Maker
@lbrkr We'd love to add iCloud support soon.
Tony Gambee

It would be a replacement for Gmail Inbox if it would match the segmentation of categories and only notify based on those segments. For example, I don't want a notification when I get a newsletter, but I do when it's a direct primary inbox item. I won't use as a daily driver until we get that unfortunately.

Pros:

slick interface, great management tool

Cons:

Does not match the gmail categories for primary/updates/promotional segmentation

ayemoah
Maker
Hi Tony, thanks for your feedback. We will be adding Gmail categories in an upcoming release. Hope you will try it again then. :)
Gregor Czubak
Do you plan an universal App?
Brian Hughes

I tried this product since the IOS 11 does not connect to Exchange Server 2016.

I was able to connect to the email server, but there is not a connection in the settings for the Calendar, nor does the AI work, as the only message I get is that it is not available for my account yet. So work out the bugs!

Pros:

Nice interface.

Cons:

Not quite what I was looking for.

Toby Statham

Can't really use it as my "go to" mail app until it supports Focused Inbox. At the moment it shows all my emails.

Pros:

Great UI, very polished

Cons:

Need focused inbox support for Office 365