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Hato

The minimalist email client for Gmail on Mac. You decide who gets in. No noise, no distractions.

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Hato’s Inbox: a blue strip says four people want to reach you for the first time; below, three new emails, what you’ve already read and the Reply later and Set aside piles at the bottom. Hato’s Inbox: a blue strip says four people want to reach you for the first time; below, three new emails, what you’ve already read and the Reply later and Set aside piles at the bottom.

Meet Hato

Your email, at peace.

A minimalist email client: just what matters, with no noise and nothing extra. And Hato, our pigeon, makes sure it all just works.

Guardian

Nobody gets in without permission.

Like a good bouncer: if they’re not on your list, they wait at the door.

New emailFrom a stranger
GuardianLet them in?
Allow Block
InboxPeople
NewsReading
BillsReceipts
BlockedNever again

Not everyone gets into your home. Same goes for your inbox.

Speed

As fast as your hands.

Hato keeps a light copy of your email on your Mac: it opens instantly, searches as you type and works entirely from the keyboard. One key for almost everything.

Hato’s Inbox: at the top, people writing for the first time; below, what you haven’t read and what you have. Hato’s Inbox: at the top, people writing for the first time; below, what you haven’t read and what you have.

Order

Every email in its place.

Gmail puts everything in one inbox. Hato sorts it out: people in your Inbox, newsletters in News and receipts in Bills. And what’s pending, in three piles always at hand.

Simplicity

Fewer buttons. More calm.

Every screen shows just enough. No red badges, no tabs, no menus you never use. What you don’t need isn’t there, and what you need is right where you expect it.

An email open in Hato: clean, with room around it, and the reply panel next to it. An email open in Hato: clean, with room around it, and the reply panel next to it.

Your way

Your email, your rules.

You decide who gets in and which box they go to. You choose which senders are private, whether images load, the app icon and its color, light or dark. Hato adapts to you, not the other way around.

  • Nine icons

  • Light, dark or your Mac’s

  • English and Spanish

  • Private mode

  • You decide who gets in

  • Every sender, in their box

Privacy

Between Google and your Mac.

Hato has no servers.
Your email never passes through us.

  • 0 servers Straight from Google to your Mac.
  • 0 ads Zero distractions.
  • 0 passwords You sign in on Google’s page.
GmailGoogle’s servers
Your MacWhere Hato lives
Hato serversThere are none

How Hato uses your Google data

Hato is a desktop email client for Gmail, made by Mat Veiga. This is everything it does with them.

  • Only what your email needs

    It asks Google for permission to read, organize and send your email, and for its own hidden folder in your Google Drive, to keep a copy of your settings. It uses them only to show your email in the Guardian, Inbox, News and Bills, to apply the labels and actions you choose and to send your replies.

  • All on your Mac

    Hato has no servers: we never see, store, sell or share your data.

  • Agents, only if you want

    Without an agent, your email only travels between your Mac and Google. If you connect one, like Claude, it gets what it needs to help you, and that reaches the company behind it (Anthropic, for Claude).

Hato’s use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Privacy Policy Terms of Service

Everywhere · Coming soon

Soon on iPhone and iPad too.

Hato starts on the Mac. Very soon it will come to iPhone and iPad, with your decisions and settings saved in your own Google Drive: no servers of ours, and no starting from scratch on each device.

  • MacNow
  • iPadSoon
  • iPhoneSoon

One payment

No subscriptions. No tricks.

Pay once and Hato is yours. No monthly fees, no features that disappear if you stop paying, no offers that expire in ten minutes. And during the beta, it’s free.

  • One payment

    And it’s yours for good.

  • Free updates

    Every new version, included.

  • No dark patterns

    No ads, no traps, no small print.

We’ll let you know when it’s out.

Leave your email and we’ll write once, on launch day, with a discount. If you tried the beta, the discount is bigger.

Only for that. Unsubscribe with one click.

We want your email to be yours. We don’t want to keep your data or sell you anything: just a tool that makes your life simpler.

Take back your email.

Download the public beta

Public beta 0.6.11 · Free · Apple Silicon · 135 MB · English and Spanish

The first time, if macOS warns you, open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click “Open Anyway”.