We’re excited to announce that Sparrow has been acquired by Google! Read more here.
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.
Sparrow 1.4.1 is live
It took a while but Apple finally let it out.
Sparrow 1.4.1 is here with much awaited bug fixes. This new version fixes the following issues:
- Growl 1.3 support
- iCloud Support
- Mail ordering
- Quick reply all
- Encoding issue
- Quick Look in full screen mode
- Keychain issue
- Various crash & bugs
Some of you might still experience issues with iCloud despite the update.
Apple is using a custom authentication system for some iCloud accounts and they haven’t shared the details of it with us yet. This explains why it could not work as expected and require you to follow this workaround.
Check for update in the Mac AppStore
Google pushing hard to get Gmail looking like Sparrow.
Sparrow 1.4 is coming to your desktop tomorrow. Here is a taste of it.
Sparrow 1.3.2 is now available on the Mac App Store
This new release includes:
- Drag and drop directly in your label & folders in the extended sidebar
- Shortmail support: character counter in compose window. We really like the idea of Shortmail and felt we had to integrate it in Sparrow.
- Focus on Compose window in full screen mode
- New conversation view design: buttons are gone and the whole view is more minimalist. The quick reply has been slightly redesigned too.
- Top bar gradient re-design
- New default avatars for incoming mails
Bug fix:
- Transparent text issue in message composer
- Window and sidebar size memory issue
- Alt-L Polish character issue
- Fixed Esc key behavior in fullscreen
- Deminimized animation fixed
- Shift-Cmd-2 in Extended sidebar Unified Inbox
- Copy and paste issue in compose window
- Inline attachments resize issue
- Improved memory usage
- Fixed various crashes
Sparrow 1.3.1 has been approved by Apple at the speed of light and should be available to all of you now on the Mac App Store.
We would like to thank Apple for their support and reactivity in yesterday’s special circumstances.
If you had the licensed version of Sparrow, you are either already playing around with Sparrow 1.3.1 or should be able to update.
If you had the Mac App Store version, checking the update section should allow you to get Sparrow 1.3.1. This new version of Sparrow comes with some improvements and fixes the following issues:
- Crash issue of 1.3
- Formatting issue of 1.3
- Cmd-L and Shift-Cmd-L bug in Unified Inbox for Google accounts
- Lost text when replying too fast
- Reply animation: the reply window now matches the location and size of the reading window
- Default window size is now kept when quitting and relaunching the application
- Various bugs on window resizing (extended sidebar, hiding sidebar…)
- Lotus Domino compatibility
- Bug in sidebar Label menu
And it adds 2 new Lion feature:
- Full screen mode
- Launch animation
Sparrow 1.3 has been submited to the Mac App Store. Our little bird is now fully compatible with Lion OS X and takes advantage of the cool new things Apple brought to the Mac. Here is a quick tour of the new features and improvements you should be able to play with in a few days:
Quickly access your labels and folders:
The extended sidebar has been a major feature request since Sparrow was first introduced 5 months ago. Simply dragging the sidebar to the left now gives you access to the new layout. Everything is just a click away.
Send & Archive:
One of the coolest Gmail feature is now available for all your IMAP accounts. Just turn it on in Advanced Preferences and you’re all set for a Send & Archive madness.
Drag and Drop:
Simply drag and drop mails to your desktop and other applications. If you work with Things, Omnifocus or any other task management app, Sparrow will also give you an URL for each mail to make it easily findable.
We still have some work to do to allow you to drag and drop messages directly in labels and folders. It is already planned and will be in 1.3.1 or 1.3.2 coming shortly.
More minimalism:
We added a lot of features and options since Sparrow 1.0 but we want you to be able to keep it simple. Hiding the sidebar offers a streamlined experience. Pressing Shift-Cmd-M will do the trick.
And the cherry on the cake: a ‘View source’ option is now available in the drop down menu of the conversation view .
But that’s not over yet.
We’ve also dedicated a lot of our time on usablility and performance improvements:
We re-worked the sidebar animations from the ground up. Account and category switching is faster and smoother.
We made the message list scrolling more responsive and fluid.
We hope that you’ll feel animations are more natural than in previous versions.
We also killed (yes, we killed them) all window animations. There hasn’t been too many complaints from you about it but once we’ve shut them off for testing purposes and noticed Sparrow felt quicker, we never turned them back on.
We added a visible scrollbar to the sidebar. Even if it has always been possible to scroll the sidebar, your feedback suggested that was not sufficiently clear.
An ‘Empty trash’ button has been added too.
The Priority Inbox filter settings have been changed in Sparrow 1.3 to display all Inbox Priority mails regardless of their read/unread status.
We also improved compatibility with Yahoo, DAV mail, and Mbox and of course, we did everything we could to resolve as many of the bugs you reported.
We hope you’ll enjoy this new release. Check for update if you have the licensed version or go to the update section on the Mac App Store to get your Sparrow 1.3.1.
