Pick one (or mix)

Ten design directions

All vintage-but-readable. None uses Apple's trademark. Reply with one or more letters and I'll extend that direction (or a mix) across the full site.

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A · Platinum

Platinum · System 8/9

inboxOS

Email, with the cloud taken back out.

A Mac app for the inbox. It talks to Mail.app on your laptop the way old apps used to talk to your files.

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Vibe: Cool gray pinstripes, serif body, one green accent. Calm, professional, classic.

B · Rainbowapple ][ / 1984 mac

apple ][ era · 1977–1998

inboxOS

Your inbox, before
they put it in the cloud.

Think of it as a Mac program — the kind that came on a floppy and actually finished doing the thing.

Vibe: Cream paper, rainbow stripes, chunky sans headlines, color buttons. Playful, nostalgic.

C · Modern Vintageeditorial

Issue No. 01 · A small program

Locker

A program for your inbox,
written for you, not for ads.

Email runs your day. The companies that promise to fix it all want to read it first. Locker doesn't.

Vibe: Warm paper, sepia ink, serif editorial. 1990s tech magazine. Confident, restrained.

D · Phosphor▒ ssh locker@localhost

$ locker --about

Locker

email automation
for people who still
read the man page

> Runs on macOS. Reads from Mail.app. Talks to your terminal, your editor, your agent. Never to anyone else.

Vibe: Dark green phosphor, monospace, scanlines. Very dev, niche-but-loud.

E · Aqua
Tiger

Mac OS X · 2001 — 2009

Locker

The polished one.

Think Mail.app circa 2007: glossy chrome, brushed metal toolbar, buttons you want to lick. Modern enough to use, retro enough to feel like home.

Vibe: Glossy aqua blue, brushed metal, gradient buttons, rounded corners. Mid-2000s Apple polish.

F · BrutalistNO STYLE / IS STYLE

____ a mail program _____

LOCKER.

IT RUNS ON YOUR LAPTOP.
IT DOES NOT PHONE HOME.
THE END.

[ open source / 12mb / macOS 13+ / mit license tbd / nothing to argue about ]

VIBE: ALL CAPS, HEAVY BORDERS, NO GRADIENTS. STARK, UNAPOLOGETIC, MEMORABLE.

G · Memphispostmodern · 1981

▲ ◯ ▬ inbox software ▬ ◯ ▲

inboxOS

For inboxes that
have opinions.

A weird little program that lives on your Mac and makes your inbox do what you actually want. Local, loud, open source.

Vibe: Squiggles, neon pink/teal/yellow, geometric shapes. Saved By The Bell meets Ettore Sottsass.

H · Synthwave█ ▓ ▒ ░ outrun

1985 / private / forever

LOCKER

Your inbox, with the volume
dialed up to eleven.

A Mac app that automates your email without selling your soul. Local. Loud. Forever 1985.

Vibe: Magenta + cyan, neon glow, VHS grid horizon. Cyberpunk-adjacent. Loud.

I · Hand-drawnsketchnotes from saturday

a small, handmade

Locker

email automation
you can actually read.

Local-first. Drawn by hand. Built by a human who got tired of email and started writing a Mac app instead.

vibe:dotted paper, hand-lettered, sticky-note yellow. most “human-made,” least AI-feeling of the bunch.

J · Swiss

Locker / N°01

Inbox
Auto-ma-tion.

One Mac. One inbox. One permission. Nothing on a server you do not own.

Vibe: Strict grid, primary colors, geometric shapes, Helvetica energy. Bauhaus calm.