reMail 2.0: keep your entire email archive in your pocket

I have to admit that I was wrong about reMail. When I wrote about version 1.0, I assumed that nobody would have a problem trusting reMail's secure servers to store and index their email messages for faster searching, and that nobody wanted to download an entire Gmail archive to an iPhone. Wrong, and wrong again. However, version 2.0 of reMail addresses these issues by eliminating the need to trust reMail with your email passwords and letting you carry your whole email account in your pocket.

On another positive note, reMail is getting rid of its subscription fee and charging a flat fee of $4.99 for the app. Before you pay that 5 bucks, you'll probably want to know what reMail does that the combination of Apple's built-in Mail app and Gmail's mobile version doesn't do. Aside from the ability to download your archive (attachments included), you get full-text search instead of just subject lines, and search speeds that are reportedly 5 times faster than the other options.

Tags: email, gmail, imap, indexing, iphone, remail, search