For a long time, Yahoo Mail was unfairly regarded as the poor relation of email platforms. But not anymore.
The Yahoo Mail app for mobiles is, in some ways, a game-changer. With this app, Yahoo! has taken the game to the opposition with a suite of exciting and helpful features. And a truckload of storage to boot.
The strapline used by Yahoo! talks about the app organizing and decluttering your inbox. As many have come to expect, Yahoo! execution is excellent. They have again produced the goods in terms of user-friendliness.
As it’s free, there are ads; that’s a fact of life. But for 99 cents a month, you can opt-out, go ad-free, and get access to priority customer support. Tempting, but what else is on offer from this mobile app?
Import all your other email from Gmail, Outlook, or AOL
1000 GB of storage space
One tap unsubscription from mailing lists
Get the weather and breaking news straight from the app
Customization
Accessibility controls
Groceries, deals, and travel views
As well as rounding up all your email accounts into one place, Yahoo Mail lets you simplify matters by giving each account custom settings, an individual color, and notifications. So it’s not as messy as you might have feared.
Bossing your inbox is easy with the app’s customization tools. You can organize things the way you like them and add all your favorite views and folders into the bottom navigation bar.
Taming your inbox even further is the Unsubscribe tool. This tool pulls up onto one page all the email lists you’re on and lets you unsubscribe with one tap.
With emails from multiple accounts arriving into your inbox, you will want to be sure it’s all searchable. No worries there; the app has you covered. And there’s a separate attachments view to see all your file and pic attachments in one go.
But where Yahoo Mail stands out is in its travel, deals, and groceries view. The travel view keeps your flight info in one spot, including updates on changes to your flight gate number, delays, and cancellations.
Deals view is one you may use more often, though. It gives you a heads-up on deals of the day. And, if you enable location permission, you can see a map of the deals near you and get real-time notifications of deals whenever you enter your favorite store.
In groceries view, if you add your grocery store’s loyalty card, it will save coupons that get automatically applied at the cash register. Sweet!
It’s free
Multi-language support
Long established brand name in email
Easy to use
Fresh design and interface
Numerous view and management options to take control of your inbox
Connect and share straight from Dropbox and Google Drive
You need to pay to go ad-free
Pop-up ads get in the way of reading your email
The Yahoo Mail app is downloadable from Google Play, Apple’s App Store, and the Amazon App Store. System requirements vary.
