Newton Mail vs FastMail

Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook, iCloud, Google Apps, OWA, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, AOL and other IMAP accounts.

CloudMagic saves settings in the cloud. When you switch devices, the app simply pulls your setting from the cloud.

Intuitive, easy to use user interface.

Option to view one inbox for all your email accounts.

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.

It's possible to lock the app behind a four digit passcode.

It's possible to archive, delete or mark emails as read from the notification tray or with swipe gestures.

Cloud Magic supports sending notifications to Android Wear devices, allowing the user to easily see their mail without having to take their phone out.

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.

Get notified when the recipient reads the e-mail.

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.

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.

Newton mail offers a 14-day free trial.

Depending on your point of view, requiring to pay for Fastmail is actually a positive aspect of the service. This way you know the company is at least making some revenue (they have been around since 2010) and you know who the customer is. Pricing is as follows (go here for their on-site pricing info).

As you are their customer, Fastmail provides human support.

Gmail has a tendency to dumb down the interface (try to sort by sender). Fastmail gives full control over email, just like a "traditional" client would.

Supports two-factor authentication, one-time passwords and fully encrypted connections.

The Fastmail interface is fully responsive across all browser sizes.

As Fastmail does away with all the extra bells and whistles of Gmail it is super fast to interact with. It also has faster IMAP and SMTP performance than Gmail.

You can write your own Sieve scripts for filtering/rerouting email.

Like gmail, you can "Pin" emails to the top of your inbox to deal with later with either a checkbox or the keyboard shortcut. Like Gmail you can also both archive and delete emails.

Get your old email out of Gmail easily with their migration tool.

On writing this Fastmail has Basic, Normal, Aggressive or Customisable spam filtering which can be selected in the Advanced settings.

Each user has an individually trainable bayes database to improve spam filtering. You can train your personal bayes database by selecting some messages and using the Report spam and Report Non-Spam options from the Action menu on the Mailbox screen.

For IMAP users who don't use the web interface much, you can specify folders as spam/non-spam training folders on the Folders screen. Then just move messages into those folders as appropriate to train your bayes database.

For your personal bayes databases to be active, you have to train it with at least 200 spam messages and 200 non-spam messages. If you haven't trained enough messages, then we use a global continuously updated bayes database against your incoming messages, which helps detect spam/non-spam, but isn't as good as a personally trained one.

Instead of using plus addressing (e.g. foo+bar@email.com), FastMail offers the ability to receive mail through subdomain addresses (e.g. foo@bar.email.com).

Fastmail allows saving attachments and other files into their own file storage system for easy retrieval later.

FastMail has full support for folders, unlike Gmail where you only have labels.

Fastmail automatically filters your email into:

• All
• Unread
• Personal
• Notifications
• Mailing Lists

With identities and aliases, you can set up a completely new email address that can be managed from your account, without paying for more. As of time of this writing, FastMail offers up to 500 identities and 600 aliases per account, regardless of plan type.