
Mailbox, an email app by the folks who make Dropbox, does so many things right. Ok! With that out of the way, let’s start looking at the two apps that fit. There are capable paid email apps out there, but given that there are free ones that do almost everything (and occasionally more) than the paid ones, most of the apps on this list are free. Your app should support as many as possible. There are many, many email providers out there. Should support as many email providers as possible, including exchange.Your email app needs to be able to do the same thing. Gmail’s web app handles this elegantly, responding with the appropriate address and signature for the alias the email was sent to. Many people prefer to have their multiple email addresses filtered through a single one (I use Gmail for this). If the app’s inbox didn’t have swipe gestures, then it wasn’t considered. Gone are the days of opening an email and then clicking the archive button. An email app is no good if you must switch to an entirely new ecosystem with each new device. Should be available on as many platforms as possible.Let me define the criteria by which I whittled down the available candidates. Stay tuned, and you’ll have a pretty good idea of which email app will be best for you! Why Do I Need a Third Party App?īecause the built in app, at least on iOS, isn’t quite up to the task, that’s why! Sure, Apple’s Mail app has been updated recently to add a few of the features, like swipe gestures, that helped build a following for some of the third party apps we are going to talk about later, but it’s not completely up to snuff, lacking support for Gmail aliases, snooze capability and more. All of the apps we tested were on iOS, but every app we will talk about in this article have Android equivalents, so if you prefer the robot to the fruit, you’ll still be covered. To help you, we’ve tested a number of the most popular email apps and are here to report on our findings. Most of us are doing a hefty chunk of our email communication via our phones and tablets now, and it’s important for your business and for your sanity that your email experience remains as consistent and seamless as possible across all your devices. One of the most important app types in this category is the email app. The problem is, as the app store has grown, so have the multifarious apps available to fill your needs. As we outsource more and more of our productivity and work time to our mobile devices, it has become increasingly important to make sure that the apps we use on those devices have the most useful feature set, and perform with the greatest efficiency.
