In contrast, Canary only downloads each email once and applies the correct labels to it, just as Gmail does on the web, which is much more efficient. As you can imagine, this isn’t very efficient and ends up using a lot more disk space and bandwidth than is necessary. This brings a major performance advantage as well – some mail clients treat Gmail’s Inbox and All Mail as separate folders, even though all emails in Inbox are technically also in All Mail – this means that Apple Mail, for example, ends up downloading a large number of emails twice, since it doesn’t treat labels as labels – it treats them as folders. Inbox tabs such as Primary, Social, Updates, Promotions, etc.Labels, without treating them as folders.Which is why we’ve designed Canary to seamlessly support the Gmail features that users have come to expect:
Sure, there are Gmail for Mac apps like Mailplane, Kiwi, and Boxy, but they don’t support non-Gmail accounts – since most people have a secondary work or personal account with a different provider, this can be limiting. Gmail is the most popular email provider around the world today, and yet before Canary, there wasn’t any universal email app that also supported Gmail’s best features. Why Canary Mail is the best Gmail app for Mac
