Best Gmail Alternatives for Android

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Most Android gadgets use Gmail as their main email program. This is quite natural, given that these products are developed by Google. However, this does not mean that Gmail has no alternatives. In this article, we'll introduce you to some of the best third-party email clients, and it's possible that after reading it, you might want to change your previous choice.

Blue mail

This program is one of the most respectable email clients for Android. It will help you combine all your existing accounts in services such as Gmail, Yahoo mail, Outlook, AOL, iCloud, Office 365, Exchange, Google Apps, Apple mail, Hotmail, MSN, Live, Yandex, iCloud, Mail.ru, GMX, mail.com, Hushmail, Zoho, Web.de, QIP, Rambler and so on. In addition, IMAP, Exchange and POP3 protocols are supported.

Other useful features include the following:

automatic theme switching depending on the time;
formatted signature text;
customizable menus;
fine-tuning notifications and the ability to set a "quiet hour" when the program will not bother you with its signals;
displaying the number of new letters on the application icon.

CloudMagic

CloudMagic has won the top award in The Webby Awards and has received many positive reviews from experts. It works with a large number of email services, and it will take you no more than a few seconds to configure each of them. In general, the main emphasis when creating CloudMagic was placed precisely on ease of use. But this does not mean at all that the application has a stripped-down functionality.

The most exciting features of this email client are the integration with many popular services (Wunderlist, Todoist, Evernote, OneNote, Trello, Zendesk, Salesforce.com, Asana, Instapaper, OmniFocus, and so on), the ability to customize sync options for each folder, and a handy send function. files from Dropbox, iCloud Drive and other cloud services.

Microsoft Outlook

It's a bit unusual to see the name Microsoft Outlook in the list of alternative email programs, but for the Android platform it is exactly that.

The app works with Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Outlook.com (including Hotmail, MSN), Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and iCloud. It allows you to receive letters and attachments, work with your calendar and contacts, and can automatically highlight important letters from all your accounts. The main management of correspondence (deleting, archiving, sending or temporarily hiding messages that you want to process later) is done with gestures, which is really very convenient. And if you also use the cloud storage OneDrive, then in addition you will be able to attach and send files of any size by email.

It seems that Microsoft is gradually building its own ecosystem within Android, which will soon be able to successfully replace the applications from Google that we are used to.

Boxer

Boxer is a relatively new mail client on the Android platform and has incorporated all the best features of its main competitors. There is support for many accounts, like in Blue Mail, even more convenient gestures than in Mailbox, and it is even easier to use it than the reference CloudMagic. Additional features include a built-in to-do list that allows you to easily turn emails into tasks, a customizable application interface and integration with the Evernote service. The excellent speed of Boxer deserves special mention.

Although this email client has two versions - a free one and a more functional paid one - you can get the latter by simply sending an email to five friends with an offer to use Boxer. So, as a result, we have a very functional, fast and completely free email client, which is quite capable of replacing the usual Gmail.