MLX Score2.8
Price$30a month
RunsIn the cloud
DeveloperShortwave Communications
LicenceClosedsource
CategoryProductivity
Mac12+macOS or later
Shortwave is an email app with an AI assistant that searches your mail history, summarises threads and attachments, writes with autocomplete and sorts mail with AI filters.
The Mac app needs macOS 12 or later and the iPhone app iOS 15. It also works in the browser.
Business costs $30 a seat a month after a 14-day free trial; Premier is $45 and Max $120. Email is processed on Shortwave's servers.
How to Get It
Official downloads only. MLX never re-hosts an app, and never runs a command for you.
MLX Score
2.8out of 5
App Store ratingahead of 63%
Homebrew installs (90 days)ahead of 17%
App Store: 4.8 from 754 ratings · read 2026-11-02Homebrew: 36 installs in 90 days · read 2026-11-02
Ranked against the productivity & writing listings, from real public data only. How the score works.
Information
- Developer
- Shortwave Communications
- Category
- Productivity & writing
- Price
- $30/mo (Business per seat; 14-day free trial. Premier $45, Max $120.)
- Your data
- Runs in the cloud
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Mac
- macOS 12 or later
- iPhone and iPad
- iOS 15.0 or later
- Links
- Website
- Facts checked
- 2026-11-01
Sources
shortwave.com/pricing/ · Business $30, Premier $45, Max $120, 14-day trial, AI features · checked 2026-11-01formulae.brew.sh/cask/shortwave · macOS 12 requirement · checked 2026-11-01apps.apple.com/us/app/id1559784681 · iOS 15 requirement · checked 2026-11-01Icon from App Store
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