Description
In a traditional inbox, emails from the people who matter most get buried under everything else. ChatInbox puts people first — grouping every message by contact, so each person's conversation is always one tap away.
Tap a contact. See everything you've ever exchanged — messages, attachments, history — all in one clean, chat-style view. No more hunting through a chronological pile of unread mail to find that one message from your client, your accountant, or your kid's school.
If you've ever wished email worked like iMessage — but for every account, every provider, all in one place — ChatInbox is what you've been looking for.
CONTACT-CENTERED INBOX
Every email is grouped by sender. Your contact list shows the most recent conversation first, each person appearing only once. Open a contact to see your full history, displayed as a natural back-and-forth conversation.
UNIFIED ACCOUNTS
Connect Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, and any IMAP account. All your email, all your contacts, one inbox — synced across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
SMART CONTACT GROUPING
ChatInbox automatically groups related contacts — airlines, hotels, online shopping, subscriptions — so you can manage entire categories of email at once.
CALENDAR EMAIL FILTER
Browse your inbox by date using the built-in calendar view. Find any message from any day without searching.
VISUAL ORGANIZATION
Tag and organize emails on a Kanban board. Track what needs attention, what's waiting for a reply, and what's done.
REMINDERS & NOTIFICATIONS
Set custom reminders on any email. Get notified about messages that matter and let the rest wait.
MARKDOWN COMPOSER
Write polished emails with built-in Markdown formatting. Style text clearly without wrestling with toolbars.
PRIVACY FIRST
Your emails stay on your devices. ChatInbox connects directly to your mail servers — no third-party servers, no data mining, no tracking.
Previously used Unibox and miss email grouped by sender? ChatInbox carries that vision forward — rebuilt from the ground up for modern Apple platforms, with features Unibox never had.
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What's new (v2026.12)
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.