No copy of your mailbox exists on our servers.
Nixt Mail speaks IMAP and SMTP straight from your machine to your provider. The code refuses to be configured otherwise, and a test enforces it.
Teams · shared inboxes, unshared mailboxes
Assignment, internal notes and presence for your team. The server stores a keyed hash of the message identifier — never the message, the subject or the recipients — and every seat reads the mail with its own credentials.
Thanks for the patience — legal accepted two of the three redlines. The last one is exclusivity: they'd like twelve months rather than six, and they've asked whether that's workable before we route it for signature.
Everything else is agreed. Redlines attached.
Custody
Every other AI email client copies your mailbox onto its servers, because server-side indexing is what makes the AI work. Nixt Mail took the harder route: the mail goes from your machine to your provider and nowhere else.
Nixt Mail speaks IMAP and SMTP straight from your machine to your provider. The code refuses to be configured otherwise, and a test enforces it.
No message body, no subject, no attachment is cached on the device. Covered by privacy_test.
Tracking pixels do not load, because the request never happens.
Pinned to the device, never synced, never readable back by the interface.
Settings has an on-screen list of everything the app holds, and one button that erases all of it.
The claim, in full
No copy of your mailbox ever exists on our servers.
We are not able to read your mail — not because we promise not to, but because we never receive it.
Where things run
Search here, AI there, shared inboxes somewhere else. Every capability is placed independently — on this device, on a server you control, or in a region you name. No other email client offers this at all. Half-configured capabilities send nothing; they never quietly fall back to the cloud.
Point AI at a local model — Ollama or LM Studio on http://localhost:11434 — and Nixt Mail reports, correctly, that nothing leaves the device. Because nothing does. Run a packet capture and check.
Search stays on your disk. AI runs against an EU endpoint using your own API key, direct from your machine to your provider — never through us. Mail is not part of the decision: it can only ever go direct.
Assignment, internal notes and presence run on a server you control. It stores what your team adds on top — identified by a keyed hash of the message ID, so it can tell two people are on the same thread without knowing which thread. Pseudonymous under GDPR, never anonymous — we say so plainly.
What it does
Nixt Mail triages, summarizes and drafts so that reading mail becomes deciding things. It never sends, archives or replies on its own.
Mail arrives sorted into what needs a decision from you, what you are waiting on, and what is only for information.
Every thread summary closes with the choice in front of you — not a paragraph restating what you could already see.
Suggested replies are phrased as if you said them, short and ready to send. Nothing is sent without you pressing send.
Press ⌘K and ask in a sentence. The index is built on your machine, so the question never travels anywhere.
Assignment, internal notes and presence for your team. The server stores a keyed hash of the message ID — never the message, subject or recipients.
Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint including Ollama and LM Studio. Never metered, never marked up, never proxied through us.
Speed
Every action has a key. The command palette answers in a keystroke, nothing animates for longer than 0.22s, and the window never waits on a network round trip to feel responsive.
Platforms
One Flutter codebase, five real applications. Linux is not an afterthought here — it is the only AI email client that has one — and the phone is the same client, redrawn for a thumb, not a companion app.
Traffic lights, Keychain, notarized.
Thanks for the patience — legal accepted two of the three redlines. The last one is exclusivity: they'd like twelve months rather than six, and they've asked whether that's workable before we route it for signature.
Everything else is agreed. Redlines attached.
Legal accepted the indemnity cap. Exclusivity is the only open item — they want 12 months, we offered 6.
Thanks for the patience — legal accepted two of the three redlines. The last one is exclusivity: they'd like twelve months rather than six.
Partnership_v4.pdfUniversal build for Apple silicon and Intel. Keychain-backed, notarized.
Native window chrome, Credential Manager for secrets, the same three-pane layout.
A first-class desktop build, not a wrapper. No other AI email client ships one at all.
The same codebase on iPhone. Credentials in the Keychain, pinned to the device; Face ID app lock.
Material chrome over the same core, secrets in the Android Keystore, biometric app lock.
How it compares
Server-side indexing is not laziness on their part — it is their product. Undoing it would mean rebuilding the thing their AI runs on.
| Nixt Mail | Superhuman | Shortwave | Missive | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your mailbox stored on the vendor’s servers | Never | Indexed | Indexed | Stored |
| Choose where each capability runs | Per capability | No | No | No |
| AI able to run entirely on your machine | Yes | No | No | No |
| Native Linux desktop | Yes | No | No | No |
| Team inbox without handing over the mail | Yes | — | — | No |
| AI usage limits | None — your key | Tiered | Metered per day | Bring your own key |
Compiled from each vendor’s own published documentation, August 2026.
There is nothing to import. Nixt Mail reads the account you already have, so switching is one sign-in — and switching back is uninstalling.
Try it for 14 daysPricing
Shared inboxes, assignment, internal notes and presence, with no feature held back for a higher plan. Fourteen days free, without a credit card.
Personal
billed €120 a year — two months free
Teams
billed yearly — two months free
Enterprise
a per-seat term or a flat site licence
Where the build is
Nixt Mail is in beta and this list is the honest version of it. It is kept in the repository and updated in the same commit as the code.
Questions
No. Nixt Mail is a client, not a mail service. You keep the account you already have — Gmail, Outlook, Fastmail, or any standard IMAP and SMTP server — and Nixt Mail connects to it directly from your machine.
Nothing extra. Nixt Mail has no AI markup and no usage meter, because Nixt Mail is not the one paying for inference. You bring an API key, or you point it at a model running locally and pay nobody.
A fact about the architecture. There is no path in the code that sends message content to a Nixt Server, and a test fails if one is added. One honest caveat: if you configure AI against a hosted endpoint, that message’s content travels to that endpoint — to your provider, on your key, not to us. With a local model, nothing leaves the machine at all.
Nothing breaks. After twelve consecutive months on an annual plan, Nixt Mail keeps working forever at the version available when your subscription started. An email client that bricks itself is not something we are willing to ship.
Anthropic, OpenAI and Azure OpenAI, plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint — Ollama and LM Studio included. Keys are entered locally, stored in the OS keychain, and never sent to us. Nixt Mail also links you to your provider’s spend-limit page during setup.
Two clicks from your account page, or at /cancel without logging in at all — you need an order number and an email address. We will never ask you to phone, email or chat with anyone to cancel, because there is no retention team. Annual plans and perpetual licences carry a 30-day money-back guarantee, monthly plans 14 days, and we refund without asking why.
Yes. The collaboration server is designed to run on your own infrastructure, and the sovereign plan includes the deployment guide, a support SLA and a VPAT.
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