Ukraine’s Readdle ignites Spark email with smart OpenAI
Ukrainian developer Readdle has blessed its popular email application Spark with artificial intelligence tools it says are designed to help you “write better emails faster,” while respecting privacy.
A little smart Spark
Spark isn’t the world’s best-known email application, but it’s pretty popular. Readdle, which is often a step or two ahead of the development game, puts a ladle of love inside the product, which now extends to generative AI.
Spark was originally created to help users get more done, whilst sampling the benefits of Intentional Productivity for more stress-free work cycles.
The idea behind this improvement is that Spark helps you become faster, more confident, and compelling in your email conversations.
Features include:
- Compose personalized emails or replies from scratch – all you need do is provide the briefest context
- Expand on any idea: rephrase an email easily, shorten or expand text, change tone to friendly or formal
- Quick AI reply – simply pick ‘Interested’ or ‘Not Interested’, ‘Thanks’ and let AI generate a draft reply for you to review in seconds
- Proofread emails to ensure professionalism
- Option to space and break the copy into paragraphs
Head of Spark and Readdle co-founder Alex Tyagulsky comments: “Generative AI is a transformative technology that emerges once in a decade, and it holds immense potential to save people time, ignite productivity and improve their quality of work. We are proud to be one of the first companies to bring AI-powered email to the market.”
The privacy thing
There are some privacy promises.
The company says user data remains encrypted and is handled in line with GDPR rules.
It also promises: “The prompts you give to Spark +AI and the content of emails will be shared with our partners (OpenAI) for the sole purpose of providing you with the AI text generation. We do not use your data to train our partners’ models.”
The problem with that of course is that most enterprise professionals will avoid use of the tool simply because it inevitably puts potentially confidential data outside the enterprise privacy permiter.
Spark for Desktop is available for download on macOS and Windows platforms.
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The latest Spark update has been horrific. It constantly requires logging back into Gmail accounts, and re-verifying that connection on iOS devices. Not a great user experience at all. Hoping this gets sorted quickly, else many Apple users will be jumping ship.