Stop checking email. Start hearing what matters.

You check email dozens of times a day looking for the one message that actually matters. Every interruption to glance at your inbox — even for two seconds — breaks your focus and steals time you don't get back. SoundInbox removes the need to check. It lives silently in the macOS menu bar and fires the exact sound you defined for the exact event you care about. Payment received? Cash register. Urgent client? Alarm. Everything else? Complete silence.

brew install --cask drolosoft/tap/soundinbox

The Homebrew cask is not published yet. Use Direct Download below until then.

Download the .dmg from GitHub Releases or from drolosoft.com/soundinbox. ~26 MB universal binary — no Electron, no dependencies.

# 1  Install and connect your Gmail*, Outlook, or IMAP account
# 2  Activate the formulas you care about (or create your own)
# 3  Go back to your work — the right sound plays when the right email arrives

⚠️ Gmail: Click Advanced → Go to SoundInbox on first sign-in. Google verification in progress — the warning is cosmetic and will disappear soon.

Build powerful detection rules with regex patterns, drag to reorder priority, and assign any sound to each rule.

See all your alerts organized by email provider — instantly spot which domains are sending the most.

If your email provider expires a session (password change, security review, token rotation), SoundInbox detects it instantly — no cryptic error messages. A one-tap Reconnect button appears right in the popover. Click it, sign in, done.

SoundInbox automatically retries transient failures (timeouts, server errors) before showing any error. The Reconnect button only appears when your provider permanently revoked the session — something only you can fix by signing in again.

When an alert fires, SoundInbox shows you exactly why it matched. Matched keywords are highlighted with a pastel marker in the subject or body — only in the field that triggered the rule. For body matches, a ~120-character snippet around the keyword is extracted and displayed, so you see the context without reading the full email.

• Field-specific highlighting — body-only rules highlight only the snippet, not the subject
• Configurable marker color — 6 pastel presets (yellow, green, pink, blue, orange, purple) + custom picker
• Privacy-first — only a short snippet is stored, never the full email body. All stored data (sender, subject, snippet) is encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM

Each formula is a curated set of conditions that detect a specific category of email. One tap to activate. Nothing else required.

Every sound is under 3 seconds, distinct, and non-intrusive — from subtle and informational to urgent and celebratory.

Your inbox doesn't need another badge count. It needs a voice.

SoundInbox polls your inbox via IMAP (Gmail, Outlook, and generic IMAP servers) and evaluates rules locally on your Mac. No email content is stored, transmitted, or processed on any server. OAuth tokens and credentials live in the macOS Keychain. Match history is local and clearable anytime.

→ Full privacy policy: drolosoft.com/soundinbox/privacy

No subscription. No recurring charges. You own it.

See full pricing details with FAQ.

Fully native. No Electron, no web wrappers, no cross-platform frameworks. ~26 MB universal binary.

• Swift 6.3 — Strict concurrency, modern async/await
• SwiftUI + AppKit — NSStatusItem, NSPopover, native menus
• AVAudioPlayer — System audio with macOS sound fallback
• Sparkle — Automatic updates

Found a bug? Have a feature idea? Open an issue — we read every one.

If SoundInbox helps you focus, consider giving it a ⭐ on GitHub — it helps others discover the project.

If SoundInbox saved you time or helped you stay focused, consider buying me a coffee — it keeps the next one coming!

SoundInbox is proprietary software. See LICENSE for details.
Documentation is licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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