When comparing Mail vs Missive, the Slant community recommends Mail for most people. In the question“What are the best Gmail clients for iOS?” Mail is ranked 9th while Missive is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Mail is:
Mail finally supports Push for Gmail accounts in iOS 11
Specs
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Pros
Pro Supports Push in Gmail
Mail finally supports Push for Gmail accounts in iOS 11
Pro Comes pre-installed on all iOS devices
No need to go out and install another app from the App Store.
Pro Integrates with iOS search
You can use spotlight to search through emails.
Pro Live collaborative draft editor
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.
Pro Is a fully functional email client
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.
Pro Team chat
Missive is also a team chat app. When using Missive you can ditch your email client, chat app and help desk.
Pro Unified inbox
Merge all email accounts in one unified inbox.
Pro Tasks
You can create multiple tasks per conversation all assignable to a single or a group of persons.
Pro It works
Nicely written software. Always works as you'd expect, beautifully designed, a classy piece of software.
Pro Multi-organizations
Supports multiple organizations with one user login.
Pro Offers read receipt
Know exactly if and when the recipients read your important email.
Pro Has emojis
Pro Gmail shortcuts
Supports Gmail shortcuts.
Cons
Con Some emails on iPad have excess padding
iPad version adds padding to text that can't be overridden and it can mess up the layout of the email.
Con No option to add words to spellcheck dictionary on Windows
Incredibly frustrating to see the name of your company constantly underlined in red, with no way to fix it.