Notify: A Menubar Email Notifying App for OS X

Notify is a neat little email notifier app for OS X; it’s particularly useful for people who primarily rely on webmail services like Gmail. It sits in your menubar, displaying the number of unread messages you have and playing a sound when you receive new email. It also goes beyond being just a notification tool, because you can click on the icon to drop down a window to quickly read (and respond to) emails directly from within Notify.

Configuring your accounts is snap, particularly if you use Gmail/Google Apps, MobileMe/.Mac or Rackspace Email, in which case you just need to provide your account credentials. Otherwise, you can use IMAP to connect to your email service provider. Once your accounts are set up, you can also specify some options how often to check for new email, what sounds to play (if any) when new emails are received.

Clicking the Notify icon in the menubar drops down a window displaying inbox. Each account has its own tab, and each email has a preview of its contents — usually enough to decide what to do with it. By default, double-clicking an email opens it in your webmail client in the browser.

Notify’s a nicely designed app that’s worth checking out if you use webmail. You can download it for free; a license costs $9.

Let us know what you think of Notify in the comments.

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