What is the best email service?
Nobody changes their address twice. Free giants, encrypted holdouts and paid inboxes that screen strangers — which one deserves the next twenty years?
1GmailGoogle's email service, launched on April Fools' Day 2004 with a gigabyte of storage nobody believed.
2OutlookMicrosoft's mail service, the default in most offices and the successor to Hotmail.
3Proton MailSwiss end-to-end encrypted mail, built so the provider itself cannot read the messages.
4Yahoo MailOne of the first free webmail services, still holding hundreds of millions of legacy addresses.
5iCloud MailApple's mail service, quietly built into every Apple device and Hide My Email.
6FastmailAn independent Australian provider that sells speed and no ads instead of a free tier.
7Zoho MailAd-free business mail bundled with a full office suite, popular with small companies.
8TutaGerman encrypted mail, formerly Tutanota, with encrypted search and calendars.
9HEYBasecamp's opinionated paid email, which screens every new sender before it reaches the inbox.
10GMXA long-running German free mail provider with generous storage and aliases.
11AOL MailThe service behind "You've got mail", and still running decades after the dial-up era.
12Mail.ruOne of the largest webmail services in the Russian-speaking world, bundled with a full portal.
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Gmail launched on 1 April 2004 with a free gigabyte while rivals sold megabytes, and twelve inboxes now compete for the same vote: https://youpick.best/articles/google-ranked-many-ways
