Hi, my name is Joey, and I'm the creator of DarwinMail. I built DarwinMail because I was tired of wasting so much time managing my emails (which are also often my to-do's) on a daily basis.

I'd check my emails 30+ times, every day. It was demanding & nerve-racking. I knew there had to be a better way. I wanted email to work for me, instead of the other way around. DarwinMail is the result of this need.

DarwinMail is fast, elegant & secure. Become an average of 5x more productive by using DarwinMail through multiple accounts, smart bundling, reminders, snoozing, templates, bulk actions, and more.

The following is a list of the permissions DarwinMail requests when you log in for the first time.

• Manage mailbox labels — this allows DarwinMail to add and remove labels (inbox, snoozed, spam, etc) to your emails.
• Manage your sensitive mail settings — this allows DarwinMail to update settings such as your forwarding address and aliases.
• Manage your basic mail settings — this allows DarwinMail to update settings such as your signature and out-of-office reply.
• View and modify but not delete your email — this allows DarwinMail to create your email (when you use the compose functionality), modify your email, and send your email (when you click the send button). This also allows you to update and save drafts.

Please feel free to check out the official documentation from Google if you would like to learn more about the permissions that can be requested through the applications they support.

• We will not sell your data, abuse our power or ignore your emails or requests.
• Because we respect your privacy.
• Your privacy is important. Darwin will never record or distribute your personal data to any third parties.
• We understand that the product can only become great if each & every suggestion is carefully taken into account.
• We have a public roadmap and open lines of communication.
• The primary focus of DarwinMail is to help you be productive. Each and every change is made for that sole reason.

Not only that, but every feature request, bug report, user experience, or design tweak is taken seriously.

For every email that we receive with feedback on DarwinMail, a corresponding task is added to our Trello board.

We appreciate every single communication and try our very best to fulfill your request as soon as possible. We know it is the most important method to ensure your happiness while using DarwinMail.

Yes, DarwinMail and Gmail can be used side by side if you wish. If at any point, you decide to stop using DarwinMail, your Gmail Inbox will remain the same except for one difference: there will be five new labels created for DarwinMail - Done, Dustbin, Pinned, Reminders & Snoozed. We will also make use of the Gmail 'Starred' label to augment functionality in DarwinMail.

While in your Inbox, you can apply the Pinned, Snoozed & Starred labels to your emails.

All three of the above are custom DarwinMail labels (which are created when you first log into DarwinMail) that provide the following functionality.

• Pinned is for emails you want to keep in your Inbox until you have dealt with them as they are a high priority.
• Pinned emails cannot be marked as done or sent to the trash until the Pinned label is removed.
• Pinned emails exist in your Inbox and in your Pinned label - which is accessible by clicking the switch at the top of your Inbox next to the search bar.
• Snoozed allows you to hide emails until a later time and date, at which point they will reappear in your Inbox.
• Starred is accessible via the sidebar and is for emails you don't want to forget about but they are not your priority right now.

PS: While Gmail implements similar functionality, they do not expose those operations via their API and so we have created a bespoke solution in DarwinMail to provide our own ( and improved!) version of the functionality.