SiftmacOS 13+ · Gmail · Rust core · 16.9 MB
Email that keeps up with you.
A keyboard-first Gmail client for Mac. Your mail is mirrored to your own machine, for quick search and a calmer inbox.
Open source under the MIT license. No Apple stamp yet. One tiny macOS detour → · Install with Homebrew
16.9 MB download no bundled browsermail stays on your MacmacOS 13+
Tiny by design.
A lightweight Mac app that keeps your inbox close. Fast local search, familiar shortcuts, and no bundled browser engine.
One download for Apple Silicon and Intel.
Search locally. Read cached messages even when you’re offline.
Connect directly to Gmail. Your credentials stay in the Keychain.
Your hands never leave the keys.
Every action has a key. The palette does the rest. Hover a card, or just press the keys.
Glide through the list. No scrolling to think about.
Archive, and undo it if you blinked.
Jump anywhere: threads, labels, actions, accounts.
Reply from the thread. Send-and-archive in one go.
Built for the way inboxes actually work.
One window for everything. Fast enough that triage stops feeling like work.
Keyboard-first
Every action has a key. The palette covers the rest.
All your inboxes
Personal, work, clients. Unified, color-coded, one shortcut apart.
Mistakes are cheap
Snooze, undo, undo send.
Ready when you’re offline
Search your local mailbox and read messages you’ve already opened.
Private by design
Tokens live in the macOS Keychain. There is no Sift server.
Make it yours.
Theme, accent, density. This page and the preview above follow along. Try it.
Open source, all the way down.
Sift is MIT licensed. The Rust core, the React interface, the site and the release pipeline are the same code you install — read it, build it, or fork it.
Use, modify and redistribute it, including in closed-source builds, as long as the copyright notice and the license text travel with it.
The sync engine, the sanitizer, the SQLite schema and this page all live in one repository.
git clone, then pnpm install and pnpm tauri dev with Rust and Node 20+.
A small app. A solid foundation.
A Rust core does the heavy lifting once, then every read hits a local SQLite file. Mail goes directly between your Mac and Google.
The source is public under the MIT license. Read the code · see what is measured
Connected in a few steps.
- 1
Turn on 2-Step Verification (open settings).
- 2
Create an app password named Sift (open App passwords).
- 3
Paste the 16 letter password in Sift and press Connect.
Clear your inbox today.
Free while in beta. v1.1.1 · 16.9 MB · macOS 13 or newer.
Unnotarized beta. First-launch steps, including when “Open Anyway” is missing →
Checksums and release notes
SHA-256 of the DMG published in v1.1.1: d8ca81fa45beca9df8ecd506ac0991f12570664c87768ec2306ea5dbdb36ece6 — read from that
release's SHA256SUMS asset rather than typed by hand. Every release ships sums next
to the DMG on GitHub.