When comparing Mailbox vs Type Mail , the Slant community recommends Type Mail for most people. In the question“What are the best e-mail clients for Android? ” Type Mail is ranked 3rd while Mailbox is ranked 22nd. The most important reason people chose Type Mail is:
Type Mail has clearly put effort in to make their interface easy on the eyes by following Material Design style guidelines and easy to overview by color-coding messages and including details such as service logos and sender's profile to quickly understand where the message is coming from.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Great features for processing mail quickly
Mailbox brings simple to use, swipe gesture-based ways of dealing with your incoming messages:
- A short swipe to the right archives a message
- A long swipe to the right deletes a message
- A short swipe to the left snoozes a message (puts it off until later)
- A long swipe to the left adds a message to a list (folder)
Pro Allows putting off messages until later
Swiping an e-mail message from the inbox to the left gives an option to 'snooze' it for a set period of time. You can manually enter the date for when to return it to the inbox or choose from options like 'later today', 'this weekend', and 'someday'.
Pro Message composer has a dedicated camera button
When composing a message, a button that allows for either taking a photo or quickly adding one from your library is at the bottom-right corner.
Pro Automates common actions
This app via a feature called 'auto-swipe' tries learning behavioral patterns and take appropriate actions on its own, like organizing mail into folders, snoozing certain mail, etc. You can view set rules and manually add and change them according to your needs in an easy to understand way.
Pro Free
Mailbox is available for free, although a premium version with added features might be in the works.
Pro Good looking design
Mailbox has a minimalist design. It divides your incoming messages in three categories - your inbox, things you've postponed and things you've gotten rid of.
Pro Good interface
Type Mail has clearly put effort in to make their interface easy on the eyes by following Material Design style guidelines and easy to overview by color-coding messages and including details such as service logos and sender's profile to quickly understand where the message is coming from.
Pro Android Wear support
Users of Type Mail who own an Android Wear device can receive notifications of e-mails on the device as well as manage an read them.
Pro Volume key scrolling
Type Mail can scroll through messages in the inbox via the volume buttons. So you can avoid swiping on the screen if you don't want to.
Pro Customizable swipe menu and email view actions
It's possible to customize what actions are performed and what options for actions are presented via swipes as well as email view actions.
Pro Unread badges
The app icon has unread badge that allows checking if there are any new messages without having to open the application.
Pro Emails can be snoozed
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 A timed lock screen can be set up
Users are able to set timed lock screens for the app, protecting sensitive mail from anyone who would try to access it on the device.
Pro Smart notifications
Including LED, Do not Disturb times and customizable sounds.
Pro Unified inbox
Supports an unlimited number of accounts that can all be viewed from a single inbox.
Cons
Con Can't save drafts
Con No access to Gmail drafts folder
Con No Gmail labels
Con To be discontinued
Mailbox will be shutting down on February 26, 2016.
Con Privacy concerns
There's concern of privacy, because Mailbox has access to your emails, since they're passing through their servers. After being acquired by Dropbox these concerns have been somewhat alleviated, because of Dropbox's stable track record, but not completely.
Con Privacy concerns
Your email is routed through Amazon Web Services.