Open Source Roundcube AlternativesTop WebMail Providers & Email Clients like Roundcube

The best open source alternative to Roundcube is Rainloop. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Roundcube and 19 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Roundcube are Mailpile, Kolab, SOGo and Mail-in-a-box.

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  1. Rainloop icon

    Rainloop

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    Simple, modern & fast web-based email client. Modest system requirements, decent performance, simple installation and upgrade, no database required. All these make RainLoop Webmail a perfect choice for your email solution.

    13 Rainloop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Nextcloud
    • JavaScript
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
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    Comments about Rainloop as an Alternative to Roundcube
    mandrael
    Positive
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    It's popular, modern programmed, faster than roundcube, but not so feature rich. Much sits below the surface though.

    Guest
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    3

    PHP based and customizable more than roundcube, more modern ui

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    EgorSharin
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    1

    The old version (no longer maintained since 2022) is still open-source on GitHub. The new version is closed-source.

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    • Almost everyone thinks Rainloop is a great Roundcube alternative.

    • Rainloop is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to Roundcube.

    • Rainloop is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Roundcube.

    • Rainloop is Free and Open SourceRoundcube is also Free and Open Source
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    Mailpile

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    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.

    59 Mailpile alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • OpenPGP
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    Guest
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    Mailpie is a descktop application but Roundcube is a selfhosted application.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
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    Mailpile needs to run on a computer

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
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    Mailpile is single-user (personal) environment

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Some users think Mailpile is a great Roundcube alternative, some don't.

    • Mailpile is the most popular Linux alternative to Roundcube.

    • Mailpile is Free and Open SourceRoundcube is also Free and Open Source
  4. Kolab icon

    Kolab

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    Kolab provides a FOSS communication & collaboration solution that can be completely self-hosted. Take back control of your data and access it via the webinterface, or existing mobile & desktop clients.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  5. SOGo icon

    SOGo

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    SOGo is groupware server with a focus on scalability and open standards.

    SOGo provides a rich AJAX-based Web interface and supports multiple native clients through the use of standard protocols such as CalDAV, CardDAV and GroupDAV.Share your calendars, address books and mails in.

    61 SOGo alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Thunderbird
    • Cloudron
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    Horde

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    Horde Groupware is a free, enterprise ready, browser based collaboration suite. Users can manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks and notes with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    SnappyMail

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    The drastically upgraded & secured fork of RainLoop Webmail Community edition.

    13 SnappyMail alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • UNIX Web Browser
    • Cloudron
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    OX App Suite

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    The OX App Suite by Open-Xchange is web-based platform offering a suite of apps like an email client, calendar, contacts magement, cloud storage with synchronization and productivity apps for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations.

    20 OX App Suite alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    • OX App Suite is the most popular SaaS alternative to Roundcube.

    • OX App Suite is Free and Open SourceRoundcube is also Free and Open Source
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    Cypht

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    All your E-mail, from all your accounts, in one place. Cypht is like a news reader, but for E-mail. Cypht does not replace your existing accounts - it combines them into one. And it's also a news reader :).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
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  12. NeutronMail

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    Self-hosted server for the Proton Mail client.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Webmail Lite

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    Open Source WebMail Lite is a free community edition of full-featured WebMail Pro server application intended for users who need a clean and simple web mail application, which is fast and easy to use. Whether you need a free web browser based email client software for Windows ASP.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  14. Isotope Mail Client icon

    Isotope Mail Client

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    Microservice based webmail client built with ReactJS and Spring.

    Minimalistic webmail client which currently has the main features of any other mail client (read mail, compose mail, organize mail folders...).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • OpenShift
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    • Almost everyone thinks Isotope Mail Client is a great Roundcube alternative.

    • Isotope Mail Client is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to Roundcube.

    • Isotope Mail Client is Free and Open SourceRoundcube is also Free and Open Source
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