Great - but with a couple of catches

Update: Kiwi support advises that the redirect (see below) only happens once, to “close the loop” and let them know that a downloaded copy of the app has been installed. This is consistent with my experience: I only saw this happen once. Good eye catching it the first time, I guess. But it’s still sneaky, and “not ok” for Kiwi to grab a link to one of my attachments. Have the app make a web service call on first launch. There are cleaner (and less surprising) ways to do this. Kiwi promises a privacy/security statement “soon” on their web site. I hope they find a different way to close the loop, because this leaves a bit of a bad taste.

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I hate having to have a browser window perpetually open for Gmail. Other desktop clients have been disappointing. Kiwi is simply a native app wrapper around the Gmail web app - precisely what I want! Launch Calendar like you normally would (click the grid next to your username and pick Calendar) and a second Kiwi window opens containing your calendar. They’re based on a Chrome webview, but appear separate from your browser in the dock. I’ve died and gone to OCD heaven. :-)

Two snags:
(1) Acknowledged in Kiwi release notes: sometimes after having Kiwi open for a while I’ll click on a link to view an attachment or a new window to compose a mail and I’ll get a transparent window. For some reason the contents don’t render but you can see the window’s outline. Guess where the “close” button is and you can get it to go away, but you’ll need to quit and restart Kiwi to fix it.
(2) I only saw this once, but following a link to an attachment in an e-mail, I saw a Kiwi-controlled redirect page to take me to my own Google Drive content. This isn’t cool - unless Kiwi has disabled HTTP server logging (and why would they?), they’re (knowingly or unknowingly) harvesting links to my own private content. Kiwi - is there a reason I need to use your redirection endpoint to follow links in my own e-mail? This is really not cool, and will be the reason I stop using it. (So close, but too good to be true?)

bryandowen about Kiwi for Gmail Lite