LowFat Apps

LowFat Apps is a third‑party email client that connects to Gmail while deliberately limiting its feature set to core email actions such as reading, composing, and searching messages. By rendering the interface on the server and delivering lightweight HTML from Cloudflare’s edge network, it avoids the large JavaScript bundles typical of many webmail interfaces, resulting in typical browser memory usage around 60 MB compared with several hundred megabytes for conventional clients.

The client is designed for users who want a minimal, privacy‑focused experience: credentials are stored encrypted in secure KV storage, there is no analytics or tracking, and the interface includes only essential elements—no calendar widget, Meet popup, or chat sidebar. It supports dark mode, responsive layouts for desktop, tablet, and mobile, and can be accessed as a hosted service or self‑hosted.

LowFat also offers a stripped‑down calendar view that displays events without additional scheduling tools, and it encourages users to switch back to full Gmail for advanced settings like filters or delegation. The project is open source, experimental, and aims to reduce memory consumption for heavy Gmail usage.