The launch of the new Gmail in April was certainly a sign that Inbox, Google's productivity-focused email app, will soon cease to exist.
Now we have an official end date for the app: Inbox by Gmail will be shut down at the end of March 2019, announced on Wednesday.
Google has said it wants to focus exclusively on Gmail, which has recently adopted several features of the app, such as smart replies and snoozing emails.
Inbox by Gmail, which launched in 2014, was initially invite-only and sought to compete with innovative email apps like Boxer and the now-defunct Mailbox.
Inbox finally opened to the public in 2015, gaining new experimental features like event email collection, newsletter previews, and a delete card that appeared when you didn't click on emails for a certain amount of time.
However, the progress of the application has slowed down noticeably, and we can only believe that many users prefer the convenience of Gmail.
As the curtain falls, Google has prepared a guide for users switching from Inbox to Gmail, despite complaints from its dedicated users on Twitter.
They have complained that Inbox's handy features, like the combination of travel-related emails and GitHub/Trello notifications, haven't yet made it to Gmail, and it's not certain if they ever will.
