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Sparrow

Sparrow is a minimalist mail application for Mac. Created by Sparrow by Google

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Sparrow is a minimalist mail application for Mac. It was designed to keep things simple and efficient. No fancy stuff here... just your mail and nothing else.

Sparrow supports all IMAP accounts, including: Gmail, Mobile Me, Yahoo, and custom IMAP. You can view mail from all of your accounts through the Unified Inbox.

Sparrow can also connect to your Facebook account and use Facebook friend pictures to help you quickly identify who's writing to you. More Info »

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Features

Growl integration Minimalistic Add a feature

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Office & Productivity

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Discontinued email-client gmail growl-integration minimalistic

Sparrow was added by oboxodo in Oct 2010 and the latest update was made in Nov 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Aug 2016 There is a history of all activites on Sparrow in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Sparrow or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Sparrow is discontinued. Find alternatives in the list below or click here for more info

Sparrow was acquired by Google back in 2012. In February 2015 Google removed Sparrow from both the Mac App Store and iOS App Store

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Sparrow Comments

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Simple and clean

Comment by AdamW

about Sparrow · Aug 2012 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Love Sparrow Mail on my Mac. Just hope they will continue development after being bought by Google.

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Comment by noeldiego

about Sparrow · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

The best email client i've ever used. Clean visual, easy to use and many (essencial) nice features.

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Comment by extremeradical

about Sparrow · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Sparrow does to email what Bean does for word processing. It's nice to look at, easy to use, and it doesn't have any unnecessary features. For fans of minimalism, this is the best email client you can get.

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