
On the other hand, you'll need to grant this app access to your Gmail account and all your mail. On one hand, this means it's super easy to try out. Just like Inbox, it's an alternative client for Gmail.

Shortwave actually isn't a standalone email service yet.

The two user interfaces mostly have the same ingredients, but Shortwave and Inbox are focused on productivity, while Gmail takes multiple clicks on multiple pages. Inbox and Shortwave put bundled emails and regular emails in a single page, so you can see everything. Gmail has a mode that sorts email by category, but it places those categories into totally separate tabs, and you can never scan your whole inbox from one page.
Sweep lets you easily banish anything in an entire section. Gmail has a "check all" button, but that's unintelligently going to select everything on the page. Enlarge / The sweep button archives every email in a section.The sweep button was Inbox's biggest productivity booster, and it's still something Gmail has never replicated.
