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Life & fun · October 18, 2026

Umbra Mail

A calmer Gmail where emails look like chat threads

Umbra Mail launched on October 18, 2026 with 76 votes, #263 of 3,080 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

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What it does

A calmer, private Gmail. New mail comes a few times a day, newsletters go in one page, and AI is optional. No tracking, no server, open source.

Runs in Violentmonkey or Tampermonkey , in any browser. Or the Chrome extensionfrom umbra.masn.studio

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