Mailbox: 800,000 People Waiting To Acquire This iPhone App
Bangalore: Mailbox app, the new iPhone app has created a buzz with 800,000 people waiting to access the new app. It focuses on transforming the user’s email experience by helping them achieve the elusive “inbox zero”, a fully processed and empty box, as per the reports.
The app which was launched this month is sending invitations to those people in waiting list. According to its creators, the excitement of the people is due to the existing outdated methods of dealing with emails.
Gentry Underwood, CEO and co-founder of Palo- Alto based Orchestra created the app. He said, “The big shift is away from a mobile email client that is a shrunken version of a desktop email client towards a mobile email client focused primarily around processing and triage”, according to FirstPost.
The app features an ability to “snooze” an email, which could be rescheduled to another time, or later in a day, or weekend, or until the following week.
There’s an option for the users to decide whether to reply immediately to the mail, or whether deal with it later or never deal with it again. It is also equipped with gestural wipes for quickly archiving, deleting and filing messages or adding them to lists, such as “to read” or “to buy”.
In addition, the company also created a to-do-list app Orchestra which outlines the rule of “do it, delegate it, drop it” to help people maintain empty inboxes.
The app provides many new features over the native iPhone mail app, but lacks the feature of multi-edit or multi-delete emails. Currently, the app works with Gmail and is trying to expand to other types of email and platforms in the future and is available worldwide.
