Steal your content to train their AI and charge you to do it. No thanks.

Did you change calendar and removed views?

I wanted to like this app so much. I have been back and forth with support for weeks and it’s like talking to a wall. Contacts do not populate when sending emails, not even in forwarded emails with one of the people in copy. The worse part is the notification badges. They would show 34 emails, when you open the app there’s like 3, without reading any of them once you exit the app there’s badge is gone completely. This is just using @icloud email, no subscription either, I wanted to test basic functionality before subscribing, this can’t even do that. The response from support is to check all email clients and make sure there are no unread emails… the only other client I have emails forwarded from is Gmail and that’s pretty ridiculous I would need to constantly check Gmail for unread mail. They asked if this happened in my home only due to firewall, antivirus etc., this happens everywhere, cellular service, other WiFi’s as well.

Love the app, longtime user. Seems that emails lag lately. I open the app and it takes a few seconds to load, leading to deleting or categorizing emails incorrectly.

For years I kept “mark as spam” in various mail clients with limited success. You still need to train Spark with your spam but I experienced tremendous spam blocking. I did have one irritation because I use multiple iOS devices, needing to restore purchases multiple times daily. Tech support helped me figure out I was logged into two different Spark accounts. When I logged out of the account without subscription and logged in with the subscription account Spark spam I saved 5 minutes a day! On a personal level I am happy to support a software company on the right side of history. The employees have endured much.

Like it, just wish it had read receipts outside of teams like Canary.

Apparently a new update to Spark (or a new premium option) offers “pre-drafted replies”. While I might understand the use case for *very* high-volume accounts, in the real world it seems such a thing is unlikely to work, at least if the drafts use LLMs to generate them. Firstof all, LLMs are error-prone, but they also make people sound flat and robotic and contribute to the general dehumanization of communication that has been taking place post-pandemic. Authenticity is always better than superficial efficiency.

I have used this app for years and highly recommend it. To the developers. Thank you for updating it to the duo. I have a recommendation. Please move the selector in the upper left corner for selecting mailboxes to the right hand dock with the other tools. More space for emails and it would be easier to secure between mailboxes.

Spark has been a fantastic consolidation of my various email accounts. I specifically needed a solution that worked with iOS macOS and Windows and they hit the mark. I wish they had a more consumer-friendly paid version short of the all-inclusive AI suite as I would buy it. Being able to disable their assistant and tools and use the app for free has been invaluable to me. Account and settings sync between devices saves so much headache.

Sadly, I’ve given the Spark team plenty of opportunities to respond to me (which they initially did on X) but they have since gone dark without any follow up on the ticket they said would create. This is not only unacceptable but ultimately disappointing. I pay for this service, have used them for nearly 10 years as my email client and even explained to them that if they weren’t going to get back to me, that I’d have to resort to leaving a negative review…well here I am. I have ALWAYS had issues with using my working App Specific Password (required by Apple) to connect my iCloud account when upgrading to a new phone. Every year. This year I finally reached out to ask why, as I have to create a new ASP and then log into EACH of my 4 devices every single time. Other apps have no issue with my ASP, only Spark. I would NOT recommend this app and suggest you take your email business elsewhere.