nicemails works without an app from the App Store or Google Play. Add it to your iPhone or iPad Home Screen from Safari, install it from Chrome on Android, or keep it in a computer browser. Then open Settings → Notifications and turn on “Notify me on this device” to be notified when new mail reaches an inbox.
No. nicemails is a web app, so there is nothing to download from an app store. You can add it to a phone’s home screen or install it from your browser, and it then opens from its own icon. Notifications use Web Push, the browser’s built-in way for a website to notify you, so they arrive even when nicemails is closed.
Per MDN’s browser compatibility data, Web Push works in Chrome, Edge and Firefox on computers, in Chrome and Firefox on Android, and in Safari on a Mac with macOS Ventura or later. On iPhone and iPad it works only in a web app added to the Home Screen; per Apple’s WebKit team, that support arrived with iOS and iPadOS 16.4.
Notifications are part of every account. Free and Pro get the same feature and the same device limit.
Steps 2 to 4 follow Apple’s iPhone and iPad User Guides; the rest happen in nicemails.
If you open Settings → Notifications in Safari instead of from the Home Screen icon, there is no switch. nicemails shows this note instead: “On iPhone and iPad, notifications work only in the Home Screen app. In Safari, tap Share → Add to Home Screen, open nicemails from the Home Screen icon, then turn this on.”
Installing is optional on Android: notifications also work from a normal Chrome tab. They do not work in Incognito, because per Google’s Chrome Help you don’t get notifications while you browse privately.
Installing nicemails as an app is optional on a computer. Per Google’s Chrome Help, in Chrome choose More → Cast, save, and share → Install page as app…, or select the Install icon in the address bar when it appears. Per Apple, Safari on macOS Sonoma 14 or later can save it to the Dock with File → Add to Dock.
According to Apple, a Safari web app on the Mac shares no cookies or website data with Safari. Sign in again inside the web app and turn notifications on there too. Once you answer the notification request inside the web app, it appears under System Settings → Notifications with its own name.
Open Settings and choose Notifications. The section is called “New mail notifications” and explains: “Get a notification on this device when new mail reaches an inbox, even when nicemails is closed. Spam and quarantined mail never notify.”
If the browser cannot show notifications at all, the section says “This browser can't show notifications from websites.” and has no switch.
nicemails keeps one notification per mailbox: when another message reaches the same mailbox, the newer notification replaces the older one. Tapping a notification opens that message in the Inbox. If nicemails is already open, the open window switches to the message without reloading, so a draft you are writing stays as it is.
Notifications use the language nicemails had on that device when you turned them on. After switching language, open Settings → Notifications once to update them.
The settings page warns: “Notifications can appear on your lock screen, where anyone holding the device can read them.” Choose “Only that new mail arrived” if that matters to you. Per Apple, on iPhone you can also go to Settings → Notifications, choose the app and set Show Previews to When Unlocked or Never.
A notification is sent when a new message lands in the Inbox of any mailbox in your account. Every mailbox notifies; there is no setting to choose mailboxes. nicemails does not notify for:
Notifications are turned on per device and belong to your account. The switch covers only the browser or app you are using, so turn it on separately on each phone, computer or browser where you want them. Every device with notifications on receives them for every mailbox.
An account can have notifications on for up to 20 devices, on Free and Pro alike. When the limit is reached, nicemails says “Notifications are already on for the maximum number of devices. Turn them off on a device you no longer use.” Devices that already have notifications on keep receiving them.
Choosing “Revoke session” for a device under Settings → Account → Signed-in devices signs it out, but does not turn off its notifications. Turn them off on that device itself.
Remember that mail you have already read, Spam and quarantined mail never notify.
No. nicemails is a web app. Add it to your Home Screen from Safari on iPhone and iPad, install it from Chrome on Android, or use it in a computer browser. New-email notifications work in all of these without an app store download.
Yes. Free and Pro get the same notifications, including the limit of 20 devices per account.
No. Every mailbox in your account notifies when new mail reaches its Inbox. To keep a device quiet, turn notifications off on that device.
On iPhone and iPad, notifications work only in nicemails opened from the Home Screen icon, added in Safari with Open as Web App turned on. Turn the switch on inside that Home Screen app and allow notifications when asked.
Notifications can appear on the lock screen. Choose “Only that new mail arrived” in Settings → Notifications, and a notification shows only the mailbox address and “New email”.