Best New Mac App Of 2010, As Voted By Our Readers: Postbox 2

Giles Turnbull (1:41 am PDT, Jan 06 2011)

Postbox 2 voted New Mac App of the Year 2010

In a pre-Christmas post, we asked Cult of Mac readers to vote for their favorite new Mac OS X app of 2010. As usual, by “new” we mean a brand new app, or a major update to an old app, that’s been released during the previous 12 months.

This years winner, by a considerable margin, was email client Postbox 2.

For those of you who’ve not tried it, Postbox is a feature-packed email client which combines some of the best ideas from web-based email and local email services. It’s an excellent tool for people who live and die by email, and who manage a large volume of messages across many different accounts.

Other apps that got a lot of mentions included Alfred, Sparrow and Reeder.

Thanks to everyone who contributed their comments. I’m already looking forward to all the new treasures we might discover during 2011 – and the new means we will have to discover them, the Mac App Store, which should be live in just a few hours from now.

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4 comments »

  • twum

    Hi,

    After reading this article and another review of the app here, I thought I’d download it and give it a try. I’ve been using Apple Mail till now with IMAP for my Yahoo and Gmail accounts. After installing and running Postbox for a while, I noticed that it uses much more memory than Mail.

    Is this something that could be helped?

    Cheers
    twum

  • http://www.postbox-inc.com Sherman Dickman

    Hi Twum,

    Postbox will use more memory (and CPU) as it performs it’s initial indexing step to make messages searchable, but things should settle down after that. Generally, Postbox will use a bit more memory, but that’s because more data is being loaded into RAM for performance.

    Sherman Dickman
    Postbox, Inc.

  • http://twitter.com/therealizzy Adrian

    I have moved past local email clients. To be clear, I still use an app (mailplane), but keeping things in sync across a myriad of devices has become too much of a headache, a cloud solution is what I have moved to.

  • David

    Adrian, you might want to consider using IMAP.
    It’s the best of both worlds:
    1. Always-in-sync across your myriad devices via IMAP protocols.
    2. Fast, full-featured, powerful, offline email processing with a dedicated Mail client such as Apple Mail, Postbox, Entourage, Outlook, etc.

    I have been using IMAP for several years now and I just LOVE the way I never have to duplicate my efforts. If I read, reply, move, or delete a message on my phone, then that night when I’m back on my desktop computer I don’t have to deal with it again… it’s already in sync after starting up my email client and letting it fetch new messages.

    I’m just now demoing Postbox and notice that it is VERY FAST at syncing with with my IMAP accounts.

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