Whether you love it or hate it, email is a necessary part of our daily lives. We use it for work, keeping in touch with long-distance friends and family, stay in the know for the latest deals, or just get informed. But it definitely gets overwhelming sometimes. For some, Apple's Mail app leaves a lot to be desired, and maintaining 'inbox zero' feels almost impossible. Fortunately, there are some great email apps that make email a bit more pleasant. Here are some of the best apps for email on your iPhone or iPad.

The Spark email app by Readdle has a lot of great features that users find helpful on both iOS and Mac. And, the company recently added one more to the list; email templates.This terrific addition to the app makes composing emails that you create on regular basis much simpler. Many of you have asked us to write a guide on how to use Spark Mail app with SaneBox. Below we will teach you. You can customize your sidebar, your swipes and even your widgets. In this tutorial, we. Spark for Mac. Favorting your Sane.

Spark

Spark is a personal favorite of mine, and it's pretty much the only app I use to stay on top of my email and not drown in it.

One of the best features of Spark is the ability to sort and group your incoming emails by type. It groups all newsletters together, making it easy to delete them all at once with a simple swipe gesture while keeping important and personal emails separate.

There is support for multiple email accounts, and each one can receive 'Smart' notifications, which mute strangers and automated emails, while letting you know about messages with higher priority. You can even pin emails you don't want to lose, snooze them for later, and even send 'quick replies,' such as 'thanks,' with a single tap.

Teams can also collaborate with each other within Spark to discuss emails, so you don't need to go to another app like Slack. Spark supports native integration with a lot of third-party apps and services as well.

If you want one of the best ways to maintain your inbox, then we highly recommend Spark.

Outlook

Despite the name, Microsoft Outlook is a powerful and functional email app that works with a variety of email services, not just Outlook accounts. It works with your Gmail, Yahoo Mail, IMAP, and iCloud, in addition with Hotmail and MSN with Outlook.com accounts.

Outlook is fantastic for those who need to have their schedule with their email, along with contacts. You can create calendar events directly from emails, which is a convenient feature to have. There is full integration with cloud storage services, so you can access files in Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and more.

If you are looking for a professional email solution for your iPhone or iPad, then Outlook is a great option.

Edison Mail

Edison Mail is one of the smarter email apps available for your iPhone and iPad. It's especially great for those who have constant overflow in their inboxes and want to do something about it.

With Edison, you'll have support for multiple email accounts. It works with Gmail, Hotmail, iCloud, Yahoo, Outlook, Exchange, AOL, IMAP, and more.

The coolest feature with Edison is the fact that you can unsubscribe from annoying newsletters with one tap. If you do a lot of traveling, Edison displays travel notifications and trip info on a single screen. This way, you'll find your itinerary in one place without having to search for flight and hotel info one-by-one.

Edison even takes cues from Spark and other email apps with features like Smart notifications, quick replies, bulk delete, thread views, snooze, and more. If you are looking to take back control of your inbox, Edison is a great app to help you do it.

Gmail

For avid Gmail users, you should be making use of the official Gmail app.

The Gmail app offers support for multiple Gmail emails, real-time notifications, and universal search that works across all accounts. The convenient Undo Send feature is available here to prevent embarrassing mistakes. You can even clear out your inbox quickly with intuitive swipe gestures, organize messages with your Gmail labels, and even respond to Google Calendar invites directly.

There is a lot to love about the official Gmail app, and it's definitely one you should be using if Gmail is your primary email account.

Yahoo Mail

Whether you use Yahoo Mail or not, the Yahoo Mail app is a good contender to consider, and it works with non-Yahoo accounts.

The Yahoo Mail app looks gorgeous with a fresh and clean design that's pretty easy to use and navigate. You can take action on individual messages through intuitive swipe gestures, customize the color and theme to your liking, send GIFs directly in messages, and more. Some standout features include Deals View, which notifies you when deal emails are about to expire, and Travel View that displays gate changes, delays, and even cancellations.

Yahoo Mail can even send you notifications when the emails come from people, so you aren't bothered with newsletters and other unimportant messages. Plus, Yahoo Mail gives users 1000GB of space of cloud storage, so you don't have to worry about space, and there's support for third-party cloud storage solutions.

Despite the Yahoo Mail name, the app works with any email account and is a great email app in general.

Newton Mail

If you're looking for a little more out of your email app, and don't mind paying for a subscription for some great extras, then Newton Mail may be of interest.

With Newton Mail, you can add multiple accounts and view all of your messages in a unified inbox. Some of the standout features behind Newton Mail are read receipts, so you can see when the message has been read, a daily recap on messages that need your attention, send drafted emails later, undo send, and much more. Plus, you can unsubscribe to emails in a single click! And there is a ton of third-party service integration, like Dropbox, Evernote, Instapaper, Trello, and more.

Newton Mail has a 14-day free trial to check out all of the features. If it is a service you wouldn't mind paying for in the end, a subscription costs $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year.

What are your favorites?

There are a lot of options for email apps out there, but these are some of the best ones that we've found. Our personal favorite is Spark, because I love my emails being sorted by type, and the Smart notifications mean I only get notified for emails that matter.

What are you using as your email app on your iOS device? Let us know your favorites in the comments below!

January 2020: Removed Airmail and added Newton Mail to the list.

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With the growing popularity of Slack, Microsoft Teams, and other similar services, many callously called for the death of email. However, reports stating otherwise. While desktop still plays a major role in email management, most consumers prefer accessing email accounts on mobiles.

Google just waved goodbye to the Inbox email app. Meanwhile, Apple’s Mail app is yet to grace us with a significant overhaul due to the slow pace of development. While Apple keeps refreshing the interface and looks of the iOS in general but an essential app for emails continues to appear dated — beats me too (no pun intended)!

Thankfully, a couple of alternatives come to the rescue. And the top two nominees for iOS are Outlook and Spark. As always, they support all popular email services like Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, and a few others.

Both are excellent email apps packing tons of features to stand out in the crowd. In this post, we will pit them against to see who wins the crown for the best email app for iOS.

App Size

Spark app weighs around 140MB while the Outlook iOS app is nearly double the size at 250MB. You will need to connect to Wi-Fi to download the app on the phone.

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User Interface

Outlook for iOS recently went through a major redesign, and the added changes reflect in the updated version. The animations are smooth and slick. Both Spark and Outlook follow Apple's interface guidelines, and that's apparent in the respective apps.

Outlook adopts a bottom menu bar UI with email, search, and calendar option. You can swipe on the left edge of the screen to access the hamburger menu. It’s a thoughtful design where all options are easily recognizable and available within reach.

Spark looks like an Android app but carries the iOS feel. There is a hamburger menu which the user can only slide from the upper left menu. The action button consists of the compose email button.

The other options like search and calendar are at the upper right corner and are hard to reach on larger screens. Thankfully, you can change that behavior from the settings menu.

Go to Settings > Personalization > Widgets > Choose Bottom. All options will appear on the bottom too.

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Organize Emails

The thing about email is, if you are not careful then your inbox may soon get filled with useless promotional messages, marketing templets, and newsletters. And in that process, you might miss a couple of important ones. And here is where organizing plays a major role in any email app.

By default, Outlook provides a ‘Focused Inbox’ option where the app decides to put relevant emails. The remaining emails appear in the other inbox. Of course, you can manually decide which sender's emails you want to see in the Focused Inbox.

Just tap on three buttons at the top, choose the Move to Focused Inbox, and tap on Move Always. After that, every email from that sender will land in the Focused Inbox.

Spark takes a more practical approach. It neatly classifies the emails with the relevant sections such as Personal, Notifications, Newsletters, Pins, and seen emails. I like this style more.

As always you can separately access the attachments from a different menu. On Outlook, tap on a filter and select Attachments. With Spark, you need to go to the hamburger menu to see the attachments.

Calendar

Both the apps offer a capable calendar service with tons of functionalities. In Outlook, you can add Facebook events, Evernote reminders and, even Wunderlist to-dos through the calendar apps in the settings menu. It’s useful for directly integrating your friend’s birthdays in the calendar.

Outlook also offers something called interesting calendars where one can add favorite TV shows, sport’s team or sports event’s schedule directly in the app.

It supports the majority of a popular sports league, and in the example below, you can see I have added Indian Cricket Team, and it shows the upcoming matches in the calendar.

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Spark doesn’t provide such fancy features, and it sticks to the basic calendar functions where the user can add an event and set the time.

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Composing an Email

Composing an email should be the most essential parameter of any email app. And here is where Spark shines with the several options it provides.

Of course, one can add images, files, documents, etc., but it can also let you make a group, and every member can join the group conversation.

Not only that, but you can also schedule the email to send at your preferred time, and Spark also reminds you if you haven’t replied to an urgent email.

Though Outlook supports the basic functions, it lacks the support for Apple’s Files app. One can’t add a document from Apple’s file manager. With Spark, you can act with ease.

Third-Party Integration

As you may have noticed above, Outlook gives better support for the calendar app. And for the email, the story turns upside down.

By default, Spark supports all the major cloud apps, note-taking apps such as OneNote, Evernote, and the to-do services as in Things 3, Todoist, Wunderlist, etc. Just go to Settings > Connect to Service and choose the appropriate option.

When enabled, you can directly send an email to your preferred notes app or add a to-do in a reminders app.

Outlook supports cloud apps, by which you can add files, photos or documents from OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox. It also has integration for other services like Evernote, GIPHY, etc. but the choices are better on Spark.

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Customization

Once again Spark gives more options out of the box. It lets you change the background color, sidebar options, widget positions, and email signature. The default long press or 3D touch function also reveals more information than Outlook does. Check the example below.

Outlook only lets you change the swipe options from the settings menu. Microsoft has promised dark theme support with an upcoming update.

Privacy Option and Price

Both the apps support Touch ID/Face ID options by default. You can enable them by going in Settings > Security.

As far as price is concerned, Outlook and Spark don’t charge a dime to use their services.

Which Email App Should You Use?

After using both the apps, my vote goes to Spark. It nails the basics like composing an email and offers more customizations (yay, dark theme) out of the box. Outlook wins in email organization and richer calendar functionality.

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