KanmailTurn iCloud into a kanban board
Apple Mail's flat list works fine for a tidy inbox. It does not work when half the threads are PowerSchool, the other half are Hide My Email aliases you set up and forgot about, and somewhere underneath there's a contractor invoice you said you'd pay this week.
Your iCloud inbox is the household filing cabinet.
Apple's Smart Mailboxes live in a sidebar nobody opens, and the unified inbox lumps the school newsletter in with the energy bill and a Hide My Email alias from a shop you used once in 2022. The mailboxes you've already made are doing real work — Family, House, Receipts — they just don't get to be the front of the screen. Kanmail pulls them out of the sidebar and lines them up as columns so you can see what's where.
Mailboxes as columns
Family, House, Receipts, Travel — whatever you've already organized into mailboxes lines up across the screen. Move a message and iCloud updates the same instant; the next time you open Mail on your phone it's already filed.
A board for every part of life
Keep a household board for school runs and bills, a side-project board for the Etsy shop, a receipts board you only open in January when the tax return is due. Each board remembers its own column layout, so switching contexts is one click rather than a hunt through the sidebar.
Every Apple ID in one place
The current iCloud, the @me.com you've had since 2008, a shared family Apple ID — they all sit in one workspace with a different color accent each. No more squinting at a thread to work out which address it landed on.
Sam, household runner
Columns: Inbox, Family, House, Receipts, TravelSchool emails, the plumber's quote, every Apple receipt that goes to the accountant — they used to all live in one scrolling list. Now I can glance at House and know whether the boiler thing is sorted.
Sign in with an iCloud app password
Apple ID enforces two-factor auth, which means third-party mail clients sign in with an app-specific password rather than OAuth. You generate one inside your Apple ID settings, paste it into Kanmail once, and that's it. The password only works for mail, you can revoke it from Apple whenever you like, and Kanmail never sees your real Apple ID password.
Your email stays on your device
Kanmail connects straight to iCloud from your Mac — there is no Kanmail server in between, and your mail is never copied into anyone else's cloud. The local cache lives on your machine alongside everything else iCloud keeps there. Tracker pixels and remote images stay blocked by default, so the marketing team at whichever subscription service can't tell when you opened their email.
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