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Notify keeps an eye on your Gmail inbox

by John Burke Aug 22nd 2009 at 4:00PM


I, like many people, am constantly checking my email. No matter where I am, I'm either getting messages pushed to my iPhone or Mail is checking for new ones every minute. A new app is promising to make using Gmail and checking for messages much, much easier.

Notify, a new free application by Vibealicious Apps, puts a small button in your menubar of your Mac that keeps track of unread messages. The app, which was released less than 24 hours ago has already received over 3200 downloads and is quickly making a name for itself. Notify's developers consider it "like a menubar app, but better" explaining that the application boasts a much better user interface and much more functionality than traditionally found in menubar apps and buttons.

The application has a lot of cool features including:
  • Support for multiple accounts
  • Tabbed interface
  • Growl integration
  • Sleek, simple UI
The developer promises that Notify will continue to evolve, adding that the next major release of the app will support any IMAP email client as opposed to just Gmail. They're also working on support for Google Apps, in-app replies and the ability to create and send new messages directly from your menubar.

The app is also promised to be "freeware forever", according to the developer's twitter.

Some shots of Notify in action:

Notify

  • View new messages easily
  • Manage multiple accounts
  • Growl support
  • Tabbed interface





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Bert & Erny

Seems like a nice app from the reviews, really sad that the developer has a message about receiving too many emails and that they read all of them but cannot respond.

September 04 2009 at 7:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Aaron

Why not just use Gmail Notifier that is made by Google? I've had it for years and it works perfectly.

August 27 2009 at 4:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Killian

I really liked this app, but since it updated it has been crashing-- won't even run at this point. I tried reinstalling but it still isn't working. Too bad.

August 26 2009 at 5:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Kyle VE

Delete your preferences file - It's in /Users//Library/Preferences/com.Vibealicious.Notify.plist

Hope this works!

August 26 2009 at 9:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jash Sayani

Can I use Google Apps account ??

Or does it append @gmail.com to all addresses?

August 25 2009 at 4:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
nxiv

didn't work for me. what's even weirder is that it notified me of email from a different gmail account logged in with safari and ignored my login credentials i entered in the notify preferences. something funky is happening with this app and safari.

August 24 2009 at 5:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
DAJ

Doesn't support Google Domains -- Poor show.

Doesn't provide support for IMAP Idle so in essence it is a boring old "check mail every x minutes" notifier -- there are hundreds of them.

August 24 2009 at 1:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nicolas S

I never found a notifier that handles multiple accounts AND switch accounts when I click "Go to inbox". Same here, when I click the "Open Gmail", it just loads gmail.com without switching logged user if needed.

August 24 2009 at 7:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Robert

MailPlane does that fairly well. It tells you which of your multiple GMail accounts has mail (and how many) and all you have to do is double-click the appropriate account; it pulls it up immediately. Quite frankly, MailPlane is an awesome program that puts Notify in proper prespective--that is, Notify is free and doesn't have the feature set that MailPlane (not free) does. The only thing I'd like to see changed in MailPlane is a nicer looking menu bar icon. I'm so tired of the greyscale (monochrome) icons that developers throw at us. Can't they at least offer us a color alternative?

August 24 2009 at 2:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jy

Much better than Googles Notifier, but has the same problem - it doesn't see messages that are filtered in subfolders. It checks only inbox.
I make my gmail "archive" everything according to nature of mail in different subfolders (tags). So far i haven;t found any notifier which would see also those emails. So i just keep manually opening Gmail every 5 minutes to see whats new :)

August 24 2009 at 6:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
justbn

You could also use MailPlane (not free). It gives you all this info AND actually lets you send and receive mail, drag and drop pictures, etc.

August 23 2009 at 3:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
akatsuki

Google domains, IMAP Idle support, More customizable growl notifications...

August 23 2009 at 2:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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