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Flick — the swipe-to-decide email app. one email, one card, one decision.

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it's not a demo anymore — flick is on your phone & your browser tab.<br>the web demo still works right here, no signup. that part never changed.

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✦ your inbox is in its villain era✦ 47 unread + ✨delulu✨ it's fine✦ stop letting gmail gaslight you✦ inbox: not the moment✦ swipe it. it's free.✦ now live on iOS + chrome 🫨✦ your inbox is in its villain era✦ 47 unread + ✨delulu✨ it's fine✦ stop letting gmail gaslight you✦ inbox: not the moment✦ swipe it. it's free.✦ now live on iOS + chrome 🫨

no bc why is it 1,204drag me lol

it's giving abandonment

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your inbox is in<br>its villain era.<br>fix it. calmly.

Email isn't a reading problem — it's 47 unmade decisions hiding in a trench coat.

Flick turns every inbox into a swipe deck — you flick through your inbox ,<br>one email = one card = one decision. Flick it to archive, mark "no reply needed," or get an<br>AI draft you approve in one tap. Work, uni, side hustle, the one you're avoiding — one stack.

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works in your browser right now · no signup · no card · no catch

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📥 today's stack<br>5 left

YM

Your manager<br>Work · Gmail · 8:58 AM

"quick sync?" (it is never quick)<br>Swiping, archiving and "no reply needed" are free forever. Open the live demo to actually swipe through your inbox →

"Hey — got 15 min today to align on the Q3 thing? Whenever works."

needs a reply<br>swipe → to keep

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inbox flicked.<br>all of them.

no streak. no confetti tax. just... done. (revolutionary, we know.)

↺ run it back

←archive<br>✦AI reply<br>→keep

↑ actually swipe it. tap the buttons (or fling the card). this is the real motion.

the diagnosis 🩺

you're not lazy.<br>you're ✨delulu✨ that<br>9,847 unread is fine.

It's not. But it's also not your fault. Your inbox is a to-do list everyone else writes for you ,<br>sorted by who emailed loudest — not by what actually matters. Flick flips it: one card at a time,<br>you decide, then it's gone. The pile has a bottom. You'll see it.

stop letting gmail gaslight you

"Inbox (9,847)" isn't a number. It's a vibe, and the vibe is dread.<br>Here's the actual unit of the problem 👇

what's *really* in there<br>47 decisions<br>not 9,847 emails. just ~47 tiny "what do I do with this" moments. 47 flicks and you're done.

the inbox way 😵‍💫<br>open inbox → spiral → close inbox → "I'll do it tonight" → it is now 3 weeks

the flick way 😮‍💨<br>flick to keep, flick to clear. card → decision → next. archive's free, "no reply needed" is free, AI draft is one tap. then: inbox flicked.

calm calm calm calm calm calm calm calm calm calm

plot twist 🤫

this whole page is loud.<br>the app is the calmest<br>thing you own.

Yeah we yelled at you in acid green. The product does the opposite. Flick is built to make you<br>finish and leave — not to keep you scrolling.

If you ever spend more time in Flick, that's a bug, not a metric. Here's everything we refuse to do:

streaks

unread-count guilt

infinite scroll

"you have 9,847 unread"

dopamine traps

red badge terrorism

the pricing is, somehow, also honest

No "unlock your inbox 🔒" hostage situation. The triage part — the part that actually saves you — is just free.

forever fr<br>🫶Free<br>$0

✓ Swiping, archiving & "no reply needed" — free forever , unlimited

✓ One inbox, one finite deck — done daily

✓ 5 AI-drafted replies / month

⚡Pro<br>$16 / mo

✓ Everything in Free (still free, still unlimited)

✓ All your inboxes — up to 3 — merged into one deck

✓ 200 AI-drafted replies / month — for the chronically-emailed

Real talk: swiping is free because triage shouldn't cost money. We meter the AI-written replies because<br>those cost us money to generate, and Pro adds the multi-inbox deck. There's a $7 Lite in between —<br>the whole menu, fine print included, lives at app.flicked.email/pricing .<br>No ads, no selling your email. Your email bodies never live on our servers.

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okay but actually tho

the questions people ask before they trust an app anywhere near their inbox. straight answers, no fine-print energy.

+what is Flick?<br>A swipe-to-decide email app . Your inbox becomes a finite deck of cards — one email, one card, one decision. Swipe to archive, mark "no reply needed," or approve an AI-drafted reply. When the deck ends, you're done. That's the whole point: email that ends .

+is it actually free?<br>Swiping, archiving and "no reply needed" are free forever, unlimited . Only AI-drafted replies are metered (Free = 5/mo) — because generating those costs us real money. No ads, no selling your data, no "unlock your inbox 🔒" hostage situation.

+does Flick store my email?<br>No. Flick doesn't store your mailbox. It reads what it needs to build your deck (sender, subject, snippets), your decisions sync back to your own mailbox, and your email bodies never live on our servers. No model is trained on your mail. The receipts: the privacy policy, in plain...

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