eM Client Reviews 12,271

It was a nice break from Outlook.

Good imitation of Outlook..

I have to rely on two sources for the same email address. My phone companies e-mail site, and eM Client. Unfortunately this is necessary because sometimes eM Client says it cannot download a specific message. The reasons vary. So if I had not viewed the email on my provider I would not know what it was......

Just what I was looking for after years of Thunderbird. It is visually more appealing and easier to handle. The main thing lacking for a 5-star review is synchronisation of application settings/state.

Practically everything about eM Client is great, with the sole exception of these three annoying things:

1. MAJOR. It does not handle contact groups (which are called Distribution Lists by eM Client) very well. Mine kept disappearing after I used them for the first time, causing me to have to set them back up again. I abandoned using the Distribution Lists and instead used a free text editor (similar to NotePad) to keep a copy of the email addresses for each contact group. Then I just copy and paste it when needed.

2. MAJOR. I have a number of custom built Windows applications which need to send email using eM Client. They use SMTP to do this and it works very well, except that the option to stop the pop-up Send window from eM Client does not always work. It will sometimes pop up unexpectedly and capture keystrokes being typed into the custom built application at the time, which halts the email from going out until the text from the captured keystrokes are removed from the To box.

3. MINOR. There is no default REPLY ALL button allowing users to quickly reply to all recipients when responding to messages, on a REPLY button which sends the response to the sender only. This can be easily bypassed by clicking on the dropdown list where the REPLY ALL button is listed right under REPLY. I have become used to it now but at first I found it very annoying.

Apart from those three annoyances (two major and one minor) it is an EXCELLENT tool which I am very happy to pay for because it does what it is supposed to do, quickly and efficiently. I would never want to go back to any of the other alternatives I was using before, even though all of them are free.

Clear and easy enough to learn in a very short while.
Functions that I use are easy to navigate to.

Fine program overall. Runs fine on my Mac, but loads dirt slow on my PC.

eM Client is like old Outlook, like 2015, but better. Well worth the flat fee. I am so happy that you can choose upgrades/updates vs being forced into a subscription that give you nothing. It is the sign of a well developed software and shows the development confidence.

I switched to this platform because I decided I wanted to start using European software. After many years of using Outlook, it takes some getting used to, but my initial impression is that eM Client—for what I use it for—is a better fit than Outlook. A very pleasant experience!

It's OK but not as easy to customise as Outlook. Especially no autocorrect and no ability to capitalise words at the beginning of sentences

More intuitive than MS Outlook, less invasive and easier for me to follow.

Looks are nice/ handling is intuitive and quick. I am a home user and have 3 mailaccounts. It is a disapointing that only two accounts can be active. This is the reason I am looking now for a different program for my mail.

I think it’s a great program, but I’m canceling it because having Word, Excel, etc. from Office 2024 is also important to me.
However, if you only need an email program, this one is definitely recommended.

This is the best program I've encountered in all the years I've used computers. It has features that no other email program has. I highly recommend it.

User experience, nice interface, easy to use

easy to use, but take time to setup

Easy, intuitive and smooth working yet i find the pricing high. If there would be an option some cheaper I would really consider this.

Very poor customer support. they usually take one week to reply to you, yet not able to resolve the issues.
i strongly advice not to use them.

I consider the eMclient application is good an powerfull application, one of the best email cleints I know and superior to MS Office Outlook, with which I have extensive experience.

However, I miss some features and functions that prevent me from using eMclient regurlaly.

I find it inconvenient that tasks, snoozed emails, and flagged emails aren’t displayed in the calendar alongside regular calendar items. This means I can’t see all my important deadlines in one place and I have to switch between views of the calendar, tasks, and folders containing snoozed and flagged emails. In addition, I can’t add a flag to an email with a due date and a reminder to turn it into a task-like-item (Outlook can do this). I know I can create a task fromm an email, but that’s a bit different (the Android app completely lacks this feature). I can postpone processing an email using the Snooze feature, but that’s not an ideal substitute either.

My second complaint concerns calendar display. I use several dozen calendars, but I have permanently displayed only a few of them. Sometimes I need to display just one, but then I have to click on each calendar I want to view individually to get back displayed all calendars I need. I miss a toggle switch that would let me choose between displaying selected calendars and displaying only one calendar. The OfficePro app has this feature, it’s for Android, but it could also be useful in the desktop version. In addition, the way the calendar display is designed is impractical: you have to click the checkbox in front of its name, if I miss and click the calendar name instead, all other calendars hide, which is often not my intention.

All these issues apply to both the desktop and Android apps. I also dislike that the Android app lacks a calendar widget and isn’t integrated with the system calendar, so I can’t use a third-party widget because it (and likely other apps as well) won’t open the eMclient calendar.

I’m slowly but surely switching to Linux, and I’ll have to say goodbye to eMclient because of this, unless a Linux version is in the works.