It needs you
Someone is asking you something, or it matters enough to interrupt you.
PROBE 01 — MAIL
Every inbox, sorted by what needs you.
Sonda brings your mail into one list and sorts every conversation, on your phone, into Now, Later and Noise. The email that asks you a question comes first, and every email tells you why it landed where it did.
In testing
App Store: soon
iPhone & iPad
Testing is by invitation while Google reviews Sonda's access to Gmail. If you'd like in, email me the Gmail address you'd use.
Tap a lane, then tap an email
LEVEL 01 · THREE LANES
Sort the signals. Then see how Sonda did.
Every conversation is sorted on your phone before you see it. No server reads your mail to do it. Try it by hand: eight sample emails, three lanes.
Each email lands in Now (it needs you), Later (worth a read) or Noise (everything else). Pick a lane and Sonda tells you where it would have put it, and why.
Keys: 1 Now · 2 Later · 3 Noise
With JavaScript on, you can sort eight sample emails by hand. Here is how Sonda sorts a few of them:
- “Can you review the brief by Friday?” goes to Now: it asks you a question.
- “Notes from the design review” goes to Later: you're only copied in.
- “Ten things worth reading” goes to Noise: it's a newsletter.
A toy, with made-up mail. The app shows its own reason on every email, and it can be wrong: move an email and your choice sticks. Star a sender and their mail always lands in Now.
Worth a read
Good to read, no answer needed. It waits without nagging.
Everything else
Newsletters, receipts, promotions and notifications, out of the way but never lost.
Every email shows why it landed where it did, like “Asks you a question” or “You're only copied in”. Disagree? Move it, and your choice sticks. Star a sender and their mail always lands in Now.
LEVEL 02 · THE INBOX ITSELF
Everything an inbox needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Pick a part of the inbox and try it on sample mail.
One inbox
Your accounts, your colours
All your accounts in one list, each with its own colour, or one account at a time. Unread counts sit on each account's chip.
Tap an account chip
Control
Pin, star, rule
Pin what you're working on to the top. Star a sender. Write rules for senders and domains. Swipe to archive or pin, with Undo.
Pin one, archive one, then undo
Write
Reply, forward, compose
Reply, reply to all, forward and write new mail with your own signatures. Sent, Drafts, Archive, Trash and folders of your own.
Switch between Reply and Reply all
Files
Every attachment, one place
Photos, videos, PDFs, Office and iWork documents from every account, searchable and ready to preview or share.
Filter, or search for “brief”
Calendar
Invitations you can act on
Meeting invitations show up as cards you can add to your calendar. New-mail notifications come with or without a preview.
Add it to the calendar
Yours
Themes, icons, languages
Light and dark, several colour themes, alternative app icons. In English, German, Spanish and French.
Change the colour, the mode, the language
LEVEL 03 · PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Your mail never visits us.
Sonda talks directly to Gmail and Outlook. Make It Crazy runs no server for it, so there is nothing of yours for us to keep, read or lose.
Press a button and watch where your mail goes. Spoiler: straight to your provider.
Pictures stay hidden
Pictures from the internet stay hidden in an email until you tap Show.
Links leave the email
Links open in Safari. No JavaScript runs inside an email.
App lock
Face ID or a passcode, whenever you want one.
- Mail goes straight between your iPhone and Gmail or Outlook.
- Sorting happens on your device. No AI service sees your mail.
- You sign in on Google's and Microsoft's own pages; Sonda never sees your password.
- No ads, no tracking, no analytics, no third-party code.
- App lock with Face ID or a passcode.
- Pictures from the internet stay hidden in an email until you tap Show.
- Links open in Safari. No JavaScript runs inside an email.
- Sign out of an account and Sonda forgets it and its mail on that device.
LEVEL 04 · STATUS REPORT
Where Sonda is right now.
Sonda is built and runs on iPhone and iPad.
In testing with a small group, through Apple's TestFlight. Testing is by invitation.
Google is reviewing Sonda's access to Gmail. Until it finishes, only invited testers can sign in.
Outlook follows once Microsoft's sign-in is set up. Gmail comes first.
After Google finishes reviewing Sonda's access to Gmail. The price isn't announced yet; it will be shown on the App Store page.
- Stage
- In testing with a small group, through Apple's TestFlight.
- App Store
- After Google finishes reviewing Sonda's access to Gmail. Until then only invited testers can sign in.
- Accounts
- Gmail first. Outlook follows once Microsoft's sign-in is set up.
- Works on
- iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 or later.
- Languages
- English, German, Spanish, French.
- Price
- Not announced yet. It will be shown on the App Store page.
- Made by
- Daria Zabiiaka, Make It Crazy.
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