Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
★ 5.0What it actually doesThunderbird is a free, open-source, privacy-focused email client with IMAP/POP3 support and multiple account management, but has notable issues with notifications, folder synchronization, and compatibility with some providers, particularly Yandex OAuth2.
Actually does
- ✓Email client100% of reviews
- ✓Multi-account60% of reviews
- ✓Ad-free30% of reviews
- ✓Cloud sync40% of reviews
- ✓Russian localization10% of reviews
- ✓Free tier20% of reviews
- ✓Единый входящий (Unified Inbox)15% of reviews
- ✓Push Notifications(bonus)60% of reviews
- ✓Open source3% of reviews
Claimed, but not confirmed by reviews
- ⚠End-to-end encryption
- ⚠Поиск по письмам (локально и на сервере)
Common complaints
- ✗Notifications don't arrive or arrive with delay50% of mentions
«Notifications for new emails don't arrive»
- ✗Poor folder synchronization and slow email updates25% of mentions
«For emails to appear in folders, you need to manually refresh each folder»
- ✗Unable to delete email account6% of mentions
«Can't delete email account. Long press on Mail doesn't bring up a deletion menu»
- ✗OAuth2 not supported for some providers (Yandex)10% of mentions
«Can't connect these accounts, it says 'OAuth2 is not supported'»
- ✗HTML email display issues (garbled text, missing CSS)15% of mentions
«HTML code is displayed as text without CSS»
What people praise
- ★Completely ad-free
«Huge respect to the authors for the absence of ads!»
- ★Free and open-source
«Good app, I've been looking for something like this for a long time, plus it supports Linux and it's all free»
- ★Convenient management of multiple accounts in one app
«I handle email from multiple inboxes with one hand»
- ★Easy to add accounts
«with ease of adding accounts»
- ★Speed and stability (when it works)
«Pleasantly surprised by both the speed and stability»