When comparing Mailbox vs Mail Wise, the Slant community recommends Mailbox for most people. In the question“What are the best e-mail clients for Android? ” Mailbox is ranked 22nd while Mail Wise is ranked 23rd. The most important reason people chose Mailbox is:
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)
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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 Clean threaded conversations
The Enhanced view presents conversations without repetitive information such as signatures.
Pro Requires no additional cloud service
Mail Wise messages aren't routed through an external service. All messages are sent from the server directly to the device.
Pro Can automatically group certain kinds of messages
For example, it's possible to group emails from a single sender together.
Pro Unified inbox
Google, Exchange as well as any IMAP email services are supported by Mail Wise and can be used at the same time from a unified inbox.
Pro Color-coded notifications
Color coding allows for users to set up custom visual ques as to what the notification is for, which makes for a convenient way to glance at ones device to know if the e-mail is something they want to open.
Pro Can snooze notifications
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.
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 Has trouble with Outlook accounts
Con No push notification for anything other than exchange
There is currently no support for push notification for imap accounts, meaning there will be more battery drain due to the constant polling to check for new emails.