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Calendar & tasks
Your calendar and tasks right alongside your mail — invites, RSVPs and to-dos, travel-time estimates, no extra app.
Jmail brings all your mail — Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, any IMAP — into one quick, native Mac app that keeps everything on your Mac. A proper daily-driver inbox that respects you — now with a private personal CRM, App Lock, and a Private Vault for the accounts you keep to yourself.
One-time £4.99. No account. No tracking. No monthly bill.
This is the app you'll actually live in. Every account in a single unified inbox, or one at a time. Setup is a single step — type your address and Jmail finds the right server settings. And because it's native, it's fast: folders open in a fraction of a second, not the spinner you've made peace with.
Jmail isn't privacy-as-a-marketing-angle. There's no server of ours in the middle — because there's no server of ours at all. It's just your Mac, talking to your providers.
Your mail talks directly to your providers. No backend of ours, no analytics pipe, no copy of your inbox anywhere but your Mac.
Summaries and daily digests run on Apple's on-device models — your mail is never shipped to a cloud to be read.
No sign-up to use it. Pay once, own it. Add and remove accounts freely — nothing holds them hostage.
Most people have an account they'd rather no one stumbled on. On top of the everyday inbox, Jmail gives it a home: a sealed compartment, encrypted at rest, opened only by Touch ID or a passphrase — and invisible in day-to-day use. Use it or don't; it's simply there when you need it.
Step away from your desk and your mail is a Touch-ID (or passphrase) away — even when your Mac is still unlocked. A privacy gate for the whole app, on by choice, off by default.
In most mail apps, contacts are a dead address list. Jmail turns them into a private, personal CRM: it sorts the real people from the noise, builds a picture of each relationship from mail you already have, and lets you keep your own notes and remembered facts about anyone — encrypted, and never off your Mac.
Most inboxes are half clutter. Jmail shows you exactly what's filling one — as a visual map where every sender is a box, sized by how much they've sent you and shaded to flag the likely noise. Clear it out safely, then keep what's left for instant search that works even offline.
Add a rail of small, glanceable panels beside your mail and arrange it exactly how you like — your unread count, your next events, today's tasks, a world clock, a focus timer, a quick note straight to your board. Pick the ones that matter to you; leave the rest.
The vault gets the headlines, but this is the part you'll use every hour. Jmail is a full, modern Mac mail client: the features you'd walk away without, all present and correct — plus a few you wouldn't expect.
Your calendar and tasks right alongside your mail — invites, RSVPs and to-dos, travel-time estimates, no extra app.
Rich-text composer, reusable templates, per-account signatures, and scheduled send for when it should go later.
Inbox rules, block and safe senders, mute noisy threads, and one-click sweep to clear a sender in seconds.
Summaries and daily digests generated right on your Mac — helpful, and never sent to a cloud to be read.
Sticky notes, an RSS reader and newsgroups in the sidebar — switch on the ones you use, hide the rest.
| Platform | macOS 14 Sonoma or later · Intel and Apple silicon |
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| Accounts | Gmail, Outlook / Microsoft 365, iCloud, Fastmail and any IMAP mailbox |
| Where your mail lives | On your Mac. There is no JollyForge server anywhere in the path. |
| Sign-up | None. No account to create, nothing to log in to. |
| Trackers | Hidden pixels and remote content blocked by default; load them in one tap |
| Private Vault | AES-256 at rest, PBKDF2-derived key, Touch ID or its own passphrase, one-time recovery code |
| AI | Off by default. On-device via Apple Intelligence, or your own Claude / OpenAI key with a monthly spend cap |
| Price | £4.99 once. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads, no data collection. |
| Where to buy | The Mac App Store, and nowhere else |
A fast, native email client for the Mac. Every account — Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Fastmail, any IMAP mailbox — in one unified inbox, with a sealed Private Vault for the accounts you keep to yourself. It is £4.99 as a one-time purchase.
Between your Mac and your mail provider, and nowhere else. There is no JollyForge server in the middle: no backend of ours, no analytics pipe, and no copy of your inbox anywhere but your own machine. That is the whole design, not a setting.
No. There is nothing to sign up for. You add your existing mail accounts and that is the end of it — and you can remove them again whenever you like.
None. No analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no usage pings. If you want to check, watch Jmail’s network traffic: you will see your mail providers and nothing else.
FileVault protects your disk while the Mac is off. The Vault protects chosen accounts while your Mac is on and unlocked. It is encrypted at rest with its own key, opened by Touch ID or a passphrase separate from your Mac login, and — the part that took the most care — it never leaks into the main inbox, search, unread counts or notifications.
You use the one-time recovery code Jmail gives you when you set the Vault up. Keep it somewhere safe: without it or the passphrase, the contents cannot be recovered — by you or by us. That is what “encrypted” has to mean.
No, and it can’t: there is no server to sync through. Your mail syncs with your provider as usual on each Mac, but Jmail’s own settings, Vault and notes stay on the machine they were made on.
With an app password and 2-step verification switched on, rather than a hosted OAuth client — because there is nothing hosted. Jmail walks you through creating one. Some managed Workspace accounts have app passwords disabled by their administrator, in which case Jmail can’t connect.
It is off until you turn it on. On-device is the default engine, using Apple’s models, so your mail is not sent anywhere to be read. If you prefer a stronger model you can add your own Claude or OpenAI key; that is labelled wherever it appears, and only then does any mail leave your Mac. You can see the month’s spend and set a cap, after which Jmail falls back to the on-device engine.
Everything except the on-device AI features works normally. Those need macOS 26 on an Apple-silicon Mac with Apple Intelligence enabled; the rest of Jmail needs only macOS 14.
“Yesterday, today, tomorrow”: a short digest of what landed while you were away, what needs you today and what is coming tomorrow, drawn from your mail and calendar and built on your Mac.
If you run Beeper Desktop and approve Jmail inside it, a person’s recent chat messages appear beside their email, so you see one thread of a relationship rather than two. It is read-only — replies open in Beeper — it is optional, and nothing appears at all unless you connect it.
No. Jmail is a paid app and that is how it is funded. The privacy claims don’t depend on trusting the source, though: there is no account, no backend and no analytics, and you can watch the network traffic yourself.
Not at the moment. It is £4.99 once, and refunds go through Apple in the usual way from your App Store purchase history.
JollyForge — Marc Jolly, an independent developer in the UK. Questions and bug reports go to admin@jollyforge.dev and reach a person.
For macOS. No subscription, no account, no tracking.
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