- 10 best email apps for Android to manage your inbox
- Blue Mail
- Cleanfox
- Gmail
- K-9 Mail
- Newton Mail
- ProtonMail
- Spark Email
- TypeApp Email
- Individual clients like Outlook
- Bonus: OEM stock email apps
- Top Best Email Apps for Android
- 1. Google Gmail
- 2. Microsoft Outlook
- 3. VMware Boxer
- 4. K-9 Mail
- 5. Aqua Mail
- 6. Blue Mail
- 7. Newton Mail
- 8. Yandex.Mail
- 9. Edison Mail
- Bonus: Clean Email
10 best email apps for Android to manage your inbox
We’d also like to give an honorable mention to Hey (Google Play link). It’s really interesting and entertaining email app, but it gives you a new email address and is really expensive so it’s difficult to put it on the list. It has some decent features, though, so check it out if you want another option.
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Blue Mail
Price: Free
Blue Mail is one of the most popular email apps out there. It supports a variety of clients, including Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, Office 365, and virtually any other POP3, IMAP, or Exchange clients. The app has a variety of notification settings for each one of your email accounts and also comes with some fun stuff like Android Wear support, configurable menus, and even a dark theme. It also has some smart features if you want them. It’s powerful and it’s completely free. There is a potential privacy issue since Blue Mail uses its own servers, but most likely won’t mind.
Cleanfox
Price: Free
Cleanfox isn’t an email client, but it’s a useful app for email users. It basically helps you unsubscribe from the likely large number of things you somehow ended up subscribed to. You connect your email accounts to the app and it runs through and finds all of your subscriptions. It then unsubscribes you from them if you want it to. It can also delete old emails from those subscriptions and help you manage things in other ways. It’s a free app and it’s honestly not difficult to use at all. Most of the complaints are regarding bugs and bugs do exist, but Cleanfox does what it can and it does work for most.
Gmail
Price: Free
Gmail is a bit of a cheap pick for email apps. It comes pre-installed on most Android devices. Thus, you probably already have it. The app supports multiple inbox settings, multiple accounts, and more. It supports most email services as well, including Yahoo, Microsoft Outlook, and others. It also supports a unified inbox, Material Design, and more. The team also added a bunch of Inbox by Google features before that client was taken down. It’s an excellent option for most folks.
K-9 Mail
Price: Free
K-9 Mail is one of the oldest email apps out there. Many enjoy it for its minimal interface, no BS experience, and unified inbox. It supports most IMAP, POP3, and Exchange 2003/2007 accounts. Otherwise, what you see is pretty much what you get. The UI isn’t overly inspiring, but it makes up for it by not having any quirky features that only half work. This is old school and reliable. The app is also open source. You can build it yourself or contribute to the community via Github. It’s definitely not flashy. However, it is functional and lightweight. It’s also completely free.
Price: Free / $9.99-$14.99
Nine is one of the better email apps out there if you’re concerned about security and also use Outlook. It boasts no server or cloud features whatsoever. The app just connects you to the email services. On top of that, it has support for Exchange ActiveSync which is to be expected for any app that boasts Exchange support. You have a variety of options, including selecting which folders you want to sync, Wear OS support, and more. It’s rather expensive as far as email clients goes and there are a few bugs here and there. However, definitely geared more toward business users.
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Newton Mail
Price: Free trial / $49.99 per year
Newton Mail has a complicated past. It was CloudMagic, re-branded to Newton Mail, died, and was brought back by Essential (the phone maker). It stands as one of the best email apps on the list. The app has a clean, one of the best and cleanest UIs along with a slew of little goodies. That includes email snoozing, two-factor authentication, the ability to send emails later, read receipts, and one-click unsubscribe features. You can also connect a host of other apps in for better integration. Don’t get us wrong, this is way too expensive for basic email consumption. However, apps like this have a niche and Newton is among the best in that niche. Newton Mail was set to shut down on April 30th, 2020, but it seems as though they found a way to keep the doors open.
ProtonMail
Price: Free
ProtonMail is a great email client for security-minded folks. The app boasts end-to-end email encryption. That basically means the only two people who can read your emails are you and the person you’re emailing. The app also boasts OpenPGP support, self-destructing emails (where supported), and most of the typical stuff like labels and organization features. This one does store emails on a server. However, that server is completely encrypted and no one can read them, not even ProtonMail. Many of the features require a ProtonMail account, but this is about as good as it gets in terms of security unless you set up your own server.
Spark Email
Price: Free
Spark Email is the new kid on the block, so to speak. It launched in early 2019 to positive reviews. It has a lot of the basics, including email snoozing, sending emails later, reminders, pinned emails, and you can undo sent mail. Additionally, the UI is clean and you can view each email address separately or together in a universal inbox. We’re big fans of universal inboxes around here. The app’s big claim to fame is its Smart Inbox that filters out trash email in favor of only the important stuff. It’s a neat feature, but even without it, Spark is an excellent email client with support for most email addresses.
TypeApp Email
Price: Free / Up to $6.99
TypeApp Email is a fairly run-of-the-mill email client. It does all of the stuff you would expect. That includes support for most email services, a unified inbox, push notifications, rich text emails, wireless printing support, and some other useful features as well. You also get Wear OS support, a dark mode, themes, and other customization features. It certainly won’t blow your mind. However, it’s a good, simple email app that does what it says it does. We also liked the Material Design UI in our testing and the relatively simple method of switching accounts. It reminds us a lot of Blue Mail in terms of its UI. In any case, it’s good, it’s just not exciting.
Individual clients like Outlook
Price: Free (usually)
The thing is that most third party email apps work just fine. However, there is an advantage to just using the individual app for your email service. We listed Gmail above because it comes pre-installed on most devices anyway. However, others like Microsoft Outlook or Yahoo Mail don’t. They hook directly into the service and can do things that third party clients simply can’t. For instance, Outlook has a Focused Inbox feature that sorts emails based on importance. It also integrates directly with Microsoft’s calendar service. Yahoo Mail includes features like Travel View, more granular notification options, and theming. If you have only one email and it’s not a Gmail account, you may want to consider using the official app so you can get the most out of it.
Bonus: OEM stock email apps
Price: Free (usually)
The stock email apps that come on phones actually do work pretty well. They usually support the basics, like multiple email logins, various email clients, forwarding, archiving, deletion, and more. Many are likely on this list looking for something more than that. However, the stock email apps on your device are usually about as simple, clean, and easy as it gets. Additionally, virtually none of them have ads, cost any money, or anything like that. Plus, they’re already on your phone anyway so they can’t take up any extra storage. It’s a good option if you need something super simple. Those who need power user features shouldn’t use these.
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Top Best Email Apps for Android
We depend on our smartphones for everything from news to weather to entertainment to communication. Even though we sometimes spend hours trying new apps only to never use them again, we often stick to default email apps without considering what alternatives are available. That’s why we’ve prepared this list of the best email apps for Android, featuring a selection of email clients with innovative features and a modern user experience.
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1. Google Gmail
The chances are that Google Gmail came pre-installed on your Android smartphone, but we couldn’t resist featuring this popular email client anyway. With Gmail, you receive 15 GB of free online storage and access to other Google products, including Google Drive, Google Photos, or Google Docs, just to name a few. The Gmail attachment file size limit is 25 MB, which is almost twice as much as what you get with other email services, and Gmail has a number of useful features to help you communicate with those who you love and care about. We leave up to you to decide whether Gmail is the best email app for Android, but the fact that it’s used by more than 1.2 billion people on the planet speaks volumes about it.
If there’s one thing many users dislike about Gmail, it’s the fact that its design changes quite often and sometimes rather dramatically. Google doesn’t want to fall behind its competitors, and the company constantly works on new features and experiments with various design and usability tweaks. If you don’t like change, Gmail may surprise you from time to time-and not in a good way.
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2. Microsoft Outlook
The modern Outlook is Microsoft’s answer to Gmail. Long gone are the days when Outlook was an ugly and clunky enterprise-grade Windows application that everyone hated to use but couldn’t live without. Microsoft has reimagined what Outlook and developed an excellent and user-friendly email client for Android to make it accessible to everyone. Besides Microsoft’s own email services, Outlook for Android also works with Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. We recommend you give Outlook a try especially if you’re a Windows user as you can use your Outlook account as your Windows account.
Microsoft Outlook comes with a few quirks that may make you want to pull your hair out. Perhaps the biggest quirk of all is the fact that it’s currently not possible to include a photo as an attachment. The only way how to send a photo with an email message is to embed it directly in the body of the email, which is not always desirable.
3. VMware Boxer
Price: Free 30-day trial
You probably wouldn’t expect a company known mostly for state-of-the-art virtualization software solutions to develop a radically innovative email client for Android, but VMware has done it. Boxer, as the company calls its email client, has been nominated for best mobile productivity app of the year, and it has received a lot of praise from a number of influential technology magazines and websites. At its core, Boxer is all about working with emails smarter and faster with features like bulk edit and quick replies. The app is built upon the belief that storage space is cheaper than time. As such, it prioritizes bulk email organization and sprinkles it with intuitive gestures and support for multiple email accounts.
Being a relatively young email app, it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that VMware Boxer isn’t as polished as some of the other apps featured in this article. Unless you stick solely to the most basic features, you can expect the app to crash from time to time.
4. K-9 Mail
K-9 Mail is a perfect email client for the supporters of open source software. Despite being a community-driven project, K-9 Mail has more features and better support for IMAP, POP3, and Exchange 2003/2007 (with WebDAV) than many other email clients from large companies. It supports multiple accounts, search, IMAP push email, multi-folder sync, flagging, filing, signatures, BCC-self, PGP/MIME, and much more, all while being completely free and hosted on GitHub. Perhaps the only thing K-9 Mail doesn’t have compared to many other best mail apps for Android is a modern user interface as it sometimes feels a bit outdated.
Unfortunately, it seems that K-9 Mail is no longer in active development because the last update was released in September 2018. Because of this, many users running the latest version of the Android operating system have reported problems with email synchronization, notifications, and authentication. Unless you have an older smartphone, you should probably look for a newer Android email app.
5. Aqua Mail
Price: Free with in-app purchases
Aqua Mail is a trending email app for Android, featuring vast customization options and seamless yet powerful interface. With Aqua Mail, you can send and receive emails from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, FastMail, Apple, GMX, AOL, and other email accounts. By connecting Aqua Mail to your favorite cloud hosting solution (such as (Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, or Google Drive), you gain the ability to backup and restore your emails with a few clicks.
Aqua Mail boasts a wide range of powerful features, which include home screen widgets, smart folders, calendar sync for Exchange and Office 365, a different email signature for each account, and instant replies via voice input from an Android Wear smartwatch. However, many of these features are available only through in-app purchases, some of which are somewhat expensive.
6. Blue Mail
Price: Free (pro version available)
Blue Mail is an enterprise-ready email client with support for virtually all popular email providers as well as IMAP, POP3, and Exchange (ActiveSync, EWS, 365). Blue Mail allows its users to specify when they wish to receive new emails with customizable mobile notifications, and it can display rich-text signatures, allowing you to wow your business partners with your company logo and neatly formatted contact information.
Because Blue Mail comes with an integrated calendar, widgets, and many unique email management features, it can take some time to get used to it and set everything up. If you manage to overcome the steep learning curve, Blue Mail will reward you with its smart and elegant user experience.
7. Newton Mail
Price: Free 14-day trial
Newton Mail isn’t a traditional email client but a subscription-based email service designed to make email organization easier. It works with Gmail, Exchange, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail/Outlook, iCloud, Google Apps, Office 365, and all IMAP accounts. Essentially, Newton Mail enhances your email experience with features such as Read Receipts, Snooze, Send Later, Undo Send, Sender Profile, Connected Apps, and others, helping you keep your inbox nicely organized.
At the time of writing, Newton Mail has a pretty horrible rating of 2.0 stars on Google Play Store. The main reason for this rating is the fact that the app now costs r $49.99/year, even though it used to be free. Many reviewers stated that they would happily pay the price if it was one-time payment and not a recurring subscription.
8. Yandex.Mail
Yandex.Mail is a free email service from Russian corporation Yandex. It starts from 10 GB of free storage space and supports email attachments larger than 25 MB thanks to its integration with Yandex.Disk, cloud service created by Yandex. The official Android app of Yandex.Mail is polished, capable, and free. If you have a fairly common name and always struggle to register a decent email address with Western email service providers, Yandex.Mail might be just what you need.
Just don’t be surprised if you encounter a mistranslated word or a sentence that doesn’t make too much sense in English. Fortunately, this doesn’t happen often, and the Yandex.Mail translation team always quickly fixes all issues reported to them.
9. Edison Mail
Edison Mail is the winner of Google Play Store 2017 Android Excellence Program and one of the most elegantly designed email clients in the Google Play Store. It works with email providers including Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, Hotmail, Outlook, Exchange, IMAP, Alto, iCloud, and others. Edison Mail features an intelligent personal assistant that manages your inbox for you and instantly responds to your questions, greatly reducing the time it takes to find information from emails.
Not too long ago, Edison Mail introduced a dark mode to make the email app easier on the eyes at night. The dark mode is certainly a welcome addition, but it could use some polishing to fix various readability issues and bugs that have been introduced along with it.
Bonus: Clean Email
Price: Free (Pro version available)
Clean Email is an email clean up tool that can automatically sort out your email into different categories, making it easier for you to organize your inbox. If you’re like most people, you probably have hundreds of unread emails polluting your email accounts, not to mention thousands and thousands of opened emails that are just sitting there and taking up storage space. With Clean Email, you can turn any messy inbox into clearly organized and meticulously labeled groups of related emails, and the app even allows you to block unwanted senders with the press of a button, so you never get into the same mess ever again.
Anyone can try Clean Email for free and use it with Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, AOL, Fastmail, iCloud, or any other IMAP-based email service. Several premium subscription options allow users to unlock all features and enjoy Clean Email without limitations, and they all come with absolutely no additional fees or charges.
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