I use FairEmail. I have most of emails downloaded on device and those which aren't can be searched from the server.
You can contact the dev by filling an online request form. Maybe, he can help with your search issue.
this post was submitted on 31 May 2025
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Aquamail (when it was good)
I'm still using AquaMail, is there some news or scandal I missed? It works well enough for me, but then again I barely use email for anything other than a place for notifications so if they fucked up some other feature I probably wouldn't have noticed.
I know their attempts at monetization have been batshit insane, but I bought it ages ago for a couple of bucks and luckily missed out on all that. Is there any reason to move to another app if I'm grandfathered into lifetime premium?
K-9 mail. 1/3rd the size as the gmail app and no ads.
There is also a Thunderbird app now. I think they are doing the maintenance for k9 as well.
I believe they're the same app just with different logos.
IIRC Thunderbird acquired K9 and rebranded it.
They are pretty much the same now. Such a shame, because i really liked to old K-9 (both design and performance were better IMO). Thunderbird is fine tho.
There is one called FairEmail. While it technically has a pro version (one time purchase), but most of the needed features are available on the free tier. Plus it's available on F Droid as well, so that's a plus and is continuously maintained.
What ads are you seeing in Gmail besides your own emails that probably contain some sort of spam? 🤨
Social and Promotional sections have sponsored "emails" aka ads.
This is the official Android app you're talking about, right? I don't even see such a category/label. I'm wondering if this is one of those slow-roll outs for new BS they are planning on adding.
Apparently if you dont use inbox categories you won't see them. So that might be why you haven't. Personally I like them. The sponsored emails are easy to ignore and not seeing the spam from Linkden, that I only use when job hunting, in the main inbox is nice. Any sites I've bought from that sends sale emails gets shunted into Promotional so they dont clog my inbox either.
FWIW, Linkedin has reasonably extensive notification settings with toggles for both email and push. I get almost no emails from them except when I accidentally turn on alerts from a new job search.
I turned those off the moment they appeared in my gmail account. Don't understand why others still use them.
ProtonMail
specifically for Gmail
The best answer is to leave Gmail.
Spark, it reminds me of Google inbox (although I'm still bitter over Google killing inbox).
I use the free tier of Spark, and have never felt a need to upgrade. The free version contains all the features I need.
I use the Gmail app. I've never seen any ads in it, where do you see them?
It doesn't have "mark as read", no, but it does have archive. Why do you want to leave items in your inbox but read?
The "social" tab it created almost always has at least one sponsored message at the top.
Oh. I turned those off the day they were introduced.
How?
Settings, inbox categories. I have them all unchecked and the app works perfectly smoothly for me.
Oh, I thought there was a way to disable the sponsored crap. I like getting all the linkedin nonsense filtered. I suppose I could just unsubscribe too.
Yeah I mostly just unsubscribe from that stuff. Gmail even gives you a button for it. Although recently Linkedin started a new type of email, and if I click their unsubscribe button it just goes to the top-level notification settings, which I already turned off, so those ones I just started marking as spam. Now they all go to the spam folder.
Just create a filter with the LinkedIn domain(s)
Same. I saw it for what it was right off the bat. No thanks.
Uhm... Search works correctly in Fairemal here, even when it is performed on the server (not locally).
Really? I am never able to find emails that haven't been received on Fairemail or are quite old when using an Outlook and/or IMAP email address.
Tuta.
I actually forgot. Just looked, and it's just Outlook. I thought I used something else and remembered I did years ago. Just looked for it and I think it was called BlueMail but I tried looking it up, and it looks like it went really downhill. Years ago, I loved it. I'm guessing that's why I switched at some point.
TIL Outlook has ads. I use AdBlock and I had no idea 😅
Nine
I used Thunderbird for a while, but for some reason it would dig up years-old emails and present them as new and unread. Despite the fact that I never leave anything "unread".
Nine. I use it with my own dovecot/sendmail server and with Gmail for work.
It's not maintained but still works better than the others for me.
Run a noads DNS on the phone, either libredns or mullvaddns, neither outlook or Gmail will show ads.
In fact you won't have any ads period.