Native look
System font, native window and menus, light and dark that follow macOS.
Lighter than Electron. No Pro plan.
Mailspring is a cross-platform Electron app, with its best features behind a Pro subscription and a Mailspring ID.
zora is made only for the Mac, needs no extra account, and you pay once.
Feels like a Mac.
Light on memory
A Rust engine and the Mac's own WebKit, with no bundled Chromium. It opens instantly and stays out of the way.
Standard notifications
New mail is a macOS notification and a Dock badge. That's it.
No accounts but your mail.
No vendor ID
There's no zora account to make. Download, add your mail account, done.
No server in between
zora talks straight to your mail provider. Nobody else receives your mail, including me.
No tracking
zora doesn't track the people you write to, and blocks remote images so they can't track you.
Everything included.
Gmail done properly
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.
Nine color themes
zora, Everforest, Flexoki, Gruvbox, Kanagawa, Nord, Rosé Pine, Solarized and Zenwritten. No Pro tier needed.
Fair to say.
Mailspring does things zora doesn't. Better you know before you switch.
Mac only
No zora for Windows or Linux.
Not free
zora costs €99, once. Try every feature free for 14 days before you decide.
No snooze or send later
Not yet, and no read receipts or link tracking, on purpose.
Pay once. Keep it.
One license with every feature, instead of a free tier and a monthly Pro.
No subscription. A lifetime license. Try every feature free for 14 days first, no account needed.
AI off by default. Optional summaries and writing help use your own API key.
One person, no investors. No growth targets, no upsells, no acquisition email.
Made for the Mac, and only the Mac.
Requires macOS 14 or later.
Mailspring is a trademark of Foundry 376, LLC. zora is an independent app and is not affiliated with Mailspring.