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Your first
email messenger.

Email was always a conversation.
We just forgot what one looks like.

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Talanoa in dark mode: Sarah Mitchell’s sender view with chat bubbles and contact details

Same email.
Just the conversation.

Every message becomes a bubble. Quotes, signatures and disclaimers disappear. Read it like a chat, reply like one too.

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With Talanoa Talanoa conversation drawer: Sarah and John discuss the Summit roadmap in chat bubbles, with a thumbs-up reaction and an inline reply composer. Just the conversation.
Before The same Summit roadmap conversation in a traditional Gmail-style thread, with the Gmail logo, only the first message expanded with quoted replies and signatures; the five following messages are collapsed. Somewhere in here, someone said yes.

Read doesn’t mean done.

A review. An approval. A proposal to send. Some emails need more than a reply. Give the work a place of its own, right inside Talanoa.

See how email becomes a task
Before

“I’ll come back to it.”

Got it.
I’ll do this later…
Mark as
unread
Add label
“Todo”
Star it
Different tricks.
Same result.
Sarah Mitchellto me
Can you review the roadmap?

Hi John,

Could you take a look at the roadmap and share your feedback before Friday?

Thanks!
Sarah

•••Read
But the work is still there.
  • Review the roadmap
  • Share feedback
  • Reply to Sarah

Marked unread. Labelled “To do”.
Still waiting somewhere in your inbox.

With Talanoa

Give it a next step.

A real next step.
Review the roadmap
In progress
When?Due Friday, Sep 26
From who?Sarah Mitchell
Keep it
organized.Project
Your own
notes.Add a note…
The original conversation,
always attached.

A clear action. A due date. A place to track progress.
And the original conversation, always attached.

Your email. Your calendar. Together.

Check your calendar. Go back to your email. Suggest a time. Repeat. Talanoa brings it all together: respond to invitations and share a booking link with several available times, right from your email.

Explore the built-in calendar
Before

“Let me check my calendar.”

Email
Sarah Mitchellto me
A quick catch-up this week?

Hey John, do you have 30 minutes to go over the roadmap? When works for you?

Let me check and get back to you…
Another app. Another back-and-forth.
CalendarThis week
MonTueWedThuFri
09:0010:0011:00
Stand-up
Focus
Review
1:1
Planning
Now back to the email…

One app for the conversation. Another for your availability.
And a few more emails just to find a time.

With Talanoa

Find a time. Keep talking.

EmailTodoCalendar
Sarah MitchellRoadmap catch-up
Meeting invitation
FRI26
Roadmap catch-up

Friday · 10:00–10:30

Sarah Mitchell · 30 min
Going?✓ YesMaybeNo
Accepted. In your calendar.

For our next catch-up, pick a time that works for you:

Catch-up with John30 min · Your local time
Mon 29 09:30Tue 30 14:00Wed 1 11:00
Choose a time

RSVPs, available times, booking links.
All part of the conversation.

Accept invitations without leaving your inbox.
Share several time options in one calendar link.

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What users say

They changed their inbox.
Then they told the internet.

★ Trustpilot 4.2 out of 5
★★★★★

Really enjoying Talanoa so far

“I've tried Gmail, Outlook, Thunderbird and Spark, and Talanoa is the first email client that genuinely changed the way I deal with my inbox.”
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What's inside

People-first

An inbox full of emails.
A sidebar full of people.

Stop finding the same person across a pile of subject lines. Bring their conversations together, with the context to pick things up.

See what matters, instantly
People-first sender-based inbox animation A compact noisy inbox transforms into clean sender sections with people photos and SaaS notifications. ☷ Teammate Alex Kim 1 Sarah Mitchell ●● People James Wilson 2 Emma Thompson ✣ Notifications N Notion 3 Stripe 4 Airbnb
Built for trust

Your data stays yours.
Always.

Talanoa was designed from day one with privacy as a constraint, not an afterthought. No advertising. No compromise.

Stored locally Your emails live on your device, not on our servers.
Zero cloud sync We never read, index, or transmit your messages.
No tracking No analytics on your content, ever. Full stop.
Security you can verify
CASA Tier 2 CERTIFIED
CASA Tier 2 Certified Independently audited against the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard, the industry benchmark for secure apps.
Recognized by GoogleTalanoa is officially certified CASA Tier 2, meeting Google's advanced security standards for apps using Gmail.
Independent Security AuditingSecurity isn't just a promise. We passed a full external audit by TAC Security to prove it.
Trust & TransparencyYour data deserves better. With CASA Tier 2, you can trust Talanoa to keep your inbox safe, private, and yours.
A founder's perspective

Inbox Zero
is dead.

Start protecting your attention.

For years, we were told that the path to productivity was simple: clear your inbox, stay organized, reach zero unread. But Inbox Zero was never freedom. It was maintenance.

Every day, people spend time sorting, archiving, labeling, snoozing, and deleting messages just to feel briefly in control. Then the next wave arrives, and the cycle starts again.

The problem is not that your inbox is full. The problem is that email has trained you to manage everything with the same level of urgency. Not every message deserves your time. Not every email deserves to interrupt your day. And productivity should not be measured by how fast you clean up your inbox.

The future of email is not processing more. It is focusing on what actually matters.

John Solo founder of Talanoa