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Sparrow

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.

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Cost / License

  • Paid
  • Proprietary

Application type

Alerts

  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Mac  Mac OS X 10.6+
  • iPhone
Growl notifications
Multiple account
Sparrow alternatives  
Discontinued

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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Properties

  1.  Minimalistic

Features

  1. Growl icon  Growl integration
  2.  Gmail

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RobertRedford
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Sparrow looks pretty sweet. Unfortunately that's all. It's not usable when even standard like S/MIME are not supported. Fail. After the company has been acquired by Google it's the end of Sparrow probably anyway.

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

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OmgItsTheSmartGuy
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Sparrow's interface is neat and tidy, but I don't find it any more functional than Gmail's web interface, which is also quite straightforward. Plus, Sparrow is rather laggy when you're dealing with extremely large email conversations (think 100+ messages). I didn't even find any particularly noteworthy features in Sparrow. I might as well just stick to the Gmail website, if only to use Gmail Labs.

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

Review by a new / low-activity user.
extremeradical
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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.

What is Sparrow?

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.

Official Links

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Sparrow information

  • Developed by

    FR flagSparrow by Google

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.

  • Alternatives

    39 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Sparrow, and it has gotten 73 likes

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