A new App from Electric Pocket is promising to tag up your emails with personalised sounds – it’s name? – MailTones!
Users can set a different email alert for each friend, family member or colleague in their Address Book. MailTones helps to distinguish high priority emails your boss or partner from lower priority emails from friends or group email lists. MailTones can be set for a specific contact or one for all incoming emails from a particular domain – making it easy to recognise incoming emails from work colleagues or customers. It can also filter and provide custom tones for messages which include specific words in the Subject line.
The app comes with a collection of 25 tones ranging from discrete bells to more audacious (read: louder!) horns and buzzers. So for example you could set your default mail tone to silent, or ignore, and use MailTones to identify high priority people and subjects. MailTones can also optionally pop up on the screen and display the sender and subject of an incoming email for users to know instantly whether or not they need to launch the Mail app to read the whole message.
In case you are wondering how it works, it requires your email service to support ‘forward a copy’ – the copies are sent to the MailTones server, which then uses push notifications to send the instructions for the sounds.
It is available in the App Store, with a launch price of £1.79. There’s also some more information on the MailTones website at mailtones.com.