I am VERY disappointed in this design. Spark has been my favorite email app for years, but you absolutely ignored all current design trends and created a confusing mess with V2. NO one wants to go to a second page to read emails, they want the reading pane visible on the right side or bottom. That's all you had to replicate from V1. And yet you turned it into a poor web page substitute with fancy graphics and far too much complexity for easy reading. I can literally turn a browser webpage into my email app that functions correctly, but Spark has been turned into a dumping group of bad design and management, so why would I pay for it? I have always been a fan of Readdle projects, but this is poor design and implementation.

Hey hunters 👋 Many of you know our Spark email client, and today we’re excited to launch the all-new Spark. Spark is more than an email app with a few new features. It's a new philosophy to help users improve their focus and prioritization and to become more organized. Spark is designed to help you build healthier email habits and bring more intentionality into how you work with your inbox: • Reclaim headspace Use the Home Screen to set intentional habits by creating focused email sessions. Find more moments to breathe. • Focus and prioritize Spark intelligently prioritizes your emails and shows emails from real people at the top. Mark important contacts as Priority to never miss their emails. Group emails by sender to keep your inbox neat and clear it faster. • Stop unwanted emails Pre-screen new senders with Gatekeeper. Easily block unwanted senders to save time and mental energy on dealing with their emails later. • Feel accomplished Mark emails as Done, just as tasks. Master a new way to clear your inbox and get a beautiful reward in the end. And finally, we’re releasing Spark for Windows – something thousands of people were waiting for. Read more on our vision behind Spark: https://sparkmailapp.com/blog/in... Try the new Spark and let us know what you think! ---- Update: - The new Spark is free to use. Premium is a small selection of new extra tools that we’ve developed to take prioritising your inbox to new heights - but is by no means a mandatory subscription. - Existing customers retain the features they had before at NO EXTRA COST. In case existing customers decide to upgrade for using the new premium features, they can do that with 30% lifetime discount. - During its current development phase, Spark is working toward feature parity between platforms. Our goal is to reach feature parity with the Original Spark on Mac. Check out this page to learn more about upcoming features: https://sparkmailapp.com/help/en... - We do recognise that the new focused approach of Spark is a dramatic overhaul from the previous version. That is why the previous version of Spark still remains and you can continue to use it. Meanwhile we are actively gathering the feedback on the new version and there will surely be further tuneups and updates of the features and logics.

This has been one of the most disappointing software updates I've ever seen. No dark mode, removing the two window pane, and FORCING USERS TO PAY $8 EVERY MONTH TO GET RID OF A PERMANENT "Sent with Spark" AD from every email they send through Spark. I've been a huge supporter of Spark as a part of digital hygiene and I would have loved to contribute to a Premium tier had it not forced upon users. Who approved this?

Unfortunately, they really screwed that up. 😵‍💫

This is atrocious. Where is smart inbox? Where are templates? Forced adverts within the email? How long will the old spark be supported? I'll need to find an alternative as the new spark is a mess when you have more than 3-4 inboxes.

Hey there, 🙋‍♂️ I'm Lucas, user of Spark since October 2016. 💔 Spark is one of my all times favorites app. I cannot speak for everyone, but I feel very disappointed by what feels like an incomplete and inconsistent release with this new version. 🤓 I’ve been using SparkMail on a daily basis since 2016. I’ve seen you evolve up to what you became today. In my personal experience, you always had great improvements and excellent new features added, UNTIL today with version 3.0. ❤️ I love the clean and beautiful new design, but this should not come at the expense of usability in the way it has. 👨‍💻 I have downloaded the two version on Mac and iOS. 👀 The iOS version does not look and feel as different from the previous version, and the fact that I can still CHOOSE to use the traditional smart inbox is excellent. It feels like a good update with a beautiful new UI. Even-thought some of the things I'll be naming next are missing here too. 🫣 On the other hand, the macOS version feels like a completely new product that has kept absolutely nothing from its predecessor. And that's a shame. The core and essential features of what made Spark one of my favorite apps are completely gone on desktop: 👉 The fixed sidebar, which was an essential element to my workflow in allowing me to quickly see what was going on in each of my inboxes, is gone. 👉 The reading pane, which made navigating my inbox a breeze, is completely gone, having to now enter each email individually on "full screen" to read them. 👉 The dark mode is visibly gone. A feature without which it's very hard for me to work at night. 👉 The swipe action on emails is gone. This feature was one of the most relevant and important features brought by you many years ago. 👉 The smart folders seem to be gone. 👉 The grouping by newsletter, notifications, etc that allowed me to VERY quickly know how many unread emails I had is gone. Or made different. 👉 The quick actions found at the top left of the email view (very accessible) has now been moved to the opposite side, where the accessibility is clearly inferior. 👉 Your messaging has always been about keeping Spark free for individuals because you were able to monetize through teams subscriptions. This is now gone, and you're forcing users to pay to remove the "Sent with Spark" messaging in the signature. I can accept a premium tier for individuals with a greater set of features, but you're abandoning your core ethos by making the experience worst for non-paying user with the "Sent with Spark" thing. 😞 It feels like a very sad moment for me. An app that I loved deeply has turned into something completely new and different. And I'm sorry to say that new is not always better... ⏳ I'll wait to hear more from the team on what is coming next. I've spent some time reading through Twitter and ProductHunt, and I've seen mainly negative reactions to this launch. 😓 I know how long it takes to build and create new products. So I know there is no easy way to iterate quickly on all of this, except if most of the things that I named are already on the roadmap for next updates. 💡 All that I can think of, for now, is that you could keep a "Spark Legacy" app in the AppStore on both iOS and macOS so that faithful users can still use you. In my case, I will keep using the old version on macOS until there is more clarity from you. I would be very sad if I need to move to an alternative. 🙏 Thank you for reading me. Cheers, Lucas

Great product and a great team!!! Please support Spark on its amazing journey!

Maybe people shouldn’t have asked so bad for windows app. Mac app now crippled. 👎🏼

Readdle has been successful at ruining yet another one of their popular apps. They are in a frenzy to convert every app into a subscription without appreciating that they are ruining their customer base. Useless features, cosmetic makeovers, shaming prompts for non paying customers and false claims are so typical of Readdle team. I want to downvote this launch.

Spark replaced the Mail App for me since the past year on iOS. It's an absolute treat to use. Excited to try it on Desktop! Grats to the team

Wait... It's an Electron app now? 🤦‍♂️

Really nice update, but I still want to be able to see my folders all the time, I don’t want them hidden. Please give us the option to show them all the time.

So you removed all the features I liked in Spark (two column layout, Smart/Classic split view, favorite labels, etc. etc.). Have you ever heard the saying "Don't fix what ain't broken?" As an UI designer I really dislike the new direction. I have used Spark for years, soon almost a decade, but I guess it's finally time to move on... Good bye, it was fun while it lasted.

Man this app used to be good. I was really excited when I heard the Windows client was going to be released, but now I'm honestly considering switching. The only app that is still fine to me is the iOS client; it's the only reason I am still holding off on completely deleting Spark. The new v3 Client for both Windows and MacOS is absolutely worse than v2 in my opinion. V2 was practically perfect with swipe gestures & smooth scrolling & dark mode, and with 2 panes always open making folders and folder contents easily accessible. V3 gets rid of that and opts for one pane that toggles open and closed; it's much slower and just flat out annoying. The "mark as done" feature is also completely useless to me, and interferes with how I normally use email between devices. Please just let us turn this off and go back to a normal inbox like in v2. Lastly, I HATE that you guys added the "Sent with Spark" signature for new free users. I completely understand that you need to monetize your product, but punishing new users (which is what this is to me) is not going to get people (including me) to pay for your subscription. And before you comment and say "existing free users can just turn this off", I understand and have already done so. It still leaves a bad taste in my mouth, makes me never want to ever subscribe in the future, and is another factor making me consider deleting your app for good. The worst part of all of this is that as soon as the app was released for windows, I was going to recommend it to all of my family and friends. Now there's absolutely no way I would/could with the forced signature being a thing for them, and the marked as done "feature" that should be able to be turned off. I really hope you guys get it together because I used to love this app. EDIT: Also, the windows app has crashed on me almost every other time I use it. Also, following article makes a lot of other good points on why the MacOS v3 is completely worse that v2: https://www.craft.do/s/AoGwif29A...

I've been using Spark from v1 to now v3. First of all, the 3-panel-layout really matters for some of us who care about efficiency so much. Though I prefer this v3 design, I think there should be an option at least to bring the panels back to the main window. And it is awesome how the new version organize my inbox by a set of methodology. I can now focus on my priority at a glance for both work & personal email accounts.

I am all for change and updates. Nothing should stand still and its always good to offer more features. I like some of the new design, though the lack of the 3 panel pane is a killer for me. It suits my workflow and I have no interest in any email app that doesnt have that. I have tried it before and it doesnt work for me.

I've been using Spark a very long time and when I saw there was a major update I was excited because I felt Spark was showing its age. But when I saw the new version I felt really sad. It's got to be one of the worst user experiences I have seen in a while. Not only did you change the UI drastically, you also got rid of valuable app integrations that people used. Here are my primary pain points with this horrible design: 1. You are making your users click multiple times to see an email, and then that email takes up the whole window. You got rid of the multiple pane design and now I have to navigate emails like they're a web site - clicking in and then having to navigate back (another click) to see my other emails. This is LUDICROUS! 2. The side bar doesn't stay open, so again I am having to click to reveal it every time I want to go to another mail folder (Sent, Spam, Archive, etc). Again a very piss poor user experience. 3. Your spam folder doesn't give any indication to the user that there is stuff inside it. What if I got an email from a new contact and it was important? I'd never know it ended up in Spam! 4. Taking action on an email is a chore. AGAIN, you force me to click on the email to bring up the options for deleting, archiving, etc. No swipe options - they're gone. 5. Why in the hell would you give me the option to block an email from an unknown sender? This shouldn't be an up front option - it should be in the email pane itself. So you don't even give me a chance to decide after reading the email. That one pissed me off pretty well. 6. A subscription model for this trash? Are you seriously kidding me? I chose to uninstall Spark today on all my devices - and I have decided to go back to using Apple Mail. I loved Spark very much, as did a whole lot of people, and you have betrayed us with this monstrosity of a design that is a horrible horrible user experience! From what I'm seeing you have made a lot of people unhappy with this piece of garbage. I wish your team the best. I wish you had spent a lot more time thinking this through. RIP Spark

Oh god, I'm so happy I read these comments before upgrading... Some new features like approving/rejecing senders (reminds me of hey.com) looks really nice, but actually launching an app where important existing features are missing and "will come back soon", removing the 3-panel layout sounds like really bad choices.. And finally - adding ADVERTISEMENTS to my emails? That is just utterly unacceptable and I definitely expect you to walk back on that horrible decision...

Readdle is repeating what they did with PDF expert. A bad new design, super expensive subscription and shaming the past customers with pay prompts. After destroying Documents, PDFexpert and Spark, possibly Scanner Pro is next. Hate what this team is doing.

Have been using it for over a year on both Mac and iOS. The best email client I've used so far 👍. Please consider adding a couple of features: the unread filter for Classic view and the possibility to save the original email with headers and all the tech info.