While Google is always improving the design and features of one of its most popular products – Gmail – it is now reportedly considering a major revamping to streamline the desktop and mobile versions.

Geek.com has reviewed Google’s new Gmail layout and reports it features an overhauled menu that optimizes the links sidebar into a tab that easily moves in and out of the browser window, according to PCMag.com.

The new Gmail does away with the tabbed email boxes, and instead has “grouped in the inbox” section that “automatically sorts your email by topic: Travel, Purchases, Finance, Social, Updates, Forums, and Promos,” PCMag.com adds.

Google Hangouts is built-in into the new interface and a large “+” icon in Gmail’s lower-right corner opens a new pop-up menu to create new messages.

The new Gmail interface also introduces a “pinning” system – similar to Windows 8 – in lieu of the “stars” feature, one of the oldest in Google’s e-mail repertoire.

“A sorting button at the top of the Inbox will allow users to sort their messages and pull these pinned items to the top or, if they prefer, they can revert back to the more traditional chronological style of message display,” according to PCMag.

There is no guarantee that the new Gmail interface will see the light of day anytime soon – or at all. According to Geek’s Russell Holly, there is no expected release date and it isn’t known whether Google will implement all or any of the tested features. “After spending a few minutes in this interface it is clear that Google is eager to shake things up in Gmail,” Holly writes.