Native MacOS Email Client
Users want the ability to adjust the font size within ByteMail, or at minimum use standard Cmd + and Cmd - zoom shortcuts to scale the interface. This would improve readability and accessibility for users with different visual needs or display preferences.
A full German translation of ByteMail for Mac and iPhone: menus, settings, onboarding, notifications and help text. The app follows your system language automatically, and dates, times and numbers use German formatting.
A full Spanish translation of ByteMail for Mac and iPhone: menus, settings, onboarding, notifications and help text. The app follows your system language automatically, and dates, times and numbers use Spanish formatting.
Get notified on your iPhone the moment new mail arrives, even when ByteMail is closed or the phone is locked, instead of only seeing it after the app refreshes. Notifications show sender and subject with quick actions (Archive, Mark as Read, Reply), respect per-account and VIP settings, and keep the app badge in sync. Built privacy-first: no message content is stored on our servers.
Allow users to assign a custom icon or emoji to each label filter in the sidebar, similar to Gmail's label personalization. This would make labels easier to scan and visually distinguish at a glance.
A built-in MCP server lets Claude, Cursor and other AI apps search, summarise and triage your mail across every IMAP account, all on your Mac and working even when ByteMail is closed. Agents can draft replies, archive, flag and snooze. Sending always waits for your approval inside ByteMail, and every agent action is logged with Undo. One-time codes and reset links are hidden by default, and setup is a copy-paste snippet in Settings › Agents.
ByteMail is coming to iPhone, with the same conversation-style inbox built for touch. It can pick up the accounts you already use on your Mac through iCloud, and one licence covers both iPhone and Mac.
The left sidebar always opens expanded when ByteMail is launched, even if the user collapsed it before quitting the app. The application does not remember the previous sidebar state, forcing users to recollapse it every session.
Settings › General › Show inbox tabs can hide All, Primary, Updates and Promos, and the unread-only filter button now sits beside search in every folder and label, Flagged and To Reply. Shipped in 1.4.16.
Signatures and lines like "Sent from my iPhone" tuck under the ••• button with the quoted history, whichever app the sender uses. Replies from Canary no longer repeat the previous message. Shipped in 1.3.0.
Activate with a key or an emailed link, restore with a code sent to your purchase address, and use it on up to 3 Macs. Licences are signed and work offline. Shipped in 0.6.
Accounts, signatures, templates, rules and settings stay the same on all your Macs. Mail and passwords never leave each Mac. Shipped in 1.2.0.
Conversation summaries and suggested replies can be switched off separately in Settings › General. Shipped in 1.2.0.
Hover a sender's name for their address, copy it from the menu, or show addresses right in the list. Shipped in 1.2.0.
Send Again (⇧⌘D) opens any sent message as a new one with the same recipients, text and attachments. Shipped in 1.2.0.
Format your signature with the rich editor, or paste or import your own HTML, with a live preview of what recipients see. Shipped in 1.2.0.
Pressing ⌫ or Delete asks first; deleting from Trash removes mail for good. Turn the prompt off with "Don't ask again" and back on in Settings › General. Shipped in 1.2.0.
The Add Account screen has its own close button, and Esc closes the account picker. Shipped in 1.1.0.
Activation links from the purchase email bring bytemail to the front and finish activating instead of leaving the browser on top. Shipped in 1.1.0.
Settings › Licence shows your plan, trial end or renewal date, and Manage Subscription to update your card, switch plans or cancel. Shipped in 1.1.0.
Start a 7-day free trial from the app, then choose monthly or yearly, or a one-time lifetime licence. Checkout opens in the browser and bytemail activates itself when payment completes. Shipped in 1.1.0.
Signing in with Microsoft finishes on a bytemail page in the browser with clear signed-in, cancelled and failed states. Shipped in 0.6.
The setup screen fills in Google's servers and links straight to the page where you create an app password. Labels, archiving and permanent delete work as before. Shipped in 0.6.
bytemail checks for new versions in the background and installs them for you. Shipped in 0.6.
Settings › General › Inbox › Open to: the tab you used last, All, Primary, Updates or Promos. Shipped in 1.3.0.
The right-click menu on a message shows keyboard shortcuts beside Reply, Forward, Archive, Mute and the rest. Shipped in 1.3.0.
Choose Chat or Classic per account in Settings › Accounts › Conversations. Classic shows every message whole, one under another, with sender, recipients, time and signatures where the sender put them. Shipped in 1.4.0.
Aa › Write in Markdown, or make it the default in Settings › General › Composing. Syntax is coloured as you type and mail goes out formatted. Shipped in 1.4.0.
A link button beside B, I and U, or Aa › Add Link…, to add, change or remove links. Shipped in 1.4.0.
Results stay in the list, best first, navigable with ↑↓, J and K; Esc goes back. ⌘K focuses search even when a system-wide shortcut also uses ⌘K. Shipped in 1.4.0.
Drag to resize the sidebar, message list and reply box (double-click resets). Sidebar sections open by default, long swipes add a second action, and pictures in the list can be hidden. Shipped in 1.4.0.
System window colours, text and borders in Light and Dark; buttons and selection follow your accent colour or one picked in Settings. On macOS Tahoe every panel shares the sidebar's glass edge. Shipped in 1.4.0.
All inboxes has Inbox, Sent, Spam and Trash across every account; Empty spam clears all accounts, and dropped conversations move into their own account's folder. Shipped in 1.4.0.
Pictures pasted into messages show where the sender put them, including from Apple Mail and Outlook, and are no longer repeated as image.png attachments. Shipped in 1.4.0.
⌘J opens the ⋯ More actions menu for the current conversation; pick with arrow keys and Return. Shipped in 1.4.0.
Gmail signatures placed below the quoted history now fold away. Shipped in 1.4.0.
Vietnamese and other accented subjects and names no longer show as garbled characters. Shipped in 1.4.0.
Microsoft 365 accounts whose sign-in name differs from their email address now connect. Shipped in 1.4.0.
Check for Updates always answers and offers to restart once an update is ready. Shipped in 1.4.0.
One inbox for every account, with account-coloured avatar rings and per-account unread counts. Shipped in 0.2.
Newsletters and receipts keep their own light card in the dark so they look the way the sender built them. Shipped in 0.3.
Send-as aliases, each with its own signature and Reply-To. Shipped in 0.4.
Rules file new mail as it arrives, with "Create Rule from This Sender…". Shipped in 0.4.
"Remind me if no reply" brings a conversation back if nobody answers. Shipped in 0.4.
An invite card with Accept, Maybe and Decline, and Add to Calendar. Shipped in 0.4.
One-click unsubscribe from mailing lists, plus Settings › Subscriptions to review every sender. Shipped in 0.4.
Tracking pixels are stripped from every message and tracking parameters removed from opened links; a shield in the header shows what was blocked. Shipped in 0.4.
Messages wait 5–30 seconds before leaving, with an Undo button and ⌘Z. Archive, trash, spam and move can be undone too. Shipped in 0.4.
Tables in designed mail size their columns correctly, no more headings stacked one letter per line. Shipped in 0.3.
Opening a conversation lands on the top of its newest message, so long updates read from the first line. Shipped in 0.3.
Replies that arrive out of order or skip the first message join the right conversation instead of starting a new one. Shipped in 0.5.
A dark appearance across the whole app in Settings › General: System, Light or Dark. System follows your Mac. Shipped in 0.3.
Designed HTML mail is rendered as sent, with scripts off and remote images blocked until you load them. Shipped in 0.2.
Rich-text compose, attachments, drafts autosaved locally and mirrored to the account's Drafts folder, and a signature per account. Shipped in 0.2.
Snooze and Send Later, with an optional background helper that keeps both working while the app is closed. Shipped in 0.2.
Search every account and folder, indexed on your Mac, with from:, subject:, file: and has:attachment. Shipped in 0.2.
Push mail over IMAP IDLE, native notifications and a Dock badge. Shipped in 0.2.
Sign in with Google or Microsoft in the browser; iCloud, Yahoo and any IMAP server with an app password. Credentials live in the macOS Keychain. Shipped in 0.2.
Accounts and folders, message list, and a threaded reading pane with the reply field docked underneath. Shipped in 0.2.
Reply All and Forward, flags with a Flagged mailbox, move to any folder, multi-select with bulk actions, and message templates. Shipped in 0.4.
Plain web and email addresses in designed mail are clickable, and previews no longer show stray Markdown headings. Shipped in 0.5.
Click a sender's name or "to me" for from, reply-to, to, cc, mailed-by and signed-by; every address can be copied, and the ••• menu has Copy Sender Address. Shipped in 0.5.
Five starter templates in Settings › Templates. Shipped in 0.5.
Quoted history and signatures are hidden more reliably, including replies from Fastmail. Shipped in 0.5.
Message text can be selected by dragging; the window moves by its top bars. Shipped in 0.5.
Drafts, Sent, Archive, Spam and Trash are read in every account, and mail from other accounts no longer shows as yours. Shipped in 0.5.
Spam opens as plain text with Not Spam and Delete, and "Empty spam now" permanently deletes it, Gmail included. Shipped in 0.5.
Reply inline, Mark as Read, Archive and Delete from the notification without bringing the app forward. Shipped in 0.5.
Two-finger swipe to Read, Flag, Snooze, Archive or Trash, configurable per side in Settings › General › Swipe. Shipped in 0.5.
Learns your usual length, greeting and sign-off from Sent mail, on your Mac; Settings › General shows what was learned and can forget it. Shipped in 0.5.
One bold line per row, aligned senders, quieter chips and steadier times. Shipped in 0.5.
On macOS 26 with Apple Intelligence: thread summaries, suggested replies and Rewrite (Shorten, Friendlier, More Formal, Fix Grammar, Translate), all on-device. Shipped in 0.5.
A smart mailbox of conversations waiting on your answer, with a Needs reply chip on each row. Shipped in 0.5.
Sender verification (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), look-alike domains, brand impersonation and deceptive links, with Report as Spam, Block Sender and It's Safe. Shipped in 0.5.
Copy Code on the new-mail banner, a copy chip on the row and a card in the thread; magic sign-in links get Open Link, and used codes can be archived automatically. Shipped in 0.5.
Quick Look, open, save and drag-out for attachments; print or save a conversation as PDF; mute conversations and block senders. Shipped in 0.4.
Move a sender to Primary, Updates or Promos and their mail follows. Shipped in 0.4.
