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Your mail, shaped by you, kept by you.
An email app that lives on your computer.
SmartMail sorts your mail into Spaces you describe in your own words, gives every message a lifespan, and keeps a searchable backup on a disk you own. There is no SmartMail server — your accounts, your AI, your device.
From one endless inbox to mail with a shape.
Codes, school notices, bank statements and the people you love all land in the same list — and stay there for years. SmartMail gives each kind of mail its place and its lifespan.
Standing still
- One inbox for everything, sorted only by date
- One-time codes and promotions kept forever
- Your only copy of your mail sits on someone else's server
- AI inboxes that copy your mail through their cloud
In rhythm
- Spaces you describe in plain words, shaped to their content
- Every message given a lifespan — and every step reversible
- A verified, searchable backup on a disk you choose
- Everything runs on your device; AI is optional and yours
Privacy as a consequence of the design.
Not a policy we ask you to trust — an architecture with nothing to leak.
On your device
No SmartMail server and no telemetry. Your mail sits in a local database and your passwords in the system keychain. We cannot shut down your mail.
Your AI, or none
A full product with no AI at all. Or connect your own Claude, Codex or Gemini subscription. Only minimal, scrubbed data is sent — and every call is written to a Privacy Ledger.
Nothing irreversible
Every move has an undo. Expiry happens in stages with a grace window. Automation only suggests until you choose to promote it.
Mail that keeps its own time.
Built for households, freelancers and anyone who wants their mail to be theirs again.
Spaces
People, School, Money, Codes, Documents, Reads — or your own. Each has a shape that fits: a ticker for codes, a ledger for money, a shelf for reading.
Rules in sentences
Say what belongs where, in plain words. SmartMail shows the rule back as a sentence; click "Not here" and it learns.
Lifecycle
A lifespan for every message — a day for codes, a month for deliveries, a season for school, forever for what matters.
Vault
A Time Machine for email. A verified copy of every message in open Maildir files on a disk you own, with fast local search.
Today & Agenda
A calm daily brief, with the actions, reminders and appointments found in your mail gathered in one list.
Essentials
Insurance, memberships, bank accounts and cards as cards — numbers, helplines, cover dates and a kept copy. Reminders a month before renewal.
Finance insights
Reads your password-protected bank and card statements on your device: spending, fees and interest, recurring payments and cash flow.
Trusted senders
Only statements from verified bank domains — or senders you mark as your bank — are opened and counted. Anything else waits for review.
Bulk sender moves
Select many senders, move them to a Space — even everyone at a domain — and take it all back with a single undo.
Set up in three beats.
Your mail never passes through us. It goes from your provider to your computer, and to your disk.
Add your accounts
Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud or any IMAP mailbox. Your password stays in your computer's keychain.
Describe your Spaces
Start with the defaults or write your own. Sorting begins as suggestions you confirm or correct.
Choose your Vault
Pick a disk for the backup. SmartMail writes and verifies a copy of every message as it syncs.
- Desktop
- macOS first
Windows and Linux to follow - Gmail · Yahoo · iCloud
Any IMAP / SMTP - AI (optional)
- Your own Claude, Codex or
Gemini subscription - Storage
- Local SQLite search
Open Maildir / EML backup
Mail that stays yours.
SmartMail is getting ready for its first public release. Leave your email and we'll tell you when it's ready.