Betterbird
Betterbird, a soft fork of Mozilla Thunderbird, improves user experience with advanced features, bug fixes, security patches, and multi-row descriptions similar to Outlook. Compatible with multiple platforms and can be used alongside Thunderbird, sharing the same profile.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
EUPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Chocolatey
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Support for Themes
- Lightweight
Features
- Multiple Account support
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Unified inbox
- Works Offline
- POP3 Support
- IMAP Support
- SMTP Support
- Spam Filter
- Calendar Integration
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- Add-ons
- Portable
- Dark Mode
- Mail Filtering
- PGP Encryption
Sync with Google Calendar- No Coding Required
- Email Organizer
- Reminders
- No registration required
- OpenPGP
- Full-Text Search
- Email Scheduling
- Import/Export OPML Feeds
- Integrated Password Manager
- Built-in RSS reader
Gmail integration- S/MIME Support
- Personal Information Manager (PIM)
- Specific for 64-Bit
Betterbird News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about Betterbird
Betterbird 140: multi-line view, enhanced search, and improved system tray integrationBetterbird 140, based on Thunderbird 140.2.0esr, debuts multi-line view, full account colours, and ...
- Fla published news article about Betterbird
Betterbird releases version 128.10.0esr-bb26 with key usability fixesBetterbird has launched version 128.10.0esr-bb26, which is based on Thunderbird 128.10.0esr, introd...
- Fla published news article about Betterbird
Betterbird 128.8.0esr-bb23 update addresses key fixesBetterbird, a soft fork of Mozilla Thunderbird, has released version 128.8.0esr-bb23, which aims to...
Recent activities
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What is Betterbird?
Betterbird is an open-source e-mail, news, and instant messaging client compatible across various platforms. It's a soft fork of Mozilla Thunderbird, closely following its development and updates. Betterbird introduces new features, incorporates bug fixes, and implements fixes that Thunderbird might include later.
Betterbird aims to improve user experience by fixing Thunderbird bugs and introducing new features. All changes made by Betterbird's maintainers are submitted to Thunderbird for potential inclusion. Currently, Thunderbird has accepted these changes. Betterbird includes security patches and features a multi-row message description like Outlook.
Betterbird can be installed alongside Thunderbird and operate on the same profile, allowing users to test Betterbird and revert to Thunderbird if needed. It's fully compatible with Thunderbird's ESR version. Users can install the same dot release of Thunderbird in parallel and switch between Betterbird and Thunderbird on the same profile without any issues.
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Betterbird information
Developed by
Jorg Knobloch Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4.2Alternatives
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- English
- Spanish
- German
- Dutch
- French
- Italian
- Portuguese
- Japanese
- Polish
- Ukrainian
- Czech
- Turkish
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Office & Productivity, Security & Privacy, News & Books, Social & CommunicationsGitHub repository
- 805 Stars
- 37 Forks
- 27 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Today's best email client is also a much better fork of Thunderbird and has more features. What's more, it's open source and constantly updated. This is the kind of development that deserves more publicity and support outside the circle of technology experts. Congratulations to the developer for his excellent work and keep going strong.
Way, way, WAY too bloated, with an appalling, cluttered, messy, ugly interface. Everything with this app is a chore, and the user is given WAY too many options and settings on every screen - 99% of which are safe to totally ignore for 99% of users.
It's good, but that's all. Because the only difference and inconsistency is in the system requirements. They claim to be better than Thunderbird but recommend having 4GB of RAM, while blue recommends up to 2GB of RAM. There's no problem with the system requirements, but it's inconsistent for them to claim to be better than Thunderbird (which they're not).
It's a better Thunderbird. Love it.
Its Thunderbird but with further bug fixes, additional UI options and more stable imo. Its totally compatible with Thunderbird, so one can easily switch between the two if needed.
Garbage. It stops received messages from servers. We have 07/2025 now and that crap still show messages from 04/2025 as latest one. The worst part is it doesn't even show any error notification, like connection problems or cannot sign in into server. Clicking "download new messages" just do nothing.
Betterbird is Better as it removes many of the bugs found in Thunderbird (look in the bugs forums at Mozilla's Bugzilla).