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Canary Mail

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Velocity5.0

AI-powered email client with smart replies, security features, and unified inbox.

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Canary Mail ships AI chat history while sustaining a cross-platform bug fix cadence.

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◆Current state
Canary Mail is a privacy-focused email client holding its position through steady maintenance releases across iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows. The bulk of recent updates are stability patches, crash fixes, and platform compatibility work. The 5.23.0 release added AI chat history and conversation management — the first substantive AI UX feature in several release cycles.
◆Where it's heading
The product is not on a sharp new trajectory. It is consolidating its cross-platform presence, patching legacy issues (PGP decryption, SMTP overwrite, iPad rendering), and iterating slowly on its AI assistant layer. OS 27 compatibility across both iOS and macOS ships promptly, signaling that platform parity remains a priority. AI chat features are being built out one small piece at a time.
◆Prediction
The next likely move is additional AI chat improvements — conversation search, export, or deeper email-context integration — following the 5.23.0 pattern. Platform compatibility with OS update cycles will continue consuming engineering bandwidth alongside feature work.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    File attachment fix and macOS 27 compatibility

    A targeted bug fix addressing a file attachment association error, plus OS 27 compatibility. Routine maintenance release in line with Canary's pattern of prompt OS update support.

  2. 5d ago

    iPad UI fixes and iOS OS 27 compatibility

    iPad UI fixes — cropped icons and dark mode toolbar rendering — plus OS 27 compatibility on iOS. Parallel to the macOS 5.24.0 release, both focused on platform compatibility rather than new capability.

  3. 21d ago

    AI chat history and conversation management for iOS

    AI chat history, new chat initiation, and chat deletion on iOS represent the first meaningful AI UX additions in recent months. These features make the AI assistant more persistent and manageable rather than treating each conversation as ephemeral — a prerequisite for users who want to reference past interactions.

  4. 21d ago

    AI chat history and conversation management for Mac

    The same AI chat history and conversation management features from the iOS 5.23.0 release now on macOS. The parallel release across platforms is consistent with Canary's approach of maintaining feature parity; the feature set itself signals that the AI assistant is shifting from a one-shot tool to a persistent conversation layer.

  5. 1mo ago

    Android swipe and PGP key handling fixes

    Three stability fixes on Android: a swipe-to-select false positive, a PGP key handling edge case, and general reliability improvements. No user-visible features; pure maintenance work.

  6. 1mo ago

    Custom SMTP and stability fixes for iOS

    SMTP username preservation fix and stability improvements on iOS. The SMTP bug — where the advanced settings view would overwrite a custom username — was a real issue for users with non-standard mail configurations, but this is a fix rather than a feature.