FairEmail

Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly email app for Android

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FairEmail

Fully featured, open source, privacy oriented email app for Android

FairEmail is easy to set up and works with virtually all email providers, including Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo!

FairEmail might be for you if you value your privacy.

FairEmail is an email client only, so you need to bring your own email address.

FairEmail does not support non-standard protocols, like Microsoft Exchange Web Services and Microsoft ActiveSync.

Main features

Fully featured
100% open source
Privacy oriented
Unlimited accounts
Unlimited email addresses
Unified inbox (optionally accounts or folders)
Conversation threading
Two way synchronization
Push notifications
Offline storage and operations
Common text style options (size, color, lists, etc)
Battery friendly
Low data usage
Small (<30 MB)
Material design (including dark/black theme)
Maintained and supported

This app is deliberately minimalistic by design, so you can concentrate on reading and writing messages.

This app starts a foreground service with a low-priority status bar notification to make sure you’ll never miss new emails.

Privacy features

Encryption/decryption supported (OpenPGP and S/MIME)
Reformat messages to prevent phishing
Confirm showing images to prevent tracking
Confirm opening links to prevent tracking and phishing
Attempt to recognize and disable tracking images
Warning if messages could not be authenticated

Simple

Quick setup
Easy navigation
No bells and whistles
No distracting “eye candy”

Secure

No data storage on third-party servers
Using open standards (IMAP, POP3, SMTP, OpenPGP, S/MIME, etc.)
Safe message view (styling, scripting and unsafe HTML removed)
Confirm opening links, images and attachments
No special permissions required
No advertisements
No analytics and no tracking (error reporting via Bugsnag is opt-in)
Optional Android backup
No Firebase Cloud Messaging
FairEmail is an original work, not a fork or a clone

Efficient

Fast and lightweight
IMAP IDLE (push messages) supported
Built with latest development tools and libraries

Pro features

All pro features are convenience or advanced features.

Account/identity/folder colors/avatars
Colored stars (instructions)
Notification settings (sounds) per account/folder/sender (requires Android 8 Oreo) (instructions)
Configurable notification actions
Snooze messages (instructions)
Send messages after selected time
Synchronization scheduling (instructions)
Reply templates (instructions)
Accept/decline calendar invitations
Add message to calendar
Automatically generate vCard attachments
Filter rules (instructions)
Automatic message classification (instructions)
Search indexing (instructions)
S/MIME sign/encrypt (instructions)
Biometric/PIN authentication (instructions)
Message list widget
Export settings

Screenshots

Please see here for screenshots.

Downloads

Supported download locations:

GitHub
Play store
Play store (test)
F-Droid (the F-Droid app can be downloaded here)
IzzyOnDroid (verified GitHub release)
~~AppGallery (the AppGallery app can be downloaded here)~~
~~Amazon~~ (the APK file repackaged by Amazon is incomplete! An issue report was never answered by Amazon.)

Please see this FAQ about the differences between the different releases.

Important: after enrolling in the Advanced Protection Program
you cannot use third party email apps anymore, please see this FAQ for more information.

To download a GitHub release you might need to expand the assets section to download the APK file.

The GitHub version is being updated more often than the Play store version.
The GitHub release will automatically check for updates on GitHub (this can be turned off in the miscellaneous settings).

F-Droid builds new versions irregularly and you’ll need the F-Droid client to get update notifications.
To get updates in a timely fashion you are advised to use the GitHub release.

Important: There is support on the F-Droid build only if the version number of the F-Droid build is the same as the version number of the latest GitHub release.
Please see here for more information on third-party builds.

Because F-Droid builds and GitHub releases are signed differently, an F-Droid build needs to be uninstalled first to be able to update to a GitHub release.

The best way to verify the integrity of an APK file is documented here.

Certificate fingerprints:

MD5: 64:90:8E:2C:0D:25:29:B0:D0:26:2D:24:D8:BB:66:56
SHA1: 17:BA:15:C1:AF:55:D9:25:F9:8B:99:CE:A4:37:5D:4C:DF:4C:17:4B
SHA256: E0:20:67:24:9F:5A:35:0E:0E:C7:03:FE:9D:F4:DD:68:2E:02:91:A0:9F:0C:2E:04:10:50:BB:E7:C0:64:F5:C9

One line command to display certificate fingerprints:

unzip -p fairemail.apk META-INF/CERT.RSA | keytool -printcert

I do not hand over the signing keys of my apps to Google.
Please see this Google blog
and this article
for more information.

Compatibility

FairEmail requires at least Android 5 Lollipop.

FairEmail is supported on smartphones and tablets only, and for example not on E Ink devices.

Individual message notifications are available on Android 7 Nougat and later only
because earlier Android versions do not support notification grouping.

Notification settings (sounds) per account/folder/sender are available on Android 8 Oreo and later only
because earlier Android versions do not support notification channels.

FairEmail will work properly on devices without any Google service installed.

Please see here for known problems.

Privacy

Please see here for the privacy policy.

Support

Please see here for a list of often asked questions and about how to get support.

Contributing

Documentation

Contributions to this document and the frequently asked questions
are preferred in the form of pull requests.

Translations

You can translate the in-app texts of FairEmail on Crowdin
If your language is not listed, please send a message through this contact form

Source code

Building FairEmail from source code is straightforward with Android Studio.
It is expected that you can solve build problems yourself, so there is no support on building.

Source code contributions are preferred in the form of pull requests.
Please contact me first to tell me what your plans are.

Please note that by contributing you agree to the license below, including the copyright, without any additional terms or conditions.

Attribution

See here for a list of used libraries and associated license information.

Online translations are supported by:

Error reporting is sponsored by:

Bugsnag logo

Bugsnag monitors application stability
and is used to help improve FairEmail.
Error reporting is disabled by default, see also the privacy policy.

License

GNU General Public License version 3

FairEmail is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

FairEmail is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.