Talanoa is your first email messenger. It turns messy email threads into clean, chat-like conversations, removing quotes, signatures and clutter along the way. Turn emails into actionable todos, manage your calendar without leaving your inbox, and use private, on-device AI to search, summarize and write. Connect Gmail, Outlook, iCloud or any IMAP account in one unified inbox. Everything stays on your computer: no cloud sync, no tracking, no one reading your emails.
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@bettercallj0hn this looks like what Slack probably should have been
@madsfromfjordkit haha it was one of my first catchline "Slack-like for emails" ;-)
@bettercallj0hn its nice product. Kudos to you.
I like the privacy angle of it: on-device, no cloud sync. The clean chat view is a nice bonus too. Does the on-device AI work offline?
@alieksia Thanks! 🙏 Yes, fully. You download the AI model once from the settings, and from then on everything runs on your machine: search, summaries, replies, translations. No internet needed, nothing ever leaves your computer.
And it's not just the AI: your emails are stored locally too, so you can read, search and write offline. Anything you send gets queued and goes out as soon as you're back online.
Hey John, I use a team inbox with a few other team members - maybe this is outside the scope, but are there any plans for supporting that kind of group inbox situation? I could see Talanoa bridging that gap nicely, given how it completely rewrites the UX of an inbox anyway. Great looking product, btw.
@justdan yes B2B/Teams features are coming in November ;-) it will be game changer to collaborate with your team on emails.
@bettercallj0hn 🙌 amazing, thank you.
John, this is a great app! But one thing: is it possible to have a web version? With yet another app open on my Mac, things just get messy. I like how Gmail just sits in a Chrome tab, all in one place and organized.
@matheus_morais_araujo Hi Matheus, unfortunately a web app isn’t an option due to the "privacy and local approach". We'd need servers to store all our users' data
@bettercallj0hn Congrats on the launch! Love your approach and fresh take on emails / conversations! Do you have a mobile app?
@yespana Thank you so much! 🙏
Yes! The mobile app (iOS & Android) is currently in review with Apple and Google, but you can already try the beta today:
📱 iOS: join the TestFlight here 👉 https://testflight.apple.com/join/WMxWemSj
🤖 Android: send me an email at john@talanoa.email with your Play Store email address and I'll send you an invite link
Would love to hear what you think of it!
@bettercallj0hn Congrats and happy launch! I like the idea and support the local & offline approach. Maybe mcp would be a great feature for those who have their own agents running for managing mail.
@paul_koch2 thanks Paul. Yes internal MCP is definitively on the roadmap to allow more complex workflows with your own agents 👍
@bettercallj0hn nice - looking forward to it!
This is really cool. I have been struggling to keep up with my followup mails. I will try. One quick question, how do you integration with my email? I don't like to share my cred.
@vicky_burnwal1 the app is local only, we don't have servers. Your credentials stay encrypted on your computer only and your emails too.