Name: Rukoo Mail
Author: Bart van der Meeren

One inbox for all your accounts.

Gmail, Google Workspace and IMAP accounts in one list. Mail from one sender folds into a single row.

It stays unread until you open it yourself.

Three-pane inbox with three more messages from Vandebron No Reply folded into one row marked +3.

Four messages from one sender unfolded in the message list.

Your calendars in the same window.

Google and CalDAV calendars, one shortcut away from your mail. Create and move events, and answer invitations.

Ctrl2Open the calendar

The calendar's week view with an invitation to Quarterly planning open: three guests, a video call link and Yes, Maybe and No.

Hand it to your agent. Keep going.

Some emails need research, a draft or work in another system. Hand those to your own agent, with the tools it already has. Then open the next one.

Hermes Agent
Claude Code
Codex
OpenClaw
Or build your own

CtrlJOpen agent panel

Search in Inbox

Call on Thursday

SV

Sanne de Vriesto me, Joris Bakker

Yesterday 16:12

PDF

Proposal-v3.pdf192 B

Hi! Shall we have a call on Thursday at 10:00 to discuss the proposal? I have attached the latest version. Best, Sanne

Bart's Hermes agent is called Clark. Bring your own.

It works on what you're working on.

No copying emails into a chat, no pasting answers back. Your agent reads the open email and your draft, and its reply lands in your composer.

Here Claude Code kept the line Bart typed into the draft and tightened the rest.

A reply to Sanne in the composer, marked Drafted by Claude, next to the chat where Claude Code checked the draft and rewrote it with Bart's own line about the pricing table.

Quick actions, also available as slash commands

Draft a reply
Brief me
Plan follow-ups
Tell the team
Update systems
Unsubscribe
Summarize
What needs me today?

Add your own in Settings. Type $ for your agent's skills.

See the plan. Make the call.

Follow-ups become a plan beside the email. Rukoo asks before a proposed update changes another system or reaches other people.

You press Send.

Agents can draft replies through Rukoo, but cannot send them.

The panel is optional.

Leave it closed, and Rukoo is just email.

Chats keep working.

A bell shows which chats have a reply ready.

New in Rukoo 2.0

Sorted the way you describe it.

Rukoo sorts your inbox into Needs you, To read, Money, Updates and Promotions, or categories of your own. Describe each one. Jev, TypeSafe's decision model, sorts what Rukoo's rules can't place.

Jev is optional and uses your own TypeSafe API key.
Nothing moves on your mail server.

The inbox with Needs you, To read, Money, Updates and Promotions under Inbox in the sidebar, and Needs you open: mail from two accounts that asks for an answer.

Settings, Inbox categories: each category with its description, such as Money: invoices, payment requests, receipts and order confirmations. — **Describe each category.** Jev reads the descriptions to decide.

Sort with Jev switched on, with the TypeSafe API key set on this computer. — **Sort with Jev.** Your key stays on this computer.

New in Rukoo 2.1

A booking link for people and their agents.

Your calendars are already in Rukoo, so share your availability from there. Guests pick a time, and the meeting lands in your calendar. They see open times, never your appointments.

Bart's booking page at meet.rukoo.io/bart: his introduction, an Intro call of 30 minutes and a Strategy session of 60 minutes, each with its next open times. — **meet.rukoo.io/bart.** What a guest sees, in their own time zone.

Settings, Booking page: the link with Copy link and Preview page, Take bookings switched on, and the two meeting types. — **Your page in Settings.** The link, the meeting types, the hours.

And their agent can book too.

The page has instructions for AI assistants, a JSON API and an MCP endpoint. An agent can find a time, book it, and move or cancel what it booked.

A meeting type can need your approval, and you set a daily limit.
Your computer can be off. Rukoo adds new bookings when it runs again.

Joris's assistant: Claude Code with only the page's MCP endpoint

# A real run, shortened
> Book me a 30-minute intro call with Bart
  next Thursday afternoon. rukoo.io/bart
✓ get_meeting_types     Intro call, Strategy
✓ find_available_times  Thu 5 Nov
✓ book_meeting          13:00, confirmed

The event in Rukoo: Intro call, Bart and Joris Bakker, Thursday 5 November 13:00 to 13:30, booked through your booking page, with his note and Booked via Claude. — **In Rukoo's calendar.** Booked via Claude.

Get early access.

Booking pages and the Rukoo account are invite-only for now. Leave your email and I'll send you an invite.

Rukoo for Android on a Fold-sized screen: Sanne's email answered in the composer, next to the Claude Code chat that wrote the reply, running on the paired computer.

Windows, macOS, Linux and Android

On your desk and in your pocket.

Rukoo for Android is built for the Galaxy Z Fold7. Pair it with your computer to chat with the Claude Code or Codex running there.

macOS and Android are experimental. The phone needs Android 12 or newer and has no calendar yet.
There's no iOS app yet. If you want to prompt one into existence, please do.

Why I built this.

I wanted an email app that didn't suck. No ads, no waiting, no juggling accounts. Just getting through my email without fighting the app. So I started building Rukoo.

Then I started thinking about the emails I didn't want to handle myself. I help founders put AI agents to work, and my own agents already had their tools. Now I hand one of them an email and move on to the next.

Rukoo shows them what I'm working on, so I can ask for help halfway through a reply.

Next comes a booking link. The person I send it to can hand it to their agent.

And yes, "rukoo" is a pigeon's coo. They have some experience with mail.

Bart van der Meerenbvdm.ai

Open source

Don't like something? Change it.

It's MIT licensed. Fork it, fix what bugs you and send a pull request. Or open an issue and tell me what's missing.

Test it on your Mac. Report what works in issue #74.
Add your language. English and Dutch so far. Start with the translation guide.
Teach agents a skill. Add yours to skills/.
Build the iPhone app. There isn't one yet. Start from the Android app.

Fork on GitHub Browse open issues

Terminal

# Runs with the demo account
$ gh repo fork MajesteitBart/rukoo --clone
$ cd rukoo && npm install
$ npm start

MIT licensedWindows, macOS, Linux and Android

Give your inbox a new home.

Start with the demo account, then bring your own mail.

Windows10 and 11

Installer.exe Portable.exe

macOS13 or newer · Experimental

Apple Silicon.dmg Intel.dmg

Linuxx64

Debian, Ubuntu.deb Any distroAppImage

Android12 or newer · Experimental

Phone app.apk

Version 2.1.0MIT licenseAll downloads and release notes

View the source on GitHub

The builds aren't signed yet. Windows may show a SmartScreen prompt: choose "More info", then "Run anyway". The Mac builds aren't notarized, so macOS may block the first start.

Before you move in.

Does it run on a Mac or on Linux?

Yes. Linux x64 as a .deb or AppImage, and macOS 13 or newer on Apple Silicon and Intel. The Mac builds are experimental and not notarized yet. Tell us how it goes in issue #74.

Which accounts work?

Gmail and Google Workspace sign in with Google. For now that needs your own Google OAuth client: Google may warn that the app is unverified, and a Workspace admin may need to approve it. Other accounts use IMAP and SMTP with a password. Most Outlook.com and some Microsoft 365 accounts need Microsoft OAuth, which Rukoo doesn't support yet. Exchange works over IMAP, not ActiveSync.

Is it free?

Yes, and MIT licensed. Any agent you connect runs on your own account.

Do I need an agent?

No. To use the panel, connect Hermes Agent or OpenClaw, or sign in to Claude Code or Codex.

Does the agent see all my mail?

More than the open email. It can read that email and your draft, and search the newest 300 inbox messages and 100 per other folder in every account. Its own permissions also apply.

Where is my data?

Accounts, cached mail and agent chats stay on your computer, in %APPDATA%\Rukoo Mail on Windows, ~/Library/Application Support/Rukoo Mail on macOS and ~/.config/Rukoo Mail on Linux. Your system encrypts passwords and tokens. Older mail stays on your mail server, and your agent processes the mail it reads. Sender logos load from company websites, and you can turn them off in Settings.

Is there a phone app?

Yes, for Android 12 or newer. It's experimental and built for the Galaxy Z Fold7: mail, categories and the agent chat, but no calendar yet. There's no iPhone app.

What is Jev?

TypeSafe's decision model. With your own TypeSafe API key, it sorts new inbox mail that Rukoo's rules can't place. For that mail, Rukoo sends TypeSafe the sender, subject, first 1,000 characters and a few header facts, with your category names and descriptions. Without Jev, Rukoo sorts by headers, sender and Gmail's tabs.

Can I get a booking page?

Yes, from Rukoo 2.1, with a Rukoo account. Hosting at rukoo.io is invite-only for now: get early access. You can also run the server on your own Cloudflare account.

What is a Rukoo account?

An optional account that syncs your categories, corrections and booking settings between your devices, end-to-end encrypted. The key comes from your password and never reaches the server.

Email that doesn't suck.