Mail.app vs Airmail

One thing Apple does well is to integrate its apps and hardware. The mail app is no exception. If you must be in the hermit kingdom, at least take advantage of the (often excellent) features provided.

Since it's the built-in Mac email client and is quite complete feature-wise, most users will not really need any other third-party applications out there. Mail.app should be enough for their needs.

Mail.app has powerful markup tools which let users add annotations to images or even sign documents they got through email without ever leaving the client.

• You can choose out of tenths of mailheaders (several hundreds including virtual headers)
• "<header> is (not) in <folder> <header>" operator which enables you to do cool filters
• Each smart folder can have smart subfolders by an user definable key

If the basic features inside Mail.app are not enough, it can easily be extended through plugins to add new features.

Airmail has a very clean and modern interface. On the left side of the screen are the folders (inbox, starred, draft, sent, snooze, trash) and on the right side the email threads for the folder currently being viewed.

Airmail can integrate with multiple Cloud services for syncing, creating backups, adding tasks and more. Some of these services include Dropbox, Box, Fantastical, 2DO, Todoist, Wunderlist etc.

If you are using Airmail in different devices (either MacOS or iOS), you can automatically sync settings through iCloud.

Airmail is available for both iOS and Mac, for people who use Apple's mobile devices. And the interface between both platforms is quite consistent, making it easy to seamlessly jump between one and another.

Even though there's a huge amount of settings available, it's quite easy to get used to each of them and the setup process is very fast and easy.

VIP folders are for particular senders which you always want to read even when you are ignoring email. The way it works is that you add different senders as VIPs and emails from those senders will always be surfaced on top of everything else.

Instead of forcing the user to work with their email the way Airmail developers would want, it allows the user to customize and make the email client work the way they want because of the sheer flexibility of the application.

There's a lot of settings available in Airmail with which you can customize almost every aspect and functionality of the app. In fact, it's very easy to get lost in them and spend a lot of time tweaking and customizing everything to your liking.

There are multiple ways to sort emails with Airmail. You can sort by unread, starred, attachments, conversations, dates, and many more criteria. You can even combine different criteria together.

Using these filters makes it extremely easy to quickly find any email you are looking for.

Airmail allows users to snooze an email until a defined moment (a few hours later, tomorrow, next weekend, next week, etc.), allowing you to process every email immediately and to always keep the inbox clean.

Airmail is able to use trackpad gestures for achieving and deleting mail items.