Email apps are a dime a dozen at this point, and each one is continuously attempting to compete with others in any way they can. Today, CloudMagic takes their app one step further in a small, but significant way. With Sender Profile, CloudMagic will now be able to quickly show you more information on the contact emailing you using various social media sources.
More often than not, most emails I receive come from new senders or contacts. I usually spend a few moments deducing who they are, how I know them, or if I’ve ever worked with them in the past. CloudMagic’s new Sender Profile immediately solves that problem for me by pulling together a contact image and related details making that discovery all the faster.
Sender Profile pulls information from LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to grab job titles, organizations, and locations for your email’s sender. If an associated company can be found alongside the contact you’ll also be able to the see information on that specific company, including social media presence.
CloudMagic’s Sender Profile integrates so beautifully into the app you’ll be surprised it didn’t already exist before. Simply open any email you have received, select the monogram avatar (or contact picture if you have one for that particular contact), and that’s it. CloudMagic will present a contact card with that contact’s biography (from their Twitter bio), and various social media links below that.
In my testing, Sender Profile was accurate and fast. I launched multiple emails with contacts I hadn’t saved into my device and it showed me relevant information immediately. With the amount of emails I receive daily, the feature has quickly become a staple of my workflow. I do love the feature, but I’m not sure how users will respond to the in-app subscription cost for it.
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Seeing as CloudMagic is cross-platform (Mac, iOS, watchOS, Android, and Android Wear) and free on iOS, I can understand them looking for newer ways to monetize the application by introducing “pro” features to users.
CloudMagic is available as a free download for iOS, with a one-time payment on the Mac of $19.99.
Sender Profile is available as an in-app subscription for $24.99 annually. Once purchased, Sender Profile will become available across all your connected devices that are currently using CloudMagic.
[9:36 PM ET: Corrected CloudMagic’s Mac app pricing. Thanks Ertuğrul.]
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Actually CloudMagic for Mac itself is $19.99 on the App Store, so…
You’re correct Ertuğrul, I don’t know how I mixed that up. I’ve gone ahead and corrected that. Thank you!
@Greg, what do you think about CloudMagic’s productivity? Specifically, when you delete, move, or archive an email it takes you back to your inbox (vs to the next email)? I don’t know about you, but when I go through my inbox in the morning; I want to quickly & efficiently move through the mail. In my opinion, this client doesn’t deserve to be a viable email without this basic functionality. I am so frustrated because this could be the best email client for Macs on the planet but I can’t use it because of this basic and expected functionality.
I’ve been thinking about that very problem and through various email client testing, I noticed the same thing. A lot of clients will take you back to the inbox after deleting an email. I don’t know why, but I do wish it would just take me directly into the next one. The clients that DO take me into the next one, don’t have the features I need.
Email clients play a balancing act of features and usability.
@Greg Is Cloudmagic your main email app?
It is not, no. My main email app is AirMail for iOS.
Thank you for writing this article! It’ a good insight into Cloud Magic for the Desktop. I have it on my iPad (Air 2) & iPhone 6 and it’s an amazing and visually beautiful application, I have been holding out for the desktop version though, as I’ve been unsure whether it would be as good.
It’s much too expensive. In fact $24.99 is noted as a discount on the “regular price” of $49.99 a year.
I’ve just started using CloudMagic on my iMac. The Apple Mail app was beginning to annoy me because of how hard it is to use alias email addresses. I like it. I am not willing to pay as much as they are asking for the additional features though. I do not get that much mail from people I do not know who do not tell me who they are!
I looked at Airmail 3 but it has some poor reviews on the App Store.