Choose Someday and the email won’t have an assigned date, it’ll just stay in the Snoozed folder. By default you can snooze an email for later today (in three hours), tomorrow morning, next week or pick any date. It lets you deal with emails later on so that they reappear in your inbox when the timing is more appropriate. Like the now defunct Mailbox, Spark also has a snooze feature. By default, a left swipe lets you mark an item as unread or archive it (long left swipe) and a right swipe lets you delete or pin it (long right swipe.) So in just a few gestures I can clear through all my newsletters without even thinking about it. Spark has quick action gestures that are completely customizable in the Preferences. Plus, the emails come from all linked accounts. This alone dramatically saves me time as I can quickly click and swipe through emails this way. New, personal emails are at the top, followed by notifications, newsletters, your pinned read emails and the rest of your inbox. While traditional email clients just present all your new emails at once, Spark sorts through the new stuff and organizes them into cards.
Spark’s signature feature is its Smart Inbox.
Spark by Readdle (the makers of PDF Expert 5 and Scanner Pro) calls itself the “smart email client that solves a problem of an overwhelmed inbox.” In my one week of beta testing the Mac app plus about a year using the iOS app, I can declare it lives up to the mantra. At long last, my favorite mail app for iPhone and iPad has arrived on the Mac: Spark. It’s an improvement over the stock offering, but for the price it never felt like it reached its potential. The Mail app that comes preinstalled with macOS Sierra or earlier just doesn’t do it for me, and I’ve been using Airmail for a couple years too. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been desperately in need of a solid email client on my Mac for years.