Share on Facebook Tweet this Share Despite the sheer amount of unfledged devotion Microsoft’s flagship e-mail client since it arrived on Windows computers in the mid-’90s, there’s more than just one capable offering on the market for sending and retrieving email. Desktop email clients are an absolute necessity in today’s digital age, designed to access email messages regardless of an Internet connection and provide a convenient means for simultaneously accessing and consolidating multiple email addresses under one, banner application. Most also tout more storage than your run-of-the-mill Web client, whilst offering robust syncing with various calendar apps and file-hosting services such as Dropbox in addition to continual access to previously-downloaded emails. Although it’s impossible to access a desktop client on the Web, the pros and cons of having a quality desktop client at your fingertips are difficult to overlook — especially considering nearly every developer worth mentioning offers their commendable program free of charge or for a small, premium fee. Sdgs Here are our picks for the best email clients for PC and Mac OS X, whether you’re willing to pay a premium price or, well, not. Also, check out our hand-picked selection of the and our choices for the. Sifting through junk mail has never been easier.

(Mac OS X/$10) Unibox Unibox is a sleek, Mac-friendly alternative to Outlook. As you’ll notice once you get started, Unibox showcases conver.

An independent writer who has reviewed hundreds of email programs and services since 1997. The Mail application that ships with macOS and OS X is solid, feature-rich and spam-eliminating software that is also an easy-to-use email client. Optimized to work on the Mac, the Mail app is trouble free. Give it a few more versions, and Unibox (; Mac App Store link) could become quite the contender. Right now, it’s a very well-designed and usable $10 app with a few pesky hiccups.