# Oxygem/Kanmail

📥 Turn your inbox into a kanban board.

Repository: https://github.com/Oxygem/Kanmail
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kanmail
Homepage: https://kanmail.io
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: email, desktop-app, email-client, kanban, kanban-application, mail-client
Last push: 2026-08-25T11:16:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2965, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 5.0, "n_releases_24m": 17}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1370, forks 92 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:31.897690+00:00)

## What it is
Kanmail is a desktop email client that presents your inbox as a kanban board, with emails as draggable cards and folders/labels as columns. It is a native Go app using the system webview, supporting Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, and any IMAP account, and is source-available but requires a paid license for continued use.

## Use cases
- manage my inbox as a kanban board
- unify multiple email accounts in one app
- organize emails by dragging them between folders
- keyboard-driven email triage
- search across all my email accounts at once
- replace Apple Mail or Spark with a board-based client

## When to choose
- you want a visual kanban workflow for email across Gmail, Outlook, or IMAP accounts
- you prefer a lightweight native app (~40MB, no Electron) with strong keyboard shortcuts
- you value local-first privacy with credentials in the OS keychain

## When to avoid
- you need fully free open-source software - continued use requires a $49 license
- you only need a web-based or mobile email client
- you want to self-host or modify the app freely under an OSI license

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: email, gui, search-engine
- domain: email, developer-tools, desktop-applications
- platform: windows, go
- tags: email-client, kanban, source-available, local-first, keyboard-shortcuts, paid-license, macos, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- Oxygem/Kanmail (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:31.897690+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:40:53.143346+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Oxygem/Kanmail (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:31.897690+00:00, sha fda778d457cf)
  - homepage: https://kanmail.io (fetched 2026-08-29T11:57:37.506135+00:00, sha 48538d335db0)
  - site_page: https://kanmail.io/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T11:57:37.510387+00:00, sha f686b1a35355)
  - site_page: https://kanmail.io/docs/keyboard-shortcuts (fetched 2026-08-29T11:57:37.511993+00:00, sha 2d0047e3f784)
  - site_page: https://kanmail.io/docs/source-available (fetched 2026-08-29T11:57:37.513565+00:00, sha 9c54563c674e)
  - site_page: https://kanmail.io/license (fetched 2026-08-29T11:57:37.508710+00:00, sha a6cc51347ca1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.