KirbyTracking Pixels Blocked
Those invisible images that tell a sender when and where you opened their email never load. Kirby counts them instead, and shows you who tried.
Special Delivery · Mac, iPhone & iPad
Your mail, delivered. Nothing else.
Kirby is an email app that carries your mail from your provider to your devices and stops there, unless you switch on the AI features. No trackers reporting back, no reading your mail to sell you things. And getting off a mailing list takes one click.
In testing with friends and family now. Free with one mailbox.
Kirby Mail1¢
Sealed Envelope
Private by default. Not by setting.
Every protection in Kirby ships switched on. You can turn one off if you want to, but you never have to go looking for a setting to be safe.
Remote Images Off
Pictures hosted somewhere else wait until you ask for them, so opening a message doesn't announce that you're reading it.
Lookalikes Flagged
paypa1.com pretending to be paypal.com gets a red warning, checked against the companies you actually deal with.
New Senders Noticed
A quiet line tells you when an address has never written to you before, which is where almost every email scam starts.
Junk Learned On Your Devices
Kirby learns what junk looks like from your own mail, on your own devices. What it learns travels between them through your own iCloud, encrypted, and is never sent to us.
AI Stays Optional
Summaries and drafted replies are there if you want them. AI is off until you turn it on, and then only the message you use it on is sent to Anthropic, the makers of Claude.
Where your mail goes
- Your mail
- From your provider to a database on your own device. Each device fetches its own copy. Nothing is relayed through us, unless you switch on the AI features for a message.
- Your sign-ins
- In your iCloud Keychain, so you sign in once and your other devices just work.
- Analytics
- None. No telemetry, no crash-reporting service, no license check that phones home. We don't know how many emails you have or who you write to.
- Sender photos
- From your own Contacts, never from Gravatar or the sender's website, which would tell a stranger who you write to.
- Spotlight
- Off unless you switch it on. If you do, only the sender, subject and preview line go into your device's search index, which other apps on the device can search too. Switching it off removes them.
- This website
- Loads nothing from anyone else. No cookies, no analytics, no fonts from Google.
Read the full privacy policy. It's plain English, and the same words are in the app.
Return To Sender
Unsubscribe in one click. Then Kirby checks.
Every newsletter gets an Unsubscribe button right in the message. Kirby remembers you pressed it, and if the sender keeps writing anyway, it tells you.
- The worst offenders, ranked. Kirby lists who sends you the most trackers, with a way out next to each one.
- It checks they stopped. After a week's grace, Kirby watches for 30 days and tells you who ignored your request.
- Never sends mail behind your back. If unsubscribing means sending an email, Kirby writes it and waits for you to press Send.
- No unsafe links. An unsubscribe link that isn't secure is refused, because it would tell eavesdroppers your address is real.
★ Priority
Rowan Ellis — Dinner Thursday?
People
Rowan Ellis
Dinner Thursday? I booked the place on Elm.
VIP
Newsletters
Daily Deals Digest
47 deals you can't miss this weekend
4 trackers blocked
Harbor Books
Your October picks are here
1 tracker blocked
Promotions
Shoe Barn
Last chance: 40% off ends tonight
9 trackers blocked
Sorted At The Post Office
A calmer inbox, without the busywork.
Kirby sorts the pile so the email from your sister never sits under a 40%-off sale.
Bundles
People, notifications, newsletters and promotions each get their own section. Archive a whole one in a click.
Priority For Your VIPs
Mark the people who matter and their unread mail sits at the top of every list. Kirby only ever suggests a VIP. It never decides for you.
Piles You Invent
Make a pile, call it anything, drag a few emails in. Kirby learns where things go and files the rest.
Waiting And Owed
See who hasn't replied to you yet, and who you still owe an answer, without a single to-do list.
Mail At Set Times
Let new mail arrive a few times a day instead of all day long, so it stops pulling at you.
Fast, Even Offline
Your mail lives on your device, so search is instant and works on a plane, with from:, is:unread and has:attachment when you want them.
Snooze, Schedule, Remind
Bring a message back later, send one tomorrow morning, and get a nudge if nobody answers.
Every Mailbox, One Inbox
Gmail, iCloud and other IMAP mail, side by side or all together in one unified inbox.
Built For The Keyboard
Arrows, J and K, E to archive, Delete to trash. Press ? anytime to see every shortcut.
Picture Postcards
Have a look around.
Real screens from the app, filled with made-up example mail.
Postage
Free with one mailbox. Pay once for more.
No subscription, no countdown, no features quietly taken away later to make a point.
Free
One mailbox, forever
- Every privacy protection, switched on
- Bundles, search, snooze and stars
- One-click unsubscribe
- Write and send mail, attachments and all
- Five AI requests, then they stop
Kirby Premium
One purchase, no renewal
- As many mailboxes as you like
- One unified inbox across all of them
- Summarize, Ask AI and AI Reply, without a limit
- Every theme, including the pastels
- Keeps an independent developer making it
AI is optional either way, and you can use your own Anthropic key instead. Prices show in the app, in your own currency.
Named After A Real Dog
Made by one person, for people who are tired of being watched.
Kirby is made by Maddie at Tanooki Studios, alone, and named after her dog. No investors and no ads. People who use it pay for it, and nothing about you is ever sold.