

He makes a strong case for the subscription model, and in the end, Mimestream can thrive only if it’s financially successful. I asked Neil Jhaveri about the subscription approach, and he said that there was no alternative, given issues with the Gmail API and the need to keep up with Apple’s frequent changes to the Swift and SwiftUI technologies underpinning Mimestream.
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Some will be perturbed that Mimestream is not free and has no one-time purchase option, but real software costs real money, particularly when it doesn’t monetize your eyeballs or personal information. Mimestream relies on subscriptions, charging $49.99 per year with a 40% first-year discount for those who subscribe before 9 June 2023, dropping the price to $29.99.
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For Mac users who rely on Gmail, I believe it’s the best email experience available today.
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Mimestream has finally emerged from beta, with version 1.0 now available for download and promoting ten new features (plus a discount) to encourage both its 167,000 beta testers and newcomers to become paying customers. At first, he was the only person working on Mimestream, but as he got closer to completing his checklist of core features, he brought on additional people, building a team of five. Even though I’ve used it as my daily driver, I also submitted 46 bug reports and have had numerous discussions with developer Neil Jhaveri about interface intricacies and email oddities. In some ways, it’s hard to remember that Mimestream has been in beta all this time, given how much time I’ve spent in it since switching to it in November 2020.īut beta was the correct designation for Mimestream. We’ve been writing about its betas for years, starting with Julio Ojeda-Zapata’s “ Mimestream Brings Gmail Features to a Mac Email App” (25 September 2020) and continuing through numerous Watchlist updates. The Gmail-specific email app Mimestream is what I want to tell you about today. I noted there that Arc had become the default dashboard for much of what I do, so much so that I had moved my email to my secondary screen. Most recently, I went in-depth on the beta Web browser Arc because, well, the title of my article says it all: “ Arc Will Change the Way You Work on the Web” (). I regularly use beta software but seldom write about it in TidBITS unless it is sufficiently stable, feature-complete, and interesting.
