Betterbird
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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
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Flathub
- Chocolatey
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The main reason I switched from the Thunderbird interface to the Betterbird interface was its support for regular expressions (regex). Whether it’s for searching emails or setting up message filters, this is a huge help to me in sorting incoming emails, spam and so on into the right places.
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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.
The main reason I switched from the Thunderbird interface to the Betterbird interface was its support for regular expressions (regex). Whether it’s for searching emails or setting up message filters, this is a huge help to me in sorting incoming emails, spam and so on into the right places.
Thanks for the German/EU alternative.
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.