I'm John, the founder behind Talanoa. Funny enough, it was never supposed to become a product.

I spend a huge part of my day in email, and I never really liked traditional email clients. So instead of looking for yet another one, I built the inbox I wanted for myself. Then I showed it to a few friends. They loved it, started using it, and eventually pushed me to turn my little personal project into a real product.

Along the way, one idea became obvious: email is a conversation that forgot it was one.

A thread between two people is basically a chat: a message, a reply, a reply to the reply. Yet email clients still show repeated quotes, signatures, headers, footers and years of clutter. So I rebuilt Talanoa around a different question: what if email felt more like a messenger?

• 💬 Emails become actual conversations, clean and chat-like, while keeping everything that makes email, email
• ✅ Any email can become a todo, with a next step and a due date
• 📅 Your calendar lives alongside your conversations
• ✨ AI helps you search, summarize and write, entirely on your computer
• 📥 Gmail, Outlook, iCloud and any IMAP account in one inbox
• 🔒 No cloud sync, no ads. Your emails stay on your computer.

Try it in your browser first, no signup: https://talanoa.email/demo

And if there's one thing your current email client does that you couldn't live without, tell me: john@talanoa.email ❤️