When comparing Touchmail vs The Bat! Professional, the Slant community recommends The Bat! Professional for most people. In the question“What are the best e-mail clients for Windows?” The Bat! Professional is ranked 8th while Touchmail is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose The Bat! Professional is:
Has a very small installation footprint.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Easy sorting
Email listing can be sorted by date of arrival, contacts or conversation.
Pro Colorful tiles
Each email list is displayed in different colorful tiles depending on the origin of the email sender or it's contacts.
Pro Supports various email services
Touchmail supports multiple accounts from various email services such as Outlook, Yahoo! Mail, GMail and more via IMAP.
Pro Fast and lightweight
Has a very small installation footprint.
Pro Granular control
When you need that setting that does that certain thing, you'll most likely find it in The Bat and nowhere else.
Cons
Con Maximum limit number of account support
Free version of Touchmail only supports up to 2 accounts while paid version of Touchmail only supports up to 6 accounts.
Con Only available for Windows
Con It's all about cash - support, new licenses policy, bugs. Not worth buying.
Two programmers coding - this means every release is full of bugs sometimes making this app unusable. Dev version is testing via community.