Meet the all-new Spark - Smart. Focused. Email.
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Discover Spark - Smart. Focused. Email.
We are excited to launch the all-new Spark, redefining email so that you can focus on what’s important.
Here's what's new:
- New Smart Inbox
- Mark as Done
- Set Aside
- Home Screen
- Gatekeeper
- Priority Email
- Group by Sender
- Mute Threads
- Command Center
- Now available on Windows.
Discover Spark: sparkmailapp.com/
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instead of being more clear and easier to use, it becomes messy
The new features are cool and all, but not cool enough for me as a normal user to upgrade to premium especially with such high price point.
The one thing that really annoyed me is you introduce "Sent with Spark" tag line on free plan. I don't know if this meant to drive people to upgrade to premium or not but for me it just drives my decision to delete this app and find a new one.
The reason I choose Spark over Spike was Spark offer basic functions with no horrible marketing tactic but now it's gone.
Hi Austin!
Sorry for the delayed reply
Sent with Spark is a tagline that is placed under the Signature in composer and email and contains the link to the website where users can download Spark. It gives a viral effect and promotes Spark to get free registrations via the feature: when a recipient of the email sees the tagline with the link to the Spark website, he can download it and try it himself.
We considered this to be a small thing a free user can do to promote the new Spark. However, we collect all the feedback on this new feature, and our Product team may consider updating the logic for it in the future.
Also, those who used Spark before the Desktop version release can disable it for free.
don't like the new desktop app. Sticking with Spark 2. I hope you keep supporting it for many years not just the 1 year mentioned in the email
I’m sorry but offering up users advanced features for a subscription is perfectly acceptable but tossing in an advertisement for the app that each non subscribed user has to delete in every email is just malicious, especially at that price point.
Sure, lock it behind a small one time fee if need be but this approach is enough to drive me towards other email applications despite being a long term user and supporter of Spark.
Not sure why, but I only see the "sent by spark" on my ipad. Not on iphone or PC. Haven't upgraded the MacOS version yet.
Why just why that new design? The old one was perfect, people are focusing on the subscription but to me that's the new design that's gonna make me uninstall. You had a mail app that worked perfectly for someone with adhd and you fucked it up. Ugly ass design worse than gmail, sent with spark automatically added for free users and 70 euros per year subscription, yeah no that ain't it, good luck you're gonna need it.
as your longtime user i would love to pay for your app if there was a nice lifetime deal or a super price for 3-5 years ahead.
Thanks for the feedback! Sharing it with the team 🤓
@REaddle, for a private person you unfortunately completely missed the acceptable price point. I just installed the new version but when I saw how much you charge for the subscription, I immediately deleted the app. Asking 60$ per year (not included the taxes which in Europe means an additional cost of up to 27%) is simply crazy.
Existing individual users enjoy a lifetime discount of 30% on annual subscriptions, bringing the fee from $59.99 to $41.99 ($3.49 per month). Monthly access is priced at $7.99. Taxes are included
I'm OK with the free version, what's the problem
Absolutely agree!! I would have been happy to pay for this app if the price was reasonable. But £60 isn’t something I could ever justify, let alone at a time like this when everyone is having to cut costs and worry about putting food in the table and heating their homes. £30 a year would be much more reasonable and if the new services can’t be run at that price point then they aren’t viable and shouldn’t have been included. Please do better market research on such drastic changes to much loved apps in future.
@@EdKenUK Then use the free version, or use whatever client your mail provider gives you. If you're worried about putting food on the table, maybe which email client you use isn't as important.
@@Jebble347 I'd actually like to support the Devs is the thing, but I honestly feel that this price is more than the app is worth. I have no problem paying for an app/service I use all the time, but £60 a year just isn't worth it for this. At £30 I think they would have people subscribing but at £60, it's too much to ask. I appreciate that some features (large attachments) may come at a cost to opperate, but if you can't charge a fee the market will accept then that feature isn't feasible financially. I think Readle should have looked at whatbtheir users would be willing to pay and factor that in when developing this update.
The price is TOO HIGH for an email client... Not to mention that many free basic functions are withdrawn... I have been using Spark on every device for more than six years and recommended it to many of my friends and colleagues, but now it seems I need to find an alternative.
Great, another Electron app. No thanks.
what happened to the calendar tab?
This went from being the BEST to being like the rest. The OG App was great! Now it's subscriptions, a weird UI, not able to customize is as much as the OG APP, etc. Why would you change this drastically? Could have ported the OG App to the Windows, add some new features that are subscription and not ruin sucha. good blueprint.
I completely disagree. It used to be the exact same as all the others... a 3 column layout with minor variations in smart inbox functionality, etc. between various apps.
I've been dying for a good single column app to replace Newton and I'm stoked on this one. The traditional 3 column layout is still available in Spark 3 as well though.
The high price subscription model work very well for Newton.
Yes, that was 8 tons of sarcasm.
You are absolutely delusional if you think I am going to pay you $60 for access to my emails. Subscriptions models for apps have gone insane.
What was the price before?
There is still a free version. Don't have to pay
@@noisycarlos lol it’s cringe that you believe you got a “gotchu” moment.
A basic feature, such as blocking emails, has been requested by users for years. Readdles solution? They add it and put it behind a paywall.
I’m addition, they force a signature that you can’t disable permanently unless you subscribe.
@@greggchaffin1596 what do you mean? I'm genuinely asking. The website only has the current pricing and I've never used the service before, so i don't know what it used to cost.
@@noisycarlos It was a free application, with amazing features and amazing UI. Hence, great success since several years, lot of happy users that didn't want to pay another subscription. Don't know their business model.
Same stuff with their "Calendars" application, which was costing 8$ ("Calendar 5") and became subscription-based 1 (or maybe 2) years ago ("Calendars").
No warning, lots of feature hidden behind a paywall... Hence lots of users disappointed.
This is awful since the update, I’m looking for alternatives and clicked this video hoping it was another option
Dont destroy the design on the android app. Please. I am very comfortable with that. And now if you start throwing ads in the app then all the great things are ending unfortunately. It became another one email client. 3-4 years i was waiting for the windows app. 4 years and this is what i get. I just wanted the same app as in android just for windows. Just that nothing more and nothing less. Why you change the perfect just for the shake of change and obviously for money. 😭😭
A subscription-based freemium model for a simple, daily email app is such a disappointing step in the wrong direction. Greedy business decision trying to ride the Adobe/Microsoft/SaaS bandwagon - but the latter at least offers a wide suite of individual apps that are essential for professional use. Why would any user pay $5-10 per month just to read some emails when there are great FREE alternatives like Gmail and Thunderbird? Most enterprises who need advanced functions would just use Google Workspace or MS 365 for Business.
I suggest you terminate the stupid subscriptions, make Spark Premium a one-time, lifetime purchase around $30, and carry on.
Subscription is just overly eager to reach deeper into my well earned cash. Sorry but is just not the way to go.
Simply pathetic. I’ve loved this app for years. If your goal was to fill your pockets with greedy subscriptions that are way to high priced and make your loyal users go away … then congrats. Great job. 🎉
Dude, you don't need to pay, there still is a free version.
Oh dear. The new app doesn't offer anything of real value, it's assumed value. The interface makes awful use of screen space. It has completely overlooked that people have ways they like to organise their emails, and forced/assumed new ways on them. The assumed scheduling of when you'd like to look at your emails (athough get-roundable) is a presumptuous joke. What's also NOT reasonable at all is for the installer to have claims of reviews trust ratings which are clearly for the outgoing Spark, which is a completely different application! The use of electron doesn't bode well, Spark had already become a slow responding, slow to synchronise application - when Evernote moved to electron it brought those kinds of problems with it. Such a shame that Spark haven't come up with anything evolutionary that improves on the last version. The other thing many people are mentioning is the subscription cost - I think if Spark had fixed the outgoing version's problems some people would be up for paying, but for this? See the comments on this thread, they speak volumes.
I lasted a day or so with this new version, but really I knew it was a no-go after 5 minutes. It is now uninstalled.
If anyone is a MacOS user and are interested in a project that does look interesting as a fast email client (for google accounts only), take a look at Mimestream. It is in Beta but it looks really interesting and runs very quickly indeed!
True hard to recognize and read
Where is the calendar in the new SPARK ?
What a way to make me go back to Apple Mail! Subscription only? Really? I just don't understand what devs think these days! Listen, people are stuck with a bunch of subscription now. There's no room for more. Get it? You were the ones who saturated the market. Now it's up to us choosing which app we let go and which stays.
Same. Back to apple mail we go.
People seriously!? You can still use Spark 2 without a subscription 🤔 Or a free version of Spark 3! Or you can support developers with a subscription. Your choice.
@@juraj001 put a price tag. Any price. We will support the developers without blinking, just stop trying to suck money from our pockets like that!
Apple mail is “free” because you bought a U$ 700 smartphone that comes with it
And you pay couple dozen for iCloud, and then some more for other services…
I'm actually quite willing to pay for Spark products as I use it daily. But the upgrade does not seem to be better than the previous version... I just feel better with the previous side-by-side layout.
Hi there!
Can you please specify for us what features you miss in Spark Desktop?
@@ReaddleLive Just like the old one, you can see both the email list on the left and the email details on the right. But now I also have something else to recommend: integration with chatGPT APIs!
I hope an update will give an option to make the In-Box have a dark gray to black view; really like the feature just not the stark white background.
Dark Mode is already added!
Goodbye Spark. Expensive, cheapened experience, and nagging upgrades for long-time users. *Deleted* and Paid Air Mail $10 for their annual subscription. Time to get rid of all Readdle apps.
no reading pane and no calendar. total joke
The price is too high. Not gonna use it, whatever it can do.
It's not worth $60 a year for that kind of "convenience". I'll stick with Twobird.
You just lost a lot loyal customers, myself included.
I loved Spark and I do not like this update. The two pane inbox is gone so there's really no intelligent use of space anymore. Plus, unread messages are no longer sorted at the top. These, along with the unified inbox, were why I loved Spark. So now those features are gone, and you want me to pay for it?! SIKE.
Sadly I have to use Newton with this to get the Read Receipts. Newton is not reliable and you sometimes email just dont get thru , and so the Spark as the wing man. Stock charts also freeze and I need a back up on those as well , no wonder i have a wide screen monitor.
I like the design a lot... but everyone is saying that you force a "Sent via Spark" signature so I will have to pass. It was too much. I have never seen another client forcing a signature before. Having by default, sure, but there is always supposed to be a way to remove the ad-signature.
I have been using Spark on iOS and my work Mac for several years now because it's one of the few apps that works with my third party email host, and I'd been bitching and moaning that there's not a Windows version becase that's the OS I use for my personal computing. Now Windows is HERE and it's better than I could have imagined. It's a true cross-platform app that syncs across all my devices! It's simple and does what I need without too much clutter. I hope other devs will learn from y'all because this is how it's done. I especially have always loved Spark's grouping and search functions. This is how Apple used to be in the 2000s: "it just works"
the UX and UI designers deserve worst job award.
My emails are stuck in out box and your support takes ages to reply
Sorry about this.
With the latest +AI release our support team is a bit overwhelmed.
Thank you for your patience and understanding!
I like this but why did you remove dark mode on Mac and the ability to see the inbox on the left side with the opened email on the right?? And also swipe gestures with the trackpad? I like most features that were added but I don't get why you had to remove some...
Dark mode works fine for me, and you can easily switch between the new single column view and the old 3 column layout.
@@rrsch I posted this 9 months ago, there were many updates since and those features have been added back to the app
@@PierlucF I realized that after I posted! It's kind of bizarre that they wouldn't launch a new version with dark mode though.
Awesome update. I've been on Newton for years and no other app came close to their UI and UX. Which was frustrating b/c it's been under supported and getting buggier over time. I crossed Spark off my list previously, I can't stand 3 column layouts, but Spark 3 rocks. I'll be switching and subscribing immediately.
I could not find any option for templates, is there any? If yes, can you please help me?
Where is the calendar on the 3.0???
Hi there! The calendar is already on our list. Many popular updates are just around the corner! You are welcome to check out this page to learn about upcoming features.
spark3.helpjuice.com/general/upcoming-features-in-spark-3?from_search=98221769
How does group by sender work in ios? I can't find the option
super duper nice, really hoping for *dark mode* ngl haha
nice a tutorial video
Quite funny how many here expect Readdle (a private for-profit company) to offer premium functionality while maintaining and upgrading the product for free. Do you all work for free? Readdle is not a charity or part of a multi-billion dollar company that can release software as a lost leader. It needs to pay its employees and keep the lights on.
Don't like the free plan? Don't want to upgrade? Just delete the app without the negativity. Unless you all work for free and don't charge for your labour, products or services and consider yourselves free of hypocrisy.
You’re so tone deaf is crazy
Even basic functionalities require the premium subscription, for example the simple function of "sending an email without having a forced adds at the end". Plus, the app was free since more than 4 years, and the light was on for them. Adding premium features with premium subscription is okay, everybody does that, why not Readdle? They did it for Calendars, with a decent price, and everything went well. But killing basic features even for legacy users is not okay at all. In addition, the price is high for this kind of tools. Usually, basic features are free and premium features are priced. This is not the case here.
Anyway, your justification is biased, as you completely forgot all the company making profit without selling their products to basic customer (open-sourced and free software, and I don't talk about company selling your data like gmail or other).
@@hik4ru I'm all for Open-Source software if the developers (and/or community) wish to release their software and support it under that scheme. My point is that many have enjoyed Readdle's software for free and now complain about the subscription model. As customers, even of freemium commercial software, that is their right, but we also need to understand that this model may no longer be economically sustainable for Readdle.
They make a profit by selling your data … 😂😂😂They can see and read and analyse, then of course, sell.
Is there any documentation with all the features of Spark? I have not found a book or pdf.
🎉Y
I can not find it in Google play
I guess I'll go back to mail
Does spark offer the same features on both Mac and PC? I am looking to use the paid team option but our team members use both Macs and PCs so I wanted to confirm before moving forward.
Hi James!
Sorry for the delayed reply
Spark Desktop is far from over and not all team features are available yet. You are welcome to check out this page to learn about upcoming features
spark3.helpjuice.com/general/upcoming-features-in-spark-3?from_search=98221769
When does this come out?
Nice one!
Just wondering did you look up the idea of "Mark as done" and "Command center" in Vivaldi browser Mail implementation?
I'm quite confident all of that is inspired by Superhuman mail. Even Vivaldi's take on it.
ever thought about making an android app?
@Realspear are you sure?
🎉
There is still a free version. You don't have to pay subscription.
So far the new (free) version seems just like the old one. Just remember to click the smart inbox type....don't like smart 2.0
You missed the "Sent with Spark" forced at the end of every email you send.
@@hik4ru Well if that's a big issue for you then ok....I really don't care about it
@@James_18. That's weird but ok. You may enjoy to be forced to send free advertisements to all your recipients, but clearly, I don't want that.
@@hik4ru Which app will you use instead?
@@James_18. Still looking. Readdle twitted that this "forced signature" was a bug, and that a hotfix was coming soon. If they indeed prod the patch, I will consider staying on Spark. Otherwise, I will switch back to Canary mail, which have a way better privacy policy and strong focus on security (but a less smoother UI and UX...).
This is HUUUGE.
The idea is interesting and closely resembles a Google initiative from years ago (I can't remember the name), the most interesting in this news (for me) is availability on windows. But would it be possible to opt for one look or another instead of viewing only in list format?
Inbox, it was awesome
(And free)
Love it 🔥
Spark user for many years, recently upgraded to the 3.0 Premium version and I am happy to pay for it. Great design and functionality; when the task manager integrations and ability to keep the menu bar open (for larger screen viewing) come, it will check every box. You guys are hitting it out of the park and yes, we have to pay for this kind of development work if we want you to be around long-term and keep the improvements coming. That is the way the world works, despite the grumbling of some who think everything should be free ;-)
So nice! Can’t wait to use it!
YEESSSSS FINALLY
All this made me want to do is go back to Apple Mail….
Why dont you add the dark mode for Windows app?
its not even on the mac app either.
Слава Україні!
the new UI is only for windows?
Unfortunately it spread to mac too …
Nooooooooooo
I really like it and can't understand people who using Spark for free since years complaining about when asking to pay for features. 🎉
It's not about paying, it's about the price point. It is absolutely to high for a private user. Or at least most of them.
Blocking emails isn’t something revolutionary. It should be baked in a a basic feature. Not something you have to PAY to do.
I've been using Spark few years - the free version because I don't need team support. The new design is finally here! And I like it. And I'll be happy to support the Spark team with a subscription and hope the new Spark will continue to improve because I am missing a few features I would expect for paid software. But thumbs up for now.
Loooove it!