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In building a humanized email client, we wanted to acknowledge basic truths - like that many of us have more than one Gmail account (personal, school, work, etc). We wanted you to avoid having to sign in over and over every time you close your browser or restart your computer, and we wanted it to work all the time, flawlessly. Google has struggled to make this work well at all in the browser, where you frequently get signed out at random and generally have a poor experience. We spent months developing and refining a new technology that allows it to 'just work' work all the time, without sign-ins or typing or any extra effort on your part. USE YOUR EMAIL WITHOUT BEING BURIED BY IT A huge piece of what we wanted to do with Gmail for Mac was to radically simplify the effort and 'cognitive burden' of using your email. It's something we do all day long, all the time, and it should be as easy as breathing. We've made radical new ways - entirely unique to our client - for filtering out the noise of email alerts and unread counts that come at you all day long. We've also honed the user experience so that nearly everything you do constantly can be reached in a single click or gesture (navigating your email, writing a new message, opening your inbox, etc).
The new version of the Gmail app allows it to take full advantage of the larger bezel-free display of the iPhone X, doing away with the large black bars that Google has been slowly updating its iOS apps with iPhone X support and has thus far updated Gmail, Google Maps, and its productivity apps like.
This is the kind of iOS-like focus & simplicity that has liberated us all on mobile. We wanted to do that for email on the desktop. The guys behind Zive are Eric Shashoua and Ryan Shetley, but we've been joined by an amazing team of designers and developers who share the same idealistic dream of beautiful, simple, and obsessively designed software. We believed we could make a real difference in some of the tools people use most often by making them beautiful, seamless, and effortless on a level that’s encountered too seldomly outside of Apple. We wanted to build a company where the work itself mattered more to us than the bottom line or any traditional goal of business.
We wanted it to be human. Our team brings to Zive 10+ years of experience designing and developing software and consumer electronics, as well as developing for iOS and the Mac. As the former CEO / Co-Founder of Zeo, Inc., Eric raised $14M in venture funding and had a chance to work with the leaders of Bose and iRobot in learning how to design products that are truly focused on the user. Zeo’s products have been marketed and sold throughout the US and Europe, and have led to being called out to Cupertino in connection with being featured in Apple Stores. Ryan brings to our bold and scrappy team a novel approach to technology, where engineering effort is focused intensely on the user experience rather than the usual product development approach. The rest of our team consists of awesome and intensely passionate designers, a couple artists, and folks who've spent years developing for and falling madly in love with the Mac.
Disclaimer: Though we love Gmail and we love the Mac, Zive is not affiliated in any way with either Google nor Apple and is an independent third party. Gmail for Mac, by Zive, is a product made entirely by Zive, Inc. And no other company. We need your help! Where the funds go: We already have a polished alpha, but we've started this Kickstarter to get to launch.
What that means:. Beta testing phase before launch. OS X 10.10 Yosemite upgrade completion.
Possible Inbox by Google integration. Community to help us test, give feedback,. Well, we just think you guys would be awesome even if you do none of that. Marketing funding to help get the word out at launch So, we're after supporters, a few enthusiastic folks to help us beta test, and launch funding to help kick off the product launch. Please join us and become a part of our bold dream to elevate Gmail to a whole new level! For your support of us, we've lined up what we think would be really great rewards for anyone who joins on - starting with a copy of the full version of Gmail for Mac! Take a look at our rewards right on this page!
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And thank you for supporting Gmail for Mac, by Zive! Risks and challenges While most kickstarters launch with a concept or prototype, we feel that most of the risk in our project has already been mitigated by having moved far beyond that stage to an alpha version of Gmail for Mac, by Zive. Launch Timing: With any software development, there are potential risks in unforeseen variables causing delays in launch. While this is always a possibility, we don't expect this to play a significant role given the stage we're at. We have already made a tremendously detailed effort to create a streamlined and extremely reliable application. We feel confident that we could launch Gmail for Mac not long after the conclusion of our Kickstarter.
Experience: We've done this before successfully a few times over, and our team has extensive experience designing, building, and selling software through Apple's app and retail stores. This is the only project we are running, and has the undivided attention of our team.
Go for Gmail is the best and most powerful Gmail desktop client. It's perfect for quickly accessing your Gmail account without ever needing to open a web browser. The app is fully feature packed and built for speed and ease of use. Sticklen, I love this app. I have used Apple Mail for my mail client well forever. But with Sierra I am having more and more trouble with mail.
I am sure the Apple Mail problems will get worked out, but I went to try GO for GMAIL because I am so frustrated with Apple Mail currently. My business mail is all on GMAIL, but I have a personal email with some volume on Apple Mail. Of course, Apple Mail can access different types of mail accounts, including iCLOUD-based email and Google-based email.
I have found it up to now to be functional. But GO for GMAIL Is soooooo much faster, clearner, than Apple Mail that I am thinking seriously of looking to find a way to do all my email via this app. Two things stopping me: 1) not sure if there is an iOS app that is “like” this app (from the same company would be nice 2) (the biggie) I need this app to be able to connect to iCloud as well as Google. Might be a stretch to get Apple to approve that through the App Store Then again, Apple would themselves (and their loyal customers) a GoodThing if they would just buy the company that does GO for GMAIL, disassemble and understand it, then redo it from the ground up to handle multiple email server types.
(Unless the “company” is Google ) I like this app very much just wish that it could accept email feeds from the iCloud servers. Sticklen, I love this app. I have used Apple Mail for my mail client well forever. But with Sierra I am having more and more trouble with mail.
I am sure the Apple Mail problems will get worked out, but I went to try GO for GMAIL because I am so frustrated with Apple Mail currently. My business mail is all on GMAIL, but I have a personal email with some volume on Apple Mail. Of course, Apple Mail can access different types of mail accounts, including iCLOUD-based email and Google-based email. I have found it up to now to be functional. But GO for GMAIL Is soooooo much faster, clearner, than Apple Mail that I am thinking seriously of looking to find a way to do all my email via this app. Two things stopping me: 1) not sure if there is an iOS app that is “like” this app (from the same company would be nice 2) (the biggie) I need this app to be able to connect to iCloud as well as Google.
Might be a stretch to get Apple to approve that through the App Store Then again, Apple would themselves (and their loyal customers) a GoodThing if they would just buy the company that does GO for GMAIL, disassemble and understand it, then redo it from the ground up to handle multiple email server types. (Unless the “company” is Google ) I like this app very much just wish that it could accept email feeds from the iCloud servers. Midshipman1321, Great, just one thing I love using the Go for Gmail app because I have to stay on top of my emails all the time and it’s better to have a temporary window that can pop up when you need it versus having it always open in the browser tab.
The one thing I would suggest to make it better is to allow the tracking of more than one email. With the browser, I can sign into my business and university email and get notifications for both whenever one comes in.
With the Go for Gmail app, however, I have to switch back an forth manually between my emails and don’t get notifications for the other if I’m not opened to it but am signed in. If I don’t get notifications, I miss time sensitive events and deadlines.
Long story short, allow for notifications for more than one email. Otherwise, great work! Midshipman1321, Great, just one thing I love using the Go for Gmail app because I have to stay on top of my emails all the time and it’s better to have a temporary window that can pop up when you need it versus having it always open in the browser tab. The one thing I would suggest to make it better is to allow the tracking of more than one email. With the browser, I can sign into my business and university email and get notifications for both whenever one comes in. With the Go for Gmail app, however, I have to switch back an forth manually between my emails and don’t get notifications for the other if I’m not opened to it but am signed in. If I don’t get notifications, I miss time sensitive events and deadlines.
Long story short, allow for notifications for more than one email. Otherwise, great work! Keyboard Shortcutter, Great for desktop notifications, almost flawless as stand alone app I downloaded this app simply to get desktop notifications for Gmail. Gmail has a setting for that, but the notification does not make sound and disappears after a few seconds. I was surprised by the app interface and liked it a lot, but it had one small problem. Whenever you hit the “g” key it triggers the mac error tone.
This can get very annoying when you use the Gmail keyboard shortcuts as “g” is the key you use before navigating anywhere. I still use the app to send me notifications, but I continue to access Gmail through Safari. Love the app, and whenever the creators get around to fixing this bug, it will be pretty much flawless. Keyboard Shortcutter, Great for desktop notifications, almost flawless as stand alone app I downloaded this app simply to get desktop notifications for Gmail. Gmail has a setting for that, but the notification does not make sound and disappears after a few seconds. I was surprised by the app interface and liked it a lot, but it had one small problem. Whenever you hit the “g” key it triggers the mac error tone.
This can get very annoying when you use the Gmail keyboard shortcuts as “g” is the key you use before navigating anywhere. I still use the app to send me notifications, but I continue to access Gmail through Safari. Love the app, and whenever the creators get around to fixing this bug, it will be pretty much flawless.