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Add to SafariWhen comparing Gmail vs Aurora Store, the Slant community recommends Aurora Store for most people. In the question“What are the best Android apps?” Aurora Store is ranked 20th while Gmail is ranked 40th. The most important reason people chose Aurora Store is:
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Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Best support for Gmail features
Since both the Gmail Android app and Gmail itself is made by Google, the app supports all features Gmail offers (like labeling/starring) and gets new features implemented early - usually as soon as they are announced.
Pro Incredibly fast, advanced & predictive search
Gmail brings much of the functionality and power of Google's search engine to the app's search. You can use operators such as label:, is:, OR, has: among others, define date ranges, limit search to specific groups and so on. And, you can do it all amazingly fast. The search will also try to predict what you're trying to search for before you've even finished your query and offer up those results.
Pro Google Drive integration
The app allows inserting files from Drive straight to email or uploading attachments to Drive before sending them out. It will also notify if the person you're sending the file can open the file or if you should change the sharing settings for that file beforehand. Finally, you can choose which one of your Google accounts you want visible in the app.
Pro Google Calendar integration
Pro Comes bundled with Android for free
Not only is the application free, it comes bundled with the Android OS by default so you don't even have to bother downloading it.
Pro Threaded conversations
Pro Safely automatically displays images
The app does not require a confirmation to show images as Google now hosts the images on their own servers making it safe. You can still disable the automatic displaying of images in the settings if you wish.
Pro Tabs to automatically organize your e-mail
Gmail offers the ability to automatically organize your mail into specific categories:
- Primary
- Social
- Promotions
- Updates
- Priority
Each of the categories can be disabled and you can move your mail around from category to category or set your own rules which sender should be put in which category.
Pro Anonymous login
Get apps directly from Google Play Store without using a Google Account.
Pro Free & Open source
Aurora Store is 100% free & open source. No ads, no tracking.
Pro Elegant UI
Interface is very nice.
Pro Works on Android TV
Pro Easy to use
Pro Spoof country or language
Get country or language restricted apps anyways.
Pro Spoof your device
When your phone supposedly doesn't work with this app you can spoof your phone as another device and download it anyway, often the app works as intended.
Pro See app statistics
Can view general privacy-related usage of the app eg. contains apps, uses GPS, etc.
Pro Option keep or delete APK file after installation
Cons
Con Sorting mail by Unread is unintuitive
Nearly every other mail app has a clear way to sort mail by Unread. In Gmail app you can do that only by typing “label:unread” in the search field.
Con Very limited HTML composing
Composing of HTML formatted mails is very limited. No inline images and only some basic text formatting options.
Con Focused mailbox
There should be a way to disable focus mailbox completely.
Con Too bright, no dark theme
Con Advertising has been added to the client
Con Too heavy
It should be lightweight.
Con Limited notification buttons
Con Changed theme and can't change it back!
Did it without permission and it looks terrible! Washed out look, solid white background with black lame fonts.
Con Search results are not good
Con No intrinsic p2p encryption option
Con Cluttered
Con Violates Google Play TOS
Violates §3.3 of Google Play Terms of Service, which can lead to an account ban if you use with your regular Google account.
