"It's this thing that hasn't changed for 25 years," Avec founder Jonathan Unikowski told TechCrunch, meaning email. Avec is an email app for iPhone that sits on top of Gmail and shows one message at a time, the ones that matter to you first. Low-importance mail collapses into a single card with an Unsubscribe link beside each sender. For my kind of inbox, where most messages need a decision and few need a reply, a card stack is the right shape.
Replies start with your voice. Hold the button under the stack, say the points you want to make, and Avec writes a draft you can fix by voice or by hand. Emails you can't handle yet become Todos; Avec reads each one for a deadline and brings it back to the top of the stack on the day it's due. You also decide what a swipe does in Gmail: archive the message, or mark it read and leave it in place.
The swipes
| Right | Done |
| Left | Later |
| Down | Stop hearing from that sender |
Voice drafting comes up most in the App Store praise I read, and one review calls the voice and dictation features "best in class." But April App Store reviews also flagged a rewrite tool that missed often enough to send one reviewer back to typing, and signatures that were hard to set up. On Product Hunt, launch comments asked for iCloud support, and iPhoners outside the US and Canada couldn't download Avec at all.
Account support is where Avec stops. It connects Gmail accounts only, and TechCrunch reported Outlook support in the works at the April 2026 launch. Until that lands, I'd call Avec a Gmail user's app first and an email app second.
