When comparing The Bat! Professional vs Tutanota Mail, the Slant community recommends The Bat! Professional for most people. In the question“What are the best e-mail clients for Windows?” The Bat! Professional is ranked 8th while Tutanota Mail is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose The Bat! Professional is:
Has a very small installation footprint.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Fast and lightweight
Has a very small installation footprint.
Pro Granular control
When you need that setting that does that certain thing, you'll most likely find it in The Bat and nowhere else.
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 Only available for Windows
Con It's all about cash - support, new licenses policy, bugs. Not worth buying.
Two programmers coding - this means every release is full of bugs sometimes making this app unusable. Dev version is testing via community.
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.