Boxy for "Inbox by Gmail" App Reviews

I don’t think this is being developed anymore. Badges and notification have stopped working and the bugs reported remain. I paid for the full version of this only a few months ago and I regret it. I found WMail which is identical to boxy but badges and notifications are working and it’s free but not in the App Store.

Boxy is an excellent native client for Inbox, exactly what I was looking for. It has native notifications, an unread count on the dock badge, multiple inbox support, dark and light themes, a nifty read mode and several other improvements to the Inbox web app. I especially like the full screen composer and the ability to adjust the font size. Its updated frequently and with each release its more stable and sees new features added. The caveat is that since the developer will always be playing catch up with changes made in the web client things are bound to break here and there. For example, currently the badge count and notifications are not working correctly. Still Id definitely recommend it for any Inbox fan looking for a desktop client.

Notifications don’t work for me on El Capitan 10.11.5 Please fix. Also UI is still a bit laggy

…with some additional customization as would be expected for an actual desktop app. The Reader Mode and Markdown composer are a huge plus over using the Inbox web site. And it’s FAST. I’d give it 4.5 stars if that was an option. There’s only one thing you guys need to add to get 5 stars; proper share sheet integration. Once that’s in place there’s really nothing else a Inbox and Mac user could ask!

Nice restyling of Inbox, better than what’s available from Stylish. Showstopper for me is the biggest font size supported is still too small.

This app handles Google Inbox natively. It works well and works with mailto links. However Boxy still does not work with the share menu -> email this page. But, support is great and I hope the developer continues to work on it and I will continue to use it as my default email app.

Looks great and I would love to use but can’t because work email is through GAFE. Not sure why this would be but it stinks!

It’s a solid app, but I have experienced way too many issues with lagginess and general unresponsiveness to justify the $5.99. I don’t paying for great apps, and this app might one day be a great app, but it simply isn’t there yet.

Overall I like the app. I think Google’s design for Inbox is fantastic, and only keeps getting better, so thumbs up for not differing from that. My only complaint with Boxy though is it “feels” really unresponsive. I am running a 2015 MBP so there shouldn’t be a reason for it running slow. There may be some unresolved memory leaks it seems as well, as I have noticed at times the memory usage can get unusually high and requires a restart. Hopefully these are just some kinks to be worked out from the 1.2 release, but until then I can’t see myself using this over leaving an inbox tab open in my browser.

A great piece of software - boxy is a carefully crafted native wrapper for Google Inbox. Its unseated Kiwi/Gmail as my favorite email client. It’s full of neat extras, like reader mode, markdown support, themes, and an improved side-bar. Great work!

it’s good, but only because Google’s Inbox is good. Little bugs here and there turn into big issues, at least for me, like the inability to paste anything, open some google drive documents. I get that the notifications bug is on Google’s end. Please put out a fix soon!

Boxy is to Google Inbox what Mailplane is to Gmail: a hybrid tool that combines advantages of your web browser with the advantages of a native app. Like Mailplane, Boxy looks and behaves about 97% like Inbox running in Chrome or Safari on your Mac. So why bother? Well, thats a good question, especially if you dont have a lot of spare $6 bills lying around. But if you can afford it, Boxy provides several nice features missing in Inbox in your browser. Boxys #1 advantage, in my opinion, is that it serves as your default email app, replacing Apple Mail. So if you click a mailto: url in another app, MacOS will launch Boxy rather than Mail. Is this yuuuge? Not, its not. If the link you clicked is in a web page youre viewing in your browser, and if youre already logged into your Google account, Chrome, at least, and possibly Safari, can open an Inbox or Gmail new-message window right there in the browser. So having Boxy as your default email client for MacOS matters mainly if the email link you clicked was in an app OTHER than your browser. Boxy has a couple other very nice features, like the reader view, which expands the message content to full frame, eliminating the distracting UI stuff on the sides of the normal app screen. Theres also a true full-screen message composition window that I like a lot. Ive given Boxy 4 stars rather than 5 simply because its not what I consider a must-have app. But I think it was worth my money and I think Im going to continue to use it. Boxys not perfect. The biggest problem has been noted by at least one other reviewer here in the App Store: Boxys prefs allow you to change the default font size, but only a little, and the largest font size is still a bit small to my eyes. For me its just on the edge of usability. The application prefs in Chrome give me greater control over fonts and font sizes, and those prefs affect fonts displayed in Inbox, so I find Inbox messages displayed in Chrome a little easier to read than the same messages displayed in Boxy. Hope Boxys developers allow at least one larger font size soon. Someone else mentioned that Boxy feels sluggish. Not on my 2015 Macbook Pro. Now, if you have multiple Google email accounts (as I do), youll want to open each account in its own window. The default account-switching feature (accessed by typing Cntl-1, Cntl-2, etc) requires reloading the account youre switching to and this causes an annoying delay. Keeping each account in its own application window allows you to switch accounts much more quickly, as each account stays in the computers background memory. To open a second (third etc) account in its own window, hold down the option/alt key while selecting the account from the Accounts menu.

I’ve been waiting a while for an inbox wrapper, this is a really good answer to that question. It does everything I wanted it to and I’m not left wanting more. But I do want less of something and that’s RAM usage. I’ve seen it spike to above a gig sometimes and that just seems a little too much, especially when running in the browser uses less than 400mb regularly. But then again I don’t really know how it was developed. In th end it’s a really great wrapper for inbox and totally worth the money.

This is the perfect way to use Google Inbox without a browser.

Started out great.. very fast, no freezing, etc. However, lately, it seems to freeze up (resulting in the need to Force Quit), and it has gotten VERY slow in it’s (young) age. Sometimes it’s frustrating enough to not use it, and just dedicate a single browser window to view Inbox. Being a premium (paid) app, I hope it gets improved. I definitely prefer a standalone app instead of using my already-overloaded browser for email. The attachment upload process is frustrating. Instead of browsing for a file, you are required to drag-and-drop the file into the email. Would be nice to have a normal file upload feature by now. Might be time to start searching for a Boxy replacement…

Use it every day. Markdown support is highly appreciated. Just wish animations were as snappy as in Chrome. Looking forward to 2.0

I’ve used just about every email app out there but as a google inbox user - I just can’t get into them. But Boxy is different. This app works so well. It feels like you are using google inbox natively, but over time you start to notice other features like the markdown editor and the handy shortcuts. It’s a great app. I’d recommend it to anyone.

I have been using Inbox for a while, and kinda hated not having a dedicated app. Tried all the free ones, and didn’t love any of them, until I finally decided to pay for Boxy. Money well spent. Well done, and easily lets me switch between multiple Inbox accounts. Everything that the actual web has from Google is here + actual icon badge and notifications that work in my desktop. This would of received 5 stars if the compose email was a little better, especially when it comes to attaching files. Seems like they are trying to copy the web interface too much, and I don’t like it as much as other app based email solutions.

Well it seemed like a great tool but now its a bit buggy, slow, cant open attatchements sometimes, when searching multiple screes are overlayed and you cant read the words, switching between inboxes causes errors. Oh well, just stick to the browser inbox for now.

I have been using Boxy for quite awhile. The only issue I can think of is mailto: links from web browser does not lauch Boxy. This is not a big deal to me. I just right click and copy email address, jump to boxy and paste the address in. Overall I have been pleased. Would like to see the mailto: links start working though. Great job so far guys! Keep up the good work!