When comparing Newton Mail vs Dispatch, the Slant community recommends Dispatch for most people. In the question“What are the best Gmail clients for iOS?” Dispatch is ranked 4th while Newton Mail is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Dispatch is:
TextExpander is a text macro tool that can, among other things, autofill your adress, signature, etc. It does that with a feature called 'snippets' and Dispatch has that functionality built in so you can respond to your e-mails quicker.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Multi-account support
Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook, iCloud, Google Apps, OWA, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, AOL and other IMAP accounts.
Pro Synchronizes settings across devices
CloudMagic saves settings in the cloud. When you switch devices, the app simply pulls your setting from the cloud.
Pro Beautiful, clean design
Intuitive, easy to use user interface.
Pro Unified inbox
Option to view one inbox for all your email accounts.
Pro Emails can be downloaded locally on a per-folder basis
A feature called "sync" allows downloading emails locally on a per-folder basis. That will allow accessing them while offline, keep them always up to date, provide faster search, show unread email count and show push notifications as soon as new messages in those folders pop up.
Pro The app can be locked
It's possible to lock the app behind a four digit passcode.
Pro Helps deal with emails quickly
It's possible to archive, delete or mark emails as read from the notification tray or with swipe gestures.
Pro Android Wear support
Cloud Magic supports sending notifications to Android Wear devices, allowing the user to easily see their mail without having to take their phone out.
Pro Can snooze emails
It's possible to "hide" a message for a set amount of time, which gets the message out of your way until you're ready to deal with it.
Pro Email tracking
Get notified when the recipient reads the e-mail.
Pro Integrates with other services to extend functionality
CloudMagic has 'cards', that allow quick interactions with other services, like Evernote, MailChimp, Salesforce, Trello, etc. And unlike similar integration, these interactions happen within the app itself.
Pro Great search
The app is capable of searching through all of your email and cloud accounts to find specific information. The results show up as they are typed in.
Pro Free trial
Newton mail offers a 14-day free trial.
Pro Supports TextExpander touch snippet expansion
TextExpander is a text macro tool that can, among other things, autofill your adress, signature, etc. It does that with a feature called 'snippets' and Dispatch has that functionality built in so you can respond to your e-mails quicker.
Pro Integrates with a wide variety of other services
Dispatch has support for 22 third-party apps, including: 1Password, Asana, Calendar, Evernote, FaceTime, Instapaper, Maps, Readability, Reminder, Things, Twitter among many others.
Dispatch will scan your e-mail for dates and times, phone numbers and e-mail addresses, real-world locations/addresses, web links, etc. and offer taking action with one of the aforementioned apps.
Pro Quick actions on swipe
A short swipe off the message will bring up a menu with 5 options of interacting with the message: mark it read, star/flag it, archive it, move it to a folder of choice, or delete it.
A longer swipe will initiate a user-configured "quick action" such as archiving or marking the message as junk.
Pro Automatic salutation
When you're replying to a message, Dispatch will check the sender name and automatically start the message with Hi Name,. You can choose to turn it off completely or configure to take place only in certain situations.
Pro Background refresh
Dispatch will download mail in the background so you don't have to wait for it to update when you open your app.
Pro Clean design
The design of dispatch is minimalistic and intuitive if you've ever used gestures. An uncommon design choice includes focusing on the body of the text when choosing to compose a message and filling out the subject and who to send the message to later.
Cons
Con Not free anymore, needs a subscription ( $49.99/yr)
The apps stared as a free app but since some time it's only free for 14 days (trial).
After the trial it needs a subscription which is very expensive with $50/yr comparing the features with other free E-Mail apps
Con Privacy concerns
Their privacy policy states that they have complete access to your mail.
We then use the authorization provided to download your emails on the cloud and push to your devices. We use AWS servers to store your data: emails and authorization.
Con iPhone only
Dispatch has no iPad version.
