hello everyone and welcome back to the Keep productive youtube channel it is
francesco here today's video i'm checking out email applications um we have the tier system
uh up in front of us i'll explain what it is then we'll dive into rating email applications for 2021
so as you can imagine uh what we did last time in the note taking one and doula snap one is we
rated them based on five levels amazing which is you know brilliant a great good
average sort of middle ground the guys and naf which is an english term for rubbish so in today's
video we're going to be diving into email apps i think email apps are like one of those things that
are just sort of layers to your existing experience if you use gmail outlook or apple mail
these all come naturally free but some of these are paid options that just add a different
experience to the top of it just something nicer to look at as you open your emails every single
day so here we are with the rating system what i'm going to do is i'm going to dive into to
start off with air mail now airmail is an ios and mac application it's really well designed it looks
really lovely there's an email application i would say for my own experience of it
it's just a good application it's nothing great um it's got a nice one-off cost to it which is
always good to have especially when you're paying for an email application sometimes
a lot of them do recurring subscriptions so i think this is just just a nice good application
it's one of those ones if you're not looking for something too extensive like say newton or hay or
superhuman but you're not looking for something too sort of low-key like gmail it's a good sort
of middle ground and you're using ios and mac so next up is edison mail and for my opinion of this
one i'm actually impressed with the application because it's got a really nice ios and android
app the mac version is actually invite only but they do offer a really nice experience for free
which is good inside of it you can use things like unsubscribe and smart mailbox tidy ups um and it's
just a nice app for mobile so i'm impressed with it it's kits are great for me that's edison male
next up is front i shouldn't have really included this one this is front old logo but it is a just a
really good uh well put together customer service for teams email applications so if you're a team
looking for like con to communicate with the team inbox and sort of manage logs and things like that
then it's a good one for that um i shouldn't really put that in because it's more of a team
app i sort of forgot when i was doing this um so yeah it's a good application so next up is hey
hey actually impressed me when it launched it's an application that works on all devices it's
developed by the chaps and folks at basecamp but basically it allows you to do sort of email but
in a really relaxed fashion they've introduced some new concepts to workflows so for example
something called an imbox which is an important inbox so that it filters all of your other stuff
to other ones and once you learn the keyboard shortcuts and things like that it's quite a cool
application for be able to organize that now i'm going to give this one an amazing because
i think for the 99 per year fee that you pay you get your own custom domain which could be
say francesco hey.com which is impressive and it's really well put together as an application you
know that the folks said like basically i'm like they're really intuitive with both their design
but also they think about how the human aspect of email works so i'm definitely giving that one
an amazing to really impress me as an application so um i'm gonna put uh missive which is an email
application i'm currently transitioning out of i'm really impressed with it i think it goes as great
it's a great one for teams as well if you want to connect team members but it's a personal one it's
actually impressed me over the years of using it three years i've been using it i really like it
it's it's just been really great grand to use to be honest i particularly like if your team members
you can assign stuff to people you can start conversations comments privately without actually
interacting with the person at the other end and it's really good as well for the amount
of customizations you can do as a individual user it does come a little bit of a higher price at 12
per month but at the same time if you're someone who's a freelancer or entrepreneur or someone that
runs their own business just any of that spectrum it's quite a nice reliable email application
that if you want to add people in the future too it's a decent bet so next up is new to mail now
new mail has been bought once uh they've shut down twice it's been quite a big journey i used to work
for new mel as a marketing consultant so i i'm sort of part i was about three or four years ago
now so i have some really interesting opinions on them over the time that they've grown but i think
now they're actually a really really well-priced email application when they first launched they
weren't like people were complaining at the 49.99 per year they were like oh my god that's so
expensive but now when you look at the market and you look at things like hey superhuman polymail
they're actually a really well priced application because they come on all devices they've got some
advanced features that some of them don't have and it's really well designed so you're getting a good
package i think for 49.99 if that's still the price i'm almost certain it still is per year
so i'm going to put it in the amazing category i'm impressed with it i think it does good job that's
not because i worked there i would have said probably a year ago i would have given it less but
now that these apps like hey and superhuman have really taken president i think that it's a good
value for money wise it's a good bet so outlook is up next and that instantly gets a great because
they've put together a really well designed application from microsoft they bought sunrise
a calendar app back in 2016 or 15 i believe can't remember just exactly on the dates but it is
so well put together the calendar side of it you can plug in things like gmail and it just works
great like the whole experience if you're looking for a free one works almost as good as the edison
mail or air mail but you're not paying anything the only thing that you may be concerned about is
that you're in a microsoft ecosystem or that you know you might not be able to get certain features
i don't believe they have some features like may have had send later and things like that
but more the advanced features for systems or workflows that say superhuman hay and thing
other people like that have and if i guess you don't want to support an independent or you
you want to support an independent and then other ones like newton hay superhuman tempo are better
bets because they're run not by big companies so and you wanna you're willing to pay so that's the
reason why you go against an application like that but if you're someone that's already tied into the
microsoft ecosystem it's probably one of the best apps out there for email so next up is polymail
and this one always impressed me the design is really good some of the team functionality
is really nice as well they always keep it fresh updated and to be honest it's sort of like one of
those apps that is just a bit like newton it's sort of on newton's part and i believe newton
just does a better job at putting together the whole cross-platform abilities and also some of
the features and explanations of it i just think when i was doing my research on this i found that
that was the case so still gets a great that's a great uh sort of review on those next up is
um protonmail which is a free security focused email application i think security is really key
some of these applications you'll need to check out their privacy and security policies
around encrypted emails because some of them don't include it but protonmail is well known for
being the security focused application with their servers i believe based in switzerland and they've
got like really good bank grade security if you go to the pro you can go even further but with
protonmail you also i believe get with the pro you get also on mail.com email custom domain which is
nice especially when you're sending out emails and you don't want it from say gmail you don't want to
plug in your own gmail experience stuff like that so the application really good if you're security
concerned next up is spark mail and i'm going to put it straight and amazing i think read
will make great applications in my opinion i think that for a free application it's got some
really lovely smart inbox suggested features so it really tones down your inbox as much as it can
without really educating you too much about it i believe it recently when they did their
last update for ios and the mac version they actually had stephen fry as their
official sort of speaker or the person who was doing the video which is amazing like the fact
that you can get stephen fry is cool so they get amazing not for stephen fry but just for that
next up is spike this is an app that to be honest when i first saw it i was like no
because what they were trying to do with this like team conversation thing in the
email and i was like oh that looks really messy it looks like you're just trying to
mimic slack because you're just messaging people and i always feel that emails is like professional
experience or at least this formalized experience which you go into and you send emails it it's
not a conversational application like whatsapp or messenger but to be fair when i got showed
around this application and i actually tried it myself i was actually impressed with it we've got
a video on our channel which dives into it but the reason i was impressed with it because it's
a layer so for example when you send that email it actually still appears professional it doesn't
appear unprofessional and if you were to say add team members you can connect them to spike and
that helps you to have a sort of conversational like experience in real time with them so you're
sort of like having email and slack in one as long as your team are convinced and ready to use spike
which is quite cool so this has actually impressed me i'm going to put it in the amazing category
i think just because i was originally really unsold on it but i actually really
impressed with the way that it works next up is superhuman now again i'm going to put this one in
not sure it's between amazing and great i think the 30 per month is high for a lot of people
but i think there's this i think there's this place for premium applications in the market 100
we're seeing that we're more recently with apps like clay which is like this personal crm tool
really impressed the way superhuman build this application so i'm going to put it in amazing i
think it's whether you're willing to pay for apps like this or not more recently i've moved from
missive to tempo which i'm going to talk about next i'm impressed with it but that's 99
per year same sort of price as hey so i think people if you're willing to pay for
an email experience you go into every single day i think that's fine um i think price is your own
sort of experience but again it's it's really up to i think i think the way they put together an
application is really smart so i'm going to give it amazing next up is tempo two this is the app
i've moved from missive to i'm i'm impressed but i'm gonna put it in great i'll explain why
i'll talk first about what it does the reason i like it is because basically instead of like
this long list of emails you have priority and other every time during the day for example like
i said at 9am and 2pm i do a full spat a batch comes in of emails you sort them and then when
you sort them they go into a to-do or reminders area when you go in the to-do section you hit
focus mode and you clear those emails so i really like the workflow abilities behind it i think it's
fantastic i think actually for me at least when i tried hey start i was actually more impressed with
it than i was hey because it made more sense to me um than the way that they did it i don't take
credit away from hey i think the way they've done it is great but this for me at least did better so
i was really impressed with the workflow side of it the reason i'm not giving it amazing because
ui is fantastic the design just the way that the animations work in the application
is great especially for mac but they don't have an ios application at the moment so i'm still
that's the reason i'm transitioning over from missive because missive still has
the ios application so i'm still transferring over so as you can imagine taking a bit of time to sort
of move over finally we have yahoo mail and the reason i put this up here i'm gonna give it an
average no i it's a good application it's got some nice abilities in it like i think you can
do things like unsubscribe it's got a nice ui better ui than it used to but i'm going to put
it in average just because it's such an average experience and i didn't have anything below good
i feel like i should have been harsher to these applications but those are my go-to selections
for email applications hopefully this was helpful if you're looking at the email application in the
market remember the price remember the privacy side of it always make sure you check those two
first before jumping in but again email's a layer so it's just your preference really at the end
of the day at to which you're willing to pay in terms of price and your data so folks hopefully
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