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24 alternatives to I made an email app inspired by Arc browser

Email is one of those tools we check daily but its underlying experience didn’t evolve much. I use Gmail, as probably most of you reading this. The Arc browser brought joy and taste to browsing the web. Cursor created a new UX with agents ready to work for you in a handy right panel. I use these three tools every day. Since Arc was acquired by Atlassian, I’ve been wondering: what if I built a new interface that applied Arc’s UX to email rather than browser tabs, while making AI agents easily available to help manage emails, events, and files? I built a frontend PoC to showcase the idea. Try…

This email app redesigns Gmail's interface using the visual approach of the Arc browser, pairing it with AI agents accessible in a side panel to help manage emails, events, and files. Built as a frontend… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Arc▲610

    A new web browser with a ton of personality

    2023 · arc.net · its alternatives →

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    Migma AI▲483

    After our email campaign generated 30% more revenue at my previous startup, I knew we needed to double down on email marketing. Problem was, our workflow was absolutely broken: - Designer in Figma (day 1-2) - Copywriter with ChatGPT (day 2-3) - Developer to code it for 40+ email clients (day 3-5) - Back and forth for revisions (day 6-7) - $1500+ per campaign, weeks of delays I built Migma.ai to solve this. You paste your website URL, describe what you want ("announce our new feature using info from this blog post"), and get a complete, on-brand, responsive email in 30 seconds. Migma: -…

    2025 · migma.ai · its alternatives →

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    AI, teamwork, and a new era of email design

    2025 · stripo.email · its alternatives →

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    Fast and ad-free web browsing

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    The prototype of ambient agents

    2025 · agentinbox.ai · its alternatives →

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    Write email at the speed of thought with AI.

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    Arc Max▲429

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    Ask your inbox anything to get summaries, drafts, & more

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    I got frustrated with Gmail's lack of customization, and built an extension for myself. It doesn't do much other than modify how Gmail is displayed in Chrome. Does it as minimally as possible (that I can engineer). Done locally, zero remote processing. Currently built the following settings (want to add more soon): Conversations: * Show newest message first * Show every message in a thread (sometimes they're collapsed into numbered bubbles) * Remove AI overviews (retches) Layout/UI: * Minimize the search & top bar * Minimize the far left "rail" (Mail/Chat/Meet) * Hide a bunch…

    Mar 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Astro▲308

    AI meets email for Mac, iOS and Android

    2017 · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    Hi all! Excited to share cc.dev after months of work and refinement. The idea for this product came from trying to do email marketing for my side project, CubeDesk, a site where Rubik's Cube enthusiasts can time themselves, race with one another, train algorithms — it's a fun niche! With over 40k users, sending even a single campaign was becoming expensive with MailChimp. I knew AWS SES would be much cheaper, but it’s just an API with none of the other necessities you need for a robust email marketing platform. Beyond cost, I was also frustrated with having to make sure my database was…

    2023 · cc.dev · its alternatives →

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    Quartz▲270

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    Jun 2026 · quartzmail.ai · its alternatives →

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    AI-powered email creation at your fingertip

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    Open source AI powered email for everyone

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    Ovy▲268

    One click AI-generated email replies for Gmail

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    Capture conversations wherever they occur

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    AI email marketing tool for flawless interactive emails

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    SkimAI▲176

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