I like Outlook as a Gmail client more than Gmail itself, and I’m tired of pretending I don’t

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Last year, I wrote a controversial article about my opinion on the Gmail Android app, backed up by everything I had discovered that the Gmail app can’t do that other Android email apps can. While I was writing that Gmail opinion article, I was bouncing between a few different alternative apps, including my usual go-to, Blue Mail, and a terrific open-source app called FairEmail. Ultimately, though, I settled on the Microsoft Outlook app for Android. I have since uninstalled all other email apps on my Google Pixel 9 Pro and gone all-in on Outlook — and I couldn’t be happier about it. Over the past five months of using nothing but Outlook (I also use the new version of Outlook on my Windows laptop), I’ve realized that it unfairly gets a bad rap. This prejudice might be because Outlook has historically been associated with business use, and its clunky, woefully outdated legacy Windows app is the very opposite of appealing. But Outlook has changed quit ... Read full article.