TouchMail is a free mobile email app that adds a visual element to every day email usage. The app uses visual & touch signals to present emails in an attractive manner instead of the traditional boring list.
It is estimated that there will be 4.3 billion email accounts in the world by 2017. Currently, over 89 billion emails are exchanged everyday & this figure is estimated to grow annually by 13%, clearly underlining the fact that despite the rise of messaging apps, the email is not dying.
TouchMail’s designers say they realize handling email overload can be a stressful, inefficient & endless task. Traditional email accounts are crowded, dull & hard to filter & read. TouchMail bids to streamline & simplify the email experience by utilizing the touch screen & visual features of mobile devices like Tablets & smartphones.
Besides Windows 8, TouchMail versions are being designed for Android & iOS. Today, about 65% of email users access their messages on a mobile device. TouchMail is targeted at this segment & especially at smartphone users where the app’s condensed interface is expected to provide additional benefits.
How TouchMail Works
True to its name, TouchMail’s touch interface enables readers to use their fingertips to find, filter & organize emails. Our brains are naturally attracted to visual signals, & TouchMail takes advantage of this fact by providing features like profile pictures, color-coded messages & one-touch delete to help manage your Inbox quickly & efficiently. TouchMail is suited to sorting both business & personal email accounts that receive a high volume of messages regularly.
Highlights of TouchMail
Though email reading is widely prevalent on mobile devices, very few apps utilize rich displays or touch interfaces for email as compared to music, maps, media & others. Traditional interfaces do not utilize the the capabilities of modern devices thereby limiting professional & personal productivity. TouchMail steps in by offering a visual, touch interface to help users manage email more productively & thus save time.
TouchMail offers features like:
- intuitive touch-screen interface,
- colorful display,
- tile images,
- extended summaries &
- advanced filter to make it easy to sort high volume Inboxes.
You can sort & categorize your Inbox using the automated color-coded system & eliminate organizational & visual clutter. High volume inboxes can be scanned easily using extended tile summaries & icons. Other important features are novel preview options, attractive visual images for attachments & flags & an adaptive display that alerts users to important mails.
TouchMail offers filter options such as sender, date, flag & priority as well as swipe & zoom navigation features to help users freely explore their mail. These options help you quickly access messages from important people. You can also add your personal signature to the messages you send. TouchMail supports Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, Office 365 & many other email services.
TouchMail is a startup based in Seattle, USA & was founded by former Microsoft Staffers Alex Frank & Matthew Carlson in 2012. The email app was initially launched for Windows 8 computers & Tablets in December 2013, but an iOS & Android version are on their way soon.
Click here to download TouchMail for Windows 8.
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