Turn Gmail into a kanban board

Sign in with Google and Kanmail shows your labels as columns. Drag and drop emails, sync multiple accounts.

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Screenshot of Kanmail showing Gmail as a kanban board

For people who already know Gmail.

Kanmail has been designed and tested for Gmail users. Take your inbox organization beyond labels and stars by putting your emails in a kanban board. Unify your work and personal Gmail accounts in one view.

Your labels, side by side

Your labels, side by side

Turn labels into columns you can pull messages into. Because Gmail lets a thread carry multiple labels, Kanmail's copy mode shows the same email in every column it belongs to, and removing it from one leaves the others untouched.

The search operators you already type

The search operators you already type

from:, has:attachment, after:2024/01/01, label:clients/acme - all of it goes straight to Gmail's search, same syntax, same results. Keyboard shortcuts cover archive, label, snooze and column jumps, so the trackpad stays parked.

Three Gmails, one board

Three Gmails, one board

Work account, personal account, the side-project Workspace you spun up last year; Kanmail merges them into one board and tints each account a different color so you don't reply to a client from your gmail.com address by mistake.

In practice

Priya, freelancer

Columns: Inbox, Client A, Client B, Invoicing
I've got a Gmail per client and my personal one on top. Seeing Acme, Globex and invoicing as columns next to each other is the first time I've stopped losing things between accounts.
Kanmail board example for Priya, freelancer

One-click Google sign-in

Hit Sign in with Google and you're in — no app passwords, no two-step IMAP setup, no digging through Google security settings to enable less-secure-apps. Kanmail uses OAuth 2.0, so your password never touches it; Google hands back a scoped token that only permits mail operations, and you can revoke it from your Google account at any time.

Your email stays on your device

Kanmail runs on your machine and talks directly to Google. There is no Kanmail server in the middle, no cloud sync of your mail, no analytics pipeline reading your subjects — your messages cache locally and stay there. Tracking pixels and remote images are blocked by default, so the marketer who sent you that newsletter doesn't get a read receipt the moment you scroll past it.

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