![]() I love this product and recommend it to anyone who cares to listen, and I swear by it to anyone who won't. So if I want to keep it out of the way, and not be distracted by it when I alt tab - BUT still get notifications I have to put it on another desktop. You also can't set Kiwi as the default app for ".gdsheet" / ".gddoc" and similar (the extension formats used by Insync) so that's a bit of a pain. For google sheets that I use daily, I'm not going to click through multiple screens when I can click on a shortcut on my taskbar, or hit the windows key and start typing for the shortcut I've saved. I tend to use google drive in browser, again for dark mode, but also because I can save shortcuts to specific files, or install them as 'apps'. Also the lack of a dark theme (and not having an addon like dark-reader) means that I don't use the calendar. ics files to easily add events when they are provided in that way. The calendar could be more fully into the OS. Never had any major issues with stability etc. Simple and straightforward, interface is clean. Notifications within windows and integration is good. , but lack of a dark theme (across all windows) and lack of integration for Google Calendar and Google Drive mean that I don't make as much use of Kiwi as I might otherwise. ![]() My quest for the perfect Gmail client continues.It's fine for email, and is a nice reliable solution. Personally, I think Wavebox comes out on top in the comparison, but it still has kinks that I would like them to work out.Įverything else I've tried - Outlook, Mailbird, Thunderbird, eM Client - sucks in different ways. I've been hunting for a great Gmail client for a long time, and sadly, all three of them are far from perfect. Performance and battery life is nearly on par with Wavebox. Also no back/fwd buttons, just like Wavebox. Like, wtf! A tabbed interface would be better, but not sure if it would go with their overall UX philosophy. For heavy Gmail users of multiple accounts and constant back-and-forth between mail, calendar, keep, docs in those accounts, it can easily lead to fifty independent windows in the space of an hour. ![]() You can turn off "compose in new window", but rest everything - calendar, drive, sheets, docs - keeps opening in a new window every time you click the buttons. Their selling point of "everything opens in a new window" is a major nuisance for me. I suspect it is not merely a browser-in-a-box electron clone, but a lot of things are implemented from scratch. Kiwi - The most well designed in terms of their design language, and over designed in other ways. It is often much easier to just hit a back button to, say, go back to you search results or to previously viewed emails. Strangely, it does not have a forward and back button like Shift has, which is a pain in the ass for me when navigating in Gmail. The Slack integration and the ability to use different websites in their own wrapper/tab is really great. ![]() Wavebox - Evolved from Wmail, which Shift was forked from. The calendar and drive integrations work reasonably well. Performance and battery life penalty is probably the highest among all three. All three of them are deficient in different ways, so here's my 2 cents. I've been trying out all three (Windows clients) for some time now (Kiwi has been available only recently).
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