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Mailbox is here to fill the big, wide void left by Google-acquired Sparrow third party mail app for iOS. It takes the best features of the built-in Mail app, Gmail 2.0 and to-do list apps like Reminders, Any.DO to create a truly magical app for managing email on the go. Check out our full review after the jump.

The app comes from the folks behind the award-winning “Orchestra” task management app – Orchestra, Inc. The startup looked at how people were using their task management app and found that users were regularly sending emails to themselves that served as reminders for tasks, and – as in my case – leaving low priority email messages as “unread” to come back to them later.

Mailbox has been developed with the aforementioned situations in mind. It treats each email message in your inbox like a task in a to-do list. If an email is super important, you can quickly reply to it right away like you would in any other traditional email app, or if you do not wish to deal with it at the moment, you can quickly “snooze” it to later today, evening, tomorrow, the weekend, next week / month or to a specific date. These snoozed messages are then placed in a separate list that you can access later, allowing quick management of your inbox. You are reminded to check snoozed messages at a later time.