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Five of the Best Email Apps on iPhone
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Yes there was a lot of backlash.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ma...ird-party-email-apps-reading-user-emails/amp/
I don't use Outlook but, I do like that you can lock the app with a passcode or FaceID. I wish Apple would implement that feature.
One person did it so far the first 56 posts....seems to be an epidemic.
Not that I see a big deal if someone does...it collapses by default anyway.
Yup how memory is so short. No wonder billions of idiots still use Facebook too. Glutton for punishment apparently.
Anything that is free you are the product; absent using first-party clients like gmail or outlook apps which the tens/hundreds of millions of paid subscribers (Google Apps/365) allow the company to develop
How do you really think small companies like Edison and Readle pay for their email servers not charging? Is it a coincidence their privacy policies are shady swiss cheese?
"No don't worry we dont share your data, we PWOMISE!!!"Point bring is anyone can lie out their teeth when you cannot see behind the curtain.
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Do any of these apps allow you to sort the messages alphabetically by sender? I have tried a bunch of iOS mail apps and have yet to find one that does so. Every desktop app seems to have this feature, so why do mobile developers not think this is important to people?
Edison looks like a great app but I am very concerned about privacy issues. How do I know that my emails will not be read by their servers? For now I feel it’s not worth the risk.
Emails are read by the people that work there.
If you're interested in any of these email apps it's worth your time doing a quick search on their privacy policies and what they're doing with your information, emails, etc. You might be surprised.
Can’t use any email app that forces you to use threaded mail. It’s the only thing stopping me from using Spark.
Forced to use threaded email with Spark. I detest threaded email—it’s a shame, because I really like that app.
Do any of these apps let you read email oldest first? The regular iOS email app doesn't and that's really annoying. It also has very strange screen refresh behavior when you delete an email.
Also, do any work with iCloud email notification infrastructure or are they IMAP IDLE apps?
Also, do any work with iCloud email notification infrastructure or are they IMAP IDLE apps?
There are many fantastic email clients on Android, even if Airmail is sadly not among them. Android will treat them as first-class citizens and allow you to set them as default apps, something Apple understandably keeps us from doing on iOS. (The extensions/share mechanism is appreciated, but still introduces too much excise.)
On a brighter note, at least you can uninstall Apple Mail. For whatever reason, Apple 1st party software products have always been underwhelming.
Everyone calling out Edison, but Spark has the same shady practices.
Outlook is the clear winner for now. I'd use the default mail app since I have more trust in Apple to protect privacy than Microsoft, but I can't live without Gmail push notifications.
Outlook is the clear winner for now. I'd use the default mail app since I have more trust in Apple to protect privacy than Microsoft, but I can't live without Gmail push notifications.
Yup how memory is so short. No wonder billions of idiots still use Facebook too. Glutton for punishment apparently.
Anything that is free you are the product; absent using first-party clients like gmail or outlook apps which the tens/hundreds of millions of paid subscribers (Google Apps/365) allow the company to develop
How do you really think small companies like Edison and Readle pay for their email servers not charging? Is it a coincidence their privacy policies are shady swiss cheese?
Point bring is anyone can lie out their teeth when you cannot see behind the curtain.
Yep, and reviews like this one from MacRumors are not helping by completely ignoring the privacy aspect which I assume most people are not even aware about to consider.
To my knowledge all “Mail clients” listed in this review store your credentials and hijack your emails routing them through their servers.
If you are comfortable with a random company (who does not even charge you any money, which alone should be alarming) to read your emails it is your choice. But please make this aspect obvious in the reviews.
EDIT: Also if you plan to use these clients for your work email, make sure that your company’s IT security policies allow it. Typically they don’t.
my opinion: it starts free and simple
later it gets expensive and overloaded
thats true for almost any app here in the store especially for email apps.
i have airmail which i use and like, but its an overloaded piece of crap, to be honest - i have it on mac too
nevertheless I admire all developers for their effort - but hey - the world dont needs another email or podcast app - it needs some solid reliable stuff, well curated!
i will try edison they seem to go the AI way, which I am waiting for ages !!!
later it gets expensive and overloaded
thats true for almost any app here in the store especially for email apps.
i have airmail which i use and like, but its an overloaded piece of crap, to be honest - i have it on mac too
nevertheless I admire all developers for their effort - but hey - the world dont needs another email or podcast app - it needs some solid reliable stuff, well curated!
i will try edison they seem to go the AI way, which I am waiting for ages !!!