Most loved email providers
Email remains the backbone of our digital lives, from job applications to daily communication, yet not all providers are created equal in the eyes of their users. Some inspire loyalty through clean design and reliability, while others frustrate with clutter and downtime. Which email service has truly won your heart? Cast your vote and help settle the debate.
What counts: Seeded with approximate real-world figures — the crowd's votes decide the order from here.
Gmail▲ Rising
Launched in 2004 with an invite-only mystique and a then-absurd 1GB of storage (a hundred times what Hotmail offered), Gmail turned email from a chore into a search problem you'd actually want to solve. Threaded conversations, brutal spam filtering, and a free tier that kept expanding made it the default inbox for a generation, and it's earned its love the old-fashioned way: by simply being the thing that works.},{
Price / mo: $0Overall: 9/10
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Proton Mail▲ Rising
Born out of CERN in 2014 by scientists who wanted email that even Proton couldn't read, it made end-to-end encryption something your non-technical aunt could actually use. Its Swiss-vault branding turned privacy into a lifestyle brand, and it's beloved precisely because it never pretended surveillance-capitalism email was fine.
Price / mo: $5Overall: 9/10
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Wait for the refresh cycle before buying anything on this list.
Battery numbers on the box never survive real use, trust the crowd.
Owned three of these — the ranking tracks my experience almost exactly.
- YYuki JohnsonJul 29, 2026
Price-to-performance matters more than the spec sheet here.