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MailTones - Email Sounds and Alerts

Application Description

MailTones gives you push email alerts and distinctive custom email sounds for different contacts, subjects and senders. Now you can have fun with your email - and know instantly when important messages arrive!

Pick your phone out in the crowd with a new email tone. We bundle over 25 tones with MailTones, from subtle professional tones to load horns and whistles - perfect for hearing email in a noisy environment, or alerting you to important messages.

As well as playing new email tones, MailTones can pop up and show you a "push alert" on your iPhone, showing the sender and subject of your new email message - so you know instantly whether you need to launch Mail and read the message, or if it can wait.

One practical way to use MailTones is to set your default email tone to silent, or ignore, and just set audible alerts for people and message subjects you want to know about - then when your iPhone beeps, you'll know its an email message that matters.

BENEFITS
• Pick a new email tone from over 25 we supply
• Set custom tones for friends, subjects and domains
• Get quick alerts of incoming messages
• Cut distractions by setting unimportant email to silent or ignore
• "Do Not Disturb" automatically stops alerts at night
• Simple set-up from GMail, MobileMe and any server which supports "forward a copy" forwarding of email (sorry - NOT Yahoo! Mail)
• No need to share your email account details with us!
• Introductory pricing provides for unlimited service, with no further fees to pay

HOW IT WORKS
When you run MailTones, we'll give you a special email address @mailtones.net - forward A COPY of your email to that address and any mail you receive will make your iPhone beep with your chosen tone. You can choose to copy all your email to mailtones.net, or use filters to just forward some messages. When email arrives at our server, we send a Push message to your iPhone - causing it to beep, whistle, ring or buzz! Please make sure you can forward a copy of your email to a second address - gmail and MobileMe users can do this, but we understand Yahoo Mail does not provide this facility. MailTones uses the Amazon EC2 platform, to allow for extreme reliability and stability, however cannot guarantee delivery of message notifications. The price includes ongoing use of our service, with no recurring fees.

iPod Touch Users: MailTones requires an active network connection - first gen iPod Touch users - you'll need your headphones plugged in to hear the alert tones!

REVIEWS

See MailTones for yourself - search for "mailtones" at YouTube - or go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW53lHmESgo

"MailTones is an idea whose time has come. If you're tired of pulling out your iPhone every five minutes to see if that new message is something important, now you've got an audio-cue alternative. Indeed, for anyone inundated by e-mail, MailTones is money well spent."
CNET Review, October 6th.

"In all, MailTones works well, takes the push notification system to the next level and is worth the price tag. So long as you can get past having to send your email to their servers MailTone is a lot of fun and rather useful."
GearDiary Review, October 1st.

Latest Update

Improved tones for professional users who need alerting to important messages, even at night-time.