I still have a copy of Sparrow, as do many others. A desktop Gmail client still doesn't exist, unless you count a Chrome Web app as one. They had to suffer because Google wanted superior products for its users. This year, they pulled it from the store completely.īut why am I saying 'Poor Sparrow'? It's more like 'Poor users'. Development basically stopped after the acquisition, aside from 'critical bug fixes', of which there were none. Google had to buy it and ruin everything.