Best Email Accounts that Absolutely Free

Email Accounts

Now You Know - Email is such a huge part of your everyday life. While access to free email accounts is great, it isn’t very useful if those email services don’t offer all the features you need. Deciding which email service to use can be tricky. Their features vary, and each has pros and cons depending on the hardware and software you generally use. 

There are countless free email services online today. Some are tailored for privacy. Others are meant to be integrated with all your social accounts and contacts. Still others are geared toward accessibility and cross-platform, mobile access.

The following are 4 of the best free email accounts

1. Gmail

Google Mail

Gmail is a remarkable free email service and offers more features than nearly every other service out there. Best of all, Gmail integrates with a countless number of integrations with third-party apps and mobile applications.

The best features you can expect when you sign up for a free Gmail account include: 

• Sort your email quickly with labels
• Easily create filters to automatically organize incoming emails 
• Keep apps like Google Keep, Calendar, and other add-ons right at your fingertips 
• Choose from hundreds of colors or images for your inbox theme 
• Use canned responses to cut down on time you spend writing emails

The one failing of Gmail is that you can’t create inbox folders to organize incoming emails that you apply labels to. This can lead to a cluttered navigation pane. With a free account, you get 15 GB of storage spread across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos.

2. Yahoo Mail

Yahoo Mail

Many people considered Yahoo mail a joke up until then, and a lot of people only used the service as a free spam email account to sign up for products and services, but not much else.

Today, Yahoo Mail is a versatile, useful email service with remarkable features. Some of these include: 

• Organize your emails into folders
• One-click to block senders or mark email as spam
• Ad filters to automatically sort incoming email
• Organize email threads into conversations
• An impressive 1 TB of free storage

Yahoo used to disable third-party access to your Yahoo inbox via POP or IMAP, but now it’s enabled automatically. This is one advantage over Gmail where you need to specifically enable it inside Gmail settings.

One disadvantage of Yahoo Mail is the annoying ads on the right side of the inbox.

3. Outlook Mail

Outlook Mail

When most people think of Outlook, they think of the Microsoft Outlook desktop app. But as most users prefer their email to be more mobile, Outlook mail offers the perfect cloud solution for Microsoft fans.

A free Outlook email account is just as useful as Gmail or Yahoo, with the added bonus that it’s easy to 

• Offers folder organization
• Create email rules just like you do in the Outlook desktop app
• Apply “sweep” rules to keep your inbox clean
• Sync your free Outlook email with up to 20 other online email accounts
• Create colorized categories to organize emails even further

An Outlook email account comes with 15 GB of free storage. The only drawback with signing up for a free Outlook email account is that you can never be completely confident Microsoft won’t rebrand the entire service to something else.

4. ProtonMail

Proton Mail 

For people who take their security seriously, ProtonMail is one of those rare free email services that offers expert level security at an affordable (free) cost. When you sign up for ProtonMail, you an encryption key that ensures only people you send emails to will be able to read them.

ProtonMail’s approach to encryption includes providing you with your own public and private keys, and encryption protocols that deliver end-to-end encryption for every email you send. Features of ProtonMail include: 

• Folders and labels to organize your inbox
• 2-Factor encryption, and the ability to see all sessions logged into your account
• Enable SMTP and IMAP access to your account
• Access to ProtonVPN to further secure your internet traffic

With ProtonMail, you only get 500 MB of free storage, and 150 email messages a day. But if you’re looking for the most secure email account at no cost, you can’t go wrong.