Missive vs FairEmail

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.

Multiple identities per account, notifications per account or contact.

It is actively maintained. The used libraries are up to date and bugs are fixed quickly.

There are no trackers within the app and trackers sent with mails are disabled by default. This app lets you read and compose emails with your privacy in your very own hands.

Privacy features are excellent.

~ 20 MB.

Supports both OpenPGP and S/MIME encryption for total privacy.

Allows to configure maximum size of email downloaded immediately.

Some HTML mails may show different links and link texts, this app however will show you the real link before opening, protecting against phishing and scams

Some domain names may use non-ASCII characters looking similar to the latin alphabet (e.g. some cyrillic characters). This app will show you the punycode representation of the domain, if that is the case and thus protect you against phishing and scams.

Some HTML mails may include ressources that can track you. This app doesn't load them by default, but reformats the text, increasing both privacy and readability.

There are open standards for any email provider to show how an email client should connect to the server. This app supports both RFC 6186 as well as Thunderbird Autoconfiguration standards.

Supports authenticating with the mail server using OAuth, thus increasing security.