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Mail, calendar, and tasks live together. Stop alt-tabbing between five tabs to find out where you're supposed to be at 3pm.
Email, calendar & tasks — with a private AI sidekickYour inbox should work
Your inbox should work
for you— not for someone’s training set.
GingerMail is a desktop email, calendar, and tasks app with optional on-device AI. It learns your patterns and keeps them right where they belong: on your machine. Big email gets smarter off your data. This one just gets smarter about you, quietly.
No backend. No telemetry.
AI that runs on your machine
One calm digest, not 200 pings
GingerMail — Focus ModeAI summary · local:ollamastays on device
3 threads need you today. Landlord wants rent (shocking). Two can wait until Thursday — snoozed.
Mom
Did you eat?
Calendar
Dentist · 3:30pm
Tasks
Reply to landlord
Simplify email
Email got complicated.
We put it back together.
GingerMail is the boring-in-a-good-way inbox: fewer surprises, fewer pings, and a layout that doesn't make your shoulders climb toward your ears.
4+providers, one inbox
Gmail, Microsoft, Apple, and plain IMAP/SMTP all land in one unified inbox. Bring the accounts you already have.
0data brokers involved
Everything caches in an encrypted database on your machine. There's no server in the middle quietly taking notes.
Everything in one window
Less app-hopping. More actually-living.
The whole point is fewer moving parts. Here's what ships today — all of it real, all of it local-first.
Unified mail
An Apple-Mail-style three-pane inbox across Gmail, Microsoft, Apple, and IMAP/SMTP. One-click unsubscribe that actually unsubscribes.
Calendar built in
Day, Week, and Month views with Google, Microsoft, and CalDAV. Import and export ICS without a single browser tab.
Tasks + time-blocking
Google Tasks, Microsoft To Do, and local lists. Drag a task straight onto the calendar to block real time for it.
Slack, tamed
DMs and channels with unread and mention badges. Turn a message into a task so it stops living rent-free in your head.
Focus Mode
Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+F dims everything but the thing in front of you, mutes notifications, and offers a gentle Pomodoro nudge.
Universal snooze
Snooze any email, event, or task. Future-you can deal with the landlord. Present-you gets to breathe.
One digest, not 200 pings
Notifications are batched into a single calm digest by default — not a per-email confetti cannon of anxiety.
ADHD-friendly by default
Low-stimulation palette, generous spacing, optional dyslexic-friendly font, and adjustable density and size out of the box.
Private AI
Keep your patterns where they belong: with you.
The big providers got smart by studying everyone’s mail. GingerMail flips that: the AI learns how you write, when you reply, and what youignore — and that understanding never becomes someone else’s product. Run it fully on-device, or opt into a cloud model with guardrails you actually control.
Local AI (Ollama)
Recommended · nothing leaves your machine
- Runs through a bundled Ollama model on 127.0.0.1 — loopback only.
- Zero network traffic leaves your machine. The model file lives in ~/.ollama.
- Summaries and drafts happen on your hardware, on your terms.
Cloud AI (bring your own key)
Opt-in · fenced in on every side
- Strictly opt-in, and off by default — nothing leaves until you flip the switch.
- Egress allowlist: the app only talks to the exact vendor you chose. Typos to other hosts are blocked.
- PII redaction toggle scrubs card numbers, SSNs, phone numbers, IBANs, OTPs, and emails before send.
- Every AI reply carries a provenance badge (e.g. cloud:openai:gpt-4o-mini) so you always know where it went.
- Tag an account 'Sensitive' and cloud AI is blocked for it, full stop.
Prefer no AI at all? Set it to Off and GingerMail is simply a very pleasant, very private email client. The smarts are an invitation, never a requirement.
Privacy & security
Serious about your data. Relaxed about everything else.
Email is the most sensitive workflow on most people's computers. We treat it that way — then get out of your way.
Things we explicitly do not do
- We do not run a backend. No mirror of your mail exists on our servers, because we don't have servers.
- We do not have analytics, telemetry, or crash beacons. The app doesn't phone home on launch.
- We do not sell, share, or aggregate your data. We can't — we never collect it.
“We don’t sell your data” hits different when the honest reason is “we never had it.”
Encrypted at rest
Your local cache is an SQLCipher-encrypted database. The key is generated once and stored in your OS keychain — never on disk in plaintext.
Hardened by design
Locked-down mail rendering (sandboxed iframes), OAuth with PKCE, a secret-scrubbing logger, and validated IPC. Security is a feature, not a footnote.
Your keys, your keychain
Passwords, OAuth tokens, and AI keys live in macOS Keychain or Windows DPAPI — the same vault your OS trusts for everything else.
The honest take
This isn't for everyone. On purpose.
We'd rather you choose GingerMail with your eyes open than churn out disappointed. So here's the unvarnished trade-off.
You’ll love it if…
- Your mail, calendar, tasks, and AI all stay on your machine.
- No telemetry, no tracking, no quietly-trained ad model.
- A calm, ADHD-friendly UI that doesn't fight you.
- Bring your own accounts and (optional) your own AI key.
- Open about exactly what leaves your device, and when.
Maybe skip it if…
- It's a desktop app — there's no web inbox you can pop open on a borrowed laptop.
- Local AI wants a reasonably modern machine; a 2014 netbook will struggle.
- Cloud AI and OAuth mean a little setup (bring-your-own keys, sign-ins).
- We're early. Some edges are still being sanded — see the roadmap.
- No backend means no magic cross-device sync we run for you.
Privacy is a trade-off, not a magic trick. You give up a little convenience; you get back control and a much quieter inbox. If that math works for you, welcome aboard.
Pay what feels right
GingerMail is free. Bills, sadly, are not.
The app costs nothing to use and always will. But privacy-first software is built by humans who, in 2026, would also like to afford groceries. Chip in only if it's genuinely better for you than the alternatives.
The Latte
$3/ month
Cheaper than one 2026 oat-milk latte, and it won't judge your inbox.
- A warm fuzzy feeling, renewed monthly
- Your name in the in-app thank-you wall
- Early access to beta builds
Most chipped-in
The Grocery Run
$8/ month
Roughly one (1) carton of eggs at 2026 prices. We're as surprised as you are.
- Everything in The Latte
- Priority on feature requests
- A vote in the next-quarter roadmap poll
The Rent Softener
$20/ month
Won't fix rent. Will fund the people fighting your inbox so they can afford rent.
- Everything in The Grocery Run
- A founders' sticker pack, mailed to you
- Our eternal, slightly teary gratitude
No paywalls, no nags, no “you’ve used 3 of 3 free summaries” popups. Supporting is opt-in and entirely optional.
Give your inbox a quieter, more private home.
Free to download. Free to keep. Your data never leaves your machine unless you say so.
Builds are unsigned during early access — you may need to approve the app in your OS security settings. Linux build available on request.