It has never been easier to create messages for so many occasions. Whether for business or for pleasure, newsletters or for the upcoming wedding day - Mail Designer brings everything you need to create thoughtful and impressive emails. It's child's play, just drag and drop.
Design Ideas: inspiration for beautiful emails
Styled templates for your email

Mail Designer includes flexible templates that you can further customize. We have left no stone unturned: whether for a sports team, agent or family - inspiration is just a double click away.

More design for your Business Edition

Do you use Stationery Pack Business Edition? Mail Designer compliments the Business Edition perfectly: turn your messages into reusable templates and save them in Mail, ready to be sent again and again.

Click and go: Apple Mail integration

Your mails will be well received with Mail Designer because Mail Designer works together with Apple Mail. Graphic elements are automatically rendered and you can access and add anyone in your Mac
OS X Address Book.

 

Layout – become the designer

Perfection – flexible layout elements

Make your email perfect: Mail Designer gives you an abundance of flexible design options.
True creative freedom...

  1. Dynamic content elements
  2. Text fields with one, two, or
    three columns
  3. Elements with and without image
    place holders
  4. Numerous headline formats
  5. Insert a white space
 
Layout modes and previews

Is that picture centered? What is the distance between these two texts? Mail Designer displays gridlines, rulers and distances so you can line up layout elements with pixel-precision.

Content – putting your message first
Clear imagery – add a graphic or two

Sometimes an image says more. Clarify your message with one of over 50 included graphics to further refine your email.


See what you have – use images and photos

Flip through your images with the image browser - iPhoto, Photo Booth and other image galleries. Drag and drop your images to make your concept a reality - then just double click the image to auto-center.


Room for variation - add place holder

Will you be regularly be sending out a specific layout? Insert one of over 25 scalable image place holders for an easy swap. Frames and masking-effects will add a little something extra.

 
Finishing touches - graphical text objects

Highlight your message with one of over 50 clever text objects. You can even change the font and it will be automatically rendered as an image.


Smart fonts

Mail Designer offers you an intelligent selection of web-safe fonts. You can of course use any font you like.

Tweak your images - editing abilities

Mail Designer includes a few basic image editing tools. However if you're really looking to perfect that masterpiece of a newsletter; use your favorite image editing program to polish your pictures before you add them to Mail Designer.


A touch of color – beautiful backgrounds

Mail Designer includes a palette of background textures in a variety of colors and effects: Wood grain, leather, sand and wallpaper to name a few - just drag your favorite into your mail.

Final touches – adding links
Add links to images and text

Easily add links to your mail. Just paste the URL in and link images or text to your website, store or even promotional flyer.

 
Support for layered images

Graphic-, image- and text elements support layers. Position the element in the foreground or background and emphasize what is important to you

A tidy structure - group elements

To make working with objects easier, Mail Designer can group multiple objects together. Just select a few objects and click group - done! You can group and ungroup items at any time.

Designs for the ages – save your templates
Adapt your designs as often as you like

Did you create a design based on your Corporate Identity? Save it under "My Designs" and use that as the basis for future business correspondence.

 
Your designs in Apple Mail

You can access all of your designs from Apple Mail. If you have a lot of designs, you can organize them into different categories, making it easy to find the design you're looking for.


Your designs in Apple Mail

Mail Designer works together with Apple Mail, perfect for sending your message to a smaller number of recipients. Access your Mac OS X Address Book or add recipients directly.

Export your Newsletters in HTML format

You can export your newsletters in HTML format. You can even choose to use an alternative image path, making it possible to upload your images to your own server and use your design with various email newsletter services. You could even offer a web version of your newsletter.





System requirements

  1. New! Roaring with Mac OS X Lion
  2. Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
  3. Intel Mac
  4. Internet connection

 

Send newsletters with MailChimp

Sending mass newsletters is now easier. Mail Designer can send your finalized mails and newsletters directly to MailChimp. Manage your newsletter subscribers, track campaigns and more. You can even personalize your newsletters by adding placeholders for names, addresses, and more.


Compatible mail clients

Do you want to know how your designs will be received by readers using Windows Live Mail or Yahoo Mail? For the more information and tips, head over to our compatibility page.

 
 
 
 




Image credits@flickr: Anders P, Boon Lee Fam, Iburiedpaul, Martin CharlieTPhotographic, catsper, steve lodefink, Theodore Lee Ethan Prater, Joel Bombardier