Gmail
Coming soon Premium OAuth CommunicationEmail drafted in your voice, sent on your say-so.
Tell Halo "email Mario about the pricing change" and it writes the message in your voice, shows it to you, and only sends when you confirm. The draft is written and reviewed on your Mac; Gmail is only involved at the moment of sending.
Until this ships, there's a fuller way to connect Gmail today: the IMAP/SMTP - Any Email integration links your Gmail with an app password and both reads your mail into Recall and sends and replies through your account. If your Gmail lives in Apple Mail, that works today too.
Premium
A paid capability, part of a Halo plan. The free Mac app stays fully featured on its own.
Capabilities
What Halo does with it
With a Halo plan
- Drafts email in your voice, using what you're working on as context
- Shows you every draft and sends only when you confirm; nothing goes out on its own
- Uses a send-only permission: Halo can't read your inbox
How it connects
You authorize. Your Mac holds the key.
- 01
You authorize once, in your browser
Halo opens Gmail's own sign-in page. You approve exactly what Halo is allowed to do, nothing more.
- 02
The key goes straight to your Mac
The access key is handed to the Halo app and stored in the macOS Keychain, encrypted on your device. It never sits in a browser tab.
- 03
Your Mac talks to Gmail directly
Every request goes from your Mac to Gmail. Halo's servers never sit in the middle. They never see your messages or your content.
What stays private
Your Google key is stored in the macOS Keychain and refreshed from your Mac. The permission is send-only, so Halo cannot read your mail, and your drafts are written and reviewed on-device before anything goes out.