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Add to SafariWhen comparing Type Mail vs Microsoft Outlook, the Slant community recommends Type Mail for most people. In the question“What are the best e-mail clients for Android? ” Type Mail is ranked 3rd while Microsoft Outlook is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Type Mail is:
Type Mail has clearly put effort in to make their interface easy on the eyes by following Material Design style guidelines and easy to overview by color-coding messages and including details such as service logos and sender's profile to quickly understand where the message is coming from.
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Pros
Pro Good interface
Type Mail has clearly put effort in to make their interface easy on the eyes by following Material Design style guidelines and easy to overview by color-coding messages and including details such as service logos and sender's profile to quickly understand where the message is coming from.
Pro Android Wear support
Users of Type Mail who own an Android Wear device can receive notifications of e-mails on the device as well as manage an read them.
Pro Volume key scrolling
Type Mail can scroll through messages in the inbox via the volume buttons. So you can avoid swiping on the screen if you don't want to.
Pro Customizable swipe menu and email view actions
It's possible to customize what actions are performed and what options for actions are presented via swipes as well as email view actions.
Pro Unread badges
The app icon has unread badge that allows checking if there are any new messages without having to open the application.
Pro Emails can be snoozed
It's possible to "hide" a message for a set amount of time, which gets the message out of your way until you're ready to deal with it.
Pro A timed lock screen can be set up
Users are able to set timed lock screens for the app, protecting sensitive mail from anyone who would try to access it on the device.
Pro Smart notifications
Including LED, Do not Disturb times and customizable sounds.
Pro Unified inbox
Supports an unlimited number of accounts that can all be viewed from a single inbox.
Pro Good built-in calendar
The calendar includes agenda, day, and three-day views.
Pro Integration with calendar and tasks
Quick conversion of a received email to a task with the deadline.
Pro Fun to use
clean and smooth experience, very nice and i like it.
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.
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.
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.
Pro VBA macros
Pro Conditional formatting
Pro Cloud
can attach files and use cloud, very good.
Cons
Con Privacy concerns
Your email is routed through Amazon Web Services.
Con It's from Microsoft
Con Rather buggy
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.
Con Categorize email IMAP not good
Con Frustrating user experience
The "Clean Interface" approach means that normal and necessary user interface elements have been removed, such as certain scroll bars, and even the "replied to" indicator. This program becomes more frustrating with each new update.
Con No unique Inbox / global folders
Con No portable bundle available
Con No aliases
Outlook does not support email aliases other then outlook aliases
Con The UI is outdated
Con Only available for Windows
