Is Spark Mail Worth The Hype? | Full Spark Mail Review
Summary
TLDRIn this review, Sparkmail is examined for its AI-driven features aimed at streamlining email management. The app offers a free plan with limitations suitable for basic use and a pro version at $59.99/year. Key features include priority email organization, a command bar for task management, and a unified inbox. The AI aspects, such as compose, summary, and templates, were inaccessible for testing, but Sparkmail's recent addition of a calendar for iOS, Mac, and Windows stands out, providing a comprehensive tool for managing both emails and schedules.
Takeaways
- 📧 Sparkmail is an email application with added artificial intelligence to help manage and prioritize emails.
- 💰 The app offers a free plan with limitations suitable for basic email management, and a Pro plan priced at $59.99 per year.
- 🔑 Premium features include priority inbox management, email grouping, and a gatekeeper feature for screening incoming emails.
- 📌 The app provides organizational tools like 'Pins' and 'Set Aside' to help with task management within the inbox.
- 🛠️ A command bar is available for quick actions such as snoozing emails, marking priorities, and moving emails to relevant locations.
- 🚫 The AI features, including 'Compose AI', 'Summary AI', and 'AI Templates', were not accessible to the reviewer, possibly due to a quota issue.
- 🔍 AI Summary is highlighted as a practical feature for summarizing emails and finding value in them.
- 📲 The app is available on various devices and is easy to use for both mobile and desktop email management.
- 🗓️ A recent addition to Sparkmail is a calendar feature, currently limited to iOS, Mac, and Windows devices.
- 🔗 The calendar allows for event creation and integration with video conferencing, though it lacks extensive availability functions.
- 💡 The app is considered a good upgrade from basic email clients like Apple Mail, offering more customization and features.
Q & A
What is the name of the app being reviewed in the script?
-The app being reviewed is called Sparkmail.
What new feature has Sparkmail added to help manage emails?
-Sparkmail has added artificial intelligence to help manage emails and prioritize the inbox.
What does the free plan of Sparkmail offer?
-The free plan of Sparkmail offers some limitations that are good for an email application, though the specifics are not detailed in the script.
How much does the pro experience of Sparkmail cost per year?
-The pro experience of Sparkmail is priced at $59.99 per year at the time of the video.
What is the purpose of the 'Priority' feature in Sparkmail?
-The 'Priority' feature in Sparkmail allows for email group prioritization and setting certain people as priority contacts in the inbox.
What is the 'Gatekeeper' feature in Sparkmail?
-The 'Gatekeeper' is a screening feature that prevents people from emailing you outside of your inbox, helping to filter who lands in your inbox.
What does the 'Pins' feature in Sparkmail allow users to do?
-The 'Pins' feature in Sparkmail helps users to organize tasks and set them aside within the inbox for later management.
What is the 'Command Bar' in Sparkmail used for?
-The 'Command Bar' in Sparkmail is used for actions such as snoozing emails, marking them as priority, and moving them to relevant locations.
Why was the reviewer unable to access the AI features of Sparkmail?
-The reviewer was unable to access the AI features of Sparkmail because, despite subscribing to the premium rate, they found their monthly quota was at zero and could not find the settings to enable them.
What are the three parts of the AI email experience in Sparkmail?
-The three parts of the AI email experience in Sparkmail are 'Compose AI', 'AI Summary', and 'AI Templates'.
What additional feature was recently added to Sparkmail for iOS, Mac, and Windows?
-A calendar feature was recently added to Sparkmail for iOS, Mac, and Windows, allowing users to create events and meetings.
Outlines
📧 Introduction to Sparkmail App Review
In this introductory paragraph, the video script presents an overview of the Sparkmail app, which has recently integrated artificial intelligence to assist in email management and inbox prioritization. The host, Franchesco delesio, welcomes viewers to the review and beginner's guide, highlighting the app's features and its pricing structure, including a free plan with limitations suitable for an email application. The script also mentions a premium plan priced at $59.99 per year, and a team pricing option for enhanced collaboration. The paragraph sets the stage for a detailed exploration of Sparkmail's capabilities and whether it could be the next email software for the viewer.
🔍 Deep Dive into Sparkmail's Features and AI Integration
This paragraph delves into the specific features of Sparkmail, starting with its premium capabilities such as email prioritization and the 'gatekeeper' feature, which screens incoming emails to ensure only important messages land in the inbox. The script discusses organizational tools like 'pins' and 'set aside,' as well as the command bar for managing emails efficiently. It also touches on the premium feature of marking emails as priority and the 'home area' for a more personalized inbox experience. The host expresses disappointment in not being able to access the AI features despite subscribing to the premium plan, and shares his thoughts on the current state of AI in email applications, highlighting the practicality of the 'AI summarize' feature over other AI-driven functionalities like 'compose AI' and 'AI templates.' The paragraph concludes with a brief mention of the app's email and calendar management capabilities, emphasizing the ease of use across mobile and desktop platforms.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Sparkmail
💡Artificial Intelligence (AI)
💡Pricing
💡Priority Inbox
💡Gatekeeper
💡Pins and Set Aside
💡Command Bar
💡Unified Inbox
💡Calendar Integration
💡Templates
💡Delegation
Highlights
Sparkmail is an email application with added artificial intelligence to manage and prioritize inbox.
The app offers a free plan with limitations suitable for an email application.
Pro version priced at $59.99 per year with enhanced collaborative features.
Sparkmail is available on multiple devices with a variety of features for email management.
Premium features include email prioritization and a screening feature called Gatekeeper.
Pins and Set Aside features help organize tasks within the inbox.
The Command Bar is used for snoozing emails and other organizational tasks.
Marking emails as priority is a premium feature that helps manage a full inbox.
The Home area in premium offers a breathing space for inbox items.
AI features in Sparkmail include compose, summary, and templates but were not accessible for review.
AI summarizing emails is practical for quickly understanding content.
AI compose features may not be as valuable due to limited training data and power.
Sparkmail's AI features are not as compelling as other email apps' AI functionalities.
Email functions like AI search are more beneficial than AI compose features.
Managing emails on mobile and desktop is easy with features like pinning and delegating.
Delegation requires team collaboration and is limited to Gmail on the premium plan.
Replying to emails is straightforward with quick actions like 'Done'.
A recent addition is a calendar feature for iOS, Mac, and Windows, allowing event creation and meeting setup.
The calendar includes video conferencing integration but lacks extensive availability functions.
Sparkmail offers a good free experience with command bar, reminders, and customizable settings.
Premium plan is reasonably priced at $4.99 per month, totaling $60 per year.
Sparkmail is a practical tool for managing inbox on the go with unified features.
Transcripts
today we're looking at an app called sparkmail it's more recently added artificial intelligence
wants to help you manage your email every single day and prioritize your inbox but is it a good
email application is it a good software we're going to dive into it in today's review and
beginner guide to spark now we're going to look at some features and tell you if
this is your next email software hello folks my name is Franchesco delesio welcome to duf
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like email software jump over to tool finder you can find a wide range of resources there
tools for work in life and I think you'll find it awesome you can head over to Tool
finder.com it's a really interesting application and I think the best place to start is the pricing
the pricing is fairly reasonable it actually has a free plan which does have some good limitations
that are good for an email application like this but the pro experience takes that one step further
and is priced at $59.99 per year at the timing of this video there is also a team pricing which
offers some more collaborative abilities but let's dive into some of the features to give
you some more insight into whether this is right for you so for those who don't know sparkmail is
an application that you can download on a variety of devices those devices will be shown on screen
and it's an email application a software that's going to help you to manage your emails together
now I wanted to show you the application starting off with some of the premium features priority is
one of the premium features that allows you to do email groups prioritization of certain people
in your inbox which will allow you to set people that you have emailed and communicating with as
priority people and there's also a feature called gatekeeper as part of this which is essentially a
screening feature which is also available in other apps like hey email and the idea behind that is to
actually stop people emailing you outside of your inbox so that you can screen who is important to
Landing in your inbox now there are actually some decent features like pins and set aside that will
help you to organize your tasks and this is great for setting tasks aside inside of your inbox and
managing them for later now the command bar is something that you can use to snooze stuff and
there's actually some good tutorials when you get started with something like this they can help
you set things like snooze as well as Markus priority and so much other stuff like moving
things to the relevant locations and details like that now marking as priority is something that is
part of premium and it's a great way to separate things because when your email inbox gets full
it'll start to coordinate that and as part of that the home area which is part of Premium is
something that really does stand out it's an area that can see some of your inbox items and allow
you to have a little bit of a breathing space when you get started now moving on to talking
about the AI feat features I actually wanted to talk about this because I wasn't able to use
them I wasn't able to actually get access to the AI features although subscribing to the premium
rates I actually checked the monthly quota and it's something that I wasn't even I was at zero
but for some reason haven't been able to access them now something about this is obviously not
as compelling they've baked AI into this and they do this by scanning some of your sent emails to
base uh some of the details off of it and I've actually used some of this spark AI email before
there's three parts of this email experience for AI there's compose AI summary and AI templates now
compose is basically drafting based on a prompt AI summary is summarizing email based on what's
in the email and AI templates is generating drafts for template use and I kept getting meeting this
message recharge using Ai and the rates to upgrade are quite extensive at almost $9.99 for two times
the monthly quota limit now even in my settings I wasn't able to find this and I've actually been
reading a lot on the forums that people actually haven't been finding as much use with the spark
AI features now to be honest I actually find that Ai and email is pretty messy at the moment
unless youve got a feature like AI summarize which they do have that's actually much more
practical in terms of its day-to-day use because you're actually summarizing the email and finding
value in it whereas I think some of these composed AI features actually don't find much value because
the data it's trained on is not extensive and also it's not as powerful I think uh to finding
the true tone of who you're communicating with now I find um certain email functions like AI
search to be much more beneficial in email but of course I'm sure that's something that sparkk mail
have on the radar viewing an email and managing it both on mobile and desktop is easy you can do
things like pin it and also delegate the email to another person but for delegation you need
to be able to collaborate with team members this is great for sharing comments and also sharing
inboxes that is limited to Gmail only and you have to be on that pricing as well but for that ability
you have shared templates team Administration and shared thread as well as a bunch of email sharing
with secure link abilities replying to emails is really easy and it does come with some really
simple abilities like done that can be accessed in the top leftand corner so one of the things that's
most impressive in this account is a more recent addition of calendar this is available for iOS
Mac and windows only limited obviously to those devices right now but the application allows you
to create events as part of your whatever accounts set up on it and it's great for creating a a
meeting connecting a video conferencing and you using the meet with function which is actually
limited to premium but it does allow you to create a meeting instantly with somebody now you can set
a few people on the right hand side as defaults so that you can meet with them on regular occurrences
and share recommended times but it doesn't have any large availability functions that you get
inside of other availability apps like calendar motion or other such resource but as whole the
application was fast and easy to use in calendar mode and it was quite extensive in settings with
how much customizations you can have to making it really truly your own so as a whole managing your
inbox inside of spark Mount is pretty good it's an upgrade to something very basic like apple
mail and will give you a few customizations that you won't have inside of other applications the
addition of calendar is really really helpful templates will save you time a Unified Inbox
would sync between devices as well as the smart inbox notifications and search feature which I
was fairly impressed with near the end of the review you can also switch off signatures as
part of the free plan which I'm not sure whether it was available previously before but I always
found you couldn't do that and the free plan maybe I'm a little bit wrong combine that all
with the command bar and also some of the reminder abilities and this is a good free experience the
premium isn't drastically more expensive at $4.99 a a month which totals out at $60 a year which for
a fairly well-built application is pretty good now I would love to have tried the AI features
I've heard from some other users that it's not extensive or really impressive in comparison
with other AI features that are available through other apps like shortwave and superhuman but what
spark mail's going to do is help you to manage your inbox on the go and in a practical sense
unifying everything in one place thank you very much and I hope you enjoyed this review
I hope it gave you an outline of sparkmail apart from the AI side of things please
do find sparkmail linked below and follow up on any questions in the comments below
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