iHeartMail is an app that runs on your own device. It connects to your Gmail, reads your mail, and sorts it into categories you can change. Then it writes you a short briefing about what needs your attention.
The part that makes it different: the reading and summarising happen on your own computer, not on ours.
iHeartMail groups your mail into categories — Finance, Work, Shopping, whatever you end up needing. It learns from your corrections: file a sender somewhere once, and it remembers.
For each category it writes a short summary, and pulls out anything that looks like a deadline. The briefing on your dashboard is those summaries gathered in one place — plus the nearest thing coming up on your Google Calendar, read-only.
iHeartMail is a mail client, not just a viewer. From inside the app you can:
Everything you do here happens in Gmail too. Trash a message in iHeartMail and it's in your Gmail Trash, recoverable for as long as Gmail keeps it.
iHeartMail never permanently deletes anything. There is no action in the app that bypasses Trash.
The categorising and summarising are done by a language model that runs inside the iHeartMail app, on your machine — downloaded once when you first set up the app (about 1.3 GB) and checked against a known fingerprint before it's used. After that it lives on your computer and runs there.
See the privacy policy for exactly where your email does, and doesn't, go.
iHeartMail keeps a local cache — sender, subject, date, a preview, and the category it landed in — so the app is fast and works offline. Full message bodies and sent mail are never stored, images don't load unless you ask, and signing out erases all of it.
See the privacy policy for the full list of what's kept on your device and for how long.
Connecting your account means granting permission to read and act on your mail — not just view it — plus read-only access to your Google Calendar for the briefing.
See the privacy policy for exactly what's requested, why, and how to revoke it.