Type Mail  vs Missive

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.

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.

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.

It's possible to customize what actions are performed and what options for actions are presented via swipes as well as email view actions.

The app icon has unread badge that allows checking if there are any new messages without having to open the application.

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.

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.

Including LED, Do not Disturb times and customizable sounds.

Supports an unlimited number of accounts that can all be viewed from a single inbox.

In Missive you can live edit an email draft with your teammates, the draft composer acts exactly like a Google doc. Each team member has a different color cursor.

The email section allows for consuming all of your email accounts in it, utilizing shared addresses (help@acme.com), personal work inbox (philippe@acme.com) and personal inbox (phil@gmail.com).

It’s important because the collaborative part of Missive becomes useful when users consume all of their emails within the app. You not only want to collaborate around emails sent to your company help@address, but also around the really important emails you most likely receive at your personal company address, like that really important email you received from a potential high profile partner.

Missive is also a team chat app. When using Missive you can ditch your email client, chat app and help desk.

Merge all email accounts in one unified inbox.

You can create multiple tasks per conversation all assignable to a single or a group of persons.

Nicely written software. Always works as you'd expect, beautifully designed, a classy piece of software.

Supports multiple organizations with one user login.

Know exactly if and when the recipients read your important email.

Supports Gmail shortcuts.