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I've really wanted to like this app, and to try it, but the reviews on the App Store are absolutely appalling - most complaining that the app is effectively useless. This is combined with a very steep purchase price.

Add to that the fact that I tweeted the MailPilot twitter account many times about this and never got a single reply, and this is a definite NO PURCHASE.

I really want to find that this app is great, but I'm not willing to ignore a mountain of evidence just because this is what I want to believe. Caveat Emptor, Buyer Beware.

Has anyone here actually used MailPilot sufficiently to counter those numerous negative AppStore reviews?

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Don't pay for the iOS version. I was one of those people who ignored the reviews and went and splashed out on it after a while using the OSX version (Which works perfectly fine). Emails would come in hours, sometimes days after they where sent, others wouldn't show at all.

I noticed on their website they are advising to wait for version 2.

> This is combined with a very steep purchase price.

Everyone says the $ 20 or so are a steep price, but I paid twice that for Mailmate[1] and it's worth every drop.

It's probably my most used app after Sublime Text (to which it integrates, by the way) and It repaid itself after a couple hours of stress-free operation.

Granted, people lament that this app doesn't work well, but my point is that, as pervasive as mail is, every small bit of improvement in this area may could end up greatly multiplied. $ 20 may be much for a "useless" piece of software, but I think it's wrong to start with that as a general assumption for a mail app.

[1]: Mailmate: http://freron.com/

Mailmate has a trial version that works fine for 30 days. I actually did try it, though I ended up going for AirMail instead... and then went back to Mail.app!

I don't mind paying $20 or more for a great email client - I mind paying that for a shitty email client that fails at even basic stuff like, you know, receiving emails.

I've tried and failed to use the OS X version. It's close to impossible to tell the difference between an email that I've read and an email that I haven't read. So I went back to Airmail.

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