Apple

I have found Mail on both iPhone and MacBook to be enough for my use. Otherwise I use and prefer Thunderbird on other operating systems.

Inbox was so good, made email so easy. Can’t believe how long it’s been and no one has been able to replicate it. Still mad at Google for killing it off.

I require a functional snooze feature so Apple Mail is out. Outlook randomly deletes iCloud emails and Canary is too slow. So I am left with Spark on both Mac and iOS.

Mimestream was promising in beta. The subscription model is too much for me though.

Outlook is good. Apple mail is good. But I still like Spark the best, I think. But I dislike Spark’s terms of service and feel like they don’t respect my privacy or data.

I switch between apps often, but I tend to use Spark more often than Apple Mail/Outlook/gmail.

It’s Outlook for me. Trialed a bunch, disliked the data/privacy deets on many, and MS already worked it’s way into my heart via corporate America.

It does a nice job of pinning, snoozing, combining inboxes, and working cross-platform. FO FREE ;-)

I use Mimestream. It’s a beautiful, well-made Mac app (for now, iOS coming soon) by a developer who clearly cares about making a quality product that adheres to the platform’s design language and usage idioms.

I absolutely do not begrudge him for wanting to make a living from it, and currently subscription is one of the only effective ways to do that for small devs.

I also don’t begrudge anyone who doesn’t like it. We all get to use our money how we see fit.

Gonna pop out the controversial opinion here and say I like the default mail app. It’s quick, simple, and does everything I need. The only thing I don’t like is that gmail doesn’t get push mail, but Google did that not Apple.

I hate that unlike iOS, mail does not run in the background on Mac though.

Thunderbird on desktop for my Gmail accounts and own domain. Built-in iOS mail app for those on mobile. Outlook web interface for work desktop, and Outlook iOS app on mobile to keep work and personal emails separate.

I keep trying other mail apps but always come back to apples. It’s just the best, clean interface, always works. Even ended up ditching gmail and going all iCloud, yay privacy :)

I use Apple's Mail.app on both macOS and iOS (on Linux I use KMail). I keep hearing people don't like it, but it does the job for me. The only thing I'm missing from it is GPG signing/encryption support and having it automatically format what I write to 72 columns, but I can live without those.

(If I may ask, why do people not like Mail.app?)

Some of the Google Inbox people did rebuild Inbox as "Shortwave" https://www.shortwave.com/blog/introducing-shortwave/

Which is available as both an iOS app and PWA. For those unaware, Outlook is also becoming a PWA.

I just wish the IMAP standard would expand to include contacts and calendar.

Gmail for web, Thunderbird for client and Bluemail for Android.

On iOS/Android/Mac I like Spark most

Spark for personal and Outlook for email. Really wish Outlook had the option to show pinned emails at the top like Spark does though.

Thunderbird on desktop, canary or stock mail on mobile

I don’t like how gmail shows ads even if you subscribe to Google One (I suppose this isn’t a problem on workspace accounts). I do like it’s rules to auto tag emails and the ability to set your own tags and rules.

Outlook app is a little bloated but it’s more functional than the native iOS mail.

Gmail is probably my favorite but since I transferred my domain to cloudflare after Google domains sold to square space, I’ve decided to use iOS mail again with my custom domain

Has anyone tried Vivaldi’s mail client? I use Mail right now, but the snooze function not working is kind of bugging me. Oddly enough, I lived without it up to now. Somehow, since they added it I expect it to actually work!

I use outlook on the iPhone and the gmail and outlook websites on my desktop.

Outlook does a good job of presorting my mail so I’m not bombarded with all the read at your leisure emails.

I'm very happy with Edison

Spark is the closest to how Inbox use to be. At least in my experience so that's what I'm using these days.

Thunderbird on PC

Default Mail app on Mac and iPhone

Mail.app on iPad , iPhone and Mac. I see no need to change it. I wish the search was a touch better but it’s rarely an issue.

I’ve been trying to find a good one, but it seems like all e-mail clients are bloated as hell. Like Jesus Christ I just want to read and reply to emails, I don’t need chatGPT, teams, calendars, real-time whatever the fuck, just… just email.

I use Fastmail for my personal email so I just use their app for that, and the gmail app for my business email. I’d much rather have both in one app but I don’t want the shit all these devs are putting in.

i tried some of the clients but neither satisfied me like gmail does.

The search, the functionality and also the swipe behavior of the native apple client is way worse then the gmail client. This also terminated the use of an icloud mail adress, so I forwarded this to my gmail.

I also do not want another account for my email client just to access my mails, so most of the other clients were out of the race. In the end I stick to my gmail account and it's app, cause it satisfies me the most.

Thanks again for all your answers :)

thank you for all the great feedback. I will take a look at some of the apps as soon as I'm back from my honeymoon!

for the next days i go with the standard mail app from apple just because I realized that I don't need all that fancy stuff. Let's see how that will work out for me...

I cannot recommend Canary Mail enough. It’s like the redesigned Mail.app that Apple themselves should have made. Looks, works and feels like a system app that Apple shipped, but adds a ton of neat stuff like PGP encryption, read receipts, GPT-powered email composition and email thread summaries, and more.

Using Outlook on iOS for its multi account support. Work is Office 365 based so it makes sense. I can use a unified or separate inboxes and switch between them at will.