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.
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
The lonesome death of attachments
Sparrow 1.4 is a special release for us. We took the time to improve our little bird both in terms of UI and performance. You should notice right away that Sparrow is now faster than ever.
It’s also been a while we wanted to integrate CloudApp. We use it daily at Sparrow and we thought it would make a lot of sense to get it into Sparrow.
A video is worth a thousand words so have a look below to see how it can make you more efficient and introduce a little magic in your mail experience:
All you have to do is activate the option in Sparrow Preferences and attachments should never be a problem again.
Of course, that’s not all. We also added:
- A reversed thread ordering like in Gmail (older messages on top)

- Pull-to-refresh

and we have made some improvement on the UI:
- Default image in conversation view when no message or multiple message are selected
- Window resize issue
- Default compose window size
- Message list default size is kept when modifying the sidebar state
- Sidebar animations when showing / hiding
- Default minimal size of windows
Important changes were also made under the hood, with a brand new draft management system which makes Sparrow:
- Send mail faster
- Behave better with bad network/ offline behavior
- Synchronize faster
Bug fixes:
- Zoho compatibility
- Lotus Domino compatibility
- Free compatibility
- Dovecot server
- Crash on Send & Archive and various crashes
- Animation bug when unminimizing Sparrow from the Menu bar icon
- Hanging issue on Lion
- Erased space in signature
- ‘Not Spam’ option in the Spam folder
Open the Mac App Store to update your Sparrow and make the most of this new features or simply check for update.
If you haven’t Sparrow already, you can get it here.
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




