I checked the short list of options in the preferences window, but really, nothing about offline. The same happens if you try to switch to another folder.
Connecting 41s (countdown)”appears on the top. As soon as I tried to click on the next page, the “Not connected.
With the app open, I tried to test its offline functionality by disconnecting my MacBook Pro from the internet, started to browse the mails on my inbox fine (no images or attachments are displayed or available though). As such, you would expect the app to offer a flexible offline way of working, unfortunately it doesn’t. It’s a pity that one of the main pinpoints of Kiwi for Gmail is that they call the App an “email client”. These are the core things I found the app is missing to really improve the Gmail experience: You won’t find a great preferences menu to add all the flexibility you were still waiting for from Gmail, but maybe Eric and Ryan are still on time to really make things really attractive. But this is pretty much it, and something similar is offered by Gmail and Chrome, without even mentioning all the plugins that are available for Chrome.
I say yet because while the tool falls very short on multiple aspects, it does offer a nice way of easily identifying the multiple accounts you might be using with one single Window, and at least on OS X it does offer some alerts and status icons on the top bar. With a great opportunity in hands, the team of Zive composed by Eric Shashoua and Ryan Shetley, were supposed to make a clear statement with their product, unfortunately this didn’t happen, yet. I backed Kiwi for Gmail which was originally called Gmail for Mac on Kickstarter, they asked for USD 20.000 and they got more than double of that USD 42.202, so people is really interested on finding a solution to better manage their Gmail accounts.
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