Spark Mail + AI: Email Inbox Reviews

No longer fetches

geolehman

A few days ago the app stopped fetching new messages. Useless if I don't know there are new messages. Tried restarting phone a couple times...no change. Back to the stock Mail app.

I am using this on my iPad and iPhone and I have Gmail accounts and an iCloud account. This app is great. Very little learning curve. Haven’t found any bugs. I hate the native iOS email app, the Gmail app doesn’t work well with iCloud, the other apps I tried were crap, except Outlook and I refuse to use Microsoft. Spark is free and no ads so I have no idea how they make money. It has all the features I liked in the Gmail app (snooze, schedule, etc) but the Spark smart inbox sorting feature works much better.

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pham@thucdac

Wonderful

Poor differentiation between read and unread emails

occasional downloader

Add my vote against the blue dots rather than boldface type to indicate unread emails. It’s much harder to notice the difference at a glance.

Great app but bug in snooze function on iOS

PrincipalEric

This app has helped me stay caught up on emails. Love it, but almost ready to leave it because the iOS app snooze function is untrustworthy. I may snooze an email to tomorrow but the app changes the snooze to “someday.” This causes me to forget about email I need to follow up with. Wish it was fixed. Haven’t had issues with the desktop Mac version.

So close!

DanRice92

I enjoy Spark a lot, but I was disappointed to find that my outlook.com email does not sync calendar events in the app. I really hate Gmail so I hope this is an option that will be added soon!

I live the app but room for improvement

Jojo9981

I started using this app months ago and I enjoy it. The only reason I gave 3 stars is because the notifications doesn’t always seem to be accurate, or just doesn’t refresh quickly. If I check emails and finish the number of emails will still be show as unread.

Doesn’t seem to work on an iPad

Zum123456789

I get a variety of error messages and Support seems nonexistent.

Very nice, one big minus

marchetype

Nice features and interface but such a storage hog. There are some great pluses to this email client compared to the stock iOS app, but also shortcomings. Whether it will work for you depends on how you weigh each one. The key benefits are: excellent navigation between emails; one-tap delete or archive; snoozing; good formatting; search by sender (a very useful feature but hidden too deep in menus); saved searches. The key drawbacks are: frequent problems connecting to servers, especially Yahoo mail; frequent need to re-login (especially Microsoft); frequent inability to load content: have to force quit and restart; doesn’t work well with links contained in emails (can’t preview URL, “Add to reading list” is not easy to find); no option to sort threads newest on top (!!!); other useful features made difficult to find; no control on quoting when replying. Notification bubbles no longer work (both my devices). When you’re in the app processing and reading or writing emails, every time a new email comes in you get a notification inside the app (not an iOS notification). There is no way to turn off those intrusive interruptions. Another annoyance: when the app identifies a potential event in an email received (“let’s meet at 3pm”) it will detect it and you can create a calendar item, but BY DEFAULT it will add all the message recipients and sender and then send them a meeting request! Another big drawback on smaller phones is that this app is a HUGE STORAGE HOG. The app itself is over 200 MB and my data currently sits at over 800 MB, plus a similar amount on iPad. With all mail on IMAP that shouldn’t be the case.

Outbox has disappeared; can’t edit scheduled emails

TPB, Esq.

After the most recent update, I’ve learned that I cannot create scheduled emails and then later edit those emails, a big feature for Spark in the past. Additionally, the app seems to crash far more frequently than before.

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