Avec – iOS email app that lets you handle your Gmail inbox in seconds
Hi HN! A few friends & I have just spent the past ~2 years building a new kind of email app for iOS. It's now available in GA and we think some of you might find it interesting. Why another email app, you ask? We think that while many interesting attempts at one-upping Gmail were made in the past 25 years, no one could really solve the core problem we all experience with email: information overload. Of course, LLMs have completely changed that, as they finally offer a path to do refined triage of your inbox. However, as anyone who's tried the AI features most email apps offer nowadays, they…
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Avec is an iOS email app designed to reduce inbox overload by using AI to prioritize and triage Gmail messages. Built from the ground up over two years, it integrates language models throughout the email experience, including AI-based message prioritization and voice-based email drafting. The app is aimed at Gmail users seeking a faster way to manage their inboxes without the artificial AI features found in existing email applications.
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Hi HN! A few friends & I have just spent the past ~2 years building a new kind of email app for iOS. It's now available in GA and we think some of you might find it interesting. Why another email app, you ask? We think that while many interesting attempts at one-upping Gmail were made in the past 25 years, no one could really solve the core problem we all experience with email: information overload. Of course, LLMs have completely changed that, as they finally offer a path to do refined triage of your inbox. However, as anyone who's tried the AI features most email apps offer nowadays, they feel tacked-on and rarely are useful. That is why this took us ~2 years: we rebuilt an email app from the ground up, thinking about where we could thoughtfully and usefully leverage LLMs. Some of our faves: - AI-based prioritization - Voice-based email drafting that takes a few words from you and embellishes them into a polished email - Very actionable, to-the-point notifications that don't force you to open the app to know what's up Ultimately, while we tried hard to make a really great app, our goal is for you to spend as little time in it as possible. Ergo our tagline: we'd like to let you handle your inbox in seconds and get back to your life. You can download it on the App Store at https://avec.ai/download (US & Canada), or on TestFlight at https://avec.ai/testflight in the rest of the world. You need a Gmail/Google Workspace account to try it out, and should you just be curious to kick the tires without committing, you'll be able to delete your account (& all associated data) directly within the app. Don’t want to download anything? Check out our website at https://avec.ai for a walkthrough :) Some things of potential interest to HN readers: - It is not local-first. We run a complex pipeline to process emails on our servers, as in our experience local models that can run on an iPhone are not yet good enough to support our core features. - We use a variety of LLM vendors. One thing we've found is that no model is a magic bullet. Some features (like voice-based drafting) require extremely low latency, which others (like personalization) require the smartest model available. We end up having to stitch a lot of these together through trial and error. - It is not yet available on Android, but we hope to release an Android version in the future :) We'd love to hear folks' feedback and questions!
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