Certainly, most email inboxes look similar to each other. Admittedly, none of those names are clear about what the view will be, but essentially each offers a different density for the inbox. Over the years, Google has given Gmail consistent updates to keep the service fresh and functional. Google has made several improvements to ensure individuals get the tools they need. For example, the inbox has become more dynamic in recent years.
These days, emails are organized into types, such as Promotions, Updates, and Primary. In , a new Yahoo Mail design brought modern features and a sleek interface. Seeking a more minimal design, Yahoo chose to offer several layout options. In fact, users have more flexibility, with three layouts and three message spacing sizes. However, in a head-to-head comparison of Gmail and Yahoo Mail, Gmail remains inherently more usable than Yahoo.
Users now want as many options as possible… they want a personal experience. Both Yahoo and Gmail offer an array of customizations that allow you to add a personal touch to your inbox. Themes are a major part of the Google ecosystem, as anyone who uses the Chrome web browser will know. While Gmail does not supply an extensive catalog of themes like Chrome, users still enjoy a decent selection.
Google allows users to get really personal by uploading their own photo to serve as the theme background, which I think is pretty cool. It is also worth pointing out users can change the color of the Gmail interface. Users only have three theme options to choose from, Light, Medium, or Dark.
These do little to truly customize the experience, but at least provide some visual changes when you need them. When using Yahoo, you will see a very traditional organization layout. For example, you have your inbox that display all emails together. Furthermore, the slick UI of Gmail means these categories are easily accessible through a tabbed interface. As you would expect, both Yahoo Mail and Gmail come with their fair share of interesting features. Users of Yahoo Mail can create filters that categorize incoming emails based on criteria such as sender, recipient, subject, or email body.
Because it's operated by Microsoft, it's heavily integrated into the Windows 10 operating system. It also works seamlessly with the Outlook Office app. If you decide to use either the web client or the desktop client, you're in good company. The free mail service has been gaining popularity over the last few years, but it's been around since Despite only having around 15 million active monthly users, it still comfortably makes the top ten of free email providers in terms of user numbers.
It's a surprising statistic and one which reveals the almost unassailable popularity of services like Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook. Most interestingly, it offers 65GB of email storage which is enough to never run out of space again.
Unfortunately, it lacks an RSS reader and a conversation view. Zoho Mail is one of the newest providers on the list. It's only been in existence since October In its short life, the service has quickly developed into one of the best free email providers outside the Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook troika.
Driven by an ad-free web client even for free users , it's grown to more than 12 million active users in just a few years. The app offers everything you'd expect from a free email provider, including multi-level folders, conversation views, drag-and-drop inbox organizing, and filters.
Zoho Mail also lets you set up email at your domain for free , though one omission is an integrated video chat tool. Zoho Mail is part of a larger office productivity suite.
The service is tightly integrated with Zoho Docs—a Microsoft Office alternative that lets you create, edit, and collaborate on text, presentation, and spreadsheet documents. Most Mac, iPad, and iPhone users have an account. Mail is just one facet of the app. The app boasts million users, but it's not clear how many of them are using an iCloud. Like Outlook. On mobile, you can add any number of email providers to the app. On the web client, you can only access your icloud.
All iCloud users get 5GB of storage for free. You can align your messages differently, change the spacing of your inbox, and even use different colors and levels of brightness to make your screen more visible. The mobile apps are also designed somewhat similarly. Each app offers emails from your inbox and other folders in an easily digestible, easy-to-finger-tap format. By default, both platforms have a lot in common. You can mark messages as important, or mark them with a star to distinguish them further.
You can sort your inbox and search for messages. You can mark messages as spam, delete them, or archive them. You can even mark messages as read or unread. But from there, the platforms diverge. For starters, each platform has a different system for managing different types of emails high-level.
You can change which of these categories appear and how they work in the Settings menu. Yahoo will automatically detect which messages belong in these categories, and display them all at once. Both functions are similar, but may be more or less useful depending on how you wish to use them. By default, Yahoo Mail functions with the folder system you might recognize from Outlook. Each folder contains individual emails as a kind of separate inbox, allowing you to stay organized.
In Gmail, the system is slightly different, relying on Labels; the key advantage with Labels is that you can assign many different labels to a single email, rather than exclusively sending it to a single folder. Accordingly, you can think of each email platform as a kind of gateway or hub that leads to these other areas.
Depending on which set of apps and bonus features you prefer, you may lean toward one or the other. For example, in Yahoo Mail, you can quickly access a calendar, a notepad, and a number of other Yahoo apps like News, Finance, Sports, Fantasy, Politics, and Celebrity news.
If you care about these things, or if you like how Yahoo presents and organizes them, Yahoo Mail can be a convenient home base for your online interactions. The same can be said of Gmail, but it has access to a much wider range of tools. We can also think about the add ons and extensions available for each email platform, which have the ability to modify or enhance your experience in different ways.
Many of these apps are free, and some are paid, but all of them can alter your Gmail experience.
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