The self-hosted Workspace alternative

Your mail.
Your files.
Your rules.

One Voice Mail is more than an email app. It replaces the core of your Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 subscription with Gmail-class mail, calendar, contacts, notes, Drive and Office-compatible Docs, Sheets and Slides — plus meetings, tasks, projects, diagrams, voice notes, polls, campaigns and native desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux. Twenty apps, one sign-in, on your own server.

  • Replaces Workspace & M365
  • Gmail & Outlook migration
  • Desktop for Mac, Windows & Linux
  • S/MIME & PGP
One Voice Mail inbox with labels, category tabs and a reading pane
Drive on your computerHome, Desktop, Documents — editable.
Private AI, opt-inYour gateway. Your data. Off by default.
20Connected apps
21Languages
50 GBDefault mailbox
100+File types previewed

Free downloads

Mail Desktop. Every desktop.

Free for macOS, Windows and Linux. Use it standalone — no mail server, no account — as a full Office-compatible editor suite for your local files.

Why Mail

It looks like an inbox.
It replaces your whole workspace.

Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 bundle mail with calendar, contacts, files, documents, meetings and administration. One Voice Mail bundles all of it too — then adds Mail Desktop for macOS, Windows and Linux — but runs on your server, under your rules. Email is the master key to your digital life. You should hold it.

01 / Ownership

Stop renting the basics.

Gmail, Calendar, Drive and Docs are convenient — until the price changes, a policy shifts, an API closes or an account is suspended. Your work is tied to someone else's roadmap.

One Voice Mail runs on your server. Your domain, your accounts, your retention rules, your backups. Leave whenever you want, with standard formats intact.

02 / Focus

Stop paying the context-switch tax.

Mail in one tab, calendar in another, files in a third, a document in a fourth. Every switch costs attention, and every tool charges separately for the same seat.

Twenty apps share one shell, one search and one sign-in. Turn an email into an event, a task, a document or a meeting without leaving the conversation.

03 / The desktop

A browser tab is not an operating system.

The files you work on already live on your computer. A web app cannot open them where they are, cannot work on a train, and has no taskbar badge, native menus or file associations.

Mail Desktop is the same suite as a real desktop application for macOS, Windows and Linux. It opens without an account, edits local Office files, works offline and stays signed in.

“The alternative to rented productivity software is not a worse experience. It is a better one — because you control the terms.”

See how it works

Mail Desktop for macOS, Windows & Linux

The browser was never the destination.

Mail Desktop is the entire suite as a native desktop application — on macOS, Windows and Linux. The same screens and data, with the disk and the operating system brought into the product.

  • Works without an account. Open, create and edit Office, OmniGraffle, Visio, OmniPlan, Markdown and text files on your computer.
  • Drive on this computer. Home, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, iCloud Drive on a Mac and any folder you add — beside your server Drive.
  • Signed in, never signed out. One browser sign-in, tokens in the macOS Keychain, Windows Credential Manager or your Linux keyring, silent renewal for 30 days idle and 90 days absolute.
  • Offline that means something. Local files always work. Server edits survive the tunnel; offline mail, calendar, contacts and notes arrive with the cache.
  • Native where it counts. Dock or taskbar badge, system notifications, file associations, mailto:, Quick Look or Explorer preview, system search, Trash or Recycle Bin, printing and drag-and-drop with Finder or Explorer.
  • No silent data loss. Atomic saves, a backup before the first save, conflict questions and 30 days of local version history.
macOS 12+ (arm64)Windows 10/11Linux x64/arm64No account needed
Files on this computer
Home · 6 items · saved just now
NameSizeModified
W Website relaunch.docx48 KBToday
X Budget 2027.xlsx112 KBToday
P Launch pitch.pptx2.4 MBYesterday
D Contact flow.graffle304 KBYesterday
PJ Relaunch plan.oplx88 KB23 Oct
M Release notes.md6 KB21 Oct

Cold start ≤ 2.5 s · 10,000-item folders streamed · local backups kept 30 days

Privacy by design

Private by architecture, not by promise.

Privacy is not a setting you trust a vendor to respect. It is what happens when the data never leaves your infrastructure in the first place.

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Your server, your jurisdiction

Mail, files, calendars and backups live on infrastructure you choose. No data resale, no advertising profile, no training on your mail.

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Encrypted where it lives

TLS in transit, encryption at rest, S/MIME and PGP for end-to-end mail. Your private keys stay in your browser, protected by a passphrase.

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Opt-in AI, no surprises

Summaries, drafting and search in words are off until you turn them on, run through your organisation's gateway, and are never used for ads.

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Standards, not lock-in

IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV. Real .docx, .xlsx, .pptx, .graffle, .oplx files. Leave with your data whenever you want.

◆ DPoP-bound sessions◆ Passkeys & 2-step verification◆ SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS◆ WCAG 2.2 AA◆ Audit log for a year

The suite

Twenty apps. One sign-in.

Mail is the front door, but this is the whole workspace: files, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, diagrams, plans, meetings, tasks, notes, voice notes, campaigns and polls. It covers the equivalent Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 productivity apps — and more.

Plus Today, Settings, universal search, command palette, notifications and a full manual. See the detailed feature list

Investors & partners

We're looking for investors to help us commercialise this product.

One Voice Mail is built and working: a self-hosted alternative to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, with twenty connected apps, native desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux, and a proven migration path from Gmail and Outlook. We are now looking for investors and distribution partners who believe organisations should own their productivity stack.

Open to hosted, subscription and client-owned models. Our preferred model charges for pooled storage, not seats: €210 per TB per month, unlimited accounts, every app included — about half of Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace for a typical 100-person company.

Discuss investment Read the business model Hosted, subscription or client-owned — the full model is public.
20apps shipped in one suite
3desktop platforms: Mac, Windows, Linux
€210per TB per month, unlimited accounts
~50%lower than Microsoft 365 or Google

Try it yourself

Want to see it with your own mail?

For more information, a walkthrough, or a demo account to try it out, contact Stéphane directly. Tell us what you run today and we will show you what moving would look like.

stephane@stepvda.com

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