I really love N1 but I can't believe they expect people to pay $7 a month for an email CLIENT, not even service.
Office 365 is $9 a month and is the whole office suite including Outlook. I'm sure their cloud costs are losing them money but $7 a month just seems really really steep to me.
It's not just a regular client-- we've built out features like mail merge, open tracking, link tracking, behavior analytics, Rapportive-like sidebars, send later, emojis, snoozing, templated replies, calendar invites, and more. Nylas Pro also gives you unlimited accounts, so you can connect multiple addresses.
Folks using Nylas N1 are coming from the productivity world of ToutApp or YesWare. We're really not replacing Office 365 or Google Apps. We're looking at building new powerful workflows for people who live in their mailbox, calendar, and address book.
There's a 30-day trial to use a version where the hosting is paid for by Nylas. After that point you need to upgrade to Pro in order for us to keep running the server infrastructure for you, and also to get features that depend on Nylas Cloud APIs.
The sync engine is open source, so you can also spin up a VPS on AWS, DigitalOcean, etc. and manage it yourself there.
I started using Nylas because I find it cleaner than other programs and somehow setting a gmail account was easier. Besides this, I don't do much else with an email client than reading email, so all these new features are something that I don't really need and I don't feel like paying this much just to have a nicer interface
