Email at the speed of your keyboard.
pheeme is an open-source email client for developers. It opens fast, stays fast, and never makes you reach for the mouse.
It's early. There's nothing to download yet. Star the repo to follow the build.
Try the keyboard inbox
Fast is the feature.
Your mail lives in a local cache, so opening a thread, searching, and archiving don't wait on a server. The goal is that nothing you do takes longer than a keystroke. When something's slow, that's a bug.
Hands stay on the keys.
Every action has a shortcut, and the shortcuts you already know from Vim and Gmail work on day one.
| j k | Move through messages |
| e | Mark done and move on |
| r a | Reply, reply all |
| / | Search everything |
| ⌘ K | Run any command |
Yours to read and fork.
Your inbox is the most private thing on your computer. You should be able to read every line of the app that opens it. pheeme is open source, so you can.
~ gh repo clone AlexGenovezos/pheeme
~ cd pheeme
~/pheeme 
Named for the goddess of news.
In Greek myth, Pheme was the voice that carried news. She had wings and a trumpet, and word traveled as fast as she could fly. The Romans called her Fama, and she still stands on a rooftop in Dresden, gilded and mid-announcement.
We borrowed her name, added an e, and pointed her at your inbox.
Built in public
Here's the plan, in order. Watch the repo to see each step land.
- Done
Name, logo, and this site
You're looking at it.
- Up next
Sync engine
IMAP and a local cache that keeps your mail on your machine.
- Planned
The keyboard inbox
The demo above, for real, with your own mail.
- Planned
Public alpha
First builds anyone can download and break.
Watch it get built.
Star the repo and you'll see every commit from the first line of the sync engine to the alpha.
Star on GitHub