ProtonMail Web Client VS Mailspring

Compare ProtonMail Web Client vs Mailspring and see what are their differences.

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ProtonMail Web Client Mailspring
180 68
4,096 15,076
1.6% 1.0%
10.0 7.9
8 days ago about 2 months ago
TypeScript C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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ProtonMail Web Client

Posts with mentions or reviews of ProtonMail Web Client. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-02.

Mailspring

Posts with mentions or reviews of Mailspring. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-30.
  • What Is Wrong with Enterprise Linux
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jul 2023
    I fully agree, moreover this:

    > Rolling release distributions like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed follow upstream much more closely while still maintaining stability through thorough automated testing

    Shows the author hasn't used Tumbleweed for any reasonable amount of time himself[0][1][2]. I daily drove it for a short while before moving to Fedora.

    0: https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring/issues/533

    1: https://forums.opensuse.org/t/tumbleweed-breaks-after-update...

    2: https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/v09hnc/tumbleweed...

  • MailSpring Compatibility?
    1 project | /r/ProtonMail | 15 Jun 2023
    /u/protonmail is the a reason why there's been no effort on this front? It appears that it comes down to some sort of handshake issue but I can't imagine this is that hard to fix.
  • JMAP – a much needed modern email open standard
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2023
    I was hopeful that https://www.nylas.com/ would be the de-facto "adapter" placing a common API surface on top of the major providers and dragging them into a modern-API world. They even had an email client of their own as a proof of concept (forked by one of the original authors as https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring - and its reusable core https://github.com/Foundry376/Mailspring-Sync may be interesting to many here). But they've pivoted towards making their API only available behind B2B contracts and opaque pricing, and primarily used for corporate email monitoring and CRM use cases - perhaps because security and privacy considerations are nontrivial. I'm still rooting for them but it's a shadow of what it could have been.
  • Mail client
    1 project | /r/software | 13 Mar 2023
    Mailspring
  • Recommendation of Windows software [A long read]
    9 projects | /r/windows | 8 Mar 2023
    Mailspring- A great email client for windows (Opensource + Freemium)
  • The Future of Thunderbird: Why We’re Rebuilding from the Ground Up
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2023
    I love Mailspring, it's modern and open source: https://getmailspring.com/

    The UI uses Electron, but the actual sync engine is in C++, so it's pretty fast.

  • Translate text inside Apple Mail
    1 project | /r/macapps | 2 Feb 2023
    The only app I’m aware of which translates emails is this; https://getmailspring.com
  • linux: choosing a well-supported and future proof email desktop client?
    1 project | /r/selfhosted | 31 Jan 2023
    Mailspring is quite nice. It also has a paid version and is actively updated so I think it's likely to stick around for awhile.
  • Cross Platform Email Client
    2 projects | /r/PrivacyGuides | 22 Jan 2023
    Mailspring, which is open source, is currently my recommendation for a desktop email client.
  • Which email client do you prefer and why?
    1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 16 Dec 2022
    Mailspring. Open-source and fully local, but an optional account and optional subscription for premium cloud-based features. Thunderbird was too cluttered and Geary, although I really wanted to like it, was just too minimal.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ProtonMail Web Client and Mailspring you can also consider the following projects:

SimpleLogin - The SimpleLogin back-end and web app

Mailspring-Libre - (archived) Mailspring Libre build – aiming at removing Mailspring's dependecy on a central server

Roundcube - The Roundcube Webmail suite

Mailpile - A free & open modern, fast email client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features

RainLoop - Simple, modern & fast web-based email client

intellij-plugins - Open-source plugins included in the distribution of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate and other IDEs based on the IntelliJ Platform

Tutanota makes encryption easy - Tuta is an email service with a strong focus on security and privacy that lets you encrypt emails, contacts and calendar entries on all your devices.

FairEmail - Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly email app for Android

electron-overlay-window - Creating overlays is easy like never before

proton-mail - React web application to manage ProtonMail

sigma-file-manager - "Sigma File Manager" is a free, open-source, quickly evolving, modern file manager (explorer / browser) app for Windows and Linux.