First of all you need an android phone, in order to activate the Inbox feature by Google. Given here are three methods including a trick to activate inbox in your Google account. After activating the Inbox in an android, you can access the same in desktop using the Google Chrome browser (inbox.google.com).

1. Send mail to [email protected] requesting The Gmail Team for an invite.
2. Ask your friend to send you an invite.
How to send an invite to your friend.
- Open inbox app.
- Click create button (big red button)
- Choose Invite Inbox – select your contacts to send the invite.
3. This is a trick to activate the Inbox feature, If you have an android with inbox activated account, follow the steps below.
- Add the second account to the phone in which inbox needs to be activated.
- Switch accounts in inbox app, voila! you got inbox activated in the second account.
- After that you can access inbox from desktop too (chrome browser).
- You can activate inbox in any number of accounts by using the same method.