The one thing just about everyone does on their mobile phone is read email. We reached out to the community of android users to find out what email client Everyone Is Using And Why? We asked people, which do you find the most accessible or usable? Which have that special feature you just can't live without? Is there a specific task one is particularly exceptional at accomplishing or is there a specific situation where 1 is better than the other.
The votes are in and the winner won with a landslide of votes:
The vast majority of users recommend Aquamail with 58% of the votes.
AquaMail - 58%
Comments From Voters:
it is extremely accessible. it even has keyboard short cuts for those people that want to use a physical keyboard.
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responsive, thrated view/conversation view, lots of customization, no unlabeled button, smart folder configuration, exchange mail support and lots more!
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aquamail continues to evolve and improve with every version. The author's commitment to accessibility has been there since early on. Great features for blind and low vision users including complete control over colors, fonts and presentation. Extremely customisable.
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'AquaMail' is more accessible and usable with TalkBack and ShinePlus. In addition, the creator of AquaMail' always responds positively to feedback from users.
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Clean, usable interface, and, have just always used it since moved over to touch screen phones - even though tried out various of the others - K-9 is another one I use just to scan mails on another account, but, don't really use it as such
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My main reasons are good braille support and good support for threading in the newest version. I also like the way it handles multiple accounts, and necessary feature in my world.
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Aqua Mail is very accessible with using either touch, a bluetooth keyboard or a combination of both. Its easy to find the contact or more than one you want to email with an accept button at the bottom of the screen showing how many addresses you selected. The developer is very responsive to both questions and accessibility issues.
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aquamail is lighter and more screen-reader friendly
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It is simple and has all I need.
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High contrast white print on black background and it actually syncs the ginormous amount of email I have and doesn't fall over.
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What Thunderbird is for desktop, Aquamail is for mobile. Moreover it is 100% accessible with developer efforts towards remaining accessible to the future as well. It can handle native phone contacts, supports calendar invites, integration with the system calendar, can handle threaded conversations, or displaing messages in a list. It can handle huge imap folders no mather if these are synced by default or not. Search feature can search currently synced messages or it can even search imap folders. Even composing formatted HTML messages is accessible. It has loads of options to tweak.
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Reads emails much better than gmail
Reliable scrolling
Good conversation mode in the most recent version
Translated to my language in the most recent version
It just simplhy works all of the time
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Easy to use, very accessible with talkback and shine plus.
K9 - 19%
Comments From Voters:
K9 is free and open source, allows multiple accounts with different notifications for each account, is highly customizable, has a quiet time feature where the set ringtones don't play during certain hours and has a really nice threaded view.
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I can read all messages, I can open the links that include in the e-mails, and I can also to use all buttons and all operations, such as delete, forward, answering, and searching. All menu items, and all settings, are in my language.
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It's fast and at least for me has been light on my battery usage. On top of that, it's open source and completely free. It has some very minor, to me at least, accessibility bugs but is completely usable otherwise.
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Completely free and open source. I just can't bring myself to actually pay for a mail client like aquamail just so I can run extra accounts on it.
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The controls are intuitive, works well for me, and I've used multiple clients, and I always go back to K-9.
TypeMail - 12%
Comments From Voters:
There is a good tutorial for setting it up available on inclusive android. That was my sole reason for choosing typemail. I find it extremely busy and removing all the features I don't like consumes a good chunk of setup time. It doesn't handle granularity very well and switching between multiple email accounts is a pain. I'm also not aware that it has keyboard support or not. It would be great if users would fill out typemail's ratings.
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easy to use. always updated. manage dowload of attachments to where i want them. easy reply and forwarding of messages
Google Inbox - 8%
Comments From Voters:
Bundles, custom actions, suggested replies, and fun way to Gmail
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Its so easy to "sweep" email that you either do not wish to read, or ya just wish to clean up your GMail Inbox more quickly.
In addition, the interface I feel is more easier to use, even via external keyboard.
Google Gmail - 3%
Comments From Voters:
It is accessible with TalkBack, I use it with my Google and Yahoo accounts and it works very well. I did not try any other application because this one is what I was looking for and I am very satisfied with it.
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