SaneBox
Your Trusted AI Inbox Assistant
SaneBox is the leading email organization tool for 12+ years. Winner of PCMag Editors' Choice winner naming "It's the top productivity app we've ever reviewed." Its AI keeps your inbox organized, with lots of features to help you save 3+ hours/week. Works wherever you check email - on all clients and devices.
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SaneBox is highly praised for its ability to streamline email management, saving users significant time and reducing inbox clutter. Users appreciate its seamless integration across various email clients and devices, with many highlighting the effectiveness of features like the "SaneBlackHole" for unwanted emails and customizable filters. While some users note issues with push notifications, the overall feedback is positive, emphasizing improved focus and productivity. SaneBox's customer support is also commended, contributing to its reputation as a reliable tool for managing overwhelming email volumes.
This AI synopsis blends highlights gathered from recent reviewers.
How people rate SaneBox
Based on 10 reviews
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Like most, I use to allow my inbox to control my day. Which is not productive. SaneBox really helps with quickly getting rid of the emails that I either don't need at all or can defer to later. It takes a bit to get the habit going. But once you do, it is a game changer. Also, they have great staff. Never had a bad interaction.
This has replaced a large number of mail rules I used to have - and more importantly, the time I spent maintaining them. Also adds a bunch of functionality over and above what mail rules can do (even using imapfilter).
However, there is a fly in the ointment. With push notifications, I frequently get notified of an email arriving before Sanebox has a chance to 'see' it and files it away for later. So I get a lot more 'nuisance' notifications for emails that Sanebox decides isn't important a few moments later. In other words, there's a race condition between email client notifications and Sanebox processing.
Their support folk are aware of this, and their workaround is to turn off push notifications. I wasn't impressed.
I've suggested that they add the ability to configure which folder they consider is the 'Inbox', so I can write a single mail rule to put incoming mail there. Then Sanebox would see the email before any email clients, who would continue to monitor the actual Inbox.
That way I'd only get notified for emails that Sanebox determined should be moved to the actual Inbox from the secondary one. However, I don't know if this is something Sanebox are considering - the support person said they'd pass the suggestion along, but given how long sanebox has been available, I can't believe this is a new idea to them. So I'm not holding my breath, and I'm still looking for either a way to work around this, or an alternative that doesn't have this flaw.
I'm the CIO at a community college and interact with many other schools in our system and our parent organization. Sanebox helped me to focus on the emails I needed to see and only glance at the rest. It gives me the right amount of focus and control and has made my email work reasonable, whereas before, it was too much to handle well. Highly recommended.