With the help of the Mac community, Zive hopes to take its 'polished alpha' app through beta testing and into the Mac App Store. The campaign has a modest funding goal of US$20,000 and has been under development for 18 months. That goal is closer than ever to fruition now that Zive has kicked off its Kickstarter campaign to put the finishing touches on its Gmail for Mac app. Gmail users have long desired something better than Apple Mail and more user-friendly than the Gmail web client to send, receive and organize Google Mail messages on their Macs.