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Thanks to Mailplane, Gmail can replace your desktop email client

5thirtyone.com — Mailplane integrates your Gmail account with a handful of applications including iPhoto, Firefox, Safari, and Address Book among others acting as your default email solution. Rest at ease knowing that your desktop email client + POP3 account is no longer a requirement for enjoying a seamless email experience on OS X.

Who dugg this? Made popular Apr 16, 2007

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  • larley, on 10/12/2007, -5/+38Damned blogspam.
    Just go to http://mailplaneapp.com/
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24Instead of linking to a blog that crashed, the app is here: http://mailplaneapp.com/
  • Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15video made me nauseous.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I get a kick how everyone cheers something. THEN when it get's "too big"...Its a MONOPOLY !!!

    Do you know what a monoply is (besides a game)?
    Do you really think Google is a monopoly?

    Move along...nothing to see here.
  • BenBenMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"I think it's a mailplane."
    "How can you tell?"
    "Well, didn't you notice its little balls?"

    I can't wait for the two people who can pick up the obscure eighties movie reference to digg my comment!
  • OneManArmy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Link to video of the App demo http://5thirtyone.com/sandbox/video/mailplane-video-demo.mov

    Looks pretty slick.
  • cplusplus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Its not "blogspam" if a blogger adds something useful. Generally I'd rather read a short writeup a product rather than just going to the site for a product -- which will of course, try to get you signup, say its great, etc.
  • isdereks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Sometimes I forget I'm browsing items tagged 'Apple'.
  • wacka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Anybody know of something like this for Windows? I can't afford a Mac right now and would love to be able to run this app.
  • caliform, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I think this is very interesting. I've seen Gmail-only browsers before, but making something that actually functionally outdoes Mail (and is quite fast for me) is great, and a certain novel development. I'm keeping my eyes on this one.
  • iDiggIt42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Hey buddy, there's a "reply" button for a reason. Why don't you try it out sometime?
  • motthew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Obscure?! The Three Amigos is a classic!
  • kagayaki1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"Mailplane can replace your desktop app"

    One reason it won't: it costs money. When there are so many free options, I think donationware would be a better model. Mailplane is a great app (I've been beta testing it), but just not worth much $$$.
  • cinnix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Blogspam, aka Re-Blogging, is where an author writes a catchy headline, and links to external content. Sometimes there is a small description about the linked content but nothing more. Writing some thoughts and opinions, as well as linking to the source, without writing for the sole purpose of generating ad-revenue without writing anything original in relation to the subject, IS NOT BLOGSPAM.
  • mikewhalley, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Well I feel sick now after watching that video.

    Nice looking app though, and I'm sure it'll be a hit for all those people who keep a browser open just to read their emails!
  • jlunski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The 3 Amigos?
  • drwurm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8The video linked above is dead. YouTube it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNMeWEBIfDI
  • V1ncent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I find the whole "replace your desktop email client" theories to be 100% silly. The advantages of having copies of all emails LOCAL without having to be online just don't make wanting emails online only to make any sense. Even with broadband always on connections becoming more prevalent there are tons of advantages to having copies on local machines. The desktop email client will never go away.
  • bradleyland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Well, not exactly like this, but if you get the Gmail Notifier for PC, you can associate mailto: links with Gmail.

    http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/notifier_windows.html

    On Windows, apps will obey the mailto: directive, so you should be able to use all the "send via email" functions with Gmail this way.
  • Sethwm2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yes Yes this is what I wanted. This should be built into Google desktop and the Google indexing should be removed because Spotlight is a very useful tool that works just fine for that purpose. I have also seen a way to make Spotlight Index more.
  • isdereks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Media Temple is doing what they can to revive the site. MT DV..
  • isdereks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Sorry for the nauseating video. The beginner screencaster / video editor in me is showing. I need a few lessons in both areas.
  • artiswork, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Great detail on all the options out there. I've been eagerly awaiting mailplane. Can't wait.
  • diggn_it, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Its not exactly the same, but you can use Thunderbird (or really any desktop mail client) to get your gmail thanks to its POP3 and the fact that gmail will archive all the mail that you have read on your desktop client. You just have to set up a filter to make sure that sure that all the mail you send doesn't end it up in your Thunderbird inbox a moment later. I personally really like Thunderbird because it doubles as my rss reader and its nice to get almost all my information in one place. Honestly, I'm not sure if I'd switch to this for just that reason.
  • ploke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4do you know what it will cost? I would be willing to buy it if it was cheap
  • davidpeele, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This looks nice.
    I love the way Gmail works.
    I like the way it threads the messages and the whole layout. -but- I need local storage of my mail.

    I have a slow connection and am often without a connection.
    Mail.app works nice for me but I wish it looked and worked just like Gmail.

    Does anyone know of any app that mimics the Gmail site but stores messages locally and works offline? Thats my dream app.
  • isdereks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Not sure how using Mailplane would violate anything. Advertisements are still served as usual.
  • isdereks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Asleep by The Album Leaf.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is what I have been looking for! Apple has great design and interface of their applications, but they don't integrate with popular web portals so I don't use any of them. What is the point of having a calendar at home that you can not update at work? Who will pay $100 for .mac when free solutions are superior? When will apple wake up?

    Another request that would really make this a killer app is to have address book syncing with your GMail contacts. If that happens, then I'm sold. Just like everything else, you need your contacts wherever you go.
  • GopherChucks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The thing I like the most about this, when you used Mail.app to view your gmail contents, it didn't necessarily update the status of the message outside of Mail. I'd always have "Unread mail" when I checked gmail away from my computer, but it was actually stuff that was quite old. A minor annoyance, but enough to make me try this app, for sure.
  • balloot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I don't get it. I use Mail.app and receive my GMail perfectly well through POP. Why do I need this again?
  • JaYBrooks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Thats what I thought of immediately... I was wondering why the author didn't bring it up... said something about wanting to fly... maybe there aren't any little balls....
  • ilgaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I am against uploading/offloading all my mail to a 3rd party company for stinky pop3 and some gigabytes of space which I will never use.

    I assume most of the people are against the concept and perhaps old fashioned to care about their private data. It is nothing against application.

  • bobcorrigan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is a very tidy piece of integration. It fits my desired use-case perfectly. It's blurring the lines between what is "on" the Mac and what is "elsewhere". Almost makes you think that you can bottle the Mac "experience" and apply it to non-Mac applications - and make it work.
  • jsandman32, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That is exactly what I was thinking through out. I honestly am not trying to be a jerk, but I don't see the benefit of switching to this from Gmail+mail.app

    If there is a benefit, that I'm overlooking please let me know.
  • dalesmatrix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3right, hadn't thought about the lack of label support in Mail.app. It certainly is handy being bale to flag things with multiple labels. Although the ability to search email(both using gmail and spotlight) make it less important for me personally these days.
  • Prinkster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Does anyone know what the music that plays in the background of that video is?
  • joshpar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Too bad it doesn't work offline like Mail.app does. With Mail, I can read and even prepare to send messages offline, and they are ready to go once I'm online again.

  • Rodzirra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is exactly what I wanted, and way more. Could Mailplane, in any way, violate my user agreement with Google?
  • apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Oh BTW I will soon be releasing a FREE product like this only it will do mail, calendars, gtalk and docs all in 1 interface. It will minimize down to the system tray / notification area and will notify you of new calendar appointments, emails, chats, etc. It will handle multiple accounts, including google hosted accounts. Will be available for windows, mac and linux. Stay tuned! apotropaics@gmail.com if you have any suggestions for it.
  • 8177, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3What wrong with one company owning an entire market if it continues to be innovative and free.

    There is nothing wrong with a monopoly until it loses said creativity or freeness(is this a word?).
  • SuperSunny, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4You guys started it, not me. I can complain for the same reason when people post Windows Apps. This is a Mac App. Making it one doesn't make it bad, it just makes it not for you.

    Grow up.
  • mmeiser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Mailplane seems to solve the problem inherent in POP and IMAPI protocols. Which is to say no pop or imap applications support gmail labels... or to put it more plainly... they only support hiearchical... ancient, lame, folders... and we need some new protocol for server side / client side interaction for mail that supports tags / labels on emails. Mailplane looks awesome and is a novel solution to this problem, but it of course does not address the problem itself. I do hope however it will lead us further down the path to addressing this issue.

    Frankly, I'm extremely excited about this app. Gmail has some fundamental workflow issues... primarily that it's got to linear a workflow... most people scan an entire hopepage, front page, inbox... and then slecect one or more items to read... the do not scan, read an email, scan, read an email, scan read an email. In a normal email client or while visiting a normal homepage they'd scan and select several emails by command clicking to open them in new tabs or open them in new windows... the ajax version of gmail is to rigid... I've spent the last year using the HTML version of gmail ( http://mail.google.com/mail/h/ ) 90% of the time to get around the issue. Hopefully MailPlane will solve this issue allowing people to open multiple emails at once in seperate windows easily right from the inbox.
  • winnopeg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Blogspam? As if. The article does a hell of a lot more than just linking to Mailplane's site.
  • antipasta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm running mailplane right now, and after clicking a few links in gmail and attaching a photo MailPlane is using 41mb of ram. By contrast gmail notifier is using 8...

    I like the app, but I think the ram hit of running the equivalent of 2 separate web browsers at the same time is a major resource hit.
  • dalesmatrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I might be confused, but how would this be better than using Mail.app. Gmail allows pop3 access via mail.app and sending of mails (which appear in your gmail sent box). Via Mail.app you get all the iPhoto integration, drag 'n drop etc, so what is the advantage to this? A genuine question, not trying to flame.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I prefer it because of:
    -gmail tags
    -gmail search
    -if you access your mail from another computer via a normal browser you can tag, mark as read whatever

    and i don't like the mail.app so this is perfect for me
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Why would it? Its just a modified browser??
  • dalesmatrix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The app itself is very slick looking though, guess I'll give it a go before judging it's usefulness.
  • charlietrotter, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I'm waiting for my beta invite with baited breath.
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