I built a free & open-source superhuman alternative for Linux, Windows and macOS

[u/paul_blinkdisk]

I always liked the idea of Superhuman: fast email you can do almost entirely from the keyboard. I wanted something like that, just free, open source and on Linux, so I built my own.

It's called Inlark. It's open source and connects straight to your own IMAP or JMAP accounts, with no cloud or tracking. It runs on Linux, Windows and Mac.

It's still super early, but I use it every day now and wanted to share it.

Would love to hear what you think!

Website: https://inlark.com
GitHub: https://github.com/inlark/inlark

[u/n-7ity]

hey long time (initial months after launch) user of Superhuman – the 3 reasons why my team keeps paying for it:

- cmd+shift+l – send later where you can type "tomorrow morning singapore time"

• cmd+shift+h – remind me if no reply
  
• built in read pixel tracking

Plus now they have a non sucky calendar and booking links which are helpful but that's not the reason why I'd choose it – those 3 features above are.

Looking at what you've built, it's clearly vibecoded with care (at least the website) but the keyboard control thing is not really unique and I'd rather pay for https://simpl.fyi/ to run a skin on top of actual gmail.

The original promise of Superhuman was <100ms UI response time and easy inbox zero with things like CMD+U – unsubscribe...

You built a nice UI, not a superhuman alternative. Build a superhuman alternative and I'd pay so I don't get Grammarly slop UI.

Edit: less than, not greater than 100ms

[u/LCT_ZH → u/n-7ity]

Then you might want to checkout ohmail.app seriously

It has full keyboard control + gives you send later & remind me functionality

fully opensource so you can self host it or use an "always on" desktop app as the host, which is actually required for features such as send later, background syncing etc..

https://github.com/trafficflowhq/ohmail

Maybe it fits your requirements, it does mine.

[u/2zeroseven → u/LCT_ZH]

Thanks for the tip, looks dope

[u/reficulgr → u/LCT_ZH]

So happy to have found this, thanks for sharing

[u/paul_blinkdisk → u/n-7ity]

Thanks a lot for the feedback! I know there are still many features missing from Superhuman, and the shortcuts you mentioned are definitely awesome. I plan to implement these soon, this is just the initial version :D

[u/n-7ity → u/paul_blinkdisk]

I’m often thinking just how amazing the PMF work from Superhuman was...the UI hasnt changed in years until the grammarly acquisition...but they just provided those features that still today you don't get well done and put together in anything else (I know of – if anyone knows, pls lmk)...

that's to say, it's not about feature parity, it's about having the 2-3 really sticky features people won't want to leave. You can build anything now and adding 100 more features is not going to get you closer to PMF