No server in between
zora connects straight to Gmail, iCloud or your IMAP provider. Nobody else receives your mail, including me.
Paid for by you, not your inbox.
Free email apps have to make money somehow. Edison's has, in part, come from anonymized purchase data found in its users' mail.
zora costs money instead, once, and has no way to look at your mail at all.
No data business.
zora has no server, so there's nothing on the other end to collect anything.
No analytics, no telemetry
The app doesn't report what you do, what you receive, or whom you write to.
Keychain only
Passwords and sign-in tokens live in the macOS Keychain, never in files, logs or uploads.
What will feel familiar.
A clean inbox
Content first, quiet chrome around it. Conversations open beside the list.
Several accounts
Gmail, iCloud, Fastmail, Yahoo or any IMAP account, in one window.
Tracking blocked
Remote images stay blocked until you ask, so senders can't see when you opened their mail.
What's different.
Gmail labels, as labels
Labels, nested ones included, threads, spam and trash behave like Gmail.
Keyboard first
A command palette on ⌘K, plus J K to move, E to archive and R to reply.
AI only if you want it
Off by default. Turn it on with your own OpenAI, Anthropic or xAI (Grok) key, or leave it off.
Fair to say.
Edison does things zora doesn't. Better you know before you switch.
Not free
zora costs €99, once. Try every feature free for 14 days before you decide.
Mac only
No zora for iPhone or Android. Your accounts stay in sync on the server, so your phone app keeps working.
No Exchange
zora speaks Gmail and IMAP. Exchange-only accounts won't connect.
Pay once. Keep it.
One payment is the whole business model.
No subscription. A lifetime license, no upsells.
One person, no investors. Nobody to sell your data to, and no reason to.
Read the policy. The privacy policy on this site lists exactly what zora accesses and where it goes.
Mail that stays yours.
Requires macOS 14 or later.
Edison Mail is a trademark of its respective owner. zora is an independent app and is not affiliated with Edison.