Canary Mail for Mac
Easy and elegant e-mail client.
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Canary Mail overview
Canary Mail is an exciting new email client for Mac that offers a full set of powerful features with one key difference - your emails are not stored on a 3rd-party server. Every facet of Canary has been designed in accordance with our core philosophy of ensuring complete user privacy and offering reliable and snappy performance. Unlike other apps/services, using Canary is not contingent on providing access to your data.
- Read Tracking - Canary notifies you instantly when your email is read.
- Email Snooze - Declutter your Inbox in an instant and deal with emails at your convenience.
- Unified Inbox - Canary features a unified inbox and supports Gmail, Yahoo!, Outlook, FastMail and universal IMAP.
- Fully Local - Your emails are encrypted and stored locally and securely on your Mac, not on an online server.
- Gmail Labels and Filters - Canary supports labels and social/promotional email segregation that Gmail users love.
- Attachments Browser - Quickly find, download, and open every file that you've ever sent or received.
- Quick Reply - Compose at the speed of thought with inline replies and direct keyboard shortcuts for your favorite contacts.
- Powerful Search - Instantly find an email with powerful predicate-based search that works even when you're offline.
- Amazing Performance - Canary is engineered to offer an incredibly snappy user experience, with minimal CPU and RAM use.
What’s new in version 3.86
- Introducing Copilot: we're taking emailing to the next level with Copilot. Copilot uses AI to write your email replies for you. Just hit Reply and describe what you want to say in a few words and Copilot will do the rest.
Canary Mail for Mac
Free
In English
Version 3.86
What users say about Canary Mail
Features: 4.0
Pretty basic, but it looks and matches the macOS settings. has all the bells and whistles one would expect from an email client. Setup was the fastest and first problem-free setup I've had in a while (with iCloud, Gmail, and Yahoo).
Other user ratings:
Value | 5.0
Ease of use | 5.0
Reliability | 5.0
Customer support | 3.0
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What customer like
Performance
Security
Price
What needs improvements
Social media integration
Design
Customization
(57 Reviews of Canary Mail)
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User Ratings
Sep 27 2021
Version: 3.32
Canary is a good, solid e-mail client. There are some bells and whistles that would be good to have. But Canary's purpose is security. In terms of that, I would actually want to see S/MIME supported. Among bells and whistles, message tagging, virtual folders and finally control over the fonts would be nice to have, but again, it is about communication security.
Nov 9 2020
Version: 3.17
Best privacy features amongst competitors. Visually pleasing and cross-sync functioning more reliably now. FYI, these reviews are inconsistent with App Store reviews (4 stars), which makes one wonder if reviewers are unbiased.
Nov 4 2020
Version: 3.16
I tried this before purchasing. Alas, after purchasing, I discovered that it doesn't update my iCloud email. I wrote to the developers for help and was asked to send them some log files. I did so, directly from their Canary application. Then they turned around and told me that those were encrypted and that I should do something else, yet they didn't specify exactly what. I mean, if their own program can't do this, what am I supposed to do? I eventually copied and pasted all of their log data into an email and sent that.
Since then, I haven't heard jack from them. They've abandoned this problem after gladly taking my money.
I know people on MU ask for ratings based on the program and not on service, and I am trying to do that here. But my experience with the program is not good, and my experience with their customer service is far worse. I have little choice but to advise against this program.
Apr 15 2020
Version: 3.07
Overall, I'm a little disappointed. Canary looks good, is fast, and has solid security support.
Then there are the basic functions that are missing:
- message tagging
- some kind of rules-based sorting feature, to automate moving messages to folders
Finally, the defect in the message editor incorrectly creating email or phone number links. To be fair, I've observed in Spark and Airmail: the message editor does not create links properly. Try creating a link for your signature, containing an email address or phone number. Canary (and Spark and Airmail) simply prefix the link text with 'https://'. Insert a phone number, say 333-333-3333 as 'tel:3333333333' and you get 'https://tel:+13333333333'. Click it, instead of opening your dialer, it opens a browser and fails to find the site. Try an email address link, and 'mailto:abc@xyz.com' becomes 'https://mailto:abc@xyz.com'. Click that, and again you open a browser instead of creating a new message to that recipient.
