LocalInbox: Mac email app with on-device AI

by Randall Ledner

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Oct 25, 2026 Productivity

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A few months ago I was drowning in email. Newsletters, receipts, GitHub notifications, and somewhere in the middle the few messages that actually mattered. AI email tools looked like the answer, so I tried a few. Every one of them asked for the same thing first: full access to my inbox, sent to their servers. Every invoice, every private conversation, every password reset. That's the most personal data I have, and I didn't want to hand it over just to get my mail sorted. Then I realised...