Scape

👋 Melvin here, founder of Scape. As a founder, I’ve always felt overwhelmed by my inbox. In 2024, I was spending hours in Gmail, copy-pasting emails into ChatGPT. I wanted an inbox that could do more of that work without having to ask. So I assembled a team and spent 18 months in a small office in Stockholm building Scape with early users. We’ve obsessed over reliability, speed, design, and making it feel great to use. We even deleted Slack for our team to exclusively communicate over email, to make sure we love using our own product. During this time, it felt like a new AI email tool launched every week. Yet, to this day, most new users we talk to are using Gmail just as before. Models have become incredibly intelligent, yet email remains so manual. Scape is designed to organize your inbox automatically, and prepare replies using context from your emails, meetings and files, in a Mac app. Since we launched our invite-only Preview Release two months ago, thousands of people have started using Scape, including founders and teams at some of the world’s fastest-growing companies. Most of them stop going into Gmail entirely. Today, we want to bring that experience to more people. Introducing our free plan Starting today, you can download Scape and use it for free, no credit card required. Here’s what’s included: Email client, with keyboard shortcuts and search across all your emails in under 100ms. Automatic inbox organization, including custom labels that sync to Gmail. Suggested email replies, exactly in your tone using context from your emails, meetings and apps. Local meeting recording, with no meeting bots and support for 99 languages. Chat assistant, that helps you draft emails, find things and even edit files. Automatic meeting follow-ups, ready for you to review and send. Multiple email accounts, unified in one inbox. We’re compliant with SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR requirements. Your emails are encrypted, and we don’t train AI models on your data. Scape Pro For higher usage limits, we also offer Scape Pro. Get started by downloading the app at scape.app, and connecting your existing Gmail accounts. We’d love to hear what you think and what you wish your inbox could do for you. We’ll be here in the comments!

This looks AMAZING! Excited to try it out. Quick question, can it also help me keep track of emails I need to follow up on?

I’m Moritz, founding engineer at Scape. Melvin covered why we built Scape, so I wanted to share some product decisions we made to make Scape feel proactive and effortless. Proactive by default. We believe deeply in building the interface where the real work happens. This meant building an architecture that runs agent flows the moment you receive an email so drafts and meeting follow-ups are just waiting for your approval to be sent. Speed and small details that compound. To be the fastest email client in the world we made Scape local-first, which meant building our own sync engine from the ground up. This makes interactions instant and has the nice side effect of being able to use the app offline. A local native meeting recorder. We wanted to support recording any call, from Zoom meetings to FaceTime calls. What started as a simple idea required four full rewrites from scratch. For the final solution, we tuned our own echo cancellation model in C++, with help from the Google Meet founding team who, as it turns out, are based just a few hundred meters away from us in Stockholm. Most of all, we care about craft in every part of the product. Ask us anything about how we built Scape. I’m happy to answer anything!

Running startup sales is chaotic, scape is helping me find zen in that chaos 🧘