Melia is a modern, privacy-first email client for Linux. It keeps your mail on your own machine instead of in the cloud, connecting straight to your IMAP and SMTP servers and storing everything in a local database.




Betterbird is described as 'Open-source client enhancing Thunderbird with more features and bug fixes. Offers security patches and multi-row descriptions like Outlook' and is a popular Email Client in the office & productivity category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Betterbird for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and BSD apps. The best Betterbird alternative is Thunderbird, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Betterbird are K-9 Mail, Microsoft Outlook, SeaMonkey and Evolution.
Melia is a modern, privacy-first email client for Linux. It keeps your mail on your own machine instead of in the cloud, connecting straight to your IMAP and SMTP servers and storing everything in a local database.




Mailpile is a modern, fast web-mail client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features. The development of Mailpile is funded by a large community of backers and all code related to the project is and will be released under an OSI approved Free Software license.


Modern open-source email client supporting unified inbox, IMAP/SMTP, Gmail and Outlook with OAuth2, conversation threading, rich text TipTap composing, CardDAV contact sync, tracking removal, dark mode, color themes, vim-style shortcuts, and a detachable window.

BlueMail is a modern, mobile first, powerful Email management tool with a sleek design, unified inbox and support for all your accounts: IMAP,Exchange,POP3.




KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager of KDE. Kontact is a personal information manager and groupware software suite for KDE. It supports calendars, contacts, notes, to-do lists, news, and email.

Sylpheed is a simple, lightweight but featureful, and easy-to-use e-mail client (mailer, MUA).




Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operating systems. Some of its features are: color support, message threading, MIME support (including RFC2047 support for encoded headers), PGP/MIME (RFC2015), various features to support mailing lists, including...

ElectronMail is an Electron-based unofficial desktop client for ProtonMail and Tutanota end-to-end encrypted email providers. The app aims to provide enhanced desktop user experience enabling features that are not supported by the official in-browser web clients.

Shortwave is an email app that takes the pain out of managing your inbox, making it effortless to stay organized, productive, and responsive.




Wino is a lightweight native mail client for Windows 10/11. It is still in active development. Main motivation for this project is to replace Mail & Calendar for Windows with modern Windows design without using web technologies for speed.




Foxmail is a free POP3 and IMAP4 e-mail client in English and Chinese for Windows systems.

