In the Week view, we improved screen reader navigation to make it easy to jump between weeks and to read all the elements in each day.
We also made accessibility improvements to create and edit habits, review your tracked time recordings, and mark Sometime this week as completed in the Day view.
Jump months or years with the always available month picker. It’s a fast and beautifully personalized — using your day backgrounds and titles — way to navigate in your HEY Calendar.
HEY Calendar is a lot more than just events on a schedule. You can track time, log habits, and add tasks — all in one place.
Now, it’s even more personal with the addition of Journal, a dedicated spot for daily notes. Use it to jot down reminders, take notes during a meeting, or simply reflect on the day — it’s your private space to use as you’d like!
Set up and customize name tags for your send as addresses, like Gmail or another domain. Head to Accounts & Settings › your email › Forwarding & Sending › Edit › Edit your contact info and flip the switch to add a name tag.
We’ve heard from many of you who want to share all the goodness of HEY with the people in your family. We get it! We have partners, kids, and parents who would benefit from HEY, too.
So, today we’re introducing HEY for Families — add up to 4 additional HEY accounts for just $179/year total! One person pays and invites everyone, but the accounts remain separate and private.
Search results are now more relevant and actionable. You can select emails in search results and apply a label, add to a workflow, or read together–up to you!
There’s a new option to filter results by attachment, and you’ll see your recent searches to pick up where you left off.
Track time spent on any activity by recording it directly from your iPhone or iPad. See real-time duration and stop time tracking from outside the app via Lockscreen and Dynamic Island widgets.
Track time spent on any activity by recording it directly from your Android device. See real-time duration and stop time tracking from outside the app via persistent notification.
Many repeating events have an end point. Maybe your kickboxing punch pass lasts 5 days or your book group takes the Summer off. In addition to letting events repeat forever, you can now stop them at a specific date or after a particular number of times.
When you write a code block, you can now specify the language to get syntax highlighting. This makes it easier to read and understand code snippets in your emails and HEY World posts.
It’s nice to get a heads-up about something a few hours beforehand and a follow up reminder much closer to the event. To set up multiple reminders on an event, select 🔔 Notify me and then +.
To set defaults for your event notifications, head to the calendar settings page.
When you make a reservation or book a flight, you sometimes have the option to download the ICS file to add the event to your calendar. Now, you can open the HEY menu › Import events via ICS and upload the file to the right calendar.
In the rare case you choose to leave HEY, we make it easy for you to take your calendar data with you. Head to Accounts & Settings › Export Your Data › Export my calendars. You can import the ICS files to switch to another service.
HEY Calendar for iPad is here with a new landscape design. See your Weeks and Day side by side on the big screen… or the small: just rotate your iPhone.
Sometimes, you read an email inside The Screener and then decide to screen the contact in. But since you’ve already read the email, you just want to mark it seen. Now you can!
When you link multiple accounts, HEY Calendar will display the email address associated with each calendar in the HEY menu. Now, it’s easier to differentiate between each calendar at a glance.
Add events from any HEY calendar to apps like Google, Apple, or Outlook. Just copy the feed URL, add it to your app, and events will start flowing in from HEY.
HEY Calendar remembers the view (Day/Week) and the date you were looking at when you hop over to Email. Now, when you return to the Calendar, you’ll be right where you left off.
You can now choose the first day of the week in HEY Calendar. Prefer Saturday? Or maybe Wednesday? Click the avatar menu while you’re in the Calendar to change your preference.
We’ll keep your time zone up to date as you travel around the world 🌏. You can still manually set a time zone by turning this option off and selecting one from a list.
HEY for iOS remembers what you recently searched for. This is especially handy when you’re often searching for the same types of emails. This search history is only on your device, and you can easily clear terms by tapping the X.
When you Bubble Up an email, it floats to the top of your Imbox and it stays there until you Pop it. If an email Bubbled Up and you replied to it, did you still want it up there or are you done with it?
Now, when you’re replying to an email in Bubble Up, you can select Now and Pop.
The new Accounts & Settings screen has all of the global settings plus all of your accounts — click an account to see all of the options specific to that account.
You can now collapse individual sections of the HEY menu. We’ve also reordered items in the menu so “Your” at the top contains all of the items that used to be in “Other Stuff” at the bottom.
Also, since Bubble Up is conceptually a peer to all the other box destinations, it’s been promoted to the Top 6 items in the menu.
Ever wanted to send the same reply to a bunch of emails all at once? Now you can, and HEY makes it super easy. Just select them all and reply with a single message.
You Set Aside an email, then reply to it. Question is, is it Done? Now, when you’re replying to an email in Set Aside, you can make it so with a new action to send now and mark done.
The new Workflows feature has been a big hit with customers, especially those who are craving more CRM tools. Now, HEY for Domains users can set any extension to automatically put incoming emails into one or more Workflows.
Ever checked The Screener and see an email you immediately want to reply to, so you screen them in, go to the Imbox, find the email, then reply? This one’s for you. Screen in & Reply in one swoop.
No one wants to type the same message over and over. Snippets let you quickly insert a few sentences or an entire email, which means less time wasted on repetitive work. To add your first snippet, click the HEY menu › Snippets.
Great for keeping personal and work emails separate, you can redeliver emails received in one of your HEY accounts to another. On an email, select More › Move › Redeliver to.
Now when you reply to or forward an email you can break up the rich quoted attachment so you can write in between the lines, make edits, or even remove certain parts.
Sometimes while you’re writing an email you need to reference another email thread. Now you can minimize your draft to the bottom where it’ll stay docked while you move around in HEY. When you’re ready to resume writing, just pop it back open and continue where you left off.
Now you can bubble up an email if you haven’t received a reply by a certain date. This is really handy for situations when you’re waiting on someone for something, and don’t want to forget.
Skip the Recycling Center and set up recycling for emails from any contact (or an entire domain) right from the contact’s page. Recycling automatically gets rid of emails you no longer need while helping to save energy and reduce digital waste.
HEY now supports sending emails using your Gmail address! To get set up, head to your account settings › Forwarding & Sending › Connect an address. You’ll then be able to switch which address you’re sending from by tapping on the “From” field.
Ever seen something come through in The Screener and wonder when it was sent, which of your emails it was sent to, and who else got it? Now when you tap to preview the email, you’ll see recipients and timestamps in The Screener.
Organize emails you’ve Set Aside into groups at the top of the list. Groups are a great way to keep track of bills-to-pay, confirmations for your upcoming trip, or receipts for your expense report — just drag and drop!
Stick a note to your Cover Art where it’ll always be right there when you need it. Great for for reminders, reply snippets, phone numbers, links, and more!
Send email to your team, book club, family, and more. With Contact Groups you can easily address messages to everyone in the group — just type the group’s name.
We’ve just added another great way to find things in HEY. Jump to any contact to see all email threads including that person or narrow-in to just emails FROM them or just emails you’ve sent TO them.
Find exactly the email you’re looking for. Filter by sender, recipient, date, and label. Refine and search just the Imbox, The Feed or Paper Trail. You can even find emails that include (or exclude) certain words. The power is yours.
Previously a HEY for Domains-only feature, Collections are now available on all HEY accounts. Collections let you take a mess of separate threads and lay them out on a single, organized, easy to follow timeline. Learn more about Collections.
Share a link to an email thread with someone else — even if they don’t use HEY. They’ll see the whole thread, and any future emails/replies sent to that thread, all on a single page.
Enlist in the HEY Spam Corps and unlock a new button to mark emails as spam right in The Screener. We’ll use that feedback to improve HEY’s system-wide spam filtering for you — and for everyone who uses HEY.
Now, HEY makes it easier to print every email in a thread. Just click “Print this thread” from the menu and you’ll get an unadorned, printer-friendly view of the entire thread. Need to print a single email? You can do that, too. Sometimes, nothing beats a hard copy.
Want to reply, but not to everyone on the recipient list? Just click the “To” label to select whether you’d like to reply to everyone (the default) or just the sender. No more painfully pruning that recipient list by hand!
Before, HEY would only apply labels based on the sender’s email address. Now, HEY will autofile based on addresses in the CC & BCC fields as well. Labels will also be applied on replies — not just when you receive the first email in a thread.
Got an existing subscriber list from another newsletter? Now you can bring that list over to HEY World. Just upload a CSV file of email addresses and we’ll send them a link to subscribe.
You can now collapse long newsletters you don’t care to read till the end with the “see less” button in The Feed. No more scrolling ad nauseam to get past a super long newsletter that fails to keep you interested.
Opening The Feed could be a little slow at times, especially on mobile devices with modest CPUs. Now we’ve made it up to four times faster, so you can start reading those newsletter sooner. See a comparison on an Android phone.
Email spoofing detection is now even better in HEY. Before, when you received an email spoofing an address you’d previously screened in, it would still reach your Imbox. Now, HEY will correctly move those emails to Spam.
Long emails could sometimes push attachments out of view. Now, HEY will display previews of these attachments directly beneath the contents of the email.
Keeping every email forever means ever increasing storage, more servers, more power, and more pollution. Most of them are never looked at again anyway. Now HEY can help you recycle old email than you no longer need.
See folks from your phone contacts you may not have emailed in HEY yet. Contacts stay safe and secure on your device only added to HEY when you email them.
Screener backed up? Case of procrastination? Trying HEY again after taking some time away, and finding The Screener with 100+ emails? Now you can “punt” by clearing The Screener without having to make Yes/No decisions.
Instead of showing every contact from every email in your Contacts, now we only show the contacts that you’ve approved. Unapproved contacts will still show up in search results, so you can enjoy an easier-to-browse Contact list and still find any email that you’re looking for.
Working with recipients just got more accessible. Now, you can use your keyboard to tab/shift-tab through recipients and cut/copy/paste them between fields.
HEY for Android will play a video attached to an email when you tap it. If you need to save it, you can also download the video from the in-app player.
You can now filter down the list of people who have sent you files in HEY for Android. Browse to All Files then tap on “everyone” in “All files sent by everyone” to get started.
Now you can zoom in on attachments like photos, animated GIFs, and PDF documents. Click on a file, load the viewer, and navigate between other attachments with your keyboard or mouse.
We’ve enhanced the composer to make it even easier to add recipients. Meant to CC someone? Now, you can easily drag and drop your contacts between fields.
See every contact, message, and recent files with every sender from an entire domain. Get notified when someone emails you from a domain or automatically screen in/out new senders.
When you visit the Paper Trail and The Feed, HEY will now remember where you left off. That means the next time you visit these pages, new items are much easier to spot.
Now you can send email from your @hey.com address plus external email addresses, domains hosted elsewhere, work accounts on other systems, etc. Check it out.
HEY will now start remembering who you’ve been writing with recently, such that there’s less hunting in a long list when you start typing their name in the To/CC/BCC fields of a new email.
If you have multiple HEY accounts — like one for personal use and one for work — now you can view them together without having to log in and out. Personal emails are marked with a ▲, work ones with a ◼️.
Now you can automate composing email with Siri and the Shortcuts app. Connect inputs with the recipient, subject, and content fields of a new email to simplify sharing to email, or automating tasks like emailing an expense receipt.
HEY for Android remembers what you recently searched for. This is especially handy when you’re often searching for the same types of emails. This search history is only on your device, and you can easily clear terms by tapping the X.
HEY for Android now allows you to save Paper Trail emails from the past 30 days offline. Tap your profile picture then select Saved for offline. When your connection is unreliable, you’ll always have access to your emails saved offline.
If you’re an iPad power user — or aspire to be one — this update is for you! With multiple windows, you can have the Imbox open on the left while browsing The Feed or replying to an email on the right. You can split your windows, use them as slideovers, or have multiple fullscreen instances of the app.
Long-press the HEY app icon on your home screen (or app drawer) for shortcuts to New message, The Feed, and Paper Trail. You can also drag and drop these shortcuts — The Feed for instance — from the menu onto your home screen for quick access.
Email signatures are a mixed bag. A lot of people need them for legal reasons, but does anyone really enjoy getting an email with a signature that looks like an early, unedited draft of War and Peace? No.
We wanted to keep the good and minimize the bad, so we made a little feature we call Name Tags. They’re like the Twitter of email signatures. 150 characters max, no images, minimal formatting. Just enough flexibility to get the job done while ensuring that your email is mostly email.
Use Android? Have multiple HEY accounts? Buckle up friend, because we just added a fast account switcher to our Android app. Once it’s set up (via the app settings), a single tap on your avatar toggles between accounts.
Part of running an email service is dealing with spam. Not only do we need to prevent spam from reaching your account, we also need to make sure that people can’t abuse HEY to send spam. So we rolled out a system to detect and quarantine HEY accounts that are looking decidedly spammy. It makes HEY a better email citizen and helps ensure your emails don’t get flagged as spam by association.
By default, swiping left or right marks an email as Seen or Unseen. Now you can customize the swipe behavior in all sorts of ways. Prefer that a left swipe moves something to the Set Aside box? You can do that. Want to put something in the Reply Later box when you swipe right? You can do that too. Swipe right to like this message.
You know what’s better than a HEY iOS app? A HEY iOS app with widgets. Know what’s better than widgets? Widgets that come with a bunch of different themes to match the various HEY app icons. Details. 🌈
If you’re running iOS 14, you can now set HEY as your default email app. That means any mailto links will automatically open in HEY instead of mail.app.
We shipped a batch of accessibility improvements that make navigating rows of messages in HEY much easier to use for people who rely on screen readers and/or keyboard navigation.
Someone once said that the difference between a toy and a real computer is determined by whether you can print from it. We added the ability to print emails in HEY for Android, so congrats, you’ve got a handheld computer now.
The default HEY app icon uses our trademark blurple color, but what if you’re not a blurple fan? This one’s for you. Now you can pick from a whole slew of app icons to make HEY vibe with your aesthetic.
ARC (Authenticated Received Chain) signing is our latest effort in making sure that emails you send land in inboxes, not spam folders. It’s like a chain of custody for forwarded emails that lets all the servers involved know that your email really is from you and not someone spoofing your address. A positive change for everyone except purported Nigerian princes.
If you turn on notifications for threads or senders, we now show even more good stuff without having to open the HEY app. Now we show the sender’s photo, their name, and a more robust summary of the email.
HEY for iOS v1.0.7 comes packed with a bunch of new stuff:
Access the HEY menu from more places — now you can quickly jump between The Feed, Paper Trail, Reply Later, Set Aside, and All Files using the HEY menu.
Even more iPad keyboard shortcuts.
Share sheet for your emails — handy for grabbing a link, printing an email, kicking off a shortcut workflow, and much more.
HEY’s Paper Trail is a great place to stick all those receipts that you need to keep but don’t want clogging up your Imbox. We just rolled out a new feature that makes it even better. Now, you can bundle receipts from the same sender into a single row and cut the clutter even more.
We think notifications for everything is a bit much, but some folks really do need them. That’s why we just rolled out a way to turn on notifications for every single thing that lands in your Imbox in one fell swoop. Click your avatar, select “notifications”, then flip the “Imbox notifications” toggle to make it happen.
Feeling reflective? Ever want to take a trip down memory lane and see what emails past you sent? You’re in luck, because we just rolled out a new feature that let’s you do exactly that. As a bonus, all the attachments you’ve sent are conveniently collected at the top.
You probably want to do something with the email attachments that you receive. HEY for Android has your back. PDFs, calendar invites, text, and HTML files now open directly in your device’s default app for those file types.
HEY shipped with dark mode support, but it was controlled exclusively by the settings in your OS. Customers let us know that they prefer to mix and match light and dark mode, and we were happy to oblige. So now you can use HEY in light mode with your OS in dark mode and vice versa.
One thing we’ve been hearing from customers is that they think of the “< Imbox” button as a kind of in-app back button. Problem is, when you’re looking at threads filed into The Feed and Paper Trail, hitting that button jumps you all the way back to the Imbox. It’s not the label, it’s the expectation.
To fix that, we deployed a change that shows “< Back” on the button and adjusts the URL to take you to either The Feed or the Paper Trail.
Let’s say you have two contacts that are actually the same person, and you’d like to merge them into one. Before, you’d be stuck with two entries. Now when you add an address to a contact that’s already in use, you get a prompt to merge. Click yes, and you’ve got one contact to rule them all.
