Spiffy

Spiffy is a Gmail notification tool that pops up alerts whenever you receive a new email. It features a bunch of handy customization options that can be easily figured out by users, regardless of their level of experience with such apps.

Setting up the program takes little time and minimal effort. At startup, it creates an icon in the system tray area. Double-clicking it brings up a normal widow that shows log details and lets you customize app properties.

It is possible to set up to five different Gmail accounts to monitor at once, specify account names and the frequency for checking up new emails (in minutes), as well as ask Spiffy to look into just a particular Gmail Label instead of the entire inbox. Settings can be restored to default.

The log details from the main window can be either hidden or cleared. As far as program configuration is concerned, you can make the tool run at every Windows startup until further notice, customize alerts when it comes to the notification display time, change the tray icon for new emails and enable sound alerts, use proxies, enable a custom browser when loading the Gmail account, and more.

The tool does not put a strain on PC performance, since it runs on low CPU and RAM. It has a great response time and worked smoothly in our tests, without causing Windows to hang, crash or pop up error messages. There is also a portable counterpart called Spiffy Portable, in case you want to run the app directly from a pen drive.

When it comes down to it, Spiffy offers a very simple solution to automatically checking Gmail accounts for new messages, supports up to five accounts at once, and it is backed by numerous customization options.