Overview
Your mail, on your Mac.
A native Mac mail client with on-device summaries and replies, smart folders, notes, and send-later built in.
Re: Launch plan
Great. Please send the press kit by Thursday so I can review it.
Act on mail without opening a window.
When you are in another app, new mail drops out of the notch with a quick reply. Sending waits a few seconds so you can still take it back.
Dovecote spots 4 to 8 digit codes and sign-in links in new mail. Copy or fill them from the notch, or use the banner at the top of the message.
Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, Fastmail, Zoho or any IMAP server, plus an Apple Mail import. All Inboxes, Starred, VIPs and the other mailboxes read across every account.
Act on mail without opening a window.
New mail drops out of the top of your screen
When you are in another app, new mail drops out of the notch with a quick reply. Sending waits a few seconds so you can still take it back.
Copy or fill a code without opening the inbox
Dovecote spots 4 to 8 digit codes and sign-in links in new mail. Copy or fill them from the notch, or use the banner at the top of the message.
Every account in one inbox
Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, Fastmail, Zoho or any IMAP server, plus an Apple Mail import. All Inboxes, Starred, VIPs and the other mailboxes read across every account.
Mail on your schedule
Pick a preset or choose a time. Snoozed mail waits under Snoozed and returns when you said, and Send Later uses the same presets.
Take a message back
Dovecote holds a sent message for a few seconds, 10 by default. Click Undo, or press Cmd-Z, to take it back.
Dovecote holds a sent message for this long so you can still take it back.
Smart where it helps, quiet where it counts.
Tell Apple Intelligence what to say and it drafts the reply in your words, on device. Summarize a message or a whole conversation whenever you want a short version.
Remote images and tracking pixels are blocked until you load them, and every message shows how many were stopped. Read receipts are requested and sent only when you choose, and Activity lists the replies.
Swipe a row to archive, trash, star, mark read, snooze or mark as spam. Choose two actions for each side in Settings, or none.
Smart where it helps, quiet where it counts.
Drafts and summaries that stay on your Mac
Tell Apple Intelligence what to say and it drafts the reply in your words, on device. Summarize a message or a whole conversation whenever you want a short version.
Trackers blocked, receipts in your hands
Remote images and tracking pixels are blocked until you load them, and every message shows how many were stopped. Read receipts are requested and sent only when you choose, and Activity lists the replies.
Remote images let senders see when you open a message. Dovecote blocks them and tracking pixels unless this is on.
Swipe through your list
Swipe a row to archive, trash, star, mark read, snooze or mark as spam. Choose two actions for each side in Settings, or none.
Translate on device
When a message is in a language other than your system language, a Translate button appears. It runs on device and Show Original brings the text back.
One-click unsubscribe
When a sender offers it, Dovecote unsubscribes in one click. Otherwise it opens the sender's unsubscribe message or page for you.
Know when nobody replied
Ask Dovecote to remind you if there is no reply by a date. When it fires, the message gets a No reply yet badge.
Folders you describe in words
Describe the mail that belongs in a folder and Dovecote interprets it on device, with a keyword fallback. Starter folders are included.
Keep the right people close
Star a sender to make them a VIP. VIP senders always notify, with their own sound. To-do is a flag on a message, not a task manager.
Details you will be glad of.
Notes and templates
Keep standalone notes beside your messages, and save the replies you send often as templates to insert from the compose window.
Find it, then do it by key
Press Cmd-K to search subject, sender and preview. Most actions have a shortcut, and Cmd-/ lists them all.
Add an account by typing an address
Enter an email address and Dovecote works out the provider and how to sign in. You can also bring your accounts and messages over from Apple Mail, which is left unchanged.
Coloured labels
Tag mail with coloured labels and find them in the sidebar.
Print, export, mute and block
Print, save as PDF or .eml, view the source, mute a thread or block a sender. Appearance follows the system, or stays Light or Dark.
Pay once. Keep it.
- Licence
- 1 device, or 5 at checkout
- Updates
- Every future update
- Refund
- Self-serve within 14 days
- Requires
- macOS 26+
