Named as the best email client in 2016 by Apple. Surely, Spark is also a must-try app if you are looking for the best email client for your Mac. Spark is a free app that run seamlessly on all Apple’s products, including Apple Watch.
It doesn’t take much effort to hate email. If ever there was a killer app, it’s email; the app from the gods above that loves to kill humans with tedium and frustration. Isn’t email like texting? Email clutters our lives; a massive time suck that will drive humanity crazy until just before the gods destroy us. Texting is a necessary evil.
Totally different, right? Regardless of where you stand in the email vs.
Texting wars (it’s not really a thing; I just made it up), here are the three best email apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Default Mail Is OK Without a shred of scientific research to back up my assertion, it’s likely that most Mac, iPhone, and iPad users have tried Apple’s tried and true Mail app.
With one notable exception, Mail works. It’s feature packed, and on the Mac gives you control over folder organization and spam, thanks to the built-in Junk Mail feature.
If you use Mail, good for you. Mail is traditional email; email management from 1999 that does not blaze any new trails or help with efficiency or in any way improve either the day-to-day clutter or the ongoing deluge of messages which must be managed and archived.
What is better than Mail? Well, I could so abandon email altogether and I would be correct. No email is better than email which means no email is better than Mail but we live in the real world and not message fantasyland, so what are the good alternatives. There are two. They are somewhat similar but their approach to managing email is different, and which you choose depends upon your requirements.
Airmail – this one has been around a few years and has matured to become a good blend of features and ease of use. Does not look or feel like Mail at all and offers message management controls better than Mail. While Airmail is easy to set up and use, the extensive features and account and message options are layered in; available as you need them and as your experience expands. For example, Airmail keeps accounts managed and in sync between Mac, iPhone, and iPad via iCloud, and if you use IMAP stores necessary folders on your email account servers the way God intended. The inbox is unified.
Airmail supports Exchange, iCloud, IMAP, POP, Yahoo!, Google, and even Outlook.com accounts. It works with Handoff, too, so you can start a message on iPad and get to it on the Mac later. Attachments can be store on GoogleDrive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and elsewhere. Notifications can be set on a per account basis. The killer feature for Airmail is support for Spam Sieve. Set it up on your Mac and it keeps spam off your iPhone and iPad. Airmail has a nominal price tag.
Spark – other than the lack of Spam Sieve support, is my favorite email app. User interface. It’s just faster and easier to manage a massive amount of messages in Spark than in Mail. It, too, syncs with iCloud so it works on Mac, iPhone, and iPad (and better on Watch than Airmail or Mail).
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Organizing messages is not as extensive as Mail or Airmail but good for most of us. What Spark has that you won’t find in either of the other two is an option to send later. That’s right, Spark lets you send messages at a later time or date. It integrates well with all the Sharing Box options in macOS or iOS, but also has smart notifications and a smart inbox which segregates the useless from the useful messages. All three email apps are worthy– Mail, Airmail, Spark.
The latter two sync accounts via iCloud so they’re easy to setup on each device. Mail is free. Airmail has a nominal price tag. Spark– for now– is free, but I’m waiting for that shoe to drop in the future. Only Mail and Airmail work with on the Mac.
Which of the three should you use? Mail is good for a few accounts and has Junk Mail built in, but also works with SpamSieve.
Airmail has more management features and options, but comes with a price tag and SpamSieve support. Spark is the easiest to setup and use. It is always a curious read with regard to these e-mail programme posts, and with each entry I wonder if my e-mail client of choice will get some due love and recognition. I am referring to MailMate.
It is, by far, the most flexible, customisable, power user and keyboard-centric e-mail client for the Mac that ever existed. It receives weekly or bi-weekly beta updates, and Benny is one of my favourite developers with whom to consult – he truly cares about his user-base. Buggy be it may, I personally recommend it. I can go on and on about support for SpamSieve which I have used for equivalent time, support for S/MIME, PGP, e-mail aliases, expansion bundles, Markdown more simple than HTML but converts flawlessly, search capabilities beyond the imagination of many, et cetera. It may be expensive for some, but it is worth more than its purchase price. If there exists a sole e-mail client for the Mac that deserves the spotlight more than the rest, it is MailMate.
iggy pence says. Search is your friend. It is a capable Mac email app but it isn’t really comparable to those mentioned in the article which are aimed at the masses of Apple’s customers who need email everywhere and don’t like email at all. Yes, this is the same MailMate with a $50 price tag,a preference for satisfying the geekiest of Mac email users (Markdown?
Really?), no companion email app for iPhone or iPad, but a wonderful platform for Mac users who spend their days in email madness. I want more time for my life so prefer email apps that are familiar across multiple platforms and devices. You are correct, there is no iOS companion, and Benny stated in an interview years back he will not develop one.
Markdown, yes really. I dig Markdown though I am fluent in HTML Markdown is more simple and easy to assemble into something. I use it frequently for links in both body and signature. MailMate is not targeted towards the masses, but we who use it okay, I will speak solely for myself, do have a life outside e-mail. If ever there is a comparable iOS client, I will most likely pay its price. Kyle McDonald says.