AltaMail Reviews

It did filter things, but it when it tried to talk to the Yahoo server it kept getting data errors when I deleted or sent mail.
I have NO problem with the Yahoo account from apple mail on the iPad.
The final straw was when we went to print out a receipt, (ironically for payment to them) We had never had occasion to print anything before that.
When we tried to print, instead of using the standard iOS interface it substituted it’s own, which did not work.
When it’s built in print que failed, it suggested that I should install the wetprint app. I googled “wetprint for apple iPad” and came up dry. No mention of it in the google database.
I had just paid for it but the print failure on top of a day spent messing with it’s failure to actually delete the spam it found because it did not seem able to talk to Yahoo. It kept saying that the problem was yahoo couldn’t take the data. It kept posting error messages from the Yahoo server about data overload.
It must be sending stuff in bad format because Apple mail worked fine.
Worst money I spent this month.

Can’t get my gmail account added. I checked the boxes in gmail to enable IMAP settings. Put in user ID in this app and as soon as I hit enter it removed the password box? If gmail didn’t require a password I don’t think there would be anyone using it because anyone would be able to get into their gmail account. So why does an email app think that gmail doesn’t require a password. Especially one that requires you to donate 99 cents ever month to help with updates. The craziest thing about this is my cox email went right through with no problem and that’s crazy because cox doesn’t even want to do emails. They literally have stopped issuing emails to new customers who sign up for internet service. Because of that cox is the hardest IMAP email to set up and yet it went through no problem, but gmail don’t work. After waiting for too long to connect I went ahead and clicked the test button. What did that do? It open up a message that read no password on my gmail account. So I put it in and nothing. I don’t think that 99 cents per month is helping or your programmers are former cox employees. Because that is the only reason I can think why it was so fricken easy and that would explain why cox gave up on the email side of the business.

Updated review -

AltaMail is great, but I have issues receiving email on a regular basis without me having to open AltaMail , and making it force a sync.

Some email texts are not formatted correctly. I have to swipe from left to right and vice versa to read and see the entire body of the Email.

Maybe after the next update I will try it again. Right now it’s unreliable.

Previous review -

I’m surprised I didn’t come across AltaMail any sooner. I have searched high and low for an email client just like this.

Has the same if not more options than my Outlook 2016 software application on my PC.

There is every option imaginable and more. From rules, sounds and notifications.

Support is very responsive. Very good FAQ.

The GUI interface could use some polishing. I’m a Widows PC user. The Alata Mail GUI interface reminds me of Windows 3.1. Kinda choppy. Sometimes the interface is hard to work with on an iPhone X.

All in all it’s very good. I’m sure the developers will continue to improve its functionality and appearance. I will be buying the 1 year subscription.

Bravo...job well done.

Features and build quality: 5/5
Actual email viewing experience: 2/5

First off, I bought the one year upgrade for AltaMail while still in the trial period—and I have zero regrets.

I tried this client for one reason: you can view FULL HEADERS. One tap for a considerable amount of message detail, all neatly sorted. Another tap for the full header I’m looking for.

The UI isn’t pretty—at all. I spent about half an hour adjusting settings to get it to “acceptable.” HALF AN HOUR—there were SO MANY options, so much control over the appearance, and it was all really intuitive.

It really is a great app with a ton of useful features. However, this isn’t likely to become my default mail app.

The default text size was really small. No problem, adjusted that. But, in doing that, it greatly increased the line height/leading, as though it was double-spaced. HTML message rendering is ‘off’ compared to the Mail app, there’s a lot of content crammed to one side, it doesn’t make use of the full viewing area. I toggled between several different HTML emails in the two apps and the results were consistent, Mail app pretty, this app not so much.

AltaMail Store receipt that came in after my purchase was unforgivably ugly. Unreadable, text blocks piled on top of one another.

Less helpful summary of my biggest complaints:
For the love of all that is good, hire a graphic artist, this looks like it was made by a developer.

I bought this application for the ability to have rules in iOS like my Mac has. The product does what I needed to get my junk email under control. Someone spam-bombed me and I went from 2 to 5 a day to 150 or even more a day. As long as I keep up with adding new domains as they appear in my in box. I did not gave it 5 stars because the readability of emails is really bad. I’ve gotten used to iOS Apple email and this app is just hard to read. Also I would be great to have a rule short cut that would grab a email’s from email address and create a rule to send that domain to the Trash. Again absolutely love the ability to create real rules. Thanks for a great app for email rules and I recommend it to anyone who needs a highly developed rule system.

1. AltaMail has so many settings and options. This is both good amd bad. You can set up this app any way you want, but the settings are so confusing that it will take you hours and perhaps days to get it set up they way you want. The setting descriptions and "instructions" are often very difficult to understand.
2. The tech support is indeed fast. But sometimes the instructions are also confusing and inadequate. I’m some cases I have given up trying to implement tech support suggestions.
3. Though the past updates on the Mac and iOS versions tout better synchoniaztion between this app flags and Apple Mail flgs, it simply doesn't work, and after dozens of emails back and forth between tech support and myself, they tell me the issue is something to do with Apple's way of doing things. I wasted so much time trying to figure this out.
4. I have paid for a subscription for the iOS version of this app. I do not mind that. After days and days of setting up all the options, I can live with that, notwithstanding the Flags issue. BUT, to have to pay yet another subscription for the Mac version of this app...that's the deal breaker! Back to AirMail where 1 subscription covers the iOS and Mac version.

I give up.

Although I am still a newby and learning my way around, But, AltaMail is the BEST email app I have ever used to date. And I have used most all Mail Apps looking for a SPAM cure. But this app is so far the best. And, I say that because My Spam and Junk Mail has finally found it’s way OUT of my inbox, usually never to be seen again. For years I have been harassed by SPAM mail but with this app now installed...not so much any more. Apples mail app can not match this one and in fact I have Deleted Apple’s App from all my devices, including my iPhone, and replaced it with this app. MY ISP has not been at all helpful in resolving Spam issues. The steps given for such control of SPAM-JUNK mail are complex and time consuming to perform...and don’t even work!! And, now with this app, I don’t have those issues as much anymore. I would love to see the day when a brilliant APP company like this one, can be given permission by a customer, like me, to enter my ISP and help control annoying features like Spam and Junk Mail... That would be worth almost any price for such an app. BUT, this this app APP does not just excel in Spam Kills, but also in Organizing emails so that they are easy to find and store for future use. I love AltaMail, and I will give another rating after I have had more time. THANKS this app!!!

I recommend spending a little time surveying the various settings, then going back over them to continue trying out some ideas you may have for your desired workflow. I customized the side and action menus and returned again and again to Settings | Email Management. Throughout my tour, AltaMail *functioned pleasingly well, and I encountered few bugs. The Help is extensive and useful when something needs clarification. Now I have a setup to manage email that addresses the functionality I've been looking for—a dozen apps later. Worth every penny, and more.

I've tried them all and nothing else comes close (on iOS).
Yes, there is a bit of a learning curve, as the default Apperance settings need some customizing. Get that sorted and you should be very happy from then on.

Lots of exclusive features and options, like moving emails between accounts (not just folders) and permanently deleting, etc…

Takes awhile to learn (all the settings/options), but if you want the best, its worth the time.

Also, this might be the only app, where tech support actually responds eagerly, to answer questions and/or fix app issues.
They've got this app very well developed now, they recently fixed some issues I reported.

I've been using this app since 2016 on my SE and now on my 15Pro.
I've gotten to know it pretty well.
Can't imagine using anything else.

I’ve tried every single email application on the store over the years and this app blows them all away with a doubt. It’s been so trusty over the years it’s probably the only app I’ve ever bought for the original pricing, paid for the subscription when they switched, then paid again for the lifetime without throwing a fit over. My only suggestion is I hope they add bionic reading to the font selection soon, it’s been a godsend to those of us that are neurodivergent.

I can’t express enough how great the customer service is at this app. I have been a user for a very long time and not once have I emailed them that they didn’t email me back within that day and sometimes within the same hour. They always fix any problems I see immediately and issue an update to solve the problems. This is the only email app I use on my IPhone for the last few years because the Apple email is about useless compared to this app. AltaMail is well worth the money!

I have tried about 12-15 apps for emails. I am neither kidding nor exaggerating about that. I have been looking for an email with rules options and not just basic rules but with all the options including “doesn't contain” Clean Email is another good app but expensive and does not support rules like AltaMail, so email filters still lack and require manual work. AltaMail has everything I have been looking for for a few years, and I am shocked I never found this before. I definitely will get the lifetime license because I can stop looking for email apps now.

I’ve been a subscriber of this software for several years now and I continue to renew. It is hard to imagine how the developers could pack one more feature into it. You can tell they’re committed to that however and also to their customers’ satisfaction. Give it a try, especially if you’re using POP3 (but it does also support IMAP). Also, you may enjoy the way they use color, different font sizes etc. to help differentiate parts of the interface and of the emails themselves. I’m sold on this app!

I suggested this app Classic on discussion forum, but had found it too difficult to use before. Discovered that there was this wonderful upgrade. The rules and actions seem to be so much more intuitive now. In just two days, it neatly tamed the avalanche of literally hundreds of email I get each day, and they are all neatly filed instead of going into one big Archive All folder. Will be using this app as my Email App from now on. I can delete all others and cancel subscriptions to services that have never really worked so well. Thank you!

I have used quite a few mail apps and this is by far the most robust while being easy to use. Ability to customize many mail management features is highly useful. VERY IMPORTANTLY: This is the only email app that has enabled me to hide the vast amount of email clutter thus enabling me to quickly see the important emails which used to be like finding “needles in a hay stack”. This enables me to QUICKLY glance at AltaMail for what I need (and must not miss) as my days are focused outside email and I do not have the time to manually cull the clutter. Custom notifications are great to have as they reach out of my phone to grab my attention. The extensive means of customizing email lit appearance is also a huge aid in quickly targeting the emails that need attention NOW.

My favorite email app keeps on getting better. Thank you to the team for the best most capable email app of many I have used through the decades of email becoming increasingly essential in so many aspects of life - while junk mail and relatively unimportant email increasingly is crowding out the essential emails - this app enables me to set various rules that direct this app to, in multiple ways, cull through the inessential to the essential

After suffering with Apples Mail app for years, I started using googles mail app for my gmail accounts. It solved a problem but then I had 2 apps to deal with (I have 6 gmail accounts I manage and several non-gmail. Then this app was mentioned in a Tidbits email so I thought I’d give it a shot, I couldn’t be happier. It does everything I need to manage all my diverse emails and has capabilities I will probably never use! It’s very customizable, has excellent support (yes, tested that too), and is simply so good it’s hard to believe it runs on my iPhone & iPads (excellent on iPads too). Get it, try it, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.

I have been using this app for several years without any problem and with great joy until a problem raised. After which I found that not only they have created a great product, they really stand by it and definitely engage you in order to either help you to overcome the problem or in my case stay with you until they understand what is going on and correct what ever is going on as soon as posible. I was one of those affected by the iCloud/me mail issue and that was handled brilliantly and the fix was included almost immediately (just few days after the problem was understood). Thank you all (I should have wrote this earlier... but you now, life gets always in the middle!)

If you have several email accounts, use throwaway emails and need the ability to quickly add aliases when you need to reply with one of those throwaways, or like running a bunch of rules on emails to automate email redirection and tagging, look no further - you’ve found your app. I have tried over a dozen different apps over the years, and this one did all the things I needed and more. And unlike many of the top mail apps, your privacy is kept intact using AltaMail. I’ve also sent suggestions to customer support, and not only do they respond quickly, but they actually work to implement the suggestions (well, the good ones, I suppose :) ). Throw in that they offer a lifetime subscription that works across all of the platforms for one payment, and I am kicking myself for taking so long to invest fully in AltaMail. Take the time to customize things the way you want, and you won’t be sorry!

... and a beautiful interface but every time I open AltaMail and it starts downloading mail from my server, AltaMail hangs and has to be terminated and restarted. I hope they can fix that bug because I would really love to give this app a college try.

Edit 1: I'm still having the freezing problem as of earlier today but I'm upping my star rating to four just because their tech and developer support has been absolutely phenomenal. I've never worked with an app development team this competent and attentive to a single customer's needs. They have been amazing. Once this freezing problem is resolved, it'll be a five star rating for sure.

Edit 2: this app has officially won a five star rating. It's a great little piece of software and it has a phenomenal development and customer service team behind it. They fixed the freezing problem with their latest update. It was literally four days from my submitting the ticket to resolution. That is some serious customer support. It gets the five stars if for not other reason than that.

The spam filters are no joke, they really work ! I haven’t had to deal with email spam at all since getting AltaMail, which makes me happy. The push service works too, AltaMail gets new emails first. Sometimes message text is hard to read, not sure how to change its color for dark mode readability, but the mere fact that I don’t have to see spam anymore makes it a keeper for me. Love the split pane view option too.