It just works
The app is a joy to use, with an excellent polished UI and a general lack of clutter.
It’s a great example of an app that does what it needs to do, very well, in an unobtrusive way.
Using the separate Apple Mail and Calendar apps now feel like a backwards step - well done!
It’s a great example of an app that does what it needs to do, very well, in an unobtrusive way.
Using the separate Apple Mail and Calendar apps now feel like a backwards step - well done!
Switch to Fastmail. You won’t regret it
Fastmail has tons of flexibility and features, but does a great job of staying out of your way. And being able to reach out directly to real humans for support is incredible. Plus, having masked emails built in, custom aliases, and unlimited(!!) custom domains and catch-all addresses is unlike ANY other email provider that I’m aware of. And trust me, I’m aware of almost all of them.
The company is employee/owned, so no mega-corps here. Plus, according to job listings on their website, their support staff is unionized, which is awesome!
As far as alternatives are concerned, Gmail and others scan your emails for targeted advertising, which is just not good. Plus, they’re the incumbent, so they haven’t had to meaningfully innovate in over a decade.
Proton advertises end to end encryption for your emails, but that’s only really true when you email another proton user. At that point, just use Signal; it’s WAY better. Fastmail has a whole blog post on this topic. Plus, Proton’s CEO has said some… politically unaware? questionable? things in recent years.
The company is employee/owned, so no mega-corps here. Plus, according to job listings on their website, their support staff is unionized, which is awesome!
As far as alternatives are concerned, Gmail and others scan your emails for targeted advertising, which is just not good. Plus, they’re the incumbent, so they haven’t had to meaningfully innovate in over a decade.
Proton advertises end to end encryption for your emails, but that’s only really true when you email another proton user. At that point, just use Signal; it’s WAY better. Fastmail has a whole blog post on this topic. Plus, Proton’s CEO has said some… politically unaware? questionable? things in recent years.
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Solid, reliable, and not big tech spy
I have been using for 4 years now, it is great alternative to g33mail and 0utL00k 👍👍
No option to change tiny font size
I like Fastmail but the font size on iPhone is tiny and there is no setting to change this. And it does not respond to font size changes in system. It’s not good.
UI - readability issues in many areas
On mobile - I had to configure iOS (Apple mail - which I wanted to get away from!) to get my email instead of their app bc of all the font inconsistencies that made it too hard to read and compose email.
Bugs with fonts on desktop as well. Font sizes change suddenly without any way to fix it.
No word search once you are inside an email - weird.
Calendar - my scheduling is in serious danger bc you cannot tell what month you are in - on both mobile and desktop. Cannot tell if there is any rhyme or reason to their choices.
I don’t know what they were thinking. Readability should be the priority and they have not done that.
The one time I reached out to support to report a bug the support person framed it as a preference which was dismissive and disingenuous. I don’t think I will want to spend more time reporting issues when it just goes into a void.
Bugs with fonts on desktop as well. Font sizes change suddenly without any way to fix it.
No word search once you are inside an email - weird.
Calendar - my scheduling is in serious danger bc you cannot tell what month you are in - on both mobile and desktop. Cannot tell if there is any rhyme or reason to their choices.
I don’t know what they were thinking. Readability should be the priority and they have not done that.
The one time I reached out to support to report a bug the support person framed it as a preference which was dismissive and disingenuous. I don’t think I will want to spend more time reporting issues when it just goes into a void.
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