I have been a Fastmail business user for a couple of years and what the major selling points for me was the privacy and the fact that the services just worked with my native iOS apps. For example push works natively. Their web interface has been reworked from when I first started using it, I think it’s a lot better than even GMAIL.All that said, there are a few things that could be improved upon;First on the website, when you have the entire conversation in a thread it looks out of place, it’s just poorly designed. They reworked much of the site to be modern and efficient but this looks like a throwback to Horde. If you aren’t old enough to know what Horde is, be thankful.As for iOS’s native apps, they allow you to download profiles for your Apple devices to set everything up. This is really nice as it can be cumbersome to set it up manually, however if you have aliases that you use to send from, iOS doesn’t allow this with profiles, it does if you set up Fastmail manually. Not sure whose issue this is, Apple’s or Fastmail?As for this app, I like their app but their calendar feature is lacking at least one key component for me to not use it which is the ability to click on an address and have it open up the maps app. Why this omission is beyond me. If it had this, it would be my daily driver on iOS.In the end I like Fastmail, it’s a great service, I just hope they work on continuing improvements to make the app and the service better.

UPDATE:Aug2024-Dec:Lately it has been hanging a LOT, requiring forced app restarts. Both iPad and iPhone. Particularly common after the app has been idle for a while. Prior to this year, it had been stable for years.It must be great given that I’m here merely to gripe about a small thing. Gripe: It takes way too many clicks to copy the address an email was sent to to the clipboard. I use disposable email addresses mostly (unique to each recipient, so there are hundreds) so I’m constantly needing to do this. I can see each address while scrolling through emails in a thread. but it’s: Click to expand tap, tap to show details (Yeah, NO, it’s not on this giant menu!??!) (NO, at this point or the last, I can’t long tap on the address either - that works in some other apps but in this one, that gets me almost nowhere as selecting and copying is impossible or really difficult and unpredictable that way—And my recollection is it was easier back in pre- iPhone 4 days but that’s an iOS issue...) Note: Discovering through trial and error that there is no quicker way to accomplish the task takes way, way more steps than shown here! tap for menu Tap for more Tap for copy

This might be the only mail app i’ve ever used that doesn’t have the “view all accounts” feature. Even the native mail app on iphone has that feature to monitor several accounts at once. It’s a real bummer, because of that, I can’t use this app . The advantage of this app is very fast notification when emails come through so what I’m doing now is configured my emails on both Outlook iPhone App and Fastmail then I disabled notifications for Outlook App so I only get notified once. This gives me the best of both world although it begs the question should I just be on office 365 then since exchange notifications would be just as fast.If fastmail app can integrate monitor all accounts feature, then I would easily recommend this service to everyone for simplicity and speed without needing third party apps.

I’m a happy Fastmail user, and have used Gmail, Office365, Yahoo Mail, and a self-hosted solution in the past to handle my email. Out of all the options, Fastmail made the most sense, even after paying their reasonable fees. Haven’t had more than maybe a hour worth of downtime, and their support is actually useful. Their product is great and is not only super fast, but also secure. I’ve done a great deal of research into their backend/operations, and they are dedicated to security in a multitude of ways, and interested in the “next wave” of technologies for email. The only suggestion I have is for integration for iOS sharing (ex: If I want to share a PDF I first have to save to iCloud then upload that document from iCloud manually into email, whereas with Gmail you can use the sharing extension with one tap).Edit: They added iOS Sharing!!! Yay!!!Only last suggestion: add dark mode for iOS 13??