While never stop perfecting the system, Mailbird eventually achieved quite a milestone during 2014. This startup which was founded by Andrea Loubier announced that its app successfully reached more than 350 thousand new downloads in 2014 and has had more than 17 thousand paying customers so far.
Mailbird, which has entered version 2.0, possesses a number of excellent features. One of those is Speed Reader, which allows and trains users to read e-mails in no time.
Mailbird’s PR & Media Relations Manager Chirstin Baumgarten, “This Speed Reader feature has become more and more popular at the moment. In average, each and every user utilizes this feature almost 1.8 times, and soon will be 2 times.”
Speed reader indeed is Mailbird’s crown jewel. To make use of the feature, users only need to access the eyeglasses logo on the upper right, then Mailbird will show you an e-mail word by word based on the velocity that users choose. This internally developed feature is so hot that it’s claimed to be better than Spritz.
The feature is currently accessible with limited iteration for Mailbird’s free users. Those who want to have this feature in its default mode need to subscribe the Pro version by paying $6 per year or $45 for once in a lifetime. The ownership of these Lifetime Pro and Pro licenses is indeed the business model that Mailbird runs, and the startup has successfully netted more than 17.000 registered premium users out of it.
At the moment, Mailbird is in the process of developing the API for Mailbird Apps. After publishing it for public later, Mailbird has planned to promote it to third parties and discussed about the profit-sharing system of the sales that Mailbird collects.
