The Best Email Client for Journalists
Your sources trust you with sensitive information. That trust extends to your email client. Inboxed ensures your communications stay on your device.
The Problem
Source protection
Cloud-based email AI means a third party can see who's writing to you and what they're saying.
Research overload
Dozens of sources, tips, and threads to track for a single story.
Speed under deadline
You need to triage your inbox fast when breaking news hits.
How Inboxed Solves This
Source-safe by design
No cloud processing means no third-party access to your source communications. Period.
AI-powered research
Summarize source threads, extract key facts, and search across all your emails semantically.
Lightning-fast triage
Keyboard-driven workflow lets you process your inbox in minutes, not hours.
Key Features for Journalists
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Inboxed protect my communications with confidential sources?
Source protection is one of the most serious obligations in journalism, and the threat model has changed significantly. The PRESS Act, passed by the House in 2024, would bar federal law enforcement from obtaining journalists' email records from providers — but it targets third-party provider subpoenas, not local device data. Inboxed helps by keeping your email data local: there is no cloud sync of message content, and the AI never sends email text to external servers. This reduces your metadata footprint with third-party providers. It does not replace end-to-end encrypted tools like Signal for the most sensitive source contact, but it meaningfully tightens the perimeter for day-to-day communication.
How does local AI help with investigative reporting workflows?
Investigative reporters often work through large volumes of documents, press releases, and email threads before a story comes together. Inboxed's local AI can summarize lengthy email chains, extract key facts from dense bureaucratic correspondence, and help draft follow-up questions — all without sending the content to a cloud service that could be subpoenaed or breached. Forty-eight states have shield laws protecting journalist-source relationships, but those protections apply to content, not necessarily metadata held by cloud providers. Processing email locally removes one more potential disclosure vector from the chain.
How does Inboxed compare to using ProtonMail or Tutanota?
ProtonMail and Tutanota are end-to-end encrypted email providers — a different layer of protection than what Inboxed provides. Those services protect content in transit and at rest on their servers. Inboxed is an email client, not a provider, and works with your existing accounts including ProtonMail via Proton Bridge. The two approaches are complementary: use a privacy-focused provider for the account, and use Inboxed as the local client that processes AI features on-device rather than in the cloud. Inboxed is macOS-only, so Windows or Linux users will need to look elsewhere.
What accounts work with Inboxed, and is there a free version?
Inboxed works with any IMAP account — your newsroom-provided email, a personal Gmail, Fastmail, or ProtonMail (via Proton Bridge). You can manage multiple accounts in one place, which is useful if you keep professional and personal email separate. The app is free to download and use for most features. A one-time $1 Pro upgrade unlocks additional capability for power users. At roughly 10 MB, it installs quickly and does not require creating a new email address. Setup takes a few minutes on any modern Mac.