And in one isntance after a while it was simply no longer able to retrieve emails from an IMAP account, even though another app on the same phone (K-9) had no issues doing so.Īqua Mail: very nice but costs $$. Also, you can't set specific settings like port, encryption, etc. For one, it's impossible to edit the settings for an existing IMAP/POP3 email account. And it's free! Outlook is fine if you use Exchange, otherwise it has serious issues. As far as a client developed by a multinational, Outlook Mobile is actually a pretty good app. Outlook Mobile: they used to store data on their servers but apparently they no longer store your credentials on their servers :-). During use, it consumed ~5% of my battery when K-9 used around 0,3% (and not because the app was open). You cannot drop separate widgets for each mailbox on your home screen.
So for now, this is what I (continue to) use!įairEmail: also open-source and more refined than K-9, although still a bit clunky. It's also open-source and it doesn't track you/analyze you/sell anything to you! There was a fork of it on GitHub with material design, unfortunately that project has been abandonned. And you can configure pretty much every aspect of this app. Here are our favorite android email clients:įavorite: K-9 ( website, and on GitHub): this has the most backwards UI among all of these programs, however, it has a lot of features - including support for multiple mailboxes AND aliases, and widgets that you can drop on your home screen that you can associate with a mailbox. I strongly prefer apps that don't do this for obvious reasons! Additionally, we use disposable email addresses (the only real solution to spam), and for that we need email aliases (identities). Unbeknownst to most, most 3rd party email apps store both emails as well as your email server credentials on their servers.