We’re back on the Mac!
Sparrow for Mac 1.6 comes with one major feature: POP support, and a lot of improvements that will make your mail life even easier.
POP
You can now finally plug your Hotmail account in Sparrow or any other POP
‘True’ Unified Inbox
Navigate in your unified Favorites, Sent, Drafts from your Unified account.
Empty Spam
As simple as it is, one click to flush them all.
Composer sender toggle
Quickly toggle down from ‘To’, ‘Subject’ to ‘From’.
And a lot more additions to this new version:
- Pull to refresh updates list of starred messages / unread messages / priority messages
- Esc on Quick Reply saves as draft
- App startup time improvement
- Inbox zero message
- Fixed avatar behavior (thanks to Ellis Hamburger)
- Improved charset decoding
- Remove flickering when message list is empty
- Fixed scrollers behavior in sidebar
- Random scroll in the list when switching folder
- Handle additional international subject reply and forward prefix
- Periodical log clean up
- Improved contacts synchronization from Gmail
- Draft icon aligment in conversation view
- Refresh folders list periodically
- Fixed Asana emails parsing issue
Dear Sparrowers,
Sparrow 1.2 for iPhone is here and comes with 4 new features:
Message navigation
You can now navigate all your mailbox messages simply by swiping up and down. When switching from a conversation to another, you’ll see a special separator clearly showing you’re swiping to a new conversation.
Edit and create folder/labels
You can now rename, create, delete all your labels and folders straight from within the app.
Landscape composing
You can now compose messages in landscape mode.
Fluent in 9 languages
Sparrow now speaks English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Russian, and Chinese.
About Push
You were more than 16 000 helping us on our Apple quest to get the VoIP privilege. We can’t thank you enough for your support. Unfortunately, Apple has confirmed that they are not willing to do any exception to the rule and that Sparrow will NOT be granted with the privilege.
This means we’ll have to do Push on our side and that it will be integrated as a yearly subscription into Sparrow’s future update.
You can grab Sparrow iPhone 1.2 here. Sparrow 1.6 for Mac is coming soon. Stay tuned.
One step at the time
Like on the Mac, Sparrow for iPhone will evolve fast and integrate feature requests and bug fixes.
Sparrow 1.1 is the first step and here is what’s new:
- Send & Archive
- Show/hide dock badge per account
- Only show specific labels and folders
- Built-in web browser
- Empty trash and empty spam
Bug fix:
- Authentication issue with some Google apps account
- Custom SMTP for Alias
We’re already working on Sparrow 1.2.
The next update will include localization in 9 languages, landscape mode when composing and will allow you to swipe up and down between messages.
What’s up on Push?
Thanks to your amazing support, we feel confident that Apple might revise its position on the Push API. We’ll submit a first version of Sparrow 1.2 including it. This might delay Sparrow 1.2 validation but we’re already working with some partners to include Push in future versions of Sparrow without needing Apple clearance.
Push is coming. If Apple can’t help us yet, we have other ideas.
What about the Mac?
We’ve been busy on the iPhone for quite some time but we’re back on the Mac. We’re currently working on Sparrow 1.6 for Mac. This next release will include a lot of bug fixes and improvements. The main new feature will be POP support.
Finally, you’ll be able to plug your old Hotmail or Live account in Sparrow.
As always, we’ll keep you posted on our progress here.
Sparrow iPhone reviews
It’s been some time that we wanted to say those words:
Sparrow iPhone is now available on the App Store.
Like on the Mac, our goal is to offer you a pleasurable yet more efficient way to deal with your mail on your iPhone.
We gave as much space as we could to your content, emphasized the most common actions and made sure power features were quickly accessible and easy to discover.
You can play with the app and discover its features on our website.
Good Sparrowing to you.
5 minutes on The Verge
Happy new year! Let’s celebrate 2012 with some iPhone love.
Sparrow Lite 1.5 is now available from our website (licensed version) and from the Mac AppStore.
Sparrow Lite is now full-featured.
General IMAP support, multi-account, unified inbox, CloudApp, Dropbox, Send and Archive, extended sidebar… it’s all there.
The only difference with the paid version is that Sparrow Lite is ad-supported and will include a Sent with Sparrow signature in all your outgoing mails.
You can now get the full taste of Sparrow before deciding to get the real deal.
Sparrow 1.5 is here. It brings 3 of the most requested & awaited features!
First. Dropbox.
Drag, drop, send (and sync). Sending a mail with attachement has never been simpler. And without even noticing it, you are syncing your files in the cloud making sure you never lose them.
Second. Block remote images.
Keep control of the images displayed in your mail: once or always.
Third. Search.
With it’s new smart search & Gmail-like tokens, find the mail you’re looking for in a matter of seconds.
Already a Sparrower? As always, this update is completely free for you. Check for update or visit the Mac AppStore and enjoy the new features.
If you’re new to Sparrow, you can get the lite version here or get the full version for $9.99.
As seen on The Verge and Business Insider, here is a preview of Sparrow for iPhone.
