Spike

Vorteile

The way Spike sorts emails is genius.
It turned my inbox into a chat-like experience, where emails are grouped by people and not threads/topics - so it actually feels like I'm using a IM and not an outdated email client.

Nachteile

Some of the more advanced features still need some work.
I'd love to see tagging in notes (so collaboration would be smoother), or the option to add a call link into an invite directly (like in Google Calendar).

Vorteile

+ The ease of use - everything is in one place, and it's easy to concentrate on the information in the messages, rather than filtering through quoted text or long emails that duplicate something already on my computer.
+ The modern approach - as much as business is still formal, and we value salutations and signatures, they distract from the message we are sending, and email is being supplanted by chats/blogs/... And Spike embraces this trend without losing the formality (it's just hidden)
+ The semi-automatic email account setup - Spike recognised (in most cases) what kind of email account I had (Gmail, or Exchange, or IMAP) and pre-filled parts of the server data (or eliminated me having to enter it at all) which made setting up accounts a breeze.
+ The incredibly fast customer service - The CS team is really fast (and personable, and friendly and helpful) when I have an issue. And I feel super well-taken-care-of. Not a given in today's fast moving automated world.

Nachteile

There are still a few growing pains, and some features are not fully implemented yet. Some things that aren't working perfectly are the calendar integration, .ics files/invitations, and sometimes Spike won't recognise the email/name I'm typing in to give me reasonable proposals....
But these are minor details in the great scheme of things, and given the age of the app, there are truly very few bugs or glitches!

Vorteile

I liked the voicemail messages and the text-to-speech. It makes it easy to multitask by having your email read out loud. Or on the other side, being able to record a message instead of typing out the email.

Nachteile

What I least liked about the product was sometimes there was a long delay in my message delivery. There were times when I didn't get the messages at all.

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It’s assigned all the emails contact wise which help us to track the history.

Nachteile

Some emails doesn’t view properly on mobile app.
User interface on mobile app is average it’s not very smooth. Also it takes time to delete email. It take around 30 to 60 seconds

Vorteile

Spike gives me the liberty and flexibility i need to not just handle mails but also to collaborate with colleagues, share files amongst ourselves, organize chats and enjoy the use of A.I in increasing my productivity.

Nachteile

Absolutely nothing! It's amazing good and easy to use.

Vorteile

All inboxes in one view and powerful search.

Nachteile

The team comms are sent via a no-reply email. So you cannot reply using Spike. You need to create a new email conversation to get in touch and report issues. They also use inbox spam messages to promote their features, which feels spammy and awful when you have 10+ accounts connected.Product-led strategy is lost. App spamming messages come first, even before proper new feature announcements come to us via an actual email.

Vorteile

I’ve used five different mail clients, including Apple Mail, and none of them has made managing emails easier than Spike.

You can use Spike to divide your priority for your non-priority emails, but I use the Unread and Read emails setup. Viewing my emails in the Recent pane means that I'm not distracted by the clutter of previously read and viewed emails. The Unread pane gives a clean Inbox when I'm done processing the emails, but I also click and see my read previously read emails.

The ability to snooze emails is another feature not found in many email clients. The snooze feature allows me to use Spike as part of my task management processes. I can snooze emails and show them back up when I need them.

Spike also has a fast search feature, so I have less of a need for saving and tagging emails to different folders. Because Spike also reveals search results of archived emails, I archive about a third of my emails so emails don't clutter my Inbox.

Spike has several valuable features, including email templates, tagging, and quick responses.

Best of all, Spike is free for personal use, though I would pay to use it.

Nachteile

Wish there was a way to click on a calendar date in an email and have it added to the Spike Calendar. Smart email folders might also be useful for Spike.

Vorteile

I love the way it takes out the extra elements in a mail like images and branding, and makes it 100% text. Which helps you get to the point and understand what need to be understood.

Nachteile

The searching tool could be better. It's not bad, but it's not accurate enough.

Vorteile

This software unifies all the inboxes that a company can have, in a single interface, to achieve a more prudent concentration by needing to manage all its calls, text messages, emails, calendars and among many other qualities that can be attended from this system for a speed of response, especially when the support services are established by email or telephone means, being one of the systems that I like the most, since we can perform many operations at the same time thanks to Spike.

Nachteile

It would be quite useful if this system will integrate a better appearance in its internal interface, because it is somewhat old, and it would be convenient for improvements, for a modern appearance in its entirety, in order to acquire a dynamic and incredible appearance once we want to use This software, for our needs, relevant, mentioning that an update so that its functionalities can be faster, is not a bad idea to implement, since it is somewhat slow in these collaborative processes.

Vorteile

Among the various tools looking to make email better, I believe this one does it best. It's strength is in truly stripping the junk away from messages—layers of quoted previous messages, long signature bars, etc.,—and turns it into iMessage/text like bubbles. When you're shooting messages back and forth to dozens of people, being able to keep up with conversations with simple bubbles is a super help. Yet, when you need to see the originally formatted message with the quoted text, it only takes one click to go back and forth again.

Nachteile

It still acts and feels like beta software. The interface can be clunky at times, file handling isn't as robust as other email tools, moving messages to folders isn't possible. There's been some feature creep too as they seek to monetize, looking to make group messaging and voice/video chats.

Vorteile

C'est un super produit et très complet avec de multiples fonctionnalités et permet aux entreprises de gérer le service client.

Nachteile

Je n'ai pas d'inconvénients sur ce logiciel. Je vous le conseil

Vorteile

That I can see when someone has opened my email and I can respond to emails as if I'm on whatsapp. Not be a robot like when I use other sites.

Nachteile

When you send the email to multiple people, I'd like to see which individual viewed the email. Not that if one person viewed it, I'll have the impression that everyone else did which is false and feels misleading.

Vorteile

the ability to have it setup on multiple devices so you have access to the information when you need it. Being able to "PIN" items for quicker access.
also the ability of finding any attachment based on a specific contact.

Nachteile

having the ability to use the "REPLY ALL" being more accessible and not have to hunt for it.

Vorteile

Being able to manage my emails in a chat format and getting rid of spam, junk, etc with such ease is great.

Nachteile

The limit to just two email accounts for free is the only thing I wish they would change. Or at least offer an 3 email plan which didn’t involve such a high price.

Vorteile

The integration was incredible and easy. You can switch from people to more traditional view and once you have used Spike for a couple of days it truly is remarkable. No longer frustrated by the “threads” and wasting time looking for the right one to respond to, it’s just so good to have that chat like experience and to be honest I am loving it on mobile devices which I can’t say I did with Gmail.

Nachteile

I haven’t found how to activate an out of office response. This is something I do miss.

Vorteile

It looks nice. Pretty UI.
Email organization is ok for a single email address *IF* you don't care about your in-email branding or your own signature.

Nachteile

The problems start with multiple accounts. I tried with my personal one, my company one and one I use from a client of mine. The organization got very confusing when one person wrote to more than one of my accounts. It got worse when I wanted to write a new email to a person who wrote me at more than one account. It was an utter mess.

But the reason I give this such a bad review is that what they did not tell me was that they remove my branding - my signatures and replace them with their advert. This was not clearly stated anywhere - I discovered it when I wrote myself a test. I did eventually find in their pricing table that Free accounts don't get "custom signatures". I also found that to use MY branding I am expected to pay them $144.

Vorteile

I LOVE that my emails are sorted into feeds by the sender. This means no more searching for "that other email" from that client... they are all in one place! It's easy to switch to the old email view too when I need to.

Set up and integration was simple - it's great to have my google calendar right there to toggle over too without opening another app on my phone.

Nachteile

I wish it were easier to designate emails to the priority box - or maybe I haven't figured that out yet?

Vorteile

Hop helps reduce the amount of time spent on email. Hop works faster then any email client, and I have tried every one that I could find! The Priority Inbox vs Other inbox saves a lot of time sorting what is important and not important. If others are using Hop as well, it creates a realtime chat between each other. It also allows for encrypted messages between users, which is great when sending sensitive information.

Nachteile

Not much, would like a few other small features like Auto Snoozing, and location based reminders. But really, they have the best email client, and now that desktop will be available, it will be the best solution on your smartphone, tablet, and desktop.

Vorteile

I love the approach that Spike take on email management. It uses chat-like interface from mobile chat apps that we grow to love so much. It minimizes the clutters that we get from normal email conversations. Plus Spike is free for non-business email accounts.

Nachteile

Spike could take hints from other email clients to improve its user interface.

Vorteile

- Best email "triage" functionality I have ever seen
- Lots of small features that save time
- Very clever designed features to find the piece of information you need
- Integrated instant messaging

Nachteile

- The user interface is a little different to the standard email clients, so you have to get used to it. But once you figure out (I still find more "hidden" features that I did not know of every once in a while) all the cool features you get hooked and don't want to miss it.
- no desktop version yet (but in development)

Vorteile

Spike treats emails as chat conversations. It eliminates the long threads and simplifies the user interface. Spike is available in multiple platforms. It also supports multiple email accounts - free as long as they're Gmail.

Nachteile

Work email accounts with @customname.com are not free. Charged per email account.

Vorteile

Spike removes the parts of email that make it slow and cumbersome to use. It creates a chat like system that turns email into a messenger platform. With Spike Groups, email threads are simplified. With Spike Notes, you get a single place to collab on documents.

Nachteile

I wish the calendar was more robust and had a full view. I also wish there could be multiple windows open.

Vorteile

The conversation like email threads are much easier to use. It's almost impossbile for you to miss any emails buried in a long thread.

Nachteile

The design can be improved. Also, dark mode compatibility is not available. Default fonts and colours cannot be set for email composition.

Vorteile

The ease with which we are able to find a particular email sent by a certain user. Also the UI ensures that it is similar to everyday chatting software

Nachteile

Nothing to be honest. I like everything about the software and I have personally recommended to a few friends. Only feature I would like to add is unsend the email

Vorteile

Fluid and modern interface. Reliable and snappy to work with.

Nachteile

The inability to customize the signature on the free plan is a bit annoying. I'm not saying that we should be able to remove the link in totality, but at least have a few options of how utilise the advertising link

Vorteile

Hop Email, now known as Spike, hits many right buttons regarding an email client. But choosing to design email conversations to look like mobile chats is genius. It hides all the clutters and makes it easier for users to comprehend the content.

Nachteile

While managing free email is still free for Hop users, managing business emails is not.

Vorteile

What I like most about this software is its ease of use and that it allows sending any type of information: messages, videos, images, files, and it can synchronize and save the information directly in the cloud.

Nachteile

It had left its use for a while and when it came back it was gratifying to see the advances it has made.

Vorteile

I love the fact that when I typed in the help box someone replied immediately. That was a huge eye opener.
It seamlessly divides emails into priority and others. It also puts all emails from the same person or company together. By doing that you can delete all the emails at once. Not one by one. This is the biggest plus of this app.

Vorteile

It brings a new perspective on email management by using a chat-like interface to interact with email conversation. It's also free to use with personal email accounts.

Nachteile

Using Spike with business email is not free.

Vorteile

Easy to use. Reliable - I don't think I have had one single issue with the product.

Nachteile

I had a few issues when I set it up, but that could have easily been operator error. Customer service was prompt and helpful.

Vorteile

The main concept of Spike is to treat email conversation like mobile IM message. So you won't see the long thread of previously replied emails, just the reply. It also tracks replies.

Nachteile

While the Gmail accounts management is free, you need to pay for each managed business email.

Vorteile

I can easily delete junk and old emails in one fell swoop thanks to the way the app bundles and organizes emails by contact. Its chat-like email view also lets me see all emails in a thread in one consistent feed so I can see everything just by scrolling rather than opening individual headers to find a specific mail I am looking for.

Nachteile

That it took me forever to find out about it. Its a game-changer.

Vorteile

Easy to use. Great app. Quick email and I like the fact, that I can read the email in coversations. Support is excellent.

Nachteile

I would like to be able to adjust the font size when read email. Or zoom in as sometimes the font is small

Vorteile

Spike was recommended to me by my boyfriend who works over seas. He is Ametican and uses Spike all the time. I like using it because you can chat as well as receiving emails so you can use Spike as an all in one app which is very useful. I probably do not use it to its full potential and that is because microsoft did not support it so I had to use a different email address which is google and thankfully it did support Spike

Vorteile

Spike works great for mailing but besides that has many other functionalities you and your team can use.

Nachteile

Spike has not been very well known as far as I know, but besides that I can't think of anything

Vorteile

good UI/UX, not that much of a barrier needed to fully use.

Nachteile

offer a calendar view for the calendar!!

Vorteile

Hop keeps me on top of my game. I email much faster, never miss emails, and love snoozing. I'm able to search and find attachments very easily - major convenience and time saver.

Nachteile

I'm waiting for the Send Later feature to be added. Receiving read-receipt notifications would also be useful.

Vorteile

I really like the messenger chat style and the priority inbox. Makes communication more efficient, you can share docs etc. within groups and much more. More featured than other apps included, you don't have to switch between different apps, all what you need is included in Spike.

Nachteile

Desktop version could have more features, dark mode on Desktop.

Vorteile

The layout is quite interesting and smooth like texting.

Nachteile

limitations of the app like signatures, .dat issue, sending an email as attachment etc

Vorteile

I enjoy the chat based email look. It is quick and intuitive! I like seeing when others are responding to my messages too1

Nachteile

The only negative at the moment is it is web based. Looking forward to having an App for my Mac in the future!

Vorteile

I can unsubscribe any mail without launching external browser. Also I can block unwanted mails. The ui is good. Another addition is that the mails can be opened
like chats. It is pretty good as it declutters everything and I can mail easily.

Nachteile

Nothing that I can think as of now. I have been using it everyday and has not faced any problems. It has made my mailings simpler and easy to use. The developer should release more updates with other features.

Vorteile

I love how simple yet functional it is. It's very intuitive and has a lot of powerful tools for keeping your life and projects organized.

Nachteile

The free, personal version can look cluttered.

Vorteile

I really like the clear and clean interface, I love simple and non-confusing things. It has everything it takes to get into the toolbox of marketing.

Nachteile

There are no negatives in my opinion, all I have to say is that I like it! I recommend it continuously to my co-workers.

Vorteile

It's a really cool idea, and it's implemented exactly as promised. It can be fun and lower-stress to reply to work emails like they're an iMessage on your phone.

Nachteile

A lot of my work emails don't lend themselves particularly well to a response akin to how you'd reply to a text message. Reading emails with HTML images wasn't good either.