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Boxy - Inbox by Gmail, finally on your Mac

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Boxy is the best Inbox by Gmail client for Mac, with a sleek and polished interace, and many native features like Push Notifications, Reader Mode and Markdown Support.

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Does anyone know if this is a native app or wrapped in electron
Maker
Not native, it's a WKWebView (if you are into that sort of thing). Electron looks very interesting, but was overkill for our needs 👍🏻
Maker
we made a wrapper for Inbox, then we made a custom CSS that in the 1.0 version of Boxy has more than 200 custom rules. Then there's notifications, dock icon badge, menu bar icon, dark theme, mailto: links handling and other features that we think make this app much more than a "wrapper"
Nice, it's good enough for me.
I like this a lot. Any plans for unified inbox?
Maker
we can't support it until Inbox itself does it, but we read in a Reddit AMA that it might be in the works, so let's hope it happens soon!
Combined Inbox. Please! This switching accounts doesn't work for me :(
Love it! One thing is that spell-check doesn't seem to work for me. This is pretty critical for me but I imagine a fix for this is fairly straightforward.
Maker
you can enable it this way 😎 (should be enabled by default though, we will fix this)
That's easy! Thanks.
Awesome app, thanks a lot! Can you share a bit of the roadmap ahead? Also, like others mentioned, not a big fan of the compose button. I also think the messages could use a bit less dark border.
Maker
thanks for your thoughts Robert. On the top of our list is better multiple accounts handling. We want it to be faster and smoother. Also, we're working on a dedicated compose window, better settings and many little things that will make the app much friendlier. Also, there will be 2 or 3 major features that we're not disclosing yet, but we're really excited about.
Cool, thanks for filling the gap of horrible mail apps!
Are there advantages to Boxy over running Inbox through Mailplane with "Redirect Gmail to inbox.google.com" checked? Other than the $20 less it costs, I guess? --which is admittedly a pretty big advantage for people who don't already own Mailplane.
Maker
we're committed to make Boxy the best way to use Inbox on the Mac, and not anything else. That also means that whatever changes Google makes to Inbox, we'll be there to quickly follow them and adjust consequently. Also, we're already working at different features that we think Inbox users are going to love. Hope this is enough, but Mailplane is certainly a great app and we think highly of their work!
Hunter
A year ago I wrote about . I'm really happy that those instructions are now largely obsolete with the advent of Boxy. I've been using it for over a week now and really love it — I feel about as good about Boxy as I used to about Mailplane!
Just bought it and DAMN, this is so much faster than using the Inbox website. Is there a way I can put a max width on the email container? Maybe there can be a setting in the future to add a gutter on the right and left side so there's some padding between the right edge of the app and the sidebar? Current: Sidebar | email-list | Proposed: Sidebar | email-list | Love this!
Maker
thanks Aaron! Can you write in more detail what you're proposing here That would really help!
Hey Fabrizio, sorry about that. I realized my comment didn't retain its formatting. Here's a quick mockup on the margining I think could be useful as a setting: +
rinaldi Definitely in agreement with this one! Max width on the list container would be nice.
Just bought your product and I rarely buy apps for mac =D. Looking good so far. I was "previously" using mailbox & ginbox (also a inbox wrapper, but open source), but your multiple account feature won me over. My only request is for notifications to work similar to the Google Inbox app on iphone, it would be awesome if boxy could notify me when i have a new email in any of my accounts that I have logged into in Boxy, not only in the one that is currently open. (maybe it does and I just haven't noticed it working in time)
Maker
thanks Michael! Better notifications is on our list, and receiving notifications for every account would be awesome. Realistically, this is something that could make it to version 1.2 though, so you'll need to wait a bit
It seems like I can't download files attached to emails via Boxy, is this something you are aware of or is did I miss something?
Maker
clicking the download button should open your default browser and start the download. We're working to integrate a downloader in the app itself.
Being using this for a few hours now. Really fits into my workflow well. Really great work and 🤘
Maker
Thanks, it feels so good to be finally releasing Boxy into the world :) glad you like it
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