Inbox AI is a Mac app designed to manage email and handle tasks through AI-driven automated workflows. It allows users to converse with AI via voice or text, automate tasks, process email, and capture information, and it connects with the user's information.
Purpose Inbox AI is primarily used to implement AI automation on Mac. Users can start a voice conversation or open a chat window with a hotkey to ask questions, capture ideas, or trigger complex workflows, and connect with the screen, files, and tools.
Main capabilities
- Build custom voice assistants: Described as "Siri meets Zapier," it can build AI assistants that can answer questions and perform actions, such as creating commands like "reply to this Slack message," or building complete voice assistants.
- Email automation: Automatically flag key messages and filter out noise, extract tasks and send them to apps such as Notion, Obsidian, or Tana. Built into Apple Mail and runs entirely on-device.
- Screen content processing: Select any content on the screen, process it with AI, and send it to commonly used apps.
- Watch folders: Place files into a folder to automatically trigger actions, with support for images and audio.
- 13+ AI providers: Use Claude, GPT, Gemini, Groq, DeepSeek, xAI, or run models locally on Mac via Ollama and LM Studio. Users bring their own API keys or use free local on-device AI.
- AI conversations: Build AI conversation agents that can see and interact with content for summarization, analysis, or extraction, and provide powerful tools. The AI can be guided through multiple-choice questions. Supports running multiple actions simultaneously or sequentially.
- MCP extensions: Connect to Model Context Protocol servers to let AI access external tools such as databases, APIs, file systems, and more.
- Deep integration: Use macOS built-in Mail, Reminders, and Clipboard actions, and is compatible with Raycast and PopClip. Can flag, color, or move messages to Archive, Junk, or Trash. Output tasks to Apple Reminders, copy output to the clipboard, send notifications, run macOS Shortcuts and pass parameters.
- Seamless integration: Use APIs, terminal commands, MCP servers, or macOS Shortcuts.
- Advanced actions: Use any API and process the response with anotheraction; run terminal commands and process the output; search the web with Brave Search and feed the results into an AI action; fetch any webpage, convert it to text, and process it with AI.
How to use Users can start a voice conversation or open a chat window with a hotkey, and enter requests for AI to process. After downloading the app, there is a 7-day trial period. A one-time purchase allows permanent use, with no recurring fees. You can bring your own API key or use free local on-device AI. For help, you can join the Slack community or view the manual. More videos can be found on YouTube.
Use cases Suitable for users who want to improve email management, task automation, and information capture efficiency on Mac, as well as advanced users who want to build custom voice assistants and integrate multiple AI providers and external tools.
Limitations The materials do not provide detailed information about pricing, specific platform version requirements, privacy policy, data storage location, supported languages, and so on. Some features may depend on specific AI providers or local models.
