FairEmail vs k9mail

FairEmail

Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly email app for Android (by M66B)

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email.faircode.eu

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FairEmail		k9mail
	Project
218	Mentions	1
2,689	Stars	-
-	Growth	-
10.0	Activity	-
7 days ago	Latest Commit	-
Java	Language
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

FairEmail

Posts with mentions or reviews of FairEmail. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

Email Apps
1 project | /r/androidapps | 10 Dec 2023
OpenPGP Forked into "LibrePGP" by GnuPG's Maintainer Werner Koch
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2023

I'm using FairEmail [0] as a client on Android which supports PGP and i am quite happy with it.
[0] https://email.faircode.eu/
⟳ 4 apps added, 39 updated at f-droid.org
16 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 5 Dec 2023

FairEmail (version 1.2134): Fully featured email client. Neat, intuitive user interface. Privacy friendly
⟳ 0 apps added, 11 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
4 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 5 Dec 2023

FairEmail (version 2134): FairEmail - Fully featured, open source, privacy oriented email app for Android
FairEmail development may cease due to Google 'security' requirements
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2023
All my Open Source App Alternatives
28 projects | /r/opensource | 30 Jul 2023

Email Client → FairEmail
Client suggestions
1 project | /r/fastmail | 1 Jul 2023
E-Mail Client
1 project | /r/GrapheneOS | 19 Jun 2023

Checkout FairEmail https://email.faircode.eu/
⟳ 1 apps added, 52 updated at f-droid.org
9 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 6 Jun 2023

FairEmail (version 1.2074): Fully featured email client. Neat, intuitive user interface. Privacy friendly
⟳ 0 apps added, 12 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
2 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 4 Jun 2023

FairEmail (version 2074): FairEmail - Fully featured, open source, privacy oriented email app for Android

k9mail

Posts with mentions or reviews of k9mail. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-07-24.

K-9 Mail is back
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jul 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FairEmail and k9mail you can also consider the following projects:

k-9 - K-9 Mail – Open Source Email App for Android [Moved to: https://github.com/thundernest/k-9]

thunderbird-android - K-9 Mail – Open Source Email App for Android

email-oauth2-proxy - An IMAP/POP/SMTP proxy that transparently adds OAuth 2.0 authentication for email clients that don't support this method.

webclient - Angular webclient (with Linux, macOS and Windows desktop clients) for CTemplar's encrypted email service.

Netguard - A simple way to block access to the internet per app

izzyondroid

Neo-Store - An F-Droid client with modern UI and an arsenal of extra features.

Mailspring - :love_letter: A beautiful, fast and fully open source mail client for Mac, Windows and Linux.

koreader - An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on Cervantes, Kindle, Kobo, PocketBook and Android devices

strongswan - strongSwan - IPsec-based VPN