What is the best desktop Email client for Windows 10?

Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux

Mozilla Thunderbird has slowed down its development of features to only focus resources on security and stability. See More

Top Pro

Free (as in freedom with no ads!)

Top Con

Development slowed to only focus on stability and security

InsightfulHephaestus's Experience

Used it for donkeys years My primary for decade and a half Until I moved to office 365 for my office emails That’s it the downfall No syncs Got paid add in’s All useless Feel pathetic about it since no more support See More

Top Pro

Consistent and involving a moderate learning curve

The app design of Mozilla Thunderbird has not changed significantly since its beginning, making its learning curve almost non-existent. See More

Top Con

Terrible search - could be better yet it works

Search is actually quite good, fast if you are just filtering the inbox and with very useful timeline profiles for a broader search. See More

LovelyTheros's Experience

Mozilla Thunderbird and Opera Mail, NO LONGER ACCEPT Gmail passwords! S See More

Top Pro

Mail filters working very reliably

Compared to other email clients filtering messages is very easy and reasonably fast. See More

Top Con

Way too memory intensive

Slows every other aspect of desktop computer, including data processing and Internet use. See More

RageGamer's Experience

Although it's a little ugly, it works. See More

Top Pro

Tabs for navigation

Top Con

Subject lines can (temporarily) disappear from the list

This is sporadic behavior. See More

PrivateMellona's Experience

Reliable and fast. It could be a little lighter but everythings works as expected. See More

Top Pro

Good filtering system

Mozilla Thunderbird offers a flexible filtering system with the ability to set flags and read/unread, as well as sort/assign to new mail directories. There are also numerous plugins available to assist in the filtering. See More

Top Con

Serious bugs

Clicking on a subject line can bring up the wrong email. See More

DelightfulSengann's Experience

Fastest retrieving emails, more options, reliable See More

Top Pro

Available on Linux, OS X and Windows

Top Con

Terrible integration with macOS

Simple things - drag/dropping pictures doesn't work, for instance. See More

Ryan Harris's Experience

Thunderbird is growing every other day. See More

Top Pro

Large assortment of plugins available

Mozilla Thunderbird offers a huge amount of extensions to expand the usability and options of the client. See More

DiligentAsaruludu's Experience

INTUITIVE and FAMILIAR - Simple Easy GUI See More

Top Pro

Great flexibility

More options and extended settings than most power users could dream of. Get it working how YOU want. See More

AmiableAmechania's Experience

No good tracking for opened mails See More

Top Pro

Lightning Calendar and Address Book integration

Top Pro

RSS feeds

Lets you reads RSS feeds like streams of email with filter, search and labeling. See More

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Send large files easily

Install pCloud plugin for Thunderbird and your files (upto 20 GB free storage provided) will be converted into download links. See More

Top Pro

Free (as in freedom and beer)

Free to download on any operating system. See More

The icons as well as the rest of the interface look like an application from the early 90's, with this there is also no easy setup options built in like the more modern e-mail clients. See More

score 35 · Answer 2

Claws Mail

Top Con

Interface looks old and setup is not easy

Top Pro

Low resource client

Claws Mail is a low resource e-mail client that is often default in low resource Linux distributions. See More

Specs

Platforms:BSD, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, Unix, Windows

Search:Yes

Some people don't like the simple design of Sylpheed, so they forked it and created Claws Mail, but it has become so bloated since its beginnings. See More

Top Con

Too much bloat

Top Pro

Has many plugins for extra functionality

Top Pro

Has very strong filters

The filters a much stronger than in ThunderBird. See More

Top Pro

Clean interface with 5 layout variants

Top Pro

Open-Source

Top Pro

Saves emails in uncompressed readable format

Allows one to read archived emails with a text editor. See More

Top Pro

Traditional user interface

Top Pro

Has many themes

Top Pro

Good support for Google's services

They've been developing and improving it consistently for years. See More

score 161 · Answer 3

eM Client

Top Pro

Still actively developed

Top Con

Only two accounts unless you pay

InsightfulHephaestus's Experience

Search is not great at all. Simply gmail search is the best. Takes times to fetch emails and sync Does not pick email IDs from the inbox for composition unless it’s pointed out copied Interface is very cluttered See More

Specs

IMAP:YES

POP3:YES

Platforms:Windows, MacOS

Exchange Support:YES

It is free for 2 accounts and as long as you don't use it commercially. Paid version comes with support and can handle more than 2 accounts. See More

Top Pro

Free and paid version

Top Con

Need effort to backup E-mail

You need more effort to backup E-mail, not like Outlook which is using a PST file. See More

ModestSunWukong's Experience

I wanted to switch servers to exchange and was planning on using Thunderbird. However, the add-on for TB to do this is no longer supported. Then I found eM Client. It seems to be the best of TB (On-the-fly color coding and simple interface) and some of the good features in Outlook. The code to use Exchange is written into eM Client. It is not an add-on that is always at risk of being dropped. See More

Top Pro

Beautiful interface, customisable to your needs

Top Con

Often fails to get emails from server - really sporadic

ConsiderateRaediengiedte's Experience

Hate Outlook. Used MailBird for a while. Not good. eM is great. Jim See More

Top Pro

Very fast

A very fast E-mail client. See More

Top Con

V8 Calendar has way to much white space and therefore does not show as many entries for a given day as the old V7 did

masoxs's Experience

The bottom line is, that i would highly recommend this email clinet to all my coleagues. See More

Top Pro

Many useful options

Such as sorting through categories, etc. See More

Top Con

Very slow recovery from a crash or abnormal termination

The checking of the database after a crash or abnormal termination is very slow and cumbersome. Since this is prone to happening during Microsoft Update and their subsequent mandated reboots, this needs to be fixed. See More

LikableLethe's Experience

Just not very stable anymore and the V8 calendar is too spaced out to be useful. Often does not get new emails - unreliable See More

Top Pro

Calendar inclusive

Top Con

Quite slow when the database is in a cloud sharing folder and crashes periodically because of it

Instead of the backup function that is built into the application, where you can backup once a day, it would be VERY useful to be able to simply place the underlying database in DropBox or the like (Sync, Box, Drive, etc) and not have to worry about the 24 hour lag in the backups. It works well most of the time, but then periodically eM Client would crash when the Internet connection was being taxed and the recovery from a crash in eM Client is VERY cumbersome. See More

ImmaculateKresnik's Experience

Has worked flawlessly and their built in integration with Fruux was a nice bonus. See More

Top Pro

It's simple to add new accounts

Top Con

View formatting is not replicated based on user preference

While eM Client has allowed the user to copy the folder view characteristics from one folder to another, any new folder reverts to the eM Client default, not a user specified one. The simple solution would be to replicate the view characteristics of the folder 1 step up in the tree so if you create 50 subfolders within a mother folder, the characteristics of the mother folder would be replicated in the new subfolders. Instead you have to keep redoing the copy function and it's a pain. See More

PoliteAeolus's Experience

I have over 55000 emails in about 25 folders - plus my inbox which is always easily over 5000. eM Client, which I have used for many years now, keeps up with me and my overwhelming email without a hitch. See More

Top Pro

Chat included

eM Client includes integrated chat, so you don't need another application for chatting with your friends. All common chat services supported (Google chat, Jabber and others). See More

Top Con

Search results are not that helpful

When executing a search for an email the results are returned in a lineal fashion, but the location (email folder / subfolder) can be very difficult to ascertain and that is often why the search is being executed in the first place. See More

Top Pro

The best email search tool you'll ever use

Outlook still needs indexing service. See More

Top Con

Does not support Exchange Active Sync

This is by far the biggest Con I have run across with eM Client, that and the fact they don't play nice in terms of migrating to other platforms. See More

Top Pro

Can import a PST file from Outlook

Can import PST file, so that you can migrate from Outlook to Em Client. Unfortunately, can't vice versa. See More

Top Con

Just one window available

No way to see 2 arbitrary emails at the same time. See More

Top Pro

A perfect companion to your Gmail or other webmail you might have

Works great with Thexyz email. See More

Top Con

Poor encryption support

If you regularly use PGP encryption for e-mail, you'll need to have another e-mail client available to rely on. eM Client frequently fails to recognize when messages arrive encrypted, and there's no way to manually call up the decryption menu if it misses one. See More

Top Pro

The only email client which synchronizes Gmail contacts properly

Top Con

Only has one nice interface/skin

The other available skins has a 90s feel to them. See More

Top Pro

Watch for Reply feature is really unique

This features keeps track of replies to the important emails and informs when an email is unreplied in a set time period. See More

Top Con

Terrrible in handing unread emails

Sorting of unread emails is very useless when compared to other email clients. See More

Top Pro

Online meetings are supported

Zoom, MS Teams, Google Meet. See More

Top Con

Interface is too simple

Many options are too hidden and it takes at least 3 clicks to set them up. See More

Top Pro

Quite straightforward to use and not overly cluttered

There have been some complaints about the interface because you have to click a couple of times to complete a function; while the complaint is understandable, the extremely "busy" icon based UI's in most platforms are far more cumbersome just to find the function required. Though the interface of eM Client is not necessarily what you might describe as modern, it is quite functional. See More

Top Con

Bloated

Huge size, high memory consumption, uses CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework). See More

Top Pro

Includes Quick Text

eM Client seamlessly integrated the Quick Text extension that was available on Thunderbird. This makes it easy to quickly auto-insert dynamic text, based on many variables, saving time and the need to tediously repeat manual text replies. See More

Top Con

It doesn't store all emails on the disc

Top Pro

It doesn't store all emails on the disc

It saves space, unlike Thunderbird. See More

Top Con

Constant syncing errors

Top Con

Poor integration with Yahoo Mail

Integrations with a Yahoo Mail account doesn't always work well in eM Client. See More

Quick bar allows you to add a variety of content to your message. It will let you reuse URLS in your Sent folder, and autocompletes against canned responses, signatures, and topics. See More

score 55 · Answer 4

Postbox

Top Pro

Quick Bar for macros

Top Con

Does not support minimizing to tray

Postbox does not minimize to tray and does not run in background. If closed, no mails will be received or sent. Unless you keep the app running nothing works. See More

SensibleNanaya's Experience

Syncing errors with gMail constantly.... See More

Specs

Platforms:MacOS, Windows

Search:Yes

All messages in one place. But you can select to show only messages from each account either. See More

Top Pro

One Inbox for all accounts

Top Con

Way too expensive

Currently the price is at 45€. That's ridiculous for an E-Mail client. The design alone is pretty but neither does that or the functionality in any way justify the pricing. See More

CooperativeArgusPanoptes's Experience

The best client you will find for Windows PERIOD. Your information is woefully outdated. Of course there is multi email support! Lifetime license available. Based on Thunderbird so is incredibly expandable and the only current client for Windows that can support power users. See More

Top Pro

Handles 1,000's emails quickly

Top Con

No support forum

Support for paid product has no online forums. See More

Top Pro

Thunderbird with more features

Postbox is based on Thunderbird but with more features and further development. See More

Top Con

Not available for all 3 major platforms

Linux support is missing. See More

Top Pro

Lifetime License for one time payment=No Data Mining

No subscription necessary, no reliance on data mining to keep company and development thriving. License applies to all computers you personally use so can be installed on multiple computers for a single license. See More

Top Pro

Blocks tracking gifs

Has the ability to block tracking gifs commonly used for read receipts. See More

Basic accounts are restricted to the Protonmail web client. Support for IMAP and SMTP is available with a paid subscription only, and as such with basic accounts it is not possible to send and receive email with external applications. See More

score 29 · Answer 5

ProtonMail

Top Con

No IMAP and SMTP support for basic accounts

Top Pro

Anonymous

No tracking or logging of personally identifiable information Unlike competing services, we do not save any tracking information. By default, we do not record metadata such as the IP addresses used to log into accounts. As we have no way to read encrypted emails, we do not serve targeted advertisements. To protect user privacy, ProtonMail does not require any personally identifiable information to register See More

CromulentIllapa's Experience

I am extremely impressed with the free version of the service. I would most definitely recommend Protonmail to friends , family and particularly my fellow crypto coin contacts. Never felt as secure opening my email and I do have experience in this field! See More

Specs

End-to-end encryption:Yes

Free tier:Yes

Open source:Yes

Web interface:Yes

Top Con

Some sites don`t want to proceed with registration with this mail

Top Pro

Open Source

Open Source Cryptography Time-tested and trusted encryption algorithms We use only secure implementations of AES, RSA, along with OpenPGP. Furthermore, all of the cryptographic libraries we use are open source. By using open source libraries, we can guarantee that the encryption algorithms we are using do not have clandestinely built in back doors. ProtonMail's open source software has been thoroughly vetted by security experts from around the world to ensure the highest levels of protection. See More

Top Pro

ProtonMail 2.0 to the world. We are happy to announce that we are also releasing ProtonMail 2.0 as open source software!

From the beginning, we have been strong proponents of open source software and the core cryptography libraries that we develop and use have been open source from day one. Today, we are happy to take the next step and completely open source our webmail interface. This means all the ProtonMail code that runs on your computer is now available for inspection. We hope that by opening up our platform, we will encourage additional contributors to help us make ProtonMail the world’s most secure email service. Our move to open source has actually been coming for a long time. While it would have also been possible to open source ProtonMail 1.x, we felt that such a move was not appropriate given that the code was intended to be deprecated. By open sourcing ProtonMail 2.0, we are open sourcing the future of ProtonMail. As we continue to expand our private email service with mobile apps, you can look forward to more open source announcements as our code base matures. ProtonMail 2.0 can be viewed online on Github at the link below. As a nod to our CERN and MIT roots, we are releasing under the permissive MIT license. Let us know if you do something cool with our code. https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient See More

Top Pro

Zero Access to User Data

Your encrypted data is not accessible to us ProtonMail's zero access architecture means that your data is encrypted in a way that makes it inaccessible to us. Data is encrypted on the client side using an encryption key that we do not have access to. This means we don't have the technical ability to decrypt your messages, and as a result, we are unable to hand your data over to third parties. With ProtonMail, privacy isn't just a promise, it is mathematically ensured. For this reason, we are also unable to do data recovery. If you forget your password, we cannot recover your data. Demo showing email cryptography End-to-end encryption means that no one but the intended recipient can read the message Open Source Cryptography Time-tested and trusted encryption algorithms We use only secure implementations of AES, RSA, along with OpenPGP. Furthermore, all of the cryptographic libraries we use are open source. By using open source libraries, we can guarantee that the encryption algorithms we are using do not have clandestinely built in back doors. ProtonMail's open source software has been thoroughly vetted by security experts from around the world to ensure the highest levels of protection. See More

Top Pro

Self Destructing Messages

With ProtonMail, emails are no longer permanent You can set an optional expiration time on ProtonMail’s encrypted emails, so they will be automatically deleted from the recipient’s inbox once they have expired. This technology works for both emails sent to other ProtonMail users, and encrypted emails sent to non-ProtonMail email addresses. Similar to SnapChat, we’ve added a way for you to have ephemeral communication. See More

Top Pro

Privacy respecting

User data is protected by strict privacy laws because all servers are located in Switzerland. See More

Top Pro

Built-in end-to-end encryption

Messages are encrypted at all times Messages are stored on ProtonMail servers in encrypted format. They are also transmitted in encrypted format between our servers and user devices. Messages between ProtonMail users are also transmitted in encrypted form within our secure server network. Because data is encrypted at all steps, the risk of message interception is largely eliminated. See More

It does the job fast. See More

score 32 · Answer 6

Mailbird

Top Pro

Fast

Top Con

Poor contact management

Only recently you can import from Gmail. But that's about it. See More

Yanis's Experience

Great, simple, and with a lot of options ! See More

Specs

Top Pro

Unified Inbox

This allows you to funnel all emails from all accounts into one unified folder, so you don't have to move between different accounts. See More

Top Con

Interface nags

The interface will often nag you to spam your contacts to spread the word about Mailbird. See More

Top Pro

Free and paid version

Users who only need to use the basic features of the app have a free version available, though it does limit to only 3 sync'd accounts. There is a paid version that does extend functionality and allows for unlimited account but it does cost $1.00 a month or $45.00 as a one time fee. See More

Top Con

Search index isn't great

Top Pro

Unlimited email accounts

There is no limit to the number of email accounts you can manage from Mailbird. See More

Top Con

Can be slow

Top Pro

Import feature

This allows you to easily import all your emails from your previous email client to Mailbird. See More

Top Con

Loses messages

It seems not to catch all files when importing. Often they only arrive days later. Or do not appear in the shared IN-box at all! See More

Top Pro

Apps that extend functionality

Mailbird 2.0 supports separate apps that can extend the programs functionality such as Sunrise Calendar, which allows one to add multiple calendars in one view or Evernote which allows for easy not taking and sharing. See More

Top Con

Fixed files

You can't move them from one account to another, as we could with Windows Live Mail and others. See More

Top Pro

Free and paid versions

Users who only need to use the basic features of the app have a free version available, though it does limit to only 1 account. There is a paid Mailbird Pro version that does extend functionality and allows for unlimited accounts but it does cost $1.00 a month or $45.00 as a one time fee. See More

Top Pro

App side bar

This allows you to have one layout with your navigation bar, message list, email convos and productivity apps in view at once so you can work your email and productivity tools synchronously. See More

Top Pro

Touchscreen support

Mailbird 2.0 has touchscreen support for tablets and other touch screen Windows devices which makes it easy to control no matter what kind of Windows device is being used. See More

Tap the windows key, type mail. See More

score 27 · Answer 7

Microsoft Mail and Calendar

Top Pro

Built in to Windows 10

Top Con

Requires a Microsoft account

If you don’t already have one you will need a Microsoft based login. Be it Mail, Windows, Live, or Office. This could be a non-starter for some people. See More

's Experience

Windows Mail is simple to use and the typing experience is great. See More

Top Pro

Easy settings

Download attachments. Or don’t. Or just from specific senders. Auto display images or don’t. Settings options are easy to understand. Sync to your Microsoft account, or don’t. Up to you. See More

Top Con

Attachment woes

Again like Apple, and other built in default mail applications;, attachments can be an issue. Some are not allowed outright and are never fetched. Such as executables. Compressed archives are scanned (zip/pk/etc) for viri while non compressed archives are not (tar, pak, etc) meaning false positives can block archives and malware can slip by depending on the format. Large files (over 5-10 MB) may not download in app at all. Files from non-Microsoft OSs may damage forks. Over simplified: Many Unix OSs still use ‘hidden’ file parts along with the principle file. Called forks and other names: if the sending app doesn’t properly accommodate the files you may receive multiple files that don’t work correctly, or one file missing all formatting and/or instructions. See More

lostinlodos's Experience

For a quick and easy solution, Mail, is easy to understand and set up. It’s even easier to use. Just tap the windows key and type mail. And hit enter or select the icon. Setting up new accounts is icon driven (in options). Click the provider, type in the user if and password, and click ok. On first run it supports most major choices easily and also supports most major fetch protocols like pop and ima. See More

Top Pro

Low memory usage

st is built to serve as a lightweight terminal emulator. It's very light and doesn't require many resources to run, making it able to run well on older and low-end machines. See More

Top Con

Poor spam filter

Much like Apple’s Mail software, Microsoft is an over achiever in spam filtering. You will find many OKd, accepted, and otherwise green lit mail will wind up in spam regardless of settings. So you still need to scan through your spam box regularly to catch legitimate mail and send it back to the in box. See More

Top Pro

Extremely simple architecture

st consists of a single C file that takes seconds to recompile. This also makes it very easy to understand and customize. See More

Top Con

No built in viewer

Mail is basic. As such email with formatting Microsoft doesn’t support can arrive garbled or unreadable. This is especially true of complex email such as news notices from web sources and mail with imbedded images or columns. Non-Latin email is also problematic depending on which encoding for the language is used. See More

Top Pro

Easy schedule

Fetch whenever you want. Every few hours, daily, at set times. See More

Top Con

Sync is not always accurate

Automated Sync may not always pull all mail. You will occasionally need to manually pull mail. See More

Top Pro

Supports everything

The included on clicks are: Microsoft (+live, office, hotmail), google, yahoo (+at&t, sbc, Ameritech, bell, Bcus, ...) Many more via other. Just type in the fetch address for your provider (almost always available from their setting or help) and click ok. See More

BlueMail is one of desktop email clients (Windows 10) that runs smooth with sufficient features reliably. The only urgent thing that they should improve is that they should've provided option to turn the reading pane on or off ─ instead of set it as a default. See More

score 11 · Answer 8

BlueMail

Top Pro

Clustering of e-mails by sender

Top Con

More fonts shall be added on

HonorableMarzyana's Experience

Specs

Platforms:Windows 10/macOS/Linux/Android/iOS/Amazon FireOS

Having finally thrown my hands up in defeat in the battle for online privacy, this is my e-mail client of the moment. Yeah, I know they cache your credentials and pull your messages onto their system to have the benefit of accumulating your information, but honestly, if you're not sending most of your e-mail encrypted with PGP (and I'm betting you don't because I'm a diehard for that stuff and the list of people I can casually trade e-mails with that way is disgustingly short) then you have to assume it's being read by someone else en route anyway, so why not use a pretty spiffy, free, e-mail client? I still hate myself a little for abandoning Thunderbird after so many years and time invested in the project, but honestly Mozilla is a dumpster fire lately, and e-mail is already one of the parts of daily life I detest the most, so I'm going to use the tool that gets it over with for me the quickest. See More

Top Pro

Integrated Calendar

Top Con

Unintuitive UI

Peter J. Mello's Experience

Top Pro

Highly customizable notifications

Offers a lot of different preferences (like Quiet Hours, Custom Sounds, Vibrate, LED Light, Snooze Alerts, etc.). You can set different preferences for each of your accounts. See More

Top Con

It would be great if we could add more than 13 accounts

Top Pro

Supports multiple e-mail accounts

Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook, Alto, iCloud, Office 365, IMAP, POP, etc. See More

Top Con

Reading pane cannot be disable

Top Pro

Unified inbox

Top Pro

Multiple email up to 13 accounts

Top Pro

Cabin font is awesome

Top Pro

Supports Android Wear

The calendar includes agenda, day and three-day views. See More

score 21 · Answer 9

Pegasus Mail

score 28 · Answer 10

Microsoft Outlook 2016

Top Pro

Good built-in calendar

Top Con

Buggy IMAP support

Lynette Chia's Experience

Its search email function constantly DOES NOT WORK which frustrates the hell out of me. It just won't search no matter how I rebuild index and tried all the recommended suggestions. The only fix I found so far was to rollback to earlier versions which solved the email indexing issue but using that as a solution irks me. See More

Specs

Platforms:MacOS, Windows, Android

Once upon a time this was the ultimate communication tool for computers, but after a decade of interface stagnation it's now inferior to most basic webmail interfaces. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with Microsoft services

Top Con

The UI is outdated

Peter J. Mello's Experience

Top Pro

Integrates with cloud storage services

Microsoft Outlook comes with built-in cloud storage browser allowing you to attach files directly from services such as Dropbox, Box, Google Drive or OneDrive to emails and directly open attached files without the need for the main cloud storage app. See More

Top Con

No aliases

Outlook does not support email aliases other then outlook aliases See More

DebonairHomonoia's Experience

Good experience .. also looked at eM Client See More

Top Pro

Excellent notifications center calendar widget

Top Con

Crashes frequently

The only issue with Outlook 2017 is that when the Mail folder increases in size, it sometimes crashes for no reason it, causing loss of data. See More

Nico Tate Parker's Experience

I've found that Outlook is one of the simplest, best email clients to use. See More

Top Pro

Good built-in contacts

In addition to showing contact information, the People section of Outlook can show all conversations you've had with a person. Moreover, if you're looking for someone that's not in your contact's list, but is in your company's or school's directory, Outlook can pull that information through integration with Global Address List (GAL). See More

Top Con

Rather buggy

ColorfulVorsa's Experience

Bad IMAP support See More

Top Pro

Helps prioritize email

The app will automatically attempt to figure out which emails are important to you and surface those. The priority emails will show up in your inbox in a tab called Focused, with other emails in a tab called Other. It aims to separate spam and promotional emails from the important emails. See More

Top Con

Corrupted or incompatible configuration on updates

ClassyAhBolomTzacab's Experience

paasword, paeword, paeword,,,,,,,, See More

Top Pro

Smart lookup

Smart lookup is a feature where the Bing search engine is bundled in the app to allow users to automatically search for relevant websites, information and images based on the word highlighted by users, without need to open external browsers. The results will be shown on the right pane of the window. See More

Top Pro

Integration with calendar and tasks

Quick conversion of a received email to a task with the deadline. See More

Top Pro

Priority messages

Microsoft Outlook comes with feature called "Clutter" to filter out incoming email based on the priority of the message set by user. User will be alerted when the high-priority message is incoming, whereas the low-priority message will be put in a separate folder. See More

Top Pro

Attach files from cloud

Microsoft Outlook allow users to directly attach an attachment directly from cloud services without need to download an entire file before attach to the intended e-mail. See More

Years of using it, upgrades cost $500 or more. See More

score 12 · Answer 11

The Bat! Professional

Top Con

Upgrade policy is a robbery

Top Pro

Inbox Analyzer does a fairly good job

The Inbox Analyzer, which organizes your newsletters and contacts using folders and filters works quite well. There might be some mislabeling from time to time - a friend gets labeled as newsletter etc. See More

Specs

Top Con

Program is full of bugs

Top Con

It's hard to use

Setting it up and then learning to use it can be a painful process. See More

Top Con

Support sucks

This e-mail client is free and very simplistic as it tries to only display the most necessary things (email list, labels, contacts, add attachments, and etc.). As it is lightweight it is quite fast and definitely shouldn't really slow down your computer.. See More

score 25 · Answer 12

Opera Mail

Top Pro

Lightweight

Top Con

No future updates

Looks like it is discontinued See More

ShojiVR's Experience

it is cluttered and unstable, the Stable release: 1.0.1044 (February 16, 2016; 3 years ago) See More

Specs

Top Pro

Fast and portable

Very convenient in my pen Drive (one has to explore the options during the setup so that this can be done). See More

Top Con

No HiDPI-support (4K-monitors with 200% zoom)

LovelyTheros's Experience

Mozilla Thunderbird and Opera Mail, NO LONGER ACCEPT Gmail passwords! See More

Top Pro

Automagic smart filtering

After a bit of use Opera learns what e-mail belongs in what folder just by previous usage. This makes for a convenient way to have e-mails filtered without having to manually mange every e-mail. See More

The UI is very well designed and neat. See More

score 11 · Answer 13

Mailspring

Top Con

Deletes messages without permission

Top Pro

Neat UI

IndependentJulana's Experience

An otherwise great app, but no option to disable thread view. See More

Top Con

Slow updates and bug fixes

It takes months to fix some simple bugs. For example, bugs with notifications on mac OS from April 2019 got fixed after 6-7 months. See More

Top Pro

Unified inbox

Using a single inbox for all of your email accounts helps you get more done in less time. Mailspring supports every major mail provider—Gmail, iCloud, Office 365, Outlook.com, Yahoo!, and IMAP/SMTP—so you have a single, streamlined command center for all your messages. See More

IngeniousTishpak's Experience

Paid, not open source. See More

Top Con

Very limited user interface

No way to see the messages as a list, no way to rearrange views. See More

Top Pro

Read receipts and link tracking

Activity tracking is built into Mailspring so you get notified as soon as contacts read your messages and can follow up appropriately. See More

EagerTuireann's Experience

Loses email account information. Can't move messages among accounts. Forced threaded conversations, leading to confusion. See More

Top Pro

Great integration with Gmail

Mailspring has great integration with gmail features and tags. See More

ResoluteBassareus's Experience

No addressbook and no calendar See More

Top Pro

CPU / battery efficient

Mailspring uses a C++ sync engine designed to be as efficient as possible, so you can leave the app running and not see your laptop battery life drain away. See More

LovelyTheros's Experience

EXTREMELY SLOOOOOOOOOOOOW! See More

Easy to add file attachments, take notes on meetings in OneNote, etc. See More

score 8 · Answer 14

Polymail

Add Video or Image

score 7 · Answer 15

Microsoft Outlook 365

Top Pro

Clean UI

Specs

Top Pro

Dark Mode

Top Pro

Native calendar sync with Outlook for Mobile

Top Pro

Strong search feature and offline access

Top Pro

Integrated with Microsoft Office Products

Was $20 a year ... then $30 ... now $99. See More

score 13 · Answer 16

Shift

Top Con

Price

Mike's Experience

Solid as a rock. Straightforward, safe. See More

Top Con

Only good for Google really

You can have a lot of mailboxes with Yahoo mail. See More

score 2 · Answer 17

Yahoo! Mail

Top Pro

More than 1 mailbox

DecentShulsaga's Experience

I love every thing about it. It’s so amazing I can’t say all the pros! See More

Specs

Platforms:Android / iOS / Browser

Exchange Support:No

Stationary is an add-on that's only available in Yahoo! Mail. It allows users to customize and enhance the look of the email. Things like image borders, letter style etc. can be changed before sending the email to intended recipients. See More

Top Pro

Stationary

Top Pro

Background wallpaper

Similar to Mail app bundled in Windows 10, Yahoo! Mail allows users to set images from Flickr as the background image for the app. See More

Top Pro

Tabs

With this Yahoo! Mail feature users can open any e-mail in a new tab and get back to the mail list without having to close the e-mail that the user is currently reading. See More

It is simple and very lightweight where claws mail added a lot of bloat like themes and plugins slypheed keeps it simple. See More

score 4 · Answer 18

Sylpheed

Top Pro

Very very lightweight

Mike's Experience

The best. No native html. All HTMLs are opened in your very secure browser. Never a problem in at least 10 years of heavy use. Solid as a rock. See More

score 3 · Answer 19

Newton

Top Pro

Works across multiple platforms

While there is no Windows app, Newton is available on iOS, Android, and macOS, including Android Wear and Apple Watch. See More

Specs

Platforms:MacOS, iOS, Android

You can snooze emails to come back at a convenient time - whether it be in 2 hours, or next Wednesday. See More

Top Pro

Snooze incoming emails

Top Pro

Know who's emailing you

Newton grabs information from LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter accounts linked to the sender's email address. It then displays information which can help you figure out who the emailer is, such as their job title and where they work. See More

The developer pushes for licence purchase, but the product has not seen updates since 2018-08-20 (source: I paid for the software and check the latest change log). There have not even been any updates on social media. See More

score 3 · Answer 20

Hiri

Top Con

No longer being developed

Specs

IMAP:No

POP3:No

Platforms:Linux, Windows, Mac