Ranking Email Applications: The Best to Worst

[@toolfinderhq]

00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Polymail - toolfinder.co/go/polymail 01:30 - Spike Mail - toolfinder.co/go/spike-mail 02:45 - Spark Mail - toolfinder.co/tools/spark-mail 03:20 - Newton Mail - toolfinder.co/go/newton-mail 04:30 - Hey Mail - toolfinder.co/go/hey-email 05:30 - Airmail - toolfinder.co/go/airmail 06:01 - Outlook - toolfinder.co/go/outlook-calendar 06:30 - Missive - toolfinder.co/go/missive 07:19 - Superhuman - toolfinder.co/go/superhuman

[@hernanlara4659]

The truth is that it's weird that you didn't include or consider thunderbird, even if you don't like it very much it was worth checking it out

[@osmozinho]

We are talking about a guy who consider "outlook" as a okay one. Not to mention the fact that 90% of people are probably here because they are sick of gmail or outlook client 😂😂 As soon as I saw "oulook" in "okay" this guy is not reliable anymore

[@cjoshy]

+ Open Source - Very old UI

[@Johnny91832]

-No iOS support

[@lor7780]

Thunderbird is an eyesore

[@MatthiasNyberg]

The Epic Ones ----------------------- 1:37 Spike (messenging-like, free, highly rated, fast) 2:39 Spark (reliable, fast, team-abilities) 4:20 Hey (productivity-based structure, not free) 7:16 Superhuman (fast, reliable, expensive)

[@user-sf9gs2pg1b]

Thank you!

[@JaiSequoia]

spark 3.0 was a nightmare so do not use the paid version. I finally got them to give me a refund but they only gave me half. I spent SO MUCH of MY TIME troubleshooting their issues which mostly were never fixed! Super disappointed as I quite liked the free version. Now I"m turned off the company and looking for something new.

[@eckee]

spike is free for one address only

[@pepesilvia4564]

Spark is absolutely terrible. Can't believe there is a single person recommending it. It used to be good back then, but now it's just dogshit.

[@Stallzyx]

No Thunderbird?

[@joseruiz5161]

Thunderbird?

[@jamesauble8091]

Spark 3 seems like kinda a mess and they lost me. Spark 2 was so good. Did everything awesomely without a bunch of noise.

[@alexkooistra]

Same here, spark was great but now I mis a clear overview

[@les_invisibles]

How on earth was this video put out 3 weeks ago yet you don’t mention or take into account how Spark has morphed from an amazing email app to an atrocious, unintuitive nightmare that they want you to pay for???

[@willlopez7875]

Thanks for this comment because I was actually here because I’ve been a loyal Spark user but looking for something else because it’s become terrible to work on

[@cocteaufan]

You are not being accurate with that comment. Readlle have made it *very clear* that everything that is free in the previous version of Spark will remain free going forwards.

[@vrajmohan-das]

@@cocteaufan yea, but they also mentioned that they would keep the old layout "at least for a year"...or some time... I really don’t like the new layout!

[@d_a_r_i_o]

I too was a passionate sparkmail user; paid for sparkdesktop and it is underwhelming - beta at best for which I paid for - big mistake

[@emiliomuse5053]

Hi. I use Canary mail. Very good application. It uses AI reply and also has read confirmation.

[@barkmark]

Covered in this video: Spike email Spark email Newton Mail Poly mail Hey email Air mail Missive email Super human email

[@taph.]

Thank you, I was lost at Missive. I thought he was saying mystic or something. Didn't have any text on the screen or anything.

[@ThatMarkGilroy]

The weird thing about Superhuman is that it’s really rare to find a video showing it actually being used rather than simply talking about how brilliant it is. The following seems almost cult-like?

[@toolfinderhq]

Good idea, we could show how it works.

[@ThatMarkGilroy]

@@toolfinderhq Would genuinely love to see you break down some of the key features (I know it’s tricky with an email app you actually use as you have to spend time setting up ‘dummy’ email accounts rather than use your own genuine emails).

[@dandiaz19934]

No mention of Thunderbird? :(

[@mandrael]

Canary Mail missing. How does it compare to Spark?

[@coyley72]

What, no mention of Gmail or Apple Mail?

[@karmaspcs]

hese are crap. nobody gonna rank them beside way lower then F tier

[@MrPDawes]

Would be nice to know if any of these support POP3 and SMTP protocol. Many only support just Gmail and Outlook accounts which is no use to me.

[@MintyHint]

uh pop3 and smtp are diff things pop3 means it stores the emails recieved in your own pc so its not synced with other devices that also use that email but smtp means Simple Mail Transfer Protocol its like http but its something pretty diffrent i believe

[@ntpl___]

Personally, I still use Tempo as my daily driver, to be honest. It is still my favorite email app, even though it is been discontinued since October of last year. I don't find of any other email client that is as minimalistic (both in how it works and how it looks) as tempo. Sometimes I feel like they try too hard, and many of them are too complicated just for an email. If Tempo did not work somehow, I might go back to basic Gmail as a backup.

[@cocteaufan]

Thanks for mentioning Tempo, I've just downloaded it and there's much to like, I do wish one could define ones own snooze times though.

[@ravi_sethi]

Is it available for iphone not able find in app store ?

[@fredwalton4554]

its been sunset @@ravi_sethi

[@Fredd165]

@@ravi_sethidiscontinued

[@creativeexpress18]

Thank God for this video. I've been desperate for new email software for a long time since the s**t shows of Apple Mail and Outlook. I appreciate you.

[@jamess5542]

Hey, do you think setting up a professional email with the Custom Email Domain with Apple iCloud+ is worth it? I'm thinking of using it for my professional email account.

[@BartKool]

Newton hasn't been updated for more than a year and isn't working anymore. And the owners are out of reach.

[@johnteki]

Exactly… when I heard about the updates of Newton I understood that this video has no value at all… there is no research

[@Dannyboyjr]

Outlook suck so bad it brought me here. I miss superhuman shortcuts and snippets

[@Dayta]

help needed with thunderbird i have a few issues with thunderbird that were not present like let say a year ago maybe someone can help or knows something about those issues 1. already opened attachments are not loading after reopening the email client 2. extremly laggy during the aplication start and during the login process of multiple accounts only running smooth after everything is loaded 3. creating folder dont show up like they did in the past on the actual email provider also not showing up below the email account itself as subfolder

[@stormtrooper3455]

I'm here because I have issues with thunderbird too. It's laggy at startup. I think i'm going to uninstall it, because I remember I had other issues back in the day.

[@stormtrooper3455]

I've tried a solution that seems to work. Right clic on your inbox folder. clic properties, then the "rules..." tab (the second one) and "repair". I don't know if you will have exactly what I've said because my thunderbird is in french.

[@ThomazMartinez]

Spark is shit lately, constantly getting issues now with Calendar invites not being added to my gmail account even tho it shows in Spark calendar

[@shamarterrell1755]

I am trying spark now but I can not figure out how to get the calendar function going in Windows. Any thoughts ??

[@DelightfulGem]

How about BlueMail? Found it while researching on email apps.

[@TheologyUnleashed]

Blue mail works but it's super basic

[@Father.Beocca]

Is there anything even like this? I am looking for an online email reader that will accept multiple email addresses and is able to send auto respond to the initial email? In the past, I have used Microsoft Outlook and it works great for all of that except it’s a local install. When I change computers, which is often, I have to export all my email and settings, then import on the new system. It is a time killer and there’s always little issues along the way. I would love to have something online only so I can go from computer to laptop to tablet and always have it react the same. Any thoughts?

[@rickramos5995]

Thanks for the info. I just noticed Outlook has been uploading MP4, mp3 & other personal files off my sd card. Now I need a new email account.

[@tracymarks4547]

I've been using Eudora since 1996 and won't give it up although it doesn't like 4digit extensions on attachments. I have 1.8gbs of emails in it(all my students and clients since 1996), 950 mailboxes (mailboxes in mailboxes in mailboxes, all carefully organized and easily accessible) and dozens of filters that filter my email. I can find anything in a matter of seconds. No problem on Windows 10 --- heaven forbid I can't use it on Windows 11 which I'll soon have. It has so many features that I use constantly, like changing the subjects of emails so that they match the content. It has crashed every now and then - not frequently - but I've never lost an email. Eudora was discontinued around 2006 but one can still download it for free......Many Eudora users switched to Thunderbird then but Thunderbird didn't/doesn't have half the features.

[@Abdullah-zl9ub]

Was waiting for this update from you however I wished if it was more detailed to help me out. It’s good to know your using superhuman as I’m testing it out and I like it although I’m having some issues with it in search and downloading speed…I’m still thinking of the price and I can see spark is near it/copying and works well. Yes it’s nice but I don’t know. It’s nice to have more advise from you :) (do you use it on your iPad and iPhone as well ? Seems not as good.)

[@LiveKeyboardist]

FWIW, once you get acquainted with his the iPhone app works, it’s a really comfortable using experience. Search on my computer is so fast that after almost a year of using it I am still impressed. Not sure why yours seems to be running slower. Split inboxes help a lot to and snippets save me a lot of time. Their customer service team would help you get optimized even last onboarding if you reach out. Other great options for email too, just giving some perspective. Best of luck!

[@toolfinderhq]

I’ve been using Superhuman over a year, it’s by far the best email experience I’ve used. I use it for iPhone, but super lightly, as I’m not much of an iPhone user - I use it more for a reader/viewer experience

[@Abdullah-zl9ub]

@@LiveKeyboardist thanks for your input. Really appreciate it and would make me think of it again. I’m using outlook and maybe it’s new on their software so it isn’t like Gmail the loading time I assume…etc. yes love the splits although it’s in many other apps. The customer service used to reply instantly but not anymore. Good to know your using it on iPhone as well as at first I felt it’s not easy to get used to.

[@Abdullah-zl9ub]

@@toolfinderhq Thank you.

[@Abdullah-zl9ub]

@@LiveKeyboardistby the way reviewing apps spark seems to be similar much to it… have you tried others or just stayed with superhuman?

[@ranasamir]

Spark has some serious sync issues if you want to use it cross-platform (IOS - Windows).

[@genemetz1945]

Why not Thunderbird?

[@Old52Guy]

Excellent! Just what I was looking for. Thanks.

[@LiamB-s2m]

Great stuff! What would you recommend for simply monitoring gmail accounts. I'm currently keeping an eye on about 60 of my client's accounts. I don't need to write emails, just looking for something that is easy to organize, low cost and doesn't have a lot of issues. Thanks!

[@OhKaiizer]

Hey, sorry im not helping here but what is your job? Management?

[@KazuyaYuza]

Mailbird is missing

[@cbailey0001]

Have to mention for 365 education and other users Microsoft just rolled out LOOP Components into Outlook, and changes the collaboration game...

[@adamburke4738]

Is it worth using Outlook now? Stopped using it because I was happy with Apple Mail but I’m a student and Apple Mail wants me to repeatedly sign in.

[@mss627]

My problem with these reviews is they're slanted towards business solutions. I have no authority to effect the company's choice. I just want a program that will sort and alert me to important outlook messages. PS: Tried hey and found it impossible to access my outlook account using the trial version. The best I could do was forward messages and even that didn't work due the questionable outlook instructions. I'm not looking to change my email server I'm looking for a program to access my exchange server and display my email messages.

[@JacobMata]

dying to know his opinion on spark 3....oppphhh i wanna like it so bad but something about it doesnt sit well with me. Readdle has butchered the ios app by making it closely resemble the new spark 3. using spark 2 still on my mac and the new spark app on my phone makes for a very inconsistent experience. archive (spark 2) is called done in spark 3, and email "set aside" in spark 3 are snoozed as someday in spark 2. smart folders do not work...and its now something you have to pay for if you want all the new features...which i do not find appealing.

[@deanwarwick5328]

I'm a mailbird user. Buy once and get the licence. Been using it for year's. Lots of integrations. Brilliant.

[@Shocker99]

And then buy again

[@Jord_45]

And again. And again. I just switched off of mailbird, I paid for a “lifetime business account” and they want a monthly payment now. I liked it but I’m not paying anymore. I switched back to outlook.

[@jessieheartart]

thanks! how about the shift app that aggregates all kinds of apps? can you review that?

[@ethanmenzel]

Where is Apple Mail and Thunderbird?

[@JoeyBlogs007]

Windows Mail app was surely the worst of all, however I just tried the new Windows 11 Mail update today and its good !!! I'm shocked. It's now similar to Windows Live Mail. It was absolute crap before this !!! It's now more like Windows web mail and also more similar to Windows Live Mail. It's actually OK now. Finally, they get it. I can't believe this. Oddly, they are now calling it The New Outlook.

[@ArkadiaII]

There's no "All Inboxes" or search across accounts, yet?

[@DanPandrea]

Please stop recommending Newton. I bought a subscription that somehow doesn’t activate with my account. I sent them an email in the first day of the 2 week trial and a follow-up the next week. No reply. I wrote to them on Twitter. No reply. I’ve never felt more frustrated in my life.

[@frisco61]

You must really have an easy life if email is the biggest frustration ever experienced.

[@darkkforest]

He's surely an American.

[@lhommedelapampa9730]

thunderbird everyday

[@0Mudman]

Newton has not worked for me on any platforms for months. Error 500 all the time and no replies from them on email or twitter etc.

[@toolfinderhq]

Interesting, ping their support I’d be curious why!

[@IAmDanMillen]

Newton support is garbage. About a 3-4 week turnaround time.

[@a.b.6020]

What about Thunderbird?

[@lesliebaptist2632]

Polymail makes always trouble with the accounts. I cannot recomment.

[@DenizYalcin]

Have you ever peeked at Zoho Mail and their Workplace suite which includes Zoho Mail?

[@jeffrodrequez]

I've used Zoho Mail, its nice. But personally I have several email accounts and Zoho only supports POP (yuck) unless you use their CRM suite, it allows you to connect to IMAP but I haven't gone down that road because I don't need a CRM just an email client that I can combine all my accounts into one. It is one of the few though that actually has a Linux client (Linux user here) that works nicely - just don't want to use POP.

[@JaiSequoia]

What about shortwave?

[@richardanthony3619]

Looks like a headphone review with everything above 3 stars. Rate them 1 to 10 without any labels. That way its subjective and relative to other platforms reviewed without pissing off the companies that pay your bills.

[@Whigu]

It's like saying that on rating scale yellow to Norway I will say outlook is Wednesday ;-D You never know who want to sponsor your youtube videos so they can't say anything too bad about anybody ;-)

[@ggom603]

As a Superhuman user, I can't imagine switching to anything else at the time. The commands/shortcuts are just too good. Lifechanging app if you use it how it should be used. Give it a go!

[@irandude1655]

A $30/month subscription for an email app that freezes is a horrible business decision .

[@ggom603]

@@irandude1655 good thing you don’t have to get it then :)

[@youdonegoofed]

@@ggom603 What a weak counter-argument.

[@lentx1040]

So, I guess that Mailbird is not even a contender? any thoughts anyone?

[@Gallery90]

Where is eM CLient?

[@jessicaalvis7063]

4 epic and 4 good... that seems unserious to me. What's the point in making 5 tiers if nobody even gets in the last 2? Sorry, but I watched this entire video and I found it unreliable..

[@toolfinderhq]

Noted. We should have minimised the tiers.

[@jessicaalvis7063]

@@toolfinderhq you should also have been more critical. I just dont believe that all 4 in category 1# are equal.

[@MaxRiley]

Where is eM Client??

[@TheCauthon]

No depth to this review

[@mandrael]

Canary is missing

[@TheologyUnleashed]

Newton mail is too slow at searching and spark doesn't do read receipts. Trying to find another one which supports one login for multiple emails that's also affordable.

[@blusity]

Did you end up finding anything?

[@TheologyUnleashed]

@@blusity yes, missive is fantastic

[@TheologyUnleashed]

@@blusity it's a little pricy I guess but it's worth it

[@Inkubaszi]

where is the best option from free ones? Thunderbird!

[@bigskyez7738]

Super disappointed with this review. You covered the correct emails to think about, however you never talked about how use use them( how did you use them for productivity) or how they can integrate with other apps like Ticktick, MEM, Todoist... I have used all of these and Super Human was the worst for productivity. Sure it looks cool, but it sucks at getting anything done? What am I missing? How do you use it to get things done? You forget to mention that HEY dose not let you use your domain email, to use it you have to switch to there email address, which makes it a non starter for business users. Love your channel watch it a lot, but honestly it felt like your where paid to say something about SuperHuman.

[@toolfinderhq]

No paid reviews here, we state all advertising and sponsors - first off. Agree with you, this video was a let down. I should have touched on more tools, focused on the quality of recommendations.

[@toolfinderhq]

Adding to this, due to some of the feedback we’re going to make a new top list coming late January, thanks for all the help with feedback

[@Abdullah-zl9ub]

So which email client are you using at the moment and what devices do you use them on ? I’m actually torn between superhuman, spark and apple mail and now I’m investing my time and money into superhuman. Why do you think that it’s the worst?? It’s best at shortcuts and I was at first amazed but then I’m having hard time in search and other functionalities. Good point regarding Hey, I don’t know what’s the hype about. I would never use it. I do agree on the point that this review lacked a lot of details and it didn’t help me personally choose the best app to use. In this and previous videos seems it’s about talking about superhuman. Although for example spark is so similar why it’s not compared to it….etc. not convincing.

[@johnp.6045]

Hey does let you use your own domain. It is a higher priced tier.

[@wayslow]

Watching this before it gets removed! 😁

[@toolfinderhq]

This one is fixed 🎈

[@fellowsigma]

emclient missing :(

[@rahulsawhney1279]

Where is GMail?

[@The-One-and-Only]

my fav is Spark and I’ve using it for like 3 years. the best mail app I’ve used, and I’ve tried them all.

[@Abdullah-zl9ub]

Your okay with the new V3 ? Seems everyone not. Why you find it the best? Tried superhuman ?

[@officialxno]

it’s terrible now

[@soaremicheledavid6020]

Where is ProtonMail?

[@LChineze]

i rarely see edison email mentioned at all

[@Shocker99]

$300 on an email client per annum. Are you mad?!

[@szymona.2726]

and again no canary mail :) watching just for fun , without any hope for really good recomendation

[@toolfinderhq]

Hope you enjoy it! We’re doing a Windows one soon!

[@Kipsass]

The Bat!

[@dbcopper10]

Juno. My 25th anniversary next Spring. It works. People...relax, it's just email. How some people can get so excited over how they receive ebay notifications and utility bills.

[@zuoaihengaoxing]

Mailbird?

[@TheFoxDen-k7g]

Thunderbird is hideous. Windows Mail / Outlook is the best one imo.

[@Smooooove25]

I'm guessing that these are not in America?

[@jesusmgw]

A mail client is something you want to have for life, so any sketchy startup, non-native app or non opensource codebase is an instant F.

[@Okta808]

where thunderbird?

[@irandude1655]

Newton is a great app that’s not worth the money they charge.

[@Youssefdxb2011]

Notice that most email you have assigned to the top are paid programs.🙂

[@benherbst3620]

Thunderbird

[@jacielespinosa-severo7134]

Spark is awful. So many spam emails get through.

[@otakoutnik]

I am sorry, but this ranking is totally useless. It is missing elementary things, for example basic descriptions of these apps (supported protocols etc.). Showing animated product websites and not showing real app, realy? It is based only on Yours opinion (maybe little bit shifted in favor whos paing more?).

[@kratosrage]

to be honest I tried lot of Email applicaitions including outlook but after start to working in a corporate company I understood there is no other Email application can compete with outlook, it has too many options and fetures that not many of us dont know. for me outlook is way above of any other application.

[@MrCaste86]

but in mac, you cannot import contact sand sync calendar. Bull5h1t

[@ilaphroaig]

Outlook is the best for PC. BlueMail for Android.

[@KnowledgeSeeker26]

Very informative video.

[@toolfinderhq]

🥰

[@TheTastefulThickness]

The thumbnail for an email client video is insane,lol.

[@Krazycat]

You simply cannot get any worst application than Mailbird it is so confusing, that you end up dreading to have to send email

[@j.4880]

Good commentary, but if you're going to stack up everything in epic, it's not helpful at all

[@fiscalforensic]

Grazie Vecchi ;-)

[@Kevin_Underhill]

You didn't really showcase anything. I'm looking for a one place quick tour, your very generic opinion on each item isn't very helpful without showing use cases. I can scroll through each companies websites and get about as much information (which is barely anything to make a decision on).

[@brianadams1503]

Lost all confidence in you when you put Outlook in B tier.

[@fiscalforensic]

Vecchio ;-) mancava il buco con il cerchio attorno

[@rodrigo13121962]

Just a list, nothing more than that

[@nittygrittykitchen]

Need a "Meh" button

[@marioh5172]

Spark is a data protection disaster. Inform yourself. The entire list is very bad, god knows how you compiled it.

[@sachinrathor1719]

zoho is best

[@alec1115]

Outlook is Good? What an upset!

[@canoso]

I've tried all these email apps... I always go back to Outlook.

[@perezcarlos559]

@@canoso I feel good knowing that 😅 I’m an iPhone/iPad dude who recently migrated my email app to Outlook. Honestly I loving it, MS Outlook made me delete Apple Mail & Calendar, MS OneNote took out Notes, and MS ToDo made me erase the stiff “Reminders” app 😅 I literally feel less brain fog

[@Choombatta]

Outlook is pretty bad !

[@Submerge1]

Thumbs down for your be like everybody else thumbnail.

[@urosuros2072]

waste of time

[@alexmayer8943]

LOL was this like a "superhuman" promotion or something? hahaha you didn't show screenshots, you didn't say anything interesting about it only that you use it. LMAO.

[@ckmoore101]

Did not even show the top choice. What a trash video.

[@14dolphins]

spark and spike seem to be the same over complicated garbage without an inbox and the amount of them at the top

[@DVCasey0311]

A marketing consultant telling me about tech? or trying to sell me on his youtube channel.

[@joeleonguerrero6382]

Best of the Best. AIRMAIL. Developed by apple.