Very nice, one big minus – Spark Mail + AI: Email Inbox Review

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.
Review by marchetype on Spark Mail + AI: Email Inbox.