Apple Mail
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
7warn against
Dec 10, 2025first mention
Oct 13, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“There is nothing like Apple Mail in my opinion”
“Apple Mail Search - you can filter by nearly every aspect, even between dates”
Linux user who migrated from macOSon “"Gravity is worth asking about."”
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“provided you don’t have an exotic setup and can deal with only average search capabilities, it works well”
Caveats and dissent
“apple mail search has been insufficient on ios and macos for 15 years or more at this point”
iCloud mail useron “Thunderbird for iOS”
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“Mail hid all signals people would normally use.”
iPhone user for a few yearson “Thunderbird for iOS”
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Threads where it came up
- Thunderbird for iOS 3 mentions
- All I wanted was a custom domain email 1 mention
- I don't like passkeys 1 mention
- iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 1 mention
- Don't Use a gmail.com Address 1 mention
- Ask HN: Good IMAP Email Clients? 1 mention
Data: apple-mail.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 14
“apple mail search has been insufficient on ios and macos for 15 years or more at this point”
“out of frustration with Apple Mail”
“Mail hid all signals people would normally use.”
“I still use Apple Mail most of the time”
“it's been a buggy mess since Catalina”
“I quit Apple Mail (due to its poor handling of Gmail accounts)”
“I use apple mail, but since I own the domain, I can move to anywhere/anytime”
“There is nothing like Apple Mail in my opinion”
“Apple Mail Search - you can filter by nearly every aspect, even between dates”
“No wonder people are falling for those scams, Mail makes it easy for them.”
“provided you don’t have an exotic setup and can deal with only average search capabilities, it works well”
“Not that Mail.app is amazing. It sometimes corrupts its sqlite db”
“Apple Mail automatically adds calendar entries from attachments in my junk mail to my calendar.”
“with the gradual decline of MacOS (and Mail.app) I'm looking to switch back”