When comparing Canary Mail vs Tutanota Mail, the Slant community recommends Tutanota Mail for most people. In the question“What are the best e-mail clients for Android? ” Tutanota Mail is ranked 4th while Canary Mail is ranked 20th. The most important reason people chose Tutanota Mail is:
End-to-end encrypted: - internal emails (between Tutanota users) - external emails: requires setting a password and sharing it separately to the recipient - calendar - contacts - email storage - email subject lines
Specs
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Pros
Pro Multiple Signatures for Multiple Accounts including ALIASES
You can assign your default signature to an ALIAS for the same account or create an altogether new one.
Pro No personal data stored on servers
No access tokens, passwords, attachments or email itself is stored on Canary servers.
Pro Seamlessly integrates with iOS verion
Gone are the days of manual setup of phone email clients! Canary Mail syncs not just your accounts but all of your settings and even signatures on iCloud.
Pro Local email database is encrypted on disk
Canary stores your local email database encrypted.
Pro Gorgeous and intuitive
Pro Pretty Good Privacy or PGP built-in
Pro End to end encryption
End-to-end encrypted:
- internal emails (between Tutanota users)
- external emails: requires setting a password and sharing it separately to the recipient
- calendar
- contacts
- email storage
- email subject lines
Pro Open source
See here.
Pro Based in Germany
Tutanota's servers are located in Germany, which has strict privacy protection laws, even stronger than those of Switzerland.
Pro Anonymous: no personal information and no phone numbers are required to register
Pro F-Droid app
Pro No offices in the USA
Pro Free
A free account is available.
Pro Add free
Pro Desktop client
Pro U2F for second factor authentication
Pro Affordable price for paid plans
Cons
Con Missing mainstream features
No functionality for user-defined Gmail message-tagging, or moving/copying to IMAP folders. Might be acceptable in a free app, but not in one with premium pricing.
Con Buggy
It adds random pins to old emails which then stay on top of the inbox list
Con Poor handling of new emails
You sometimes need to wait very long before your email actually gets delivered.
Con Windows moves randomly
When you create a new email, the new windows is often misplaced so that you have to move it to reach the "Send" button.
Con Poor text editing capabilities
The cursor is laggy so you're better off using keyboard shortcuts.
Con Show NO show
It'll show a new email on a counter, but you're not able to view them.
Con No support for third-party clients (eg Thunderbird...)
Con Doesn't support PGP encryption
Con No support for IMAP and SMTP
You can't use your favorite email client.
