Email Client - Boomerang Mail Reviews

by Luvv Pony

Has crashed the last 5x I’ve tried to reply to an email. Phone and app are up to date (always). Emails do not display - in order to view them I have to hit Reply, and then scroll down and see the quoted text. When I finally get an email to display, I can’t easily reply because the entire 42-thread email is shown from the top (not at the most recent email). When I cut and paste (even in a blank draft), the pasted text is in a larger different font, as though you’re editing quotes text in a thread.

I have no idea how I’m one of the only people having issues. So, maybe it’s just me. The reviews look to be pretty 5-star across the board. Really wanted EmailClient to work for me. I have 3 different work emails, so always looking for the best client.

by Hiponautimous Potimus.

Has been my absolute favorite e-mail app so, I am sad to have to leave it. I would have no problem paying for EmailClient, but 20$ a month is a no go for me. Especially with everything going on. I cannot tell you how many email apps I have used over the years, and finding this one was a breath of fresh air. I am thankful they worked so hard to make such a wonderful email app that works seamlessly, and doesn’t crash. But, sadly, $20 per month, is an exorbitant amount. I am sure there are people who can and will pay that, but darn it…I just can’t. I’m sure the yearly is a ‘better deal’, but most of us don’t have nearly $200 just laying around for an app that loads your emails - even if it does it very well. I sincerely hope they create a version without all the extra features one day. Because honestly, I don’t use fancy features. I just wanted one that worked well, and had a good lay out! And it does! And, no, I’m not whining about having to pay now — I’m just extremely disappointed!

by Jackie1822

I’ve been using this email app for about a year or two. It’s been fine, although I’ve had several emails appear later- as in an email is sent to me at 7:30, I check my email at 10 and it isn’t there, I check my email at 12 and it is there now, with the time stamp of 7:30. So that’s caused some issues for me.

Also I have multiple email accounts and I hate the way to switch them individually is the little circles because I can never remember which email is which colored circle and they aren’t labeled.

I have no use for their biggest feature, the “boomerang” feature.

I understand needing to change over to a pay subscription but
1- it was really sucky that out of nowhere I had a pay wall and couldn’t get to my emails. I had to spend time first thing in the morning finding an alternative because there was no warning that it would change to a paid model

2- $180 a year?! Seriously?? $20 a month?? You are sadly overestimating your worth, and going from free to $180 is insane.

by Slumbertime101

I’m shocked at all the amazing reviews for EmailClient. It has major glitches, and you should be very careful before using it. I am using the version for my iPhone. It is connected to my work office 365 email account, which I also manage using the default apple mail client.

I just deleted EmailClient , because I have repeatedly experienced the following two unacceptable problems:

1. Version-control issues where an edit to a draft made in the Boomerang client is overwritten by an older draft on the office 365 server. I have always used multiple clients to manage my mail (web, desktop client, and mobile client) and have never had this experience before

2. When editing a scheduled message, the message is sent immediately upon saving the edit rather than adhering to the scheduled time.

EmailClient also forces you to choose between saving and discarding a draft that you were merely reviewing. This is not normal behavior for any mail client I have ever used before. Closing an unedited draft should automatically save the draft back to its original location with no option to discard.

by JoHenriquez

Huge fan of the desktop version, and LOVE the functions in EmailClient .

However, I constantly find emails that I have either not read or “marked as unread” that are in the sea of “read emails” and therefor get lost.

I noticed two things: 1) when I mark something as unread, unless I refresh the page, it does not actually mark it as unread, and the email then gets lost in thousands of read emails. No good.
2) sometimes (especially in horizontal mode) EmailClient automatically opens on an email and marks it as read. I need to be super careful when opening EmailClient to make sure it didn’t mark anything as read.
3) there are still random emails that somehow get marked as read without explanation.

One trick to try to mitigate is to constantly go to “brief me” and check the “unanswered emails”. I’ll often discover unread emails in there (marked as read).

Great app, but unfortunately until this bug is fixed, I can’t rely on it to make sure I’m getting all my emails.

by Xtopher1974

I’ve been looking for something to replace Inbox which has slowed development. At the bare minimum I want an email app that lets me do work while off line — in the subway, on an airplane. Boomerang’s key feature set fails at this. Even non-key features like send an email, require being connected instead or waiting to send later. This makes EmailClient non-functional for my workflow and maximizing my travel time.

Slightly less annoying, there’s no way to fine tune alerts. So instead of having alerts from folks I regularly interact with, I get every promotional email, every listserv.

EmailClient is really nicely designed and interaction experience is well thought out. The desktop plugin for the Mac is great and had me hopeful for EmailClient . But EmailClient ’s failure to act like every other email program for offline work, means I’ll be deleting EmailClient and choosing another GTD solution.

by Owl_81

I downloaded EmailClient for my iPad and while I like the features there is one bug that makes it frustrating to use. I have three gmail accounts. EmailClient will not recognize the images I have set for the gmail accounts. So for two gmail accounts, Boomerang shows my Apple memoji that is connected with my Apple account. This is make it difficult to know which email account I’m looking at or switching between. The third account shows a random camel picture. I cannot find a way to change the images for the different accounts.

by DPat317

I have always been on the hunt for a email app to replace the default apple mail app. I have used outlook, spark, Edison, airmail...along with many others. I really did like this email app. I thought the interface is simplistic, yet elegant. The email viewer doesn’t have a lot of fluff and is reminiscent of Spark, in that regards. I do like the “Brief Me” function, which is essentially like a calendar function. Some have noted the Boomerang only syncs with limited email clients and that doesn’t really bother me...yet, as it will likely add more. However, EmailClient doesn’t tell me how many unread emails I have unless I open EmailClient . Once I do that, the badge icon updates. But once I close EmailClient again, then the badges disappears. I really don’t want to keep opening EmailClient to check if I have received emails. For this reason, I had to stop using EmailClient and refer back to Spark. If they get the issues with the badge resolved, I will like go back to using this email app

by DivaPaule

I’ve taken a break from Outlook to try things out with Boomerang since it’s the hot new thing right now. I’ve installed a boomerang add-on to my gmail and it works perfectly. I think it’s a cool feature on any email platform.

But the email app... meh. Great interface and nice features. It’s good to look at but I’ve struggled with basic functions like: receiving my emails in a timely fashion or getting notified when said email finally comes in. A lot of the time I’d have to go into EmailClient to refresh before discovering that I’ve missed several messages. Believe me, I’ve toyed with all the notification settings both on EmailClient and on my phone to make sure that everything is turned on. There are no settings to control the frequency in which EmailClient fetches. What good is having the bells and whistles if it cannot do the basic things you need it to do.

So... Outlook and I have worked things out. It is just a more reliable app. While not as attractive as Boomerang- Outlook is a better fit for my very basic needs.

by RebeccaRae411

After my trusty email client that I've been using for years locked up EmailClient that I already paid for in a change to a subscription service, I've been on the hunt for something new. I really enjoyed the look and feel of Boomerang but am disappointed in its small range of emails that it works with. To make an iPhone app that doesn't even work with iCloud email seems silly. For now, I will keep looking for something that will support all of my emails in one place. But I'd really like to give this one a go so I'll keep checking back to see if there are future updates to support more emails.

by 2rmf

I absolutely love boomerang, most of the time. It’s a great service that I have used from its inception. However, the hit and miss reliability has caused me to waste a substantial amount of time. Even more so, caused embarrassing situations with partners and clients.

Don’t understand why it should be so difficult to create an app that reliably schedules the sending time of emails. Jesus, you’d think that technology would be easy.

Hoping they get their act together pretty soon. Make it user friendly. More than willing to pay for that service.

by Djdjrnrjek

EmailClient works well for me. I like to keep it separate from my regular mail app as I have different emails for different purposes. It allows me to use the boomerang add on for gmail while the regular mail app does not. I can find though that EmailClient can get a bit glitchy at times. There have been a handful of times where I’ll start a draft of an email and come back to it later and it didn’t save or just a few times where I sent an email but it didn’t send. These things haven’t occurred often, however. They have been rare occurrences enough that I still trust EmailClient enough to use it and rely on it.

by SophiaZoelle

I love the boomerang features such as sending messages later, the ability to pause my inbox, the colors (lame, I know) and the easy swiping away features, but I’ve noticed I do not get certain emails every once in a while on it.
I kept my gmail app when downloading boomerang and every so often I see a notification in gmail showing I haven’t read an email in gmail so I check it and it’s an email I didn’t receive on the boomerang app. Typically it’s an email chain from work that is extensive, so perhaps it’s because of that factor.
I’m glad I don’t fully depend on boomerang though and still check my gmail app, even though boomerang is what I use on a daily basis.

by >=]>=D

I really love the boomerang app since it allows me to use the boomerang feature and set emails to be sent at a later date. But I find that it tends to freeze sometimes - not enough that it diminishes the use of EmailClient , but enough that it can get a little annoying at times. I still like EmailClient , however, and the freezing happens only a few times so I still value it. I also can’t seem to figure how to view my flagged emails on EmailClient. It might be just me, but I don’t know where on EmailClient you can look at just your flagged message.

by Namtrok

I love Boomerang, and I've been waiting for them to develop a mobile app... they have a lot of good features right now, and like many of the other reviewers I'm looking forward to other developments.

I reached out to the developers and they responded quickly and will be adding the additional features.

In the meantime I have found a bunch of benefits over my other mail apps, so I'm using it as my main email app. The bigest thing I wish for that they would let me archive and or boomerang from the notification of a new email... that would be awesome. The rest are nice to haves.

I love how it synced my email accounts (send as) from g suite. and it's settings/syncs are good. It's also really fast, reliable and has not crashed once in the two weeks I've been using it full time.

Great Product, Great Team (responsive afaik), and scratching my itch... but PLEASE oh PLEASE give us an update with more of the requested features!

by Fincle

This is great but I struggle with sorting emails into my (very large) folder/label structure.

The native apple mail client makes a single suggestion based on past patterns when moving messages. If Boomerang learned over time patterns of mail sorting and made three suggestions at the top of the list, it would probably be my primary client for sorting emails each morning. For now it takes me a lot of effort to scroll through all my labels to find the right folder every single time I move an email.

Great work on everything else. I would recommend this to anyone asking me about email apps.

by Welker Properties

I’ve been using boomerang with Gmail for years. Honestly I don’t think I could run my business without it, there’s no going back! Plus having EmailClient, they provide some specific features directly from the desktop that I love - scheduled send, scheduled follow ups, and my real actual email signature (not sure how that’s not standard for every email app). Keep up the great work Boomerang team!

by Mikibellon

I’ve been searching and searching for an email app that helps me with my Gmail. I feel like I’ve tried them all! Just when I feel like I’m getting the hang of EmailClient , I receive a notice EmailClient will no longer be available for one reason or another. Regardless, nothing was ever perfect and I wanted something to simplify the dreadful Gmail app. Tonight I discovered “Brief Me” and that moved me to write this review. That was the cherry on top! Boomerang has the simplest interface and its easy swiping are the BEST! Thank you for FINALLY building an email app to help us tackle our endless emails and reminding us what’s important in life!

by ShayShari

EmailClient is almost perfect, but the main reason I wanted it was so I could schedule messages. The feature works, but the scheduled messages don't show up under the "scheduled" tab. Instead they show up under drafts. Took me a while to figure out. (I was expecting them to be under the tab in EmailClient that says "scheduled" or in the outbox.
Overall the interface is great. EmailClient doesn't refresh automatically. But, I'm not too concerned about needing to see emails immediately as they come.

by 986857575465

Just started using EmailClient , on the recommendation of a fellow school administrator. Thus far, I’m very impressed with EmailClient -but not impressed enough to pay $15 a month to use it more than the 10 allotted allowances. I would encourage the developers to consider a nonprofit pricing for school district use. Most educators aren’t going to pay the $15 a month for their school account (many schools have moved to Gmail accounts) to use the product (even though it’s a great product).

by Zoe Rayne

This is a solid email client, but it has one shortcoming that led to me picking a different app to replace Inbox (RIP, Inbox): you can’t set a browser preference. Tapping a link in Boomerang opens in Safari, and I hate Safari, so that was a deal-breaker for me.

On the positive side, I love the radial swipe; it provides the largest range of options in a quick and intuitive way. Best of all, it provides visual cues—essential for me in a world where every app has its own selection of swipe gestures and I just don’t have the time or desire to memorize them all.

by Itsbenjik

I’ve been waiting for EmailClient and it’s finally here! It has all the features I was hoping for! I’m giving it five stars aspirationally as it’s still a bit buggy and freezes a lot, and if you aren’t actively connected to the network like on the subway it sort of panics, but I messaged them and am confident these will be worked out in the next release. Keep up the good work!