ChatInbox: Email by Sender2027.1.2 - App Store

ChatInbox organizes your inbox by people. Each person you email gets one conversation that holds everything you've exchanged: every subject, every reply, every attachment. When a new email arrives, its person moves to the top, with your whole history right there.

Newsletters, receipts and alerts file themselves into Feeds, so mail from people is never buried.

ORGANIZED BY PEOPLE
Your list shows people, not a pile of messages. Tap a person to see every email between you, across every subject, in one place. Read it as cards by thread or as a chat with your replies on the right. Put a company or a team together in one row.

PEOPLE FIRST, FEEDS SEPARATE
Newsletters, receipts and notifications go to Feeds automatically. Clear a sender in one go: Mark All as Read, Archive All, or Unsubscribe & Delete All.

TODAY'S INBOX, DONE FAST
Triage sorts today's mail into a plan: what needs a reply, what can be archived, codes you no longer need. Apply it at once, with Undo.

AI THAT STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE
With Apple Intelligence, ChatInbox shows what people are waiting on you for, lists the questions in an email and drafts your answer, catches you up on what's new from people, and answers questions about your mail with the email it came from. Translate an email in place, on your device.

FIND ANYTHING
Search reads the words inside your emails and even inside PDFs and other attachments. Or open a person, and everything with them is already there.

YOUR ACCOUNTS, YOUR DEVICES
Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo and any IMAP account. Type your address and ChatInbox finds the settings. Works on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and one purchase covers all three.

CALENDAR, TO-DOS AND TAGS
See your week beside your mail, turn an email into an event or a to-do, and tag conversations to track them on a board.

PRIVACY FIRST
Your email never passes through our servers: ChatInbox connects directly to your mail provider. No data mining, no tracking. Turn on image blocking and tracking pixels load only for senders you approve.

FREE AND PREMIUM
ChatInbox is free with one email account. Premium adds unlimited accounts with Profiles, advanced filters, your full mail history and custom notifications. Try it free for 7 days with the yearly plan, or buy Lifetime once.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Version History New
• Swiping Trash on a chat now asks whether to move the whole chat or only the latest email. You can have it remember your answer, and change it later in Preferences.
• Contact details now show relationship info only when you can act on it: a nudge to follow up when someone is slow to reply, a "Say hi" when you haven't been in touch for a while, and who introduced you to someone new.

Improvements
• The first email you open after coming back to the app loads much faster.
• Syncing is quicker and keeps fewer connections open to your mail server.
• If your mail server has no Trash folder, ChatInbox now offers to create one or lets you pick a folder. Before, the delete failed quietly.

Fixes
• IMAP accounts: an email you delete or move no longer stays behind on the server, where other mail apps still showed it.
• Starring several emails at once on an IMAP account now saves the stars to the server. 2027.1.2 11h ago New
• Messages view: read any conversation as a chat and type your reply right below it. Pick Threads or Messages for people, for newsletters, or for a single conversation.
• Smarter search ranks its results, finds words inside PDFs and reaches older mail on your server. You can also ask your mail a question and get an answer that quotes the email.
• AI helpers: Waiting on You, a Reply Assistant, Catch up, reminders for promises and follow-ups, attachment summaries, and translating an email where you read it.
• Profiles group your accounts as Work, Personal and more. Switch between them yourself or on a schedule.
• Calendar shows your day with its mail, and you can answer invitations inside the email. Also new: Triage, widgets, and Siri and Spotlight support.
• A new Places sheet, All · People · Feeds, pinned filters, Mail Rules, and Block Sender, which sends that sender's mail to Spam.
• Filter a conversation on iPhone and iPad: Unread, Starred, a folder, one person in a group or a single day, with a count for each choice.
• One Details screen on iPhone and iPad: tap ⓘ to see a contact's details and edit their name or photo right there.

Improvements
• Composer: attachments sit under your words, you can choose a photo size, and a quick check runs before sending. In a Messages chat, one tap opens the full composer with what you've typed.
• Snooze from anywhere with Undo. Mark as Done now clears a whole thread.
• Mail that arrives late comes as one quiet catch-up notification instead of a pile.
• Pull to refresh is faster and conversations open right away.
• Each email shows people's names the way that email wrote them, the same on all your devices.
• Less battery use and heat: syncing eases off when your device is warm or in Low Power Mode, and pictures that can't load stop animating.
• A refreshed app icon and welcome screen.

Fixes
• Sending no longer gets stuck with an endless spinner.
• Mail you trash, archive or move no longer comes back. "Move all to Inbox" retries a dropped connection, and moving a chat to Trash takes your sent replies too.
• Drafts are no longer lost to a crash or a failed save.
• The full sync progress bar stays until the sync is done, and Gmail sync no longer stops early when Gmail is busy.
• Fixed "Error loading content" on iPad, and your calendar events now show right after you allow access.
• Email text stays readable in dark mode. 2027.1.1 1d ago New
• Reply or Forward with just the part you highlighted. Select any passage in a message, then choose Reply or Forward with Selection — the quote carries only what you picked, not the whole original.
• Pinch to zoom on emails. Open any message full screen, zoom in up to 6x, and pan around — no more squinting at tiny text in newsletters and receipts.
• Rotate to landscape while reading. Wide, desktop-style emails finally get the room they need.
• Text Size now applies to the whole email. Your preferred size (and Dynamic Type) now scales the sender's own fonts too, not just ours.
• Key details, right in the header. Delivery dates, order numbers, amounts and tracking links now appear as a single line beside the sender instead of a boxy card above the message — and only when they're genuinely useful.

iPad
• Portrait is a real layout now. Held upright, the iPad no longer letterboxes into a shrunken landscape view — the conversation takes the full screen and the chat list slides in when you want it. Split View and Stage Manager sizes are handled properly too.
• Reply, Forward and the rest now follow you down a long email in a bar that settles at the end of the message, instead of making you scroll to the bottom to reach them. The ⋯ menu no longer repeats what that bar is already showing.
• The calendar adapts the same way, bringing back the slide-up list of unscheduled items on narrower layouts.

Improved
• Group and company conversations now name the senders behind them on one scrollable line, instead of a tall block of cards that pushed the email itself off screen. The full list is a tap away in Details.
• The group editor shows real members, a rename reaches the chat list straight away, and the list follows the group you just changed.
• Thread headings inside a conversation respond to a tap again, and the chevron beside one opens the thread instead of raising a menu.
• Every empty screen now uses the same native placeholder, and says why it's empty rather than just showing a picture.
• The purchase screen leads with the plans and their prices, and its small print is legible.

Fixes
• Forwarding now always includes the original message. Forwards sent from the chat list, a swipe, a search result or a notification could go out with just your note on top — and without their attachments. Both are fixed.
• Picking one of your own folders now actually filters the chat list to it. A custom mailbox could quietly fall back to showing every conversation.
• Chat list names now match your Contacts. A row showing an old name or a bare email address updates as soon as the contact card is available.
• On iPad, changing a filter no longer leaves the previous conversation open beside the new list — and the title bar no longer shows empty parentheses when nothing is selected. 2026.15.1 Sep 15 New
• Contacts, connected: ChatInbox can now use your address book — senders show the names, photos, job titles and companies you've saved, search finds people by their Contacts name even when the email header spells it differently, and you can view, edit or create a contact card without leaving the app.
• Send a message onward: turn any message into a reminder, or hand it off to another app — with a link back to the original.
• One row per company: group everyone at a company into a single conversation with one tap, and see members with their details plus call, message and mail actions right above the conversation.

Improvements
• Reopening ChatInbox is responsive from the first second, even on a large mailbox.
• Spam, Trash, custom folders and Starred open instantly, even on large mailboxes.
• New messages open in the field you need, and suggest recipients as you type.
• The chat list now marks your own last reply with a small arrow instead of putting a name in front of the subject.
• Messages sent to someone on Cc or Bcc now appear in that person's chat.
• Your replies no longer show up as new unread mail on your other devices.
• Messages deleted on another device or in another mail app now disappear from ChatInbox right away.
• Newsletter and signature images keep their correct proportions instead of being stretched.
• Every picture pasted into a message now loads, not just the first one.
• The app icon is relit for a dark home screen.
• Accounts on mail servers that use an alternative sign-in method (such as mailo.com) can now be added.

Fixes
• A message you delete now stays deleted instead of reappearing later.
• Fixed a rare glitch where the Chats list would keep sliding in from the edge after launch.
• Tapping a notification for a message that was already deleted now explains what happened instead of opening a blank screen. 2026.15.0 Sep 10 New
• Choose how email links open: in the built-in browser or in your default browser. You'll find it in Settings → Privacy → Links.
• Turn on "Ask before opening links" to see the full web address, with the option to copy it, before anything opens.

Improvements
• Contacts settings are easier to navigate: Blocked Contacts and Remembered Senders are now their own rows with counts, and creating a group is always one tap away.
• Replies from Mail now tuck the "On …, so-and-so wrote:" line away with the rest of the quoted text, instead of leaving it stranded above the message.
• Spam, Trash and other folders now open right away when you come back to the app in the morning, instead of sitting empty for 10–20 seconds.
• Mail you received overnight lands sooner after opening the app, and folders you're actively looking at refresh on their own when new mail arrives on the server.
• Fixed a problem where the first launch after restarting your iPhone or iPad could show stale mail until you closed and reopened the app.

Fixes
• Deleted messages stay deleted. Moving a message to Trash no longer lets it quietly reappear minutes later, and if the server refuses the move you now get a clear message and a way to retry.
• Unread counts on group and company rows no longer collapse to a much smaller number after you read a message.
• Email text no longer overlaps itself when a sender uses large headings, and white blocks in receipts and newsletters no longer punch through dark mode. 2026.14.1 Sep 5 New
• New mail notifications: ChatInbox now asks for permission on first run, with a quick explainer, so new messages can reach your Lock Screen.
• Schedule a message to send later — and undo a send from the dock right after you tap Send.
• Search is rebuilt as one blended list of people, conversations, and messages, with clearer headings.
• Filter by star or tag from the drawer, including subtags, plus a quick way to remove all stars.
• Reply and Forward now ride with you — the action bar sticks to the bottom of a long email while you read, then settles back into place at the end.
• Settings shows the app version at the bottom.

Improvements
• The composer got a full pass: recipient chips you can select and remove, a tidier attachment tray, one-tap signature removal, and smoother typing.
• Conversation filters are now removable chips instead of full-width banners, so you can see what's narrowing your view and clear it in one tap.
• Message and thread options open in a plain, native sheet sized to fit its content.
• Press and hold any pinned face to act on that person without opening the conversation.
• Setting up an account by hand is easier: the outgoing mail fields are optional and reuse your incoming login. If a server refuses the connection, you now see exactly what it said instead of a generic error.
• Messages open faster — the body no longer stalls for a second or two when you tap into a conversation.
• Messages only get marked as read when you actually open one. A new "Mark messages as read when opened" setting lets you turn that off, and the Unread badge is back on the open message so you can flip it back with one tap.
• Sender pictures appear instantly and no longer flash a blank circle, and mail sent through a marketing service now shows the real sender everywhere.
• The Feeds tile keeps its sender faces up to date as new mail arrives.

Fixes
• Unread counts and folder counts now match what your mail provider reports.
• Spam and other folders show up promptly again after launch and when opened.
• Deleted mail in Trash and Spam stays deleted instead of lingering or reappearing.
• Snoozing, drafts, and signatures hold up across many more edge cases.
• Very wide emails no longer stretch past the edge of the screen.
• Links followed by a comma or period open correctly. 2026.14.0 Aug 31 New
• Relationship insights (Settings → optional): open a contact's details to see how the two of you actually relate — who usually reaches out first, typical reply speed, when you tend to talk, quiet stretches and reconnections, plus a tappable chart of your message rhythm over time. It's built entirely on your device from who-and-when only — never the contents of your mail.

Improvements
• Tapping a contact now opens an unread message fully expanded, so you can read it straight away instead of tapping "Expand" first.
• Gmail messages now show the same time gmail.com does. Some mail from bulk senders could be off by a few minutes.

Fixes
• Fixed conversations in the chat list showing a nonsense date like "0001-01-01" instead of the real time of the last message. 2026.13.2 Jul 24 What's New

Privacy
- Block remote images and tracking pixels in emails. Turn it on in Settings > Privacy, then load images per message or trust a sender to always load.

Contacts, Reimagined
- Your pinned people live in a horizontal avatar rail at the top, with unread badges right on the avatar.
- One continuous, recency-ordered list with a floating date pill as you scroll.
- Waking-up conversations get a gentle green highlight; unread rows stand out with bolder names and accent timestamps.
- Quieter filter chips, cleaner row separators, and softer timestamps.

Status Dock
- Errors, sending progress, and undo now share a single floating glass surface at the bottom, with an inline "Undo all" button.

Polish Everywhere
- Rebuilt calendar, search, editor, folders, and message bubbles with refined pills, capsules, and hairlines.
- Better empty states with clearer descriptions.
- iOS 26 shows sync freshness right under the title.

More Languages
- Now available in 29 languages, including Hindi, Indonesian, Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, Dutch, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Czech, Greek, Romanian, and Finnish. 2026.13 Jul 6 New Features
- New bottom tab bar: a simpler way to get around — swap the side menu for a familiar bottom bar with Inbox, Folders, Calendar, Tags, and Settings, plus a redesigned Folders tab with search, per-account filtering, and a Snoozed view.
- Calendar, rebuilt for iOS: a clean Apple Calendar–style day view with a week strip you can swipe through, an unscheduled drawer, long-press anywhere to add an event, and drag to reschedule.
- Add to Calendar from a message: turn any email into an event or to-do with one tap, and see a badge on messages that already have something scheduled.
- Snoozed messages stay in view: instead of disappearing from the thread, snoozed messages now show up so you don't lose the context.
- Smarter search: type multiple words and only results matching all of them come back, or use quotes for exact phrases. Search now ignores trash and spam, just like your inbox does.
- Attachment previews: see thumbnails for documents and other files right in the chat list — not just images.
- Refreshed Folders banner: a cleaner, full-width filter row at the top of folder views.
- Polished Tags: a more native look and smoother drag-and-drop on the kanban board.

Improvements and Fixes
- Mail stays in sync: a long-standing issue where syncing would silently stop has been fixed, along with several causes of stuck or frozen accounts — including iCloud accounts that wouldn't load message bodies.
- Stuck messages and attachments now self-recover: if a message body or attachment failed to load, it now retries automatically instead of staying stuck.
- Gmail accounts recover better after long gaps without opening the app.
- No more unread badge flicker when you open a feed — the newest message opens as read immediately.
- Back-to-Top button redesigned as a smaller round button that's easier to tap.
- Avatars: fixed a bug where colleagues at the same company would briefly show the wrong logo after restarting the app.
- Fewer battery drains: stopped a case where a spinner would keep animating invisibly and use CPU.
- Cleaner conversations: stray "references" to threads no longer clutter your chat list.
- Small polish to the mail list so the first section header no longer sits flush against the top edge. 2026.12 Jun 3 New Features
- Search, redesigned: unified Filters control with live person autocomplete in From / To, parallel-query results, and tab count badges that show hits per tab at a glance.
- Snooze: new snoozed banner and section in chat, plus a custom date/time picker that stays open during native popups.
- Sync progress toast: a freshness-gated pill at the bottom of the screen with a self-creeping progress bar, so you always know when mail is catching up.
- Profile avatars: Gravatar-first chain, corner domain badge on initials avatars (toggleable), and favicon avatars for group/domain contacts.
- Custom filter chip counts: see message counts next to each filter chip (toggleable in Preferences).

Improvements and Fixes
- New Preferences toggles for the corner domain badge and filter chip counts.
- Contact swipe: trailing swipe defaults to delete-latest, pin, and move-to-group actions.
- Snoozed banner localized; iOS banner alignment refined with bigger type.
- Chat auto-pops back to the list when a thread becomes empty; undo toast aligns with the back-to-top control.
- Fixed random empty pane and ghost toolbar after rapid back/forward thread navigation.
- Attachments hide the extension label when there isn't one.
- Sync reliability: stopped zombie syncs from clearing a fresh sync's account state; full sync no longer blanks the filtered contact list between batches; woke-up snoozed rows with empty bodies are now surfaced.
- IMAP / Outlook: cross-folder MOVE label handling, orphan-folder reclaim, adaptive throttling, single-message archive sync, non-English folder-type detection, and view-switch sync for custom folders shown by leaf name.
- Folder-type mapping surfaces a missing-folder warning at Settings entry points. 2026.11.1 May 7 New features
- Customizable hover actions on the contact list (Preferences)
- Toggle to hide thread references in chats
- Expanded message font styles with a dropdown picker
- Sender-only contact grouping mode with merge-by-From banner

Improvements and fixes
- Sending: failed sends now recover the message instead of losing it
- Drafts: discard actually removes the saved draft, no more duplicate creation, body preserved across save/reopen, Pending draft badge clickable
- Trash: retries on transient failures, no more stale folder badges, Gmail no longer resurrects INBOX on trashed messages
- Capitalized account emails no longer drop rows from chat list and contacts
- Folder view refreshes when new mail arrives for the selected sender 2026.11 Apr 30 Improvements and fixes
- Redesigned message compose screen with a cleaner layout.
- Camera is now a one-tap option in the attachment menu.
- New animated “Sending…” toast in the bottom-right that confirms when your message has gone out.
- Trash, Spam, and Archive can now be undone for both single messages and bulk actions, with a toast offering Undo. Fixes for Gmail/Outlook/IMAP so undone messages actually return to your inbox. 2026.10 Apr 26 New
- Added a "Back to Top" pill for contact, sender, and mail lists — tap to jump back after scrolling.
- Redesigned Triage view
- Some improvements and bug fixes 2026.9 Apr 20 Fixed a bug which may cause inconsistent messages display for selected sender in folder view 2026.8.12 Apr 18 Fixes:
- Fixed: chats for the selected contact now refresh automatically when new messages arrive, without marking them as read.
- Fixed: attachments appearing on a message show right away instead of waiting for a reload.
- Fixed: removed an unnecessary spinner when switching contacts in the activity view for a snappier feel.
- Fixed: Outlook no longer shows repeating "authentication failed" alerts when a refresh token is invalidated. 2026.8.11 Apr 18 Improvements
- Added Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal) language support.
- Pinned contacts collapse to 3 by default for a cleaner list.
- Message header shows clearer "from" info with improved label styling.
- Unified attachment icons with simplified download status.
- Chat list now shows a loading / end-of-messages footer.
- Search is now case-insensitive.
- Gmail forwards are correctly distinguished from replies; quoted content is now hidden only in replies, not forwards.

Fixes:
- Fixed plain-text-only messages missing from chat.
- Fixed wrong contact / thread grouping for sent messages with multiple recipients and replyTo-based contacts.
- Fixed incorrect thread and unread badge counts; fixed unread count flashing after mark-as-read.
- Fixed group contacts showing too few messages.
- Fixed merge/split resetting the selected contact or losing scroll position.
- Read/unread changes now replay on failure instead of reverting locally.
- IMAP sync self-heals from stuck states, dead connections, and zombie IDLE sessions; fixed missing IMAP emails and duplicate parallel syncs. 2026.8.10 Apr 17 Fixes
- Fixed floating reply bar not appearing when "Expand All" setting is enabled
- Fixed spacer images in HTML emails appearing as huge squares
- Fixed price amounts in email tables breaking mid-number
- Fixed line-height distortions in certain HTML emails
- Fixed a rare crash in background mail processing
- Fixed unread count showing 0 for merged contacts
- Fixed PDF attachments being unopenable when email contained certain inline images
- Fixed Gmail full sync not triggering on launch
- Fixed Outlook/Office 365 accounts re-syncing from scratch on every launch
- Fixed memory growth during full mailbox sync 2026.8.8 Apr 13 Improvements and fixes:
- Sender name field — you can now set a display name when adding IMAP email accounts
- Fixed search results — resolved issues where search contacts could show empty or incorrect messages
- Fixed unread badge flashing — group contacts with reply-to addresses no longer flash their unread count
- Fixed stuck refresh button — compact sidebar refresh button no longer gets stuck spinning
- Fixed memory leaks — eliminated overlapping sync memory spikes and context leaks 2026.8.6 Apr 4 Improvements and fixes:
- Faster email loading — Emails now appear progressively as they load instead of waiting for everything to finish, so you see your inbox sooner after launching the app.
- Quicker startup sync — Email sync begins immediately when the app opens, reducing the delay before new messages appear.
- Auto-expand single messages — When a conversation has only one message, the content automatically expands so you don't have to tap to read it.
- Resolved a rare crash that could occur when opening the app.
- Fixed a layout animation glitch when the app first opens. 2026.8.5 Mar 31 Improvements and fixes:
- Faster incoming Gmail and IMAP — New emails from Gmail and IMAP accounts arrive sooner thanks to connection reuse
- Faster app launch — Startup operations are now staggered to get you into the app faster
- Gmail alias reply fix — Replying from a Gmail alias no longer incorrectly defaults to the main account
- Contact name sync — Contact names now update properly when a sender changes their display name 2026.8.4 Mar 30 Improvements:
- Draft Caching — Reply drafts are now saved per-contact so you can switch between conversations without losing your in-progress reply. A banner indicates when a saved draft is available.
- File Browser Upgrades — Search, filtering by file type, Quick Look preview, file count badges on filter chips, and improved thumbnail rendering.

Fixes:
- Fixed a crash issue when running the app for a while
- Fixed Battery Drain — IMAP IDLE and sync loops now properly stop when the app is backgrounded.
- Resolved an issue where emails could go missing when MODSEQ gap detection didn't run correctly.
- Blocking/unblocking contacts now syncs correctly across devices via iCloud, and duplicate blocked entries are cleaned up. 2026.8.3 Mar 29 Improvements:
- Floating collapse button for long messages — A floating button now appears on long emails so you can quickly collapse them without scrolling back to the top.

Fixes:
- Fixed a crash that could occur when switching between contacts rapidly due to concurrent database access.
- Fixed message content briefly flashing blank when opening a thread.
- Fixed contact list items shifting height when the unread indicator appears or disappears. 2026.8.2 Mar 25 Improvements
- Sync progress indicator replaces the refresh button during sync
- Smaller, polished sync progress ring
- Smoother sync progress animation without instant jumps
- Faster conversation switching with optimized queries
- Instant chat message loading without blank flash on contact switch
- Faster email sync with pipelined fetching and smarter concurrency
- Lower memory usage during sync and large thread viewing

Fixes
- Fixed section cache not updating when content is backfilled
- Fixed crash after extended use during sync
- Fixed spam/trash/draft messages appearing in Chats view
- Fixed contact list not reordering after message deletion
- Fixed login failures on servers that disable plain LOGIN command
- Badge count now shows all unread messages instead of today only
- Snoozed folder moved above Archive 2026.8.1 Mar 23 New Features
- Snooze and waking up — snooze conversations and see them reappear when they wake up, with a dedicated Snoozed view in the side menu
- Customizable text size — adjust both interface and message text size in settings
- Filters moved to toolbar — replaced the bottom tab bar filters with a cleaner toolbar dropdown menu

Fixes
- Read/unread status now syncs reliably across devices
- Messages are now grouped under the correct contact
- Filter counts display accurately
- Deleting a contact properly removes its messages
- Calendar (ICS) attachments now work for IMAP accounts
- Profile image placeholders show initials instead of "..."
- Unread badge color matches other badges in dark mode
- Folder message counts load at startup
- Snoozed selection and folder count colors are correct in the side menu
- Fixed contact list race condition when switching filters
- Fixed Gmail authentication issue
- Fixed memory leaks and CPU spikes 2026.8 Mar 19 Some improvements and fixes 2026.7.1 Mar 12