The Right Interruption
Your phone can tell you when a VIP or rule-matched email arrives, so important messages do not sit unnoticed.
Email Alert
iPhone Alpha v0.3
Stop checking email. Let important email find you.
Email Alert watches for the people and messages that matter, then alerts you on your phone when they arrive. Instead of searching the inbox again and again, you set the rules once and let the right emails interrupt you.
Less Inbox Archaeology
Rules replace repeated searching. You decide what counts as worth attention, and Email Alert keeps watch.
Passwords Stay Local
Your mailbox passwords and app passwords stay on your iPhone. They are not sent to Email Alert servers.
Offline Time Still Counts
Downloaded messages stay available on a flight, so you can spot VIPs, mark noise, and plan what to handle later.
What Changes
- Add an email account and download recent messages.
- Mark important senders as VIPs, or create alert rules for subjects, senders, attachments, and account scope.
- Put senders you do not want to think about again into Ignored Senders.
- Receive phone notifications when new downloaded messages match your VIPs or alert rules.
- Open the matched email in your chosen mail app when you are ready to act.
The Security Promise
- Email Alert is designed so mailbox passwords remain on the phone.
- Cloud services can receive safe account metadata and settings, but not mailbox passwords, app passwords, OAuth secrets, or refresh tokens.
- Downloaded message previews are available locally, including when the phone is offline.
- If the phone is in flight mode, Email Alert treats that as offline, not as a broken email account.
- Ignored senders can be reviewed and copied, so you can unsubscribe or block them in your usual email client.
Why It Is Useful
For Important People
VIP Senders lets a person, domain, or email fragment cut through. If they matter, the message is easier to notice.
For Important Subjects
Alert rules watch for the words, senders, accounts, and attachments you care about, without turning every email into an interruption.
For Quiet
Ignored Senders helps remove recurring noise from normal views while still letting you review what would have been hidden.
For Travel
On a flight, scroll local messages, choose senders to ignore, copy the list, then unsubscribe or spam-block later in your normal mail client.
Free And Premium
Free On iPhone
Use all phone features with one email account: alerts, VIP Senders, Ignored Senders, notifications, offline review, and local message search.
Premium For More Places
Premium is for multiple email accounts, web access, iPad access, Apple Watch alerting, and syncing settings across your devices.
Still Password-Safe
Premium sync is designed around configuration and history. Mailbox passwords remain on the phone, even when web and other devices join in.
Why This Green
The alert green is intentional. Human daylight vision is commonly modelled by the CIE photopic luminous efficiency function, which peaks around 555 nm in the green-yellow part of the spectrum. Email Alert uses a digital approximation of that high-visibility signal colour because this is an alert-based app.
References: CIE luminous efficacy definition and IES definition of the CIE photopic luminous efficiency function.
What To Expect
The current v0.3 release-readiness pass is focused on stability for physical iPhone 12 UX testing: fast Home Screen interactions, clear notification history, searchable local message previews, reliable email checking, and a calmer way to decide which emails deserve attention.