Mailbox
Est. 2013·2016
“Swipe-to-archive email that defined modern inbox interactions. Dropbox bought it and quietly killed it.”
Lived 3 years · By Dropbox
Lived
3y
2013 → 2016
Shutdown
February 26, 2016
Owner
Dropbox
Category
Mobile app
Domain status now
Domain dead
The original domain does not resolve or refuses connections.
mailboxapp.com
Evidence & sources
Official shutdown source
Original domain
https://www.mailboxapp.com
What replaced it
Google Inbox / Gmail
gmail.com
Inherited Mailbox's swipe-to-archive idiom — until Inbox itself was killed in 2019.
Memorialised as part of The Internet Graveyard. Every URL eventually becomes a 404.