Native, not a tab
Built with Tauri and Rust into a real macOS window — frosted-glass vibrancy, system fonts, and instant launch. It feels like Apple built it.
Native for macOS · Windows · Linux
Email at the speed of thought.
Abiat is a fast, native Gmail & Calendar client for people who live in their inbox. New mail the instant it lands — beautifully light or dark.
No server routing
OS Keychain tokens
Stored on device
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Re: Thursday sync
Works for me. I'll send a calendar invite over now…
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Why Abiat
Your inbox stays yours.
A real desktop app — not another browser tab. Built on Rust and a native window, so it's fast, private, and always feels at home on your Mac.
Instant, push mail
IMAP IDLE pushes new messages the second they arrive — no polling, no waiting. Your inbox is always live the moment you look.
Your data, your device
Mail is cached locally in SQLite and your tokens live in the OS Keychain. Sign in with Google over OAuth — nothing routes through our servers.
- Mail cached locally — never on our servers
- Tokens stored in OS Keychain
- OAuth 2.0 sign-in only — no passwords stored
- Sandboxed HTML rendering for every email
Local-first
Data stays on your device.
Abiat is designed with local-first principles. Your email and calendar data is fetched directly from Google's servers and cached in a local SQLite database on your device. Abiat never routes your email content through its own servers.
Built for speed
Designed for people who move fast.
Every detail is tuned for momentum — a focused three-pane flow, detachable tabs, rich compose, and search that keeps up with you.
The workflow
A three-pane flow that never gets in your way.
Sidebar, conversation list, and reading pane — resizable and collapsible. Triage from the list, read in place, and keep your whole inbox a glance away.
- Virtualized list stays smooth across thousands of threads
- Unread dots, conversation counts, and sort the way you think
- Sandboxed HTML rendering keeps every email safe
Tabs & windows
Open everything in tabs. Pop any one out.
Work across messages and drafts in a tidy tab strip — then drag a tab right out into its own window. Reply on one screen while you read on another.
- Detachable, drag-out windows that stay in sync
- Read and compose side by side, your way
Compose
Write beautifully, without leaving the keyboard.
A rich-text editor with bold, italics, lists, code, links, color, and highlights — plus live word, character, and line counts and drag-and-drop attachments.
- Full text color & highlight palette
- Live word, character, and line counts
Search
Find anyone, and anything, instantly.
Full-text search with debounced typing, your recent history, and people autocomplete. Matches are highlighted inline so the right message jumps out.
- People & contact suggestions as you type
- Recent searches, one keystroke away
Light & dark
Light or dark. Always native.
Abiat follows your system appearance automatically, or pin it to light or dark. Real macOS frosted glass, on both sides.
Light
Dark
It's your inbox. Make it fast.
Download Abiat and give Gmail the native, keyboard-driven desktop app it always deserved.
macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel) · Windows · Linux