eM Client Alternatives and Similar Software

Thunderbird

Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail, news and instant messaging client. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox. It supports POP (storing mail locally on your hard drive so that it can be accessed without an internet connection), and IMAP. It features excellent mail filter capabilities and management. Thunderbird has strong support for using multiple accounts and identities, including automated signature features.

• Cannot handle google calendar by default (needs plugins). Same for contacts etc. Guest • Jan 2018 • 3 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com ... Haiku

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Microsoft Office Outlook

Microsoft Outlook, part of the Microsoft Office Suite (not to be confused with Microsoft Outlook Express), is a personal information manager that lets you manage your e-mail, calendar, contacts, and tasks. Outlook is included in Office Home (one-time purchase), Office 365 (monthly or yearly subscription) or available as free app for Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Web Android iPhone ... Android Tablet Windows Phone iPad Apple Watch Android Wear

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Outlook.com

Outlook.com, part of Office Online (not to be confused with Microsoft Office Outlook ), is a webmail service from Microsoft, successor of Hotmail. Outlook.com offers IMAP and POP3 access as well as social network integration (e.g. Facebook chat).

Freemium $ $ $ Web Chrome OS

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Evolution

Evolution is the official personal information manager and workgroup information management tool for GNOME. It combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions. Features E-mail retrieval with the POP and IMAP protocols and e-mail transmission with SMTP. Secure network connections encrypted with SSL, TLS and STARTTLS. E-mail encryption with GnuPG and S/MIME. E-mail filters.

Free Open Source Linux BSD S/MIME GNOME OpenPGP

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Spark

Smart Inbox automatically detects if an email is personal, a notification or a newsletter and groups it with similar emails for easy batch processing using beloved swipes. With just a glance, you can see if emails are important or just a product announcement from a service you've never used. We all love the feeling of accomplishment when we have finally dealt with our inbox. Spark makes this easy to achieve. Quickly process your emails, swiping to archive or delete as necessary.

• Although close to Apple Mail for the interface, drafting is much easier. Kambro • Feb 2019 Disagree   Agree

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Android iPhone

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Mailbird

Mailbird is a Windows based email client which design and style match Windows 7, 8 and XP’s native styles. Mailbird provides clean, simple and lightning fast email experience. The current free version of Mailbird has Multi Account support for Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook.com, iCloud, and any other IMAP/POP3 email provider. S/MIME and PGP are not supported.

• Lack of .eml file import functionality, limited contact info (no addresses) and several other functional shortfalls Guest • Jan 2016 • 4 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium $ $ $ Windows

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Apple Mail

Apple Mail changes the way you interact with your email every day. Mail displays your messages and open email side by side in a widescreen, two-column view. The favorites bar below the toolbar works much like a bookmarks bar in a web browser, giving you one-click access to your mail folders. A compact preview of each message — including the first two lines — lets you scan your messages at a glance.

Free Mac iPhone iPad

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Mailspring

Mailspring is a desktop email client designed for macOS High Sierra, Windows 10 and Linux. With modern features like unified inbox, snoozing, templates, offline search, and support for Gmail labels, Mailspring will breathe life back into your tired inbox! Mailspring is free and supports all IMAP providers, including Gmail, Office 365 and iCloud. Mailspring does not support Exchange ActiveSync.

• Mailspring has almost the same feature set as eM Client, making it a great alternative for folks used to eM Client. bengotow • Nov 2017 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Arch Linux Fedora ... Ubuntu

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Postbox

Postbox is an email application that helps you organize your work life and get stuff done. It has all the elegance and simplicity of Apple Mail, but with more power and flexibility to manage even the most demanding workloads. Key Features * Ultra-Fast Search - Instantly find messages, attachments, images, links, and contacts. * Conversation Views - Make sense of email threads through chronological message views.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows

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Claws Mail

Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader), based on GTK+, featuring Quick response Graceful, and sophisticated interface Easy configuration, intuitive operation Abundant features Extensibility Robustness and stability

Free Open Source Windows Linux BSD

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Geary

Geary is a lightweight email program designed around conversations and built for the GNOME desktop. It's designed to let you read your email quickly and effortlessly. Its interface is based on conversations, so you can easily read an entire discussion without having to click from message to message. Geary is written in Vala .

Free Open Source Linux Chrome OS BSD GNOME

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Airmail

Airmail is a lightweight and lightning fast mail client for Mac. Feature list: Accounts: - Unified Inbox and folders - Multi Account with editable html signatures. - Aliases management with custom SMPT - Support for Gmail, GoogleTM Apps, iCloudTM, Yahoo!, AOL and Generic IMAP.

Commercial Mac iPhone iPad Apple Watch

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Mutt

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 list-reply, active development community, POP3 support, IMAP support.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Xfce

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Microsoft Mail and Calendar

Windows 10 has Mail and Calendar apps already built in. With the Mail application you can now easily see all message from your favorite people, more clearly organize social updates and newsletters, and use the popular “Sweep” feature to clean up your inbox.

Free Windows Windows S

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EssentialPIM

EssentialPIM lets you manage appointments, tasks, notes, contacts, password entries and email messages across multiple devices and cloud applications. PIM stands for Personal Information Manager, and it allows you to keep all you information in electronic form. All your appointments, tasks, to do lists, notes and contacts are stored in a graphical and easily accessible form.

• EssentialPIM is contacts and calendar not email. Guest • Apr 2018 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees Disagree   Agree
• Its a calendar tool... but em-client is basicly a email app, with additional calendar integrations Guest • Apr 2016 • 4 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree

Freemium $ $ $ Windows Android iPhone

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Polymail

Polymail is the modern email client, redesigned. Master your inbox with the most powerful email productivity tools — Email Tracking, Read Later, Send Later & more. All from a simple, unified interface. Say goodbye to cluttered browser add-ons and hello to beautiful email productivity. - Unlimited per-recipient email tracking - know exactly when and by whom your messages are read. - Snooze emails to be read later, when you need them.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac iPhone iPad

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Kontact - KMail

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. It uses KParts to embed the various applications (KMail, KAddressBook, Akregator, etc.) into the container application.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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TypeApp

TypeApp is an all-free, beautifully designed, universal email app, capable of managing unlimited number of mail accounts from various providers, allowing for smart push notifications while enabling personalization across multiple email accounts. TypeApp is the perfect replacement for your email app. With a powerful unified accounts experience packaged in an intuitive and easy to use design, TypeApp provides a top notch email service.

Free Personal Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Android Wear ... Kindle Fire

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Canary Mail

Canary is an exciting new email client for Mac that offers a full set of powerful features with one key difference - your emails are not stored on a 3rd party server. Every facet of Canary has been designed in accordance with our core philosophy of ensuring complete user privacy and offering reliable & snappy performance. Unlike other apps/services, using Canary is not contingent on providing access to your data.

Commercial Mac iPhone

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The Bat

The Bat! is a secure email client software, built to protect your correspondence against third-parties. The Bat! protects your information through multiple encryption streams with the options to encrypt your emails on disk and during communication through an SSL/TLS connection. Free of global email providers that keep your messages in the cloud, and free of Web clients, The Bat! ensures your data stays private.

Commercial Windows S/MIME OpenPGP

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Kontact

Kontact is the integrated Personal Information Manager of KDE. Kontact suite unites mature and proven KDE PIM applications under one roof. Thanks to the powerful KPart technology, existing applications are seamlessly integrated into one. The components of KDE Kontact are tailored to work well with each other. This results in features like intuitive drag-and-drop between appointment handling, task lists and contacts. KDE Kontact supports various groupware servers.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

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Trojitá

Trojitá, is a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client that respects open standards and facilitates modern technologies. Trojitá values vendor-neutrality that IMAP provides and is committed to be as interoperable as possible.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

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MailMate

MailMate is an IMAP e-mail client for Mac featuring extensive keyboard control, Markdown supported email composition, advanced search conditions and drill-down search links, equally advanced smart mailboxes, automatic signature handling, cryptographic encryption/signing (OpenPGP and S/MIME), tagging, multiple notification methods, alternative message viewer layouts including a widescreen layout, and much more.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac S/MIME OpenPGP

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Foxmail

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

Free Windows

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Pantheon Mail

Pantheon Mail is a free open source email client forked by the elementary OS community from Geary . Features Modern and straightforward interface Quick account setup Supports Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com, and popular IMAP servers (Dovecot, Cyrus, Zimbra, etc.

Free Open Source Linux elementary OS

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