Letterboxx is for the newsletters you signed up for but are buried in your email inbox. Give them their own calm, organized home on your Mac outside of your email inbox.
A better home for your newsletters.
You subscribed because you _wanted_ to read them.
The essays. The news roundups. The research. The product updates. The local news. The niche publications. Interesting things from interesting people.
Then they arrived alongside everything else in your inbox that needed a reply, a decision, or your attention — and became more email to deal with.
Letterboxx gives them somewhere better to go.
Letterboxx is a dedicated Mac app for reading and organizing email newsletters. Connect the email account you already use, choose the folders where your newsletters arrive, and Letterboxx makes local copies for a calm, organized reading library on your Mac.
Your regular email stays where it is. Your regular email app keeps doing its job.
Letterboxx becomes the place you go to read.
YOUR INBOX ISN’T A LIBRARY. LETTERBOXX IS.
Email was designed for communication. Letterboxx is designed for the good stuff that happens to arrive by email but deserves more than a quick scan between messages.
• BUILD YOUR OWN LIBRARY
Create Letterboxxes for whatever you’re into — technology, investing, design, books, local news, research, hobbies, shopping, favorite writers, or that wonderfully specific subject you somehow ended up subscribing to six newsletters about.
• LET THE MAIL SORT ITSELF
Auto-Delivery puts recurring newsletters into the right Letterboxx automatically using rules based on sender, recipient, subject, content, and other message details.
• READ THE WRITING, NOT THE CLUTTER
Clean View reduces ads, trackers, embeds, and other distractions so there’s less between you and the thing you came to read.
• HIGHLIGHT THE GOOD PARTS
Highlight sentences, ideas, quotes, recommendations, recipes, or anything else worth remembering in familiar highlighter colors. Your highlights stay with the newsletter so you can find them again.
• ACTUALLY FIND WHAT YOU SAVED FOR LATER
Unread status, favorites, reminders, quick filters, highlights, and search help keep “I’ll read this later” from becoming “Where did that thing go?”
• UNSUBSCRIBE WITHOUT THE SCAVENGER HUNT
When Letterboxx detects an unsubscribe link, it helps you get there without hunting through the tiny print at the bottom of a newsletter.
• FEEL AT HOME ON YOUR MAC
Letterboxx is built for macOS, with a familiar sidebar, focused reading pane, keyboard shortcuts, menu commands, swipe actions, themes, native-style controls, and the little details that make a Mac app feel like a Mac app.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Connect one or more supported email accounts.
2. Choose the folders where your newsletters arrive.
3. Letterboxx makes local copies for your reading library.
4. Read, organize, highlight, favorite, search, set reminders, and come back whenever you want.
5. Keep using your regular email app for everything else.
Letterboxx isn’t trying to replace your email app. There’s no composing, replying, forwarding, or pressure to reach inbox zero.
Use the email account you already have, or give newsletters their own dedicated address if you want to completely separate your reading life from your inbox.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Your Letterboxx library lives on your Mac.
There are no ads in Letterboxx. No social network. No public profile. No business model built around selling what you read or what you’re interested in.
Your original messages stay in your connected mail account during normal use. Read-status syncing is under your control. Letterboxx only removes an original message from the server when you choose to delete it and then empty Letterboxx Trash.
Some of the best things arriving by email aren’t really email at all.
They’re writing from people you decided were worth hearing from.
Letterboxx gives all of it the quiet place it deserves — and gives you a better chance of actually reading it.
Take your inbox back. Keep the newsletters.
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The App is a Delight to Use
jlwardx
If you don’t read another word of my review, read this: Letterboxx will make you want to read more newsletters.It represents the very best of what an Apple experience should be. I realize this sounds like hyperbole, but using the app really causes me to feel the same type of joy and wonder I experienced while using a Mac in the mid-to-late 80s.The interface is designed in a way that encourages you to explore, to try things out, and experiment. And the process of doing those things leads you deeper into how to get the best from the app. If you follow those breadcrumbs, you’ll be a power user in no time.But aside from the knowledge those explorations provide, you’ll also get to enjoy the little flourishes that make this app such a delight to use: animations and design choices that once you see them will cause you to think, “Of course it works that way—it just makes sense.”Having a dedicated reader just for newsletters sounds like something you don’t need, but once you experience how magical this dedicated reading space is, you’ll wonder why someone didn’t do this earlier.If you’re dubious, download it and give it a try. You can use the free trial period to see if you enjoy it as much as I do and if you don’t like it, you can cancel. You won’t be out anything except for the time you spent checking it out.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this. You picked up on so many of the little details I’ve poured into Letterboxx, and reading that they brought back some of the joy and wonder you remember from using a Mac in the ’80s means more to me than I can properly say. That feeling of exploring an app, discovering how things work, and thinking, “Of course it works that way” is exactly the kind of Mac experience I want Letterboxx to be.Most of all, I’m thrilled that Letterboxx has made you want to read more newsletters. That’s really the whole reason I built it.Thank you for using Letterboxx, for exploring all those breadcrumbs, and especially for sharing such a thoughtful review. I truly appreciate your support!— Chris
Letterboxx — A Better Home for Newsletters
bdpwsc
I have been using Letterboxx for the Mac recently, and I have to say that I am genuinely impressed.Letterboxx does something very simple, but does it exceptionally well: it gives your newsletters a home of their own, separate from your regular email.I have always found that newsletters can get lost in an inbox. They compete with personal messages, business correspondence, notifications and all the other email we receive every day. Letterboxx changes that. Instead of treating newsletters as just another email, it gives them their own organized reading environment, a place I can go specifically when I want to read.The application is clean, well designed and intuitive. It does exactly what it says it will do without unnecessary complications. I particularly appreciate the organization and the reading statistics, which give you a better understanding of how and what you are reading.But what has impressed me just as much as the application itself is the attention to detail behind it. The documentation is excellent, clearly written and actually helpful. That may sound like a small thing, but good documentation tells me that the people who created an application care about their users.And when I did need support, I found it to be first class. Questions were handled thoughtfully and professionally. That kind of support is becoming increasingly rare and is something I value highly.In short, Letterboxx has solved a problem I didn't realize I had until I started using it. My newsletters are no longer buried among hundreds of other messages. They have their own place, are organized, easy to find and much more enjoyable to read.If you subscribe to a number of newsletters and find yourself wishing there were a better way to manage and read them, I highly recommend giving Letterboxx a try.It is one of those applications that does one thing, and does it very, very well.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for this. I really appreciate you taking the time to write such a thoughtful review.Even more than the review, though, I’m glad you reached out to me. I’ve really come to value all of the feedback, questions, bug reports, and testing you’ve sent my way. You’ve found things I wouldn’t have found on my own, and Letterboxx is better because of it.We still have a few things we’re working through, and I’m not giving up on those either. I want Letterboxx working for you the way we both know it should.One of the things I’ve loved most about making this app is getting to know some of the people who use it. That part of building independent software has been pretty great, and your support has meant a lot to me.Thank you again for the wonderful review and for everything else along the way.— Chris
You Can Feel the Attention to Detail
App buildr
Letterboxx is polished and full of delightful little details. It has made it much easier for me to keep track of newsletters and blog posts I want to read later instead of losing them in my inbox. A great app for anyone who loves well-designed Mac apps.
Developer Response
Thank you so much. This means a lot!Letterboxx was built for exactly this: keeping newsletters easy to find, read, and revisit without letting them disappear into the inbox. I’m especially glad the Mac details came through.Thanks again for trying it and for taking the time to write such a kind review.
Thank You
Leofwin
This is a terrific idea and a starting point for what I'm sure will be many excellent refinements as it evolves. I had an installation/account setup issue that the developer responded to promptly and forthrightly, and it got quickly fixed in an update.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for this. I really appreciate you giving Letterboxx a chance, and especially for reaching out when the account setup wasn’t working the way it should. Your email helped me track down the problem and get a fix into an update quickly.Letterboxx is still young, and feedback like yours genuinely helps me make it better. Thank you for your patience, your kind words, and for being part of these early days!— Chris
Letterboxx 1.0.18 makes building your newsletter Library clearer and more reliable.
- Clearer progress and more dependable newsletter history imports.
- Easier account recovery for Gmail and Outlook, with more reliable Outlook read/unread updates.
- Smoother bulk cleanup with Undo, plus stability improvements.
Version 1.0.18
The developer, Letterboxx Software LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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