

While these are useful for organizations, they're needlessly complicated for day-to-day emailing. Since we're focusing on the iPhone, which you're likely using for personal use rather than intense work, I rejected any primarily team-focused or collaborative email apps, like Front. An Apple Watch companion app, however, was a bonus. I wanted to showcase email apps that could be the only way you accessed your email if you wanted. I also focused on standalone email apps for iPhone, rather than apps that are really just add-ons for a web or desktop app. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.įor starters, with one or two exceptions, I only considered apps that supported all the major email providers, like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, iCloud Mail, and IMAP accounts.

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We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. It’s worth noting here that ProtonMail is actively targeting businesses as well, so being able to mass export / import emails will be a big selling point beyond the consumer realm.All of our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. And many may have avoided jumping ship from Gmail simply due to the hassle of starting anew elsewhere. Even if someone is already using ProtonMail, they will likely have at least one other legacy email account that they keep for various reasons. However, one of the inherent hurdles for users in terms of switching email providers is that they may have a decade or more worth of messages in other accounts leaving all that behind is a big decision, and one, ultimately, that many will decide against.Īllowing people to import their emails from other services represents a notable evolution for ProtonMail, as it removes a big barrier for full adoption. The company claims it has garnered more than 5 million users since launch a few years ago. Such stories underpin ProtonMail’s core selling point: “Your emails are safe with us” is the general idea.
