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The Most Beautiful Email App for Mac

The Most Beautiful Email App for Mac

Could it reignite your love for email?

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Mar 06, 2021
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The Most Beautiful Email App for Mac
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I am sort of a minimalist. I am certainly a fan, advocate, and sucker for minimalistic design, and I love new apps and services that combine minimalistic aesthetics with great features. So in this short post, I want to talk about a new Mac app I just recently discovered.

What is it

This app is called Tempo and it is an email client for your Mac which at the moment only supports Gmail. But for many people that is exactly what they need. But I need to say one thing first: It’s not free. There was a free beta version until recently. Now it’s a paid app only, at a high 10€/month. But hear me out…

What it does

The email app Tempo is without any doubt the most minimalistic and purely designed email app I have ever used. It might actually be the most minimalistic app overall that I have ever used. And for a service that depends on reading and writing without many (or any) distractions that is exactly the right thing to do. You can focus on the important: your emails.

It is just so good. This simp…

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