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Mailplane lifts licence ceiling

Mailplaneicon 120pxRuben Bakker, the developer of Mailplane (a very clever app that “brings Gmail to your Desktop”) has responded to customer requests by raising the number of Macs on which you can use the app with a single licence.

In a post on the Mailplane Google Group he explains:

Until recently, a Mailplane single user license was limited to two Macs. Because many users needed Mailplane on more Macs, I’ve decided to lift this limitation:

  • Single-user license: *Install on all Macs you personally use.* Use it at home, school, work: just anywhere. *Limitation:* Make sure you’re the only user. Please do not share your license with anyone else.

  • Family license: Allow up to five (5) family members *living in the same household* to use Mailplane on their Macs. As with the single user license, there is no machine limitation for any of the five users.

  • Site license: For a number of users working at the same organization. Again, each user may use it anywhere.

As a result individuals will pay only USD 24.95 to use it on as many Macs as they own. The family licence costs USD 39.95. For a site licence covering 20 users or more, the price per licence drops to USD 17.95.

Mailplane is not just a slick way into Gmail’s web interface. It adds additional features like “drag and drop” attachments, the ability to integrate multiple Gmail accounts, enabling new mail notifications, sending screenshots and integration with the productivity app OmniFocus through a bespoke plugin.

If you are tempted to be unfaithful to mail.app and start an affair in the Cloud with Gmail (as I am from time to time), Mailplane is a very good investment.

It was good value for money before. Now, for people with more than two macs (like me), it is even better.gmail, not apple mail, not mail.app, mailplane, the cloud, email

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6 Responses to “Mailplane lifts licence ceiling”

  1. CM Harrington says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 5:43 am

    I have to say, I don’t see the point of Mailplane anymore, now that gmail offers full IMAP support. Just create a new account within Mail.app, and be done with it.

  2. Tim Gaden says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 6:56 am

    If Gmail’s behaviour as an IMAP account in mail.app were more sensible, I could see your point. Although, then, you sacrifice the efficiency of Gmail’s web interface keyboard shortcuts.

    And, of course, the sense that you are on the bleeding edge, living life in the Cloud, etc, etc. ;-)

  3. Dan Warne says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 8:29 am

    I have never been able to get Apple Mail working with Gmail’s IMAP… it just seems to spin its wheels — start retrieval after retrieval before it has finished the last one. I have always tested it with big mailboxes though… my current Gmail account has 17GB in it…

  4. Tim Gaden says:
    November 14th, 2009 at 8:49 am

    You, power user, you! ;-)

    17GB is a big ask. I’d choke.

    Does hiding labels in IMAP (Gmail -> Settings -> Labels) give you the chance to drag the emails down gradually?

  5. Barney says:
    November 17th, 2009 at 8:28 pm

    I am afraid to say I had to abandon Apple Mail because of its very poor behaviour with Gmail’s IMAP. I get the same kind of problem as Dan Warne.

    So I’ve moved over to Mailplane and love it! It’s a great app for Gmail, somehow more nimble than using the web interface direct.

    But I do miss many of Mail’s features.

    BTW, Mailplane also works with Things (which I now use in preference to Omnifocus).

  6. Tim Gaden says:
    November 17th, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    The tussle between Omnifocus and Things is a hard one for me too. What made you choose Things?

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