We're committed to your privacy. HubSpot uses the information you provide to us to contact you about our relevant content, products, and services. You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time. For more information, check out our privacy policy. Written by Braden Becker BradenBecker. Even with the rise of office chat platforms, you still depend on email for a surprising number of things.
But unfortunately, not every email service is completely free. And even the free ones might not be the easiest to use or have all the features you need. It can be a challenge to find an email service provider at no cost that balances the right features with usability. To help make your search easier, we put together a list of the different types of email accounts you can set up, followed by the best email service providers you can host your account on right now for free.
Email clients are software applications you install onto your computer to manage the email you send and receive. To access this email, the client interacts with a remote email server. Webmail is a form of email you access exclusively from the internet and therefore exists primarily on the cloud rather than your computer. Instead of an installed application fetching your email, you manage your inbox right from your internet browser. Now, take a look at seven of the best free email service providers and five of the best email accounts for privacy you can get your hands on today — both webmail and email clients included.
For each email service provider, we've highlighted a unique feature to help you find the best fit. It might seem like an obvious top pick, but Gmail is just too versatile not to get our first slot.
According to Litmus Labs, Gmail has the second-highest email provider market share behind Apple iPhone's native email app. Ironically, one of the reasons Gmail has become so popular is because of all the communication options in your inbox that don't involve email. Gmail is a regular email inbox tool you can access once you have a Google account. Google Hangouts, available from your inbox's left sidebar or the right — you can customize how your inbox is displayed , lets you text and video chat with other Gmail users for the things that might not warrant an email message.
Like most other email accounts today, Gmail also has an intuitive calendar where you can set meetings and reminders. Pro Tip: You can also use a free product like HubSpot Meetings to easily schedule meetings without back-and-forth emails. Unlike other email accounts, you can use your Gmail address to log into and manage your YouTube account, as well as collaborate on shared documents and spreadsheets right from a cloud-based Google Drive.
Offering a generous 15 GB of free email storage, Gmail does everything it can to make your inbox less chaotic, including advanced filters that automatically push emails into separate folders as they arrive. And none of these functions costs a dime. Image Source. Clean Email Take control of your mailbox 4. Even though we spend so much time writing, forwarding, and managing emails, we hardly ever pause for a moment and think about how we could improve our emailing experience.
But when we use the term email client in this article, we only mean those email clients that can be installed on a desktop computer or a mobile device—not web-based email clients that are hosted remotely and are accessible only from a web browser. Desktop email clients have several major advantages over their web-based counterparts.
Handy, particularly for those who get lots of E-mail. Hikyaku Japanese E-mailer Here's a free E-mail client that is capable of displaying Japanese characters on non-Japanese computers. Using Hikyaku, you don't need a commercial character extension program such as KanjiKit or Twinbridge. This is a helpful program for Japanese speakers who are on the road and want to send E-mail from standard PCs.
Listserv Lite We've had a number of visitors ask if there are any free mailing list programs available on the Net. Here's one from the makers of the well-known industrial-strength creators of Listserv.
The Free Edition is a freeware version of Listserv Lite, limited to a maximum of 10 mailing lists with up to subscribers each. MailerLite pricing: Free for up to 1, subscribers and 12, emails per month.
Moosend isn't the most streamlined email marketing app we tested, but it makes up for that with generous allowances on the free plan and powerful segmentation options for eCommerce businesses. The email builder works as you expect with drag-and-drop functionality to add elements and a rich text editor. Once you connect your eCommerce site, click over to the Revenue Dashboard tab to see an overview of exactly how your email marketing efforts lead to sales.
Compared to other apps we tested, it takes a few extra clicks to build a new segment. But even free users can segment lists by crucial eCommerce dimensions like average order value, subscribers who add a particular product to their cart, total spending, and more.
Moosend also includes automation features with its free plan: over a dozen automated "recipes," including sequences for abandoned carts, upsells, and customer loyalty. Moosend integrates with Zapier , opening up connections with tons of other apps and automated workflows for things like adding new Moosend subscribers from new leads and verifying email addresses for new Moosend subscribers.
Moosend pricing: Free for up to 1, subscribers and unlimited emails. The more you use your email marketing tool, the more you'll need to rely on automation. And Sendinblue offers a variety of templated automation flows, based on your goals. You can choose your workflow to improve engagement, increase traffic, grow revenue, or build relationships.
Even with this kind of advanced automation, you can get from account setup to actually editing emails in just a few clicks. Once you're there, you can build your emails with dozens of pre-made templates and a drag-and-drop editor. Then, either send them as email newsletters or use Sendinblue's automation workflows to send them on a schedule.
You can't send as many emails at once as you can from other free email marketing tools, but you can manage more contacts and split them into focused lists. Sendinblue also lets you buy pre-paid credits to send more than your daily email limit. Expand Sendinblue's capabilities by integrating it with Zapier to automatically create new Sendinblue subscribers from new Google Contacts, Typeform submissions, and more.
Sendinblue pricing: Free for up emails per day and unlimited contacts. At first glance, Mailjet is a perfectly capable email marketing service. It offers several dozen fully-designed email templates, the drag-and-drop editor you expect, and support for transactional emails.
Its free account is a great way to start your email strategy. But during setup, Mailjet offers a choice between its Marketer and Developer interfaces. You can plug Mailjet into your app or eCommerce store and set up transactional emails, too.
If you move to Mailjet's paid plans, you can add anywhere from five to more than 15 user accounts, so marketers and developers can easily collaborate on your email marketing. Plus, Mailjet integrates with Zapier , so you can do things like automatically send emails to people who complete your Typeform or create Mailjet subscribers from new Facebook lead ads leads.
Mailjet pricing: Free for unlimited contacts and up to 6, emails per month. Zoho Campaigns offers the most flexible, generous free plan of all the apps we tested. The subscriber and email sending limits aren't crazy—you get 2, contacts and 12, sends per month—but the free plan also includes full automation capabilities, robust audience segmentation, and tons of beautifully-designed and professional templates.
The drag-and-drop editor works how you expect and includes support for dynamic content blocks. You can even personalize dynamic blocks based on your customer segments. When it comes to automation, you'll choose from autoresponders one-email triggered sequences or fully automated workflows. Both are available on the free plan and include several workflow templates to help you build out automations faster.
When you create a workflow, you can choose from templates for welcome and onboarding, nurture series, re-engagement, customer retention, eCommerce, and conditional workflows.
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