# Alternatives to Mailbox

Swipe-based email Dropbox acquired. Mailbox has been discontinued; the active alternatives listed here are maintained products you can switch to.

None of its 11 checklist rows are verified yet.

Source: https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/mailbox/
Category: Email clients

## Overview

- **Who it's for**: iOS and Android users who wanted a faster way to process high email volumes, particularly Gmail and iCloud users looking for a more gesture-driven alternative to native mail apps.
- **What you get**: Mailbox offered swipe gestures to archive or delete messages and to file them into lists, plus a signature 'snooze' feature that let you defer an email to reappear later at a set time or place. It also supported Auto-Swipe for quick, repeatable actions and integrated with Dropbox for viewing and saving attachments. The app used a one-inbox-at-a-time design meant to help users reach 'Inbox Zero.'
- **How it works**: Users connected an email account (initially Gmail, later expanded to iCloud and other IMAP providers), then triaged messages by swiping right to archive/delete or left to snooze or file into a list, working through the inbox message by message.

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## Ranked alternatives

| # | App | Alt Score | Licence | Platforms |
|---|-----|-----------|---------|-----------|
| 1 | [aerc](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/aerc.md) | building | MIT | Linux, macOS |
| 2 | [Apple Mail](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/apple-mail.md) | building | Proprietary | macOS, iOS |
| 3 | [Aqua Mail](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/aqua-mail.md) | building | Proprietary | Android |
| 4 | [BlueMail](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/bluemail.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS |
| 5 | [Canary Mail](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/canary-mail.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, iOS, Android |
| 6 | [eM Client](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/em-client.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, iOS, Android |
| 7 | [Evolution](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/evolution.md) | building | LGPL-2.1 | Linux |
| 8 | [FairEmail](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/fairemail.md) | building | GPL-3.0 | Android |
| 9 | [Geary](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/geary.md) | building | LGPL-2.1-or-later | Linux |
| 10 | [K-9 Mail](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/k-9-mail.md) | building | Apache-2.0 | Android |
| 11 | [Mailbird](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/mailbird.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS |
| 12 | [Mailspring](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/mailspring.md) | building | GPL-3.0 | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| 13 | [Mimestream](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/mimestream.md) | building | Proprietary | macOS |
| 14 | [Missive](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/missive.md) | building | Proprietary | Web, Windows, macOS, iOS |
| 15 | [NeoMutt](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/neomutt.md) | building | GPL-2.0 | Linux, macOS |
| 16 | [Outlook](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/outlook.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, iOS, Android |
| 17 | [Postbox](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/postbox.md) | building | Proprietary | macOS, Windows |
| 18 | [Shortwave](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/shortwave.md) | building | Proprietary | Web, macOS, Windows, iOS |
| 19 | [Spark](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/spark.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, iOS, Android |
| 20 | [Superhuman](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/superhuman.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows, macOS, iOS, Android |
| 21 | [The Bat!](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/the-bat.md) | building | Proprietary | Windows |
| 22 | [Thunderbird](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/thunderbird.md) | building | MPL-2.0 | Windows, macOS, Linux |

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