Simplify Gmail

This is a good extension; it's just stupid that I'd need to pay for a simple UI change. Not worth the money. Do not install unless you wish to pay for UI.

1. It must be free if you really want users to use your extension. 2. I know there are efforts and hard work plus money, but you can add ads. 3. Its just GUI, no speed boost, no fast loading of emails, nothing. My review: Gmail default theme is must better and even quicker also. There is no need to pay for extra looks and appearance, as simplicity is great. e.g. iPhone design.

It does not work with new Gmail interface :(

Not worth the money.

Loved the extension until it started showing that my "trial" was about to expire. I thought Simplify was supposed to be free! Please don't do this. I'll have to look for alternatives.

Used this extension for a year now. I like the look and loved having it, but recently they're moving to a paid model. Having to pay for what is essentially a skin is absolutely laughable. Will be uninstalling once my "free trial" is over.

This extension used to be awesome, then they moved into a paid service without a single notice. Uninstalled

I don't need most paid feature, but I can't use it anymore if I don't pay. I don't think pay 24 USD per year for a skin is worth. I'll consider to come back if there is on-time paid plan.

Wonderful extension and used for a while. But logged on today to see that my "free trial" was expiring soon. What free trial? Oh, it's moving to paid. Not ideal, lets check the pricing. £3 a month?! Yeah, not worth that, as it doesn't really do much except make Gmail look prettier. If it had been £3 for life, maybe even £5 I'd have handed you my money in a heartbeat. But moving to this model seems more greedy than ensuring consistent updates, and it seems many others agree.

Liked the extension a lot, but it changed to a monthly subscription model, which I definitely don't appreciate. I can understand the need for the dev to make money, but I would think that the core product that was free should remain so and the subscription can be for extended functionality. Oh well.

The author of the extension is like a drug dealer. First, he cheats into giving something for free, and then when the victim is caught, he demands money. What the author of the extension did is disgusting.

Was a wonderful extension for the years that I used it, until someone decided they wanted to lock it behind a paywall. Find something else.

full screen advertisements before i check my email? no thanks.

I used to like this extension a lot until this whole V2 thing. I'm sorry but you can't expect people to pay a MONTHLY subscription for couple lines of CSS and a bit of JS which essentially is just a theme.

Will not stop showing "Coming Soon" circle for V2. What was previously a nice clean aesthetic is now showing ads, ironic...

Leaving Simplify as is with information about dropping support and creating paid version 2 would be preferable to this mess.

Wanted something simple and minimalistic and now I only get popups and reminders to pay. Exactly the opposite of what I wanted. I understand that a developer needs to make a profit somehow. But for me, this is not what I installed it for. I simply want less distractions, now with the popups and new options and subscription, it is just simpler to go back to normal Gmail or get another addon.

Devs turned this into a pay to use service.

Does literally nothing in either Standard GMail or Basic. Very disappointing, but it's entirely possible that google recently changed GMail's CSS to break the extension. Hopefully this will be fixed soon-ish. Thanks for the extension though. It's a grand idea. Even Outlook has a better GUI than GMail today.

not working nothing is happening

Lost all meaning! Now this is much uglier than the new Gmail interface! Respect Google!

It's a royal mess if you have any other gmail extensions such as Boomerang. Inbox was great though - Gmail is anyway a mess.

Can't get it to do anything. Is there some trick to enabling it? Should it appear as an option in themes?

The design is amazing, but the amount of money that are asking is absolutey insane (25 every year...). The right amount would be 10 euros ONE TIME, more or less. As i said, the price is absolutely ridicolous. Sorry but is not for me, and i can imagine that neither for you.

The Simplify causes my Gmail to lag (on my powerful PC). When I turn off the extension, everything works fast and without any problems. I ended up uninstalling Simplify. I configured my Gmail via CSS (by using Stylish) as I wanted. I just don't need all the extra functionality of this extension. Simplify had a good start, but the development was not the best.

Was a beautiful free modification to gmail frontend, suddenly switched to a paid subscription service with an annoying pop-up to "log-in" (meaning activate a monthly subscription). Understandable that the creator wants to make a profit, but it certainly did not make the transition in an elegant way. Classic bait & switch :)

Was okay until it went paid.

I loved v1, I'm willing to pay for v2, but the new design doesn't work for my eyes. It's impossible to see which emails have been opened or not, besides the bold title. the news keyboard selection makes it look like the currently selected email has been opened but it's not. It's become "so simple" that I can't even see what's important :( We need the ability to highlight unread emails better for people with eyesight issues. Also, is there a discourse forum or github project where we can discuss this kind of things besides the chrome web store comment section?

I have to say that while I've been a long-term fan of Simplify (I honestly forgot what gmail looks like normally), the current build is extremely annoying. Every day or so I get some kind of upsell to use their new paid subscription, and it's become irritating enough for me to un-install. Love the original idea, well-executed, but nobody loves a multi-slide sales pitch in the middle of your workday just trying to check email.

The new aesthetic absolutely does not work for me. Ironically, for something called Simplify, it's trying to do too much now-- I just wanted something to move the existing Gmail elements around into a more logical configuration, but now it's doing way too much in my opinion.

I'm sorry, but I don't get it. This extension barely changes anything! I opened Gmail, and toggled this extension on and off, and it's such a minor change that you literally could barely notice it. The gmail icon disappears, and maybe one other thing. Inbox had a completely different look! I don't know, maybe I'm missing something...

I can't really review. Added extension. No change. Reboot computer. No change. Check extension options. All good to go. Not sure what's going on, but perhaps I have some incompatible extension running? Or this extension is disabled by its developer? I notice there are no reviews or comments for months.

Worked great until today, when all of a sudden the Gmail search bar disappeared. I had to disable the extension. Is there a fix coming?

On one of my computers, it works okay, but on my other computer, the buttons overlap, making it impossible to click the Search button. This happened with multiple accounts.

can't find the "new email" button when activating the add-on so I cannot create a new email. That makes it useless.

The search box doesn't work. It won't let me select it. Using a Pixelbook.

Sure this thing works for other. For my chrome, the search monocle is now hovering over the setting icon in the upper right. Now, even after uninstalling the Simplify Gmail App, the search monocle is stuck over the settings cog.

no changes to gmail, even when going to tools, i'm probably the issue. Real Question, will anything be available for phone because that's where I use email.

Looks overhyped. Some of the css is broken too. Can't see any difference which is useful for the productivity as well.

what year is this 90s? why there is no support for 16:9 aspect ratio.

Cleans up gmail nicely BUT in a day and age where EVERYBODY has a widescreen monitor, centering the email column is a bad idea and creates a awkward spaces. A simple option would fix this but this extension has 0 options available?! Disappointing.

It does not look as in the screenshots...

Developer seems brilliant, but there is no Getting Started guide. There's a YouTube video on Bundles and specific features, but that's about it. If you're moving from Gmail to Simplify, you may be completely lost in how to transform your inbox. I recommend the developer created a Comprehensive Getting Started Guide to transform your inbox. Currently, my inbox hasn't changed much at all.

I just starting using workspace and I really did not get much of a chance to test simplify and now the trial is expired. How can I get an extension on the software to test it further before purchasing ? How do I get in touch with the developer Robert

I'm curious how such an outstanding app can be missing the best part of Inbox. Where are the Bundles? The most important part of Inbox is missing?

This was awesome when it was free.. but not enough for $2 a month for a minimal twist on a perfectly functional website, I can get the same thing for free now with extensions like Stylish. I understand it takes a lot to keep this up and running, but this is simply hard to justify $24 a year.. Was awesome while it lasted, but I think I'll go back to running free, open-source, minimal html themes. Real shame

I understand and appreciate everyone has their own opinions. For me I found the extension fun to use but not critically beneficial to use. I don't find that it revolutionized my experience with gmail, however I can respect that creating an extension this integrated with gmail is no easy feat. I can respect that this extension took thousands of hours to write and will take thousands more to maintain. I'm not here to debate whether or not there should be a subscription fee. However I will say that because there are so many companies asking for subscriptions to software I have to pick and choose which ones I need to subscribe to and which ones are really just nice to have. Unfortunately, for me, this falls into the nice to have but don't need category. No doubt it is an impressive piece of software but its not as beneficial as something like grammarly, which can keep you from making critical communication errors. I was happy staying with features the unpaid version provided but eventually I had been automatically upgraded to v2 and at some point my trial auto-started. I will say that, honestly, when my trial stopped I didn't even notice. The only thing that clued me in was the injected simplify icon indicating it was inactive. I'm not here to try and convince people one way or the other. My advice is to try it. If you do find it worth the subscription then subscribe! There's plenty of people who will help you justify why it is worth the subscription. I simply can't justify the cost/benefit and am not here to debate its value.

Used to use it as it was the closest thing to the discontinued epic Google Inbox. It wasn't able to be as good as Inbox, but was at least nice and clean. Now it's become a paid app it's not worth the money in the slightest. I'll wait and pray that someone makes something like Inbox in the future

Just logged in to see a pop up telling me that my "free trial" (after being an early adopter) is over. LOL. I do appreciate the work and the extension, and I'd pay $2 for it if it were a one time fee. But a monthly fee for a friggin' chrome extension is kind of ridiculous. Uninstalled. I'll deal with ugly GMail instead.

I'm retired and I just don't get that much benefit for a monthly/annual subscription. Would be happy to pay a reasonable one time fee, though. Guess this is goodby.