FairEmail: a Privacy-first Email client for Android
What is FairEmail app?
FairEmail is a free, open-source email client app for Android systems that protect user privacy.
It is easy to setup, configure and use even for non-technical users. It is minimal software, built to provide the best performance, and seamless user experience.
Although it looks minimal, but it is feature-rich app, it supports unlimited accounts, email boxes, offers a unified inbox and more.
Main features
- Fully featured
- 100 % open source
- Privacy-oriented
- Built-in dark theme support
- Unlimited accounts
- Unlimited email addresses
- Unified inbox (optionally accounts or folders)
- Conversation threading
- Two-way synchronization
- Offline storage and operations
- Battery friendly
- Low data usage
- Small (~25 MB)
- Material design (including dark/black theme)
- Maintained and supported
- Widget support
Privacy features
- It does not have any ads or tracker scripts
- Encryption/decryption supported (OpenPGP and S/MIME)
- Reformat messages to prevent phishing
- Confirm showing images to prevent tracking
- Confirm opening links to prevent tracking and phishing
- Attempt to recognize and disable tracking images
- Warning if messages could not be authenticated
Secure
- No data storage on third party servers
- Using open standards (IMAP, SMTP, OpenPGP, S/MIME, etc)
- Safe message view (styling, scripting and unsafe HTML removed)
- Confirm opening links, images and attachments
- No special permissions required
- No advertisements
- No analytics and no tracking (error reporting is opt-in)
- No Google backup
- FairEmail is an original work, not a fork or a clone
Efficient
- Fast and lightweight
- IMAP IDLE (push messages) supported
- Built with the latest development tools and libraries
Pro features
All pro features are convenience or advanced features.
- Account/identity/folder colors
- Colored stars (instructions)
- Notification settings (sounds) per account/folder/sender (requires Android 8 Oreo) (instructions)
- Configurable notification actions
- Snooze messages (instructions)
- Send messages after selected time
- Synchronization scheduling (instructions)
- Reply templates
- Accept/decline calendar invitations
- Add message to calendar
- Filter rules (instructions)
- Automatic message classification (instructions)
- Search indexing (instructions)
- S/MIME sign/encrypt (instructions)
- Biometric/PIN authentication (instructions)
- Message list widget
- Export settings
Download and install FairEmail
You can get FairEmail from Google Play or F-Droid.
License
FairEmail is released as an open-source project under GPL-3.0 License. The source code is available on GitHub.
