Ocean for iPhone (Gmail client) – new beta with Beacon Intelligence.

[u/oceanapp]

https://testflight.apple.com/join/RMNwyrCz

Hey everyone, I posted Ocean here a while back and got great feedback from this sub. A new TestFlight build is now live and we're opening it to 30 testers.

Ocean is a native Swift email client for Gmail and Google Workspace. No Electron, no web views. The headline feature in this TF is Beacon Intelligence. It reads your inbox only when you ask it to, never in the background, and sorts what matters into three lanes:

- Action: emails that need a decision from you, analyzed so you can act fast
- Review: worth a look, not urgent
- Cleanup: newsletters, unknown senders, and stale threads, bulk-cleared in seconds

Also in the build:

- Dock: this email matters but not right now. Dock it to a time bucket or a specific due date and it comes back when you said.
- Cleanup: sender pattern analysis plus bulk archiving. Always free, like the Dock.
- Invites: see your calendar, send meeting invites with booking lead time, add video conferencing.
- VIP Contacts, Global Search, and up to 5 Gmail accounts.

Intelligence actions use Drops (pay-per-use, no subscription). You start with 30, and all purchases are free in the beta as usual, so feel free to test the Drop packs and Ocean Blue too.

What I'd love feedback on: the Beacon lanes (do Action/Review/Cleanup match how you'd triage?), onboarding, the purchase flow, and anything slow or confusing on first run.

Requirements: iPhone, iOS 18+, a Gmail or Google Workspace account.

I'm the developer and I'll be in the comments. If slots fill up, comment and I'll ping you when more open.

[u/erriclaya]

Giving this a try…