SmartInbox

SmartInbox is an extension for Mail. Each message that arrives in your Inbox goes to a language model, which decides whether it is spam, cold sales and outreach included, and SmartInbox moves it to Junk. Mail that isn't spam can be sorted into categories you choose, each with its own actions.

YOUR CHOICE OF MODEL
• Apple Intelligence, on your Mac: no email leaves it
• Or an OpenAI-compatible API: a model you run yourself, on your Mac or your network, or a hosted service. SmartInbox asks before it sends anything there.

WHAT HAPPENS TO SPAM
• Move it to Junk, Trash or the Archive, flag it, color its background or mark it as read
• Phishing gets actions of its own
• Watch Only: nothing moves, and mail that would have moved gets an orange flag, so you can see what SmartInbox would do first
• Never Spam and Always Spam: addresses or whole domains

CATEGORIES
• Add Newsletters, Receipts and Orders, Notifications or From People, or describe your own in your own words
• Each has its own actions: archive newsletters and mark them as read, flag receipts green

SEE WHAT IT DID
• History: a week of decisions, with the sender, the category, the model's reason and what was done. Show in Mail opens the message.
• Test: drop a message from Mail or an .eml file, or paste its source, and see what the model says
• A warning when you write to an address whose mail was marked as phishing or spam this week
• Shortcuts: Check Email for Spam

To turn it on, choose Mail > Settings, click Extensions, and select SmartInbox Extension. Only mail that arrives in your Inbox goes through it, and SmartInbox doesn't need to stay open.

PRIVACY
• SmartInbox collects no data: there is no account, no analytics and no server of ours.
• With Apple Intelligence, your mail never leaves your Mac.
• If you choose an OpenAI-compatible API instead, SmartInbox asks first. Then it sends each new email's sender, recipients, subject and spam headers (and its text, if you allow it) to the address you enter, with your API token if it needs one. What happens to the mail there is up to that service.

BEFORE YOU BUY
• Apple Intelligence works only on a Mac with Apple silicon, in the languages and regions where Apple offers it, and when it is turned on in System Settings. Without it, you need an OpenAI-compatible API: a model you run yourself, or a hosted service.
• SmartInbox works with any OpenAI-compatible server, but how well a model sorts your mail depends on the model and your Mac, and we can't promise that a particular one works well. Try it in the Test tab before you rely on it.
• No model is perfect: look in Junk now and then, and add senders you trust to Never Spam.

Questions and ideas: support+smartinbox@loshadki.app