This Gmail app for Windows works with any POP account including Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and others. Also, it works with IMAP and Microsoft Exchange. One feature making Inky great for business use, is the ability to exchange encrypted and digitally signed emails with anyone. Mailplane is the best way to use Gmail on your Mac. Use an unlimited number of accounts, get new mail notifications, use plug-ins and much much more.

If you’d told me I would be writing about the best email app for the Mac in 2018 when I was in college, I’d have thought you were crazy. For as far as technology has come in the last twenty years, e-mail is still essential to our workflows. We’ve got pocket computers on our wrists and smartphones with 4GB of RAM, but e-mail is still required to live and work in the internet era. If you’d asked me in 2002, I would have assumed something else would replace it. I got my first email account in the mid–90s (When it was still $2.95 per hour for AOL). I stuck with AOL until I got an @comcast.net account when my parent’s first got high-speed internet. I switched to around 2002 (it was eventually acquired by AOL).

I switched to Gmail in 2004 when it first launched, and then I finally switched to.Mac in 2005 when I got my first Mac (. I stuck with it during, and finally arrived at. One of the things about my use of email that is most surprising is that I’ve gone in the reverse with how technology has moved. In the early days of e-mail usage, I preferred using web-based mail, but as time went on, I preferred app based email. Part of that is that I am bringing in multiple accounts into one app (personal iCloud and multiple G-Suite accounts), but another aspect is that I prefer native apps. I think a lot of it has to do with iOS where native apps are the default. On the desktop, we’re moving everything to the web.

As much as I love iOS, If you told me that I had to pick between macOS and iOS, I’d choose macOS. When it comes to my “heavy lifting” type work, I can get it done much faster than on my Mac. Like I said earlier, I am pulling in multiple email accounts into one app, so using webmail isn’t something I want to do.

Quickbooks for mac 2015 training. I want one app to use instead of four web apps. So if you are reading this article, and are screaming about how much better Gmail’s web interface is – know that I am not looking at web-based solutions at all. So I want to answer the question, what’s the best email app for the Mac? Apple Mail Apple is always going to be at a disadvantage in some ways when building apps because they have to develop for the masses. They are developing apps for the power user while also the computer novice.

In a lot of ways, Apple Mail doesn’t seem to be a lot different than it did when I first used it under. From 40,000 feet, Apple Mail does precisely what you’d ask of it. You add your mailboxes, and it builds a traditional looking mail app (with a universal inbox), it supports all the primary services (iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Exchange, etc.), and generally works well. Outlook for mac 2016. My biggest issue with Apple Mail is that it doesn’t do anything to drive the concept of email forward. It primarily works the same as it did a few years ago.

It’s only added a few new features like (a feature where you can send large attachments using iCloud),,. On the flip side, if you want the traditional Apple experience, you’ll love this app. I use it day-to-day, but I know it’s mostly lagged behind a lot of the other apps concerning new features. If you do want to extend Apple Mail further, be sure to check out plugins like. The downside is that these run locally, so if your Mac is offline – nothing will happen to your email that requires these plugins. Overall, it’s a fine app, but I am hopeful Apple begins to add new features to help people re-think email. Outlook When I did my review of, I praised Outlook.

If you want to find an app that feels like Apple Mail+, Outlook is it. It includes a smart inbox (sort between important emails and non-important ones). It contains customizable swipes (delete, archive, etc.). You can also schedule messages to show back up in your inbox. This feature is useful if you want to make an email disappear until you are back at work, etc. Unfortunately, Outlook on the Mac hasn’t been given the same treatment.