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MailTones - Pager Alerts for Email and Gmail app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 16 ratings )
Business Productivity
Developer: Electric Pocket
9.99 USD
Current version: 1.60, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 30 Sep 2009
App size: 18.15 Mb

MailTones gives you pager-style push email alerts and distinctive custom email sounds for your email, including custom alerts different contacts, subjects and senders. Manage your email distractions - and know immediately when important messages arrive!

"In my tests I found MailTones to be reliable, as advertised. In addition, the distinctive tones—especially the louder, longer ones—are attention-getters" MACWORLD - 4 Mice Rating.

See MailTones for yourself - go to http://mailtones.com/youtube

OVERVIEW

Customise your email alerts to only get notifications of the messages that matter - MailTones can show you a pop-up "push alert" on your iPhone or iPad, showing the sender and subject of your new email message. Youll know instantly whether you need to launch Mail and read the message, or if it can wait.

One practical way to use MailTones is to set your default email tone to silent, or ignore, and just set audible alerts for people and message subjects you need to know about - then when your iPhone beeps or buzzes, youll know its an email message that matters.

Pick your phone out in the crowd with a new email tone. We bundle over 60 alert tones with MailTones, from subtle professional tones to pager alerts, load horns and whistles - perfect for hearing email in a noisy environment, or alerting you to very important messages.

BENEFITS
• Pick a new email tone from over 60 we supply
• Set custom alerts for contacts, subjects, recipient addresses and domains
• Get quick alerts of incoming messages
• Cut distractions by setting unimportant email to silent or ignore
• "Do Not Disturb" automatically stops alerts at night
• Link your devices to receive email alerts on iPhone and iPad
• Simple set-up from Gmail or any server which supports "forward a copy" forwarding of email
• Developed and passionately supported by a UK company with over 14 years experience in the mobile industry

HOW IT WORKS
MailTones works by using a copy of your email messages to send a Push Message to your iPhone or iPad. To generate this push message, we scan a copy of your email messages on our server. We realise this approach will not be suitable for everyone.

When you run MailTones, well give you a special email address @mailtones.net - forward A COPY of your email to that address and any mail you receive will make your iPhone beep with your chosen tone. You can choose to copy all your email to mailtones.net, or use filters to just forward some messages.

When email arrives at our server, we send a Push message to your iPhone or iPad - causing it to beep, whistle, ring or buzz! Please make sure you can forward a copy of your email to a second address - Gmail users can do this, but we understand Yahoo Mail does not provide this facility.

MailTones uses the Amazon EC2 platform, to allow for extreme reliability and stability, however we cannot guarantee delivery of message notifications.

GMail forwarding now requires a code - but we detect and show this in MailTones automatically, so you can enter it in Gmail settings.

REVIEWS

See MailTones for yourself - go to http://mailtones.com/youtube

"MailTones is an idea whose time has come. If youre tired of pulling out your iPhone every five minutes to see if that new message is something important, now youve got an audio-cue alternative. Indeed, for anyone inundated by e-mail, MailTones is money well spent." Major Website Review

"MailTones works well, takes the push notification system to the next level and is worth the price tag."
GearDiary Review

Privacy Policy
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Electric Pocket does not share any information provided to our service with any third parties. No Electric Pocket employee or third party has direct access to emails sent to the system, and we make all reasonable efforts to ensure that your information is kept private and secure.

Pros and cons of MailTones - Pager Alerts for Email and Gmail app for iPhone and iPad

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Thats one of the shortcomings of the iPhone, boring tones. So Im happy to get a hold this app to put more customizeability on my phone.
Just wanted to post a quick update to my previous review. Service issues seem to have been addressed and I have started to rely on this application for providing me notification of business-critical emails. Upgrading my rating to 4 starts ****. -- Hi.  I quite like the concept of this App.  One of the surprising shortcomings of the iPhone is its lack of attention to additional email functionality, such as customizable email tones. So MailTones can definitly fill this need - if it worked consistantly.  While I find the App solid, with a nice user interface, the supporting email service that generated the Push notifications is frequently down.  This is NOT a problem with Apples PUSH service, but with Electric Pockets email & Push notification service. More over, the Electric Pocket doesnt seem to have any type of emal service monitoring, relying on me to complain via email, so consequently these outages are quite long.   I noticed they have released this App for Blackberry as well - One thing I know about BB users is that theyre expectations of email on the BB very high, so MailTones will need to get their email server issues dealt with asap. While I would love to rate this App higher since the actual App is great, the supporting service issues make the overall experience a poor one to this point. I really hope that Electric Pocket gets their services issues looked after.  Like I said, until Apple expands its Mail Apps functionality, MailTones is a great solution in concept.
Converting from Blackberry (which has filters for emails) to iPhone and until now I could not find any way to have subject or sender specific alerts on the iPhone natively. Now with MailTones, I can turn off Incoming Email Sounds, and use Gmail filters to forward mail with specific subjects (ie "Urgent") or from specific senders to the MailTones address supplied . Voila I have lots of options re: sounds through iPhone Notifications! Have not used long enough to comment on reliability. As the type of messages I filter with Gmail this way are not particularly private, I am not too concerned about privacy issues. This may be an issue for some. It would be good if there was a setting in Gmail to forward only the Subject and Sender Address to MailTones without sending the text. Then this app would be perfect but otherwise I am happy with how it is working.
This is terrific app. I no longer miss an important email because of a one time whoosey alert tone. Now I can choose better alerts and longer alerts. It would be better if there was a few more longer alerts avail.
Excellent app! It did stop working for a day or two once. Custom tones would be nice.
It is kinda strange to have to send a copy is your emails. But it works well.

Some bad moments

Nice try. Would be great if it actually worked. Too expensive and you failed to mention it needed forwarding to "work" too (IF it did, of course). Good luck getting help! That wont work either!
Its actually a good application that offers a basic feature which should, by now, be present in iOS... but what Electric Pocket Limited fails to mention is that Mailtones requires you to forward your mail to their servers, which will then bump it back to you with the appropriate alert sound. Thats not the end of the world, but could be seen by some as a security risk - so it would have been nice to know this up front.
It only works if you send a copy of every email to them for reprocessing and return? Who wrote this, the CIA? Share your email with a stranger and double your data usage at the same time. What a concept!
Sending a copy of your email to a third party is ridiculous. Pointless.
In the fourth paragraph, after all the glowing reviews they tell you that you have to forward all your email to them to have the special tones. A great idea with huge privacy concerns - a simple version with no forwarding would BA fabulous - PUT THE FORWARDING REQUIREMENT IN THE FIRST LINE OF THE APP DESCRIPTION PLEASE !!!!!
Wow, should have read the reviews. $10 and they want you to forward all of your email to them, so that tey can sent you a tone ? Save you money. Will not happen on my phone. Where do they get these guys ?

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