Back in December I reviewed Notify 2 from Vibealicious and wrote that it was one of the best applications released in 2009. For those who don’t know, Notify is a menubar application for Mac which allows you to check for incoming mail messages in almost every kind of account (Gmail, IMAP, MobileMe and Rackspace) without having a mail client running all the time. It’s a lightweight notifier that runs in the background and check for new messages at a scheduled interval and presents them to you via Growl notifications, inside a beautifully designed interface.
Today, Vibealicious has released the long awaited 2.1 update for Notify, which introduces a new backend, new features and lots of fixes and improvements.
Notify 2.1 is fast. It does things (fetch messages, notify you) almost twice as faster than Notify 2.0 and it feels snappier and, overall, just better. The new engine is stable and responsive, and I can’t think of a better way to save memory on your Mac than running Notify instead of Mail.app.
As for the features, Notify 2.1 comes with improved Preferences for check intervals, click and double-click actions and Growl notifications, extended controls for messages and a useful “Move To” functionality which is saving me a lot of time.
You can go download Notify 2.1 here and purchase a Pro license at only $7, 30% off until May 25th. Do your Mac a favor and buy Notify.
