What email providers does Marco support?

Marco works with Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, iCloud Mail, and any provider that supports IMAP. Connect all your accounts and manage them from a single inbox.

How does offline access work?

Marco syncs your emails locally to your device. You can read, search, compose, and organize emails without an internet connection. Changes sync automatically when you reconnect.

Is there a free trial?

Yes, every new account gets a 7-day free trial with full access to all features. No credit card required to start.

How does Marco protect my privacy?

Marco never scans your emails for advertising. Your data is encrypted at rest and in transit. We have no access to your email content and never sell your information to third parties.

Which platforms are supported?

Marco is available on macOS and iOS as native apps, with a web version for access from any browser. Windows and Android are on our roadmap.

Can I cancel anytime?

Absolutely. No contracts, no cancellation fees. You can cancel your subscription at any time and continue using Marco until the end of your billing period.

TechnologyFebruary 22, 2026

Why Is Apple Mail Search So Bad?

Isaac Hinman·Co-founder, Marco

We ran 50 known-answer search queries across test inboxes and Apple Mail missed or mis-ranked a meaningful slice of obvious results. The issue is not user error. It is architecture and indexing behavior.

Symptoms -> diagnosis -> fix

Symptoms

You search for a known message, wait, and still get weak matches. You rerun the query with different terms and get different confidence in the result list.

Diagnosis

Search quality is shaped by a mix of local indexing and provider-side behavior. IMAP SEARCH itself was never designed to feel like modern local full-text search at current mailbox scale.

Short-term fixes you can try

Rebuild mailbox indexes in Apple Mail for affected accounts.
Reduce stale local cache edge cases by forcing a clean resync.
Test the same query while online and offline to isolate where quality drops.

The long-term fix

Move to a client that treats local indexing as a first-class feature, not a side effect. That is the difference between hoping search works and trusting that it works.

Author

Isaac Hinman, Co-founder, Marco

Isaac works on search and sync behavior in Marco and has debugged provider-specific indexing and IMAP search edge cases across production inboxes.