Clear it in one pass
Archive, reply, snooze, star, mute — every action is a single keystroke. No toolbars, no mouse hunt. Bare-letter shortcuts and vim-style navigation let you tear through a full inbox without slowing down.
Keyboard-first email · macOS
Get out of
your inbox.
Shrike is a fast, keyboard-driven email app for macOS. Clear the inbox in minutes and get back to the work that actually matters — email that works for you, instead of the other way around. Local-first and private, with intelligence that runs on your Mac.
Free · Works with your Gmail · Press ? any time for help
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- Maya Okonkwo Re: Q3 board deck — final numbers Looks great. One tweak on slide 12 before we send… 9:18 e archive · r reply · t to-do
- GitHub [shrike] CI passed on main Release (macOS dmg) succeeded in 4m 12s 8:55
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Engineered with
- Rust
- iced
- SQLite + FTS5
- llama.cpp
- Metal
// Why Shrike
Email is a tool, not a destination.
Shrike makes triage fast enough that clearing your inbox becomes a few quiet minutes — not the thing your day revolves around.
A command palette for everything
One fuzzy-searchable palette runs every action and teaches its shortcut as you go. The keymap and the palette share the same commands, so what you learn once works everywhere.
Local-first, never blocks
Every view reads from a local SQLite store with full-text search. Renders never wait on the network. Open, search, and triage instantly — even offline — while sync happens in the background.
On-device intelligence
A local LLM (llama.cpp, Metal-accelerated) turns a thread into a to-do with one key — extracting the action and due date. Choose your model from a built-in picker. Nothing is sent to a server.
Every account, one inbox
Add multiple Gmail accounts and read them as a unified inbox, or filter to one with a keystroke. Per-account colors keep senders straight; compose picks the right "From" automatically.
Calendar, built in
Month, week, and day views live beside your mail. Create and RSVP to events, and send iCalendar invites inline — all over the same secure Google connection, no second login.
// Muscle memory
Your hands never leave home row.
A real, learnable keymap — not a novelty. The same keys power the command palette, so you discover shortcuts while you work.
Navigate
- j Next thread
- k Previous thread
- Enter Open thread
- u Back to list
Triage
- e Archive
- s Star
- h Snooze
- # Trash
Compose
- c Compose
- r Reply
- ⇧ +R Reply all
- ⌘ +Enter Send
Power
- ⌘ +K Command palette
- / Search
- t Thread → to-do (AI)
- ⌘ +Z Undo
…and dozens more. See the full keyboard reference →
// Private by design
Your mail never leaves your Mac.
Shrike talks straight to Gmail over an encrypted, standards-based connection — no middle server, no analytics, no tracking. The AI that reads your threads runs on-device, so the contents of your inbox are never uploaded to anyone, including us.
- On-device LLM — prompts and mail stay local
- Direct IMAP + SMTP over OAuth — no relay in between
- Tokens stored locally with
0600permissions - No telemetry, no account, nothing to sign up for
Stop managing email. Start clearing it.
Install Shrike, connect your Gmail, and press ? — you'll be through your inbox in minutes and back to whatever you'd rather be doing.