Airmail is the most customizable client Ive gave a shot on iOS – even much more than Spark, Outlook, and Email by EasilyDo – and the developers have done a nice job at offering options to change how the app works and looks.
Fortunately, while Airmail doesnt seek to reinvent the wheel as for UI design and email organization, the developers prioritized a fundamental feature for iOS power users: the ability to customize nearly everything in the app, even more than what a powerful desktop client does!
The amount of control that Airmail gives you over appearance and workflow is honestly magnificent, and its in contrast with any other client Ive tried on iOS before.
Airmail also is on the trail of previous third-party clients (most specially, Mailbox) in the way it builds functionalities on top of the traditional inbox. Airmail lets you snooze messages, mark them as todos, save them as quick memos for later, and bounce the message to its sender. Yet, it has implemented more awesome features to what you have missed quite a while ago.
Unlike modern personifications of email just as Google Inbox and Spark, Airmail follows a mainstream mailbox model: a unified inbox with a list of messages decorated by color bars (as an innovative way to realize which email belongs to which account), optional profile pictures, and a sidebar where you can navigate messages. Airmail doesnt take pains to combine your email and calendar in a single workflow like Outlook, nor does it intend to categorize and make sense of your email like Googles Inbox. Keeping it clean and easy to navigate through without overwhelming the user with unnecessary features, while giving you a list of actions to integrate your emails with external apps.
You can add multiple accounts to the app, which securely stores your credentials on its servers to provide you with instant push notifications, which is an essential feature for a professional email client.
When composing a message, a highly appreciated format bar resides above the keyboard, showing a scrollable list of controls to adjust how the text is presented. You can change fonts, tweak their size and color, or format it without lying under obligation to use the iOS copy & paste menu. You can align text, control indentation, and even create numbered and bulleted lists. It seems like most email client developers dont quite understand how to bring them to iOS, while they work properly in Airmail.
Airmail offers a rich selection of settings to tweak how the app works. You can have multiple signatures and swipe between them upon composing a message, and decide to have your signature above a quoted message or not.
However, I really appreciate it if they show the attachments at the top of the email, just like what they did to the compose window. Its not practical to swipe down a long message to get to the attachments.
An Airmail functionality that the developers got straight and that differentiates the app from the competition is account sync with iCloud. Youre given extensive control over what gets synced and how. You can set Airmail to sync accounts, preferences, and even downloaded attachments, or you can only set them up for import – a new installation of Airmail will get to add them and adjust settings later.
AirMail is just what Ive been in pursuit of since the year one and as a power user who manages all the email activities on the go, AirMail is the most customizable and powerful email client for iOS thus far.
Highly recommended…