Email is one of the oldest and most important online communication tools out there. Before the birth of social networks , lto web 2.0 and WhatsApp , email was the undisputed king in the exchange of electronic messages. Although today the communication channels have diversified a lot, sending emails is still the order of the day. What's more, with the rise of mobile devices email clients have multiplied like spores , with all the positive that this entails for us users.
In today's article we analyze the 15 best email apps for Android devices. At the end of the post, we also propose some complementary email tools that will help us manage email much more efficiently (spam control, creation of temporary accounts, and more).
The best email clients for Android
If so far you have only known the apps of Gmail or Outlook and you want to know new things, I invite you to take a look at the following email apps for Android . One of the best to give a new air of freshness to your personal mailbox.
AquaMail
AquaMail It is one of those email clients that has been with us for years. Supports all types of email accounts, including AOL , Yahoo! , Gmail , Outlook , iCloud orExchange and the truth is that it has a very good acceptance among Android users. A very high score on Google play and its more than 1,000,000 users give good faith of it.
Allows you to make and restore backup copies of our emails from the cloud (Dropbox, OneDrive, Box and Google Drive) or through files. Dispose of Contacts and Calendar Synchronization for Exchangeand Office 365, allows you to use a different signature for each account, as well as notifications and responses by voice for Android Wear, among many other functions. One of the best email managers, of all life.
Download QR-Code Aqua Mail - Email app Developer: MobiSystems Price: Free Blue Mail
Blue Mail is another one of those really popular email apps on the Play Store. With more than a million users, Blue Mail allows you to configure accounts for Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, AOL, iCloud, Office 365 , Google Apps, Hotmail, and Live.com, plus other email service providers. We can configure Exchange, IMAP and POP3 accounts in a fluid and easy way.
It has a unified tray from where we can manage t all our email accounts.
It's compatible with Android Wear , it has configurable menus and a customizable dark color theme. In addition, it has a lock screen to protect our private emails, a lot of extra functionality and it is 100% free.
Download QR-Code Blue Mail - Email & Calendar Developer: Blix Inc. Price: Free Spark
If we have been users of Inbox by Gmail in the past, and we were quite angry when Google decided to close the app, Spark may be just what we need. A most complete email client oriented to organization and teamwork.
Among its functionalities, it manages to achieve a certain order within the messiness of any inbox: it uploads the emails of real people to the front row so that we can see them before the rest and it notifies us only of the emails of the people we know to avoid distractions. We can also use other advanced features such as postpone sending emails, create reminders, pins, do smart searches and more.
In addition, it is an excellent collaborative tool:
- We can invite friends and co-workers to discuss specific posts and threads.
- It has a real-time editor to write emails together between various collaborators.
- Allows you to create secure links to messages or specific conversations that we can then share with other people.
Besides Android, it is also available for iOS and Windows. A true gem.
Download QR-Code Spark Mail from Readdle - Love your mail again Developer: Readdle Inc. Price: Free Microsoft Outlook
One of the most used email apps today (more than 100 million downloads). Incredibly popular, especially in business and work environments, it supports Exchange and Office 365 accounts, as well as includes integration with Sunrise.
We can also use it with Gmail, iCloud or Yahoo accounts and synchronize it with cloud storage services. It has integrated gestures to schedule, delete and archive messages and calendar management or the classic out-of-office assistant.
The Outlook email app still has some points to improve, such as the default font size and the reading of chains of emails with the same subject. In any case, it is much friendlier than the desktop version.
Download QR-Code Microsoft Outlook Developer: Microsoft Corporation Price: Free Edison Email
This email client developed by Edison Software is one of the winners of last year's Android Excellence Program. Highly acclaimed by specialized media such as The Verge («The fastest email app«) Or Android Authority («Useful features and a great user interface«), E-mail It is presented as the great relevant novelty in sending and managing emails from the mobile or tablet.
It supports a large number of email providers and allows you to manage unlimited accounts. Besides that:
- It incorporates an integrated intelligent assistant.
- Grouping by categories.
- Compatible with Android Wear.
- Gesture control.
All this and more, in an application with an elegant design and fast as it alone.
Download QR-Code Email - Lightning Fast & Secure Mail Developer: Edison Software Price: Free Gmail
Nor can we leave out in this list Gmail. Probably the most used email app on Android devices with more than 1,000 million installations. As surely I am not going to discover anything new talking about the qualities of the Google email client of a lifetime, let me tell you about Gmail Go.
Gmail Go is a new version of Gmail developed by Google, but much lighter. This makes it the ideal alternative for those devices that are a bit short on resources and need something lighter.
It has a smarter inbox, less spam (locks it before it reaches the inbox) and 15GB of free storage.
Download QR-Code Gmail Go Developer: Google LLC Price: Free Newton Mail
Newton Mail is a powerful email client known for its smart searches, user interface, and ability to integrate with other applications such as Pocket, EverNote or OneNote.
Among its outstanding qualities, it offers the possibility of protecting our inbox with a password, in addition to many other functionalities.
However, all this has a price: after the first 14 days of free trial, the app becomes paid ($ 49.99 per year, or what is the same, about $ 4 per month).
Download QR-Code Newton Mail - Email & Calendar Developer: CloudMagic, Inc. Price: Free Mail.Ru Email App Spain
Although its name in Spanish leaves a lot to be desired, the Mail.Ru mail app is one of the most popular and best-rated on Android. Its users highlight its ease of use and the possibility of being able to use several accounts centrally and simultaneously without overeating our heads.
Supports mail services from Microsoft (Hotmail, Outlook, MSN Live, Office 365, Exchange), Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Orange E-mail, MixMail, iCloud, Mail.Ru -of course-, and Yandex, in addition to other email services with IMAP or POP3.
Download QR-Code Email App Spain from Mail.ru Developer: Mail.Ru Group Price: Free K-9 Mail
The most popular open source email client for Android. It supports Exchange 2003/2007, IMAP and POP3 accounts and includes the typical features of any email client in use. It allows tagging with flags, saving mails in the SD, PGP / MIME, signatures and more.
If you are an advocate of free software, K-9 Mail is your email client.
Download QR-Code K-9 Mail Developer: K-9 Dog Walkers Price: Free Proton Mail - Encrypted Email
Proton Mail is the world's largest encrypted email client, with over a million downloads. This application was created by CERN scientists in 2013, and since then it offers end-to-end PGP encryption for Android users for free.
This means that an email can only be read by the sender and the recipient. Although the emails are stored on a server, this is also encrypted, so not even Proton Mail owners can access them. Allows you to send self-destructing emails, management by means of gestures and other typical functionalities of any mail client worth its salt.
Download QR-Code ProtonMail - Encrypted Email Developer: Proton Technologies AG Price: Free TypeApp Mail
The TypeApp email client is ideal for those who receive a lot of emails per day. TypeApp groups them all together by sender and then allows them to be read separately by side swiping. If we seek order above all else, this may be an app worth taking a look at. Supports Exchange, Gmail, Yahoo accounts, AOL, Outlook, Office 365 and more.
It is also compatible with push email with those services that support it. Another very interesting function is that allows you to mark emails as "DONE" once managed. In this way, they disappear from the inbox, without the need for us to file them by hand, through the use of smart filters.
Download QR-Code Email Email - TypeApp Mail Developer: TypeApp LLC Price: Free myMail
myMail is another mail tool that allows to unify all our accounts in a single app . It supports Exchange, POP3, IMAP, and SMTP and has one of the easiest to use interfaces we can know of. He still has a few things to improve on, but he's generally really good.
In addition, it is the mail application for anyone who has a short @ my.com account (subsidiary of Mail.Ru , the second largest online company in Russia). Among its functions it has customizable push notifications according to schedules, "Quiet times" for each account -to better combine work and personal life-, PIN protection, chain mail and more.
Download QR-Code myMail - Mail for Hotmail, Gmail and Orange Mail Developer: My.com B.V. Price: Free GMX Mail
Another quite popular mail client on Android, and which continues to receive constant updates to this day is GMX Mail. It has a cloud storage service called GMX MediaCenter where we can save documents and multimedia files such as photos, videos, music, etc.
On top of that: PIN-protected emails, push notifications, and an instant messaging service called FreeMessage. It is completely free, although it offers in-app purchases for some additional services.
Download QR-Code GMX - Mail & Cloud Developer: GMX Price: Free Nine
Nine is another great email app, especially if you are a lover of security and Outlook . Does not use any server or cloud service , simply connect your device directly with your mail server.
Supports Exchange ActiveSync and has functionalities such as selective sync , being able to choose which folders we want to be synchronized with our mail server.
The free version has a trial period of 2 weeks, from there, if we are satisfied with the service, we will have to go to the checkout.
Download QR-Code Nine - Email & Calendar Developer: 9Folders Inc. Price: Free Boxer
The last email client on the list is Boxer. A mail manager whose main virtue is its intuitive design and use of gestures to navigate as smoothly as possible. This tool is a 3 in 1, since it allows you to control your mail, contacts and calendar in a centralized way.
Among its functionalities we find the use of massive actions, configurable quick responses, customizable scrolling gestures, and shipping availability. The app still has some edges to polish, but it is constantly updated and aims to be one of the great alternatives in the future.
Download QR-Code Boxer - Workspace ONE Developer: Boxer Price: Free Complementary tools to improve and enhance mail management
As we mentioned at the beginning of the post, there are some really useful apps for Android that work wonderfully as a complement to our usual email client. With them, we will obtain new functions that we will hardly see in ordinary mail applications. Do not lose sight of them!
Cleanfox
Cleanfox is an app that is responsible for automatically freeing us from all spam, advertising emails and newsletters that flood our mailbox. Normally, to unsubscribe from this type of email we have to manually request the unsubscribe.
With Cleanfox, however, we can automatically search all email subscriptions stored in our email. Thus allowing us,unsubscribe and delete all those emails with a single click. Essential to do a good clean from time to time. In addition, it is 100% free.
Download QR-Code Cleanfox - Download and Elimination of emails and spam. Developer: Foxintelligence Price: Free 
For each subscription, it also shows us the amount of emails received and the opening ratio.Instant Email Address
This great tool allows us create temporary email accounts. Fully functional email accounts that we can use to send and receive emails, and that comes in handy to sign up for platforms or services that require an email account to sign up.
It is also very practical if we do not want to give our real email to a person (due to lack of trust or any other reason) but we need to provide a valid email address. A free, versatile and highly recommended application.
Download QR-Code Instant Email Address Developer: kukusama Price: Free 
MessageLOUD
As its name suggests, MessageLOUD is an application that takes care of read emails aloud (also works with SMS, WhatsApp, Skype and Facebook). A tool recommended above all to avoid problems or distractions while driving.
The application has a high rating of 4.2 stars on Google Play, although it should be noted that it is a premium paid app ($ 1.99 / month). Of course, it has a 14-day trial period where we can make use of it and see if it is really worth the subscription.
Download QR-Code ping: text to speech. Messages, emails out loud! Developer: pingloud Price: Free 
And what do you think, what is your favorite email app for your mobile phone? Do you know of any add-ons or additional tools that are worth it?
You have Telegram installed? Receive the best post of each day on our channel. Or if you prefer, find out everything from our Facebook page.
