Our tutorial below will walk you through the process of adding your Gmail account to your iPhone. These instructions were written on an iPhone that is using the iOS 7 operating system. The screens may look a little different if you have not yet updated to iOS 7. You can learn how to update to iOS 7 here.
You are going to need to know the email address and password for your Gmail account to complete the tutorial below. If you have set up two-step authentication, then you will need to have an application-specific password for your iPhone, and you will enter that password instead of your email password.
You can create an application-specific password for your Google account using the instructions here. If you aren’t sure if you have set up two-step authentication, then you can follow the steps below and see if your email password works. If it does not, then you have likely configured two-step authentication, so you can follow the steps on the link above to get your application-specific password.
Mailbox, famously bought by Dropbox a few years back, was the first email app that really cared about making sorting and replying to your emails as fast and easy as possible. Matter of fact, it’s one of the first that thought of creating all these swipeable gestures so many of the other emails apps on this list now use. It’s still a stunningly simple and fluid app - and users automatically get another 1 GB of free Dropbox space for using it - but compared to many of these other email apps, Mailbox is kind of light on features.
It also only supports iCloud and Gmail. The Microsoft Outlook app for iPhone is AMAZING. Easily one of the best email apps currently available, Outlook features tons of useful features as well as support for multiple types of accounts. The built in calendar and schedule planner is immense for staying on top of things, setup is easy and once you’re up and running you’ll NEVER go back to Apple’s still-very-shaky Mail solution.
Seriously, download this application RIGHT NOW! And if you want you can see how it compares to Apple's iOS 9 Mail application inside our Mail vs Outlook comparison. BTW -- to be fair, Microsoft didn't just create this new Outlook app out of the blue. They actually acquired a third-party iOS email app last year called Acompli, which many said was the best email app on the market (which is why Microsoft snapped it up). So the new Outlook app is technically just a refined version of the old Acompli app.
Mail works with Gmail, Hotmail, Live, Outlook, Yahoo, MSN, iCloud and AOL email accounts. I like it because it's got an extremely streamlined interface, which makes getting to that email you want to read really clear cut. Spark is an awesome email app because of an algorithm that lets it scan an email and decide whether its an email from someone you really care about or if its just a newsletter. It then seperates these two type of emails, putting the ones you really care about at the top of your screen.
The app also lets you snooze emails and create alerts to be reminded about them in the future. And quick replies let you send short, pre-written replies like "Thanks" with just the tap of a button. To be honest, Timyo probably isn't for everyone. Matter of fact, it's really only for power users. That's because Timyo is an email client and task manager. It's also got a bit of a more complicated interface because it can do so much.
That being said, Timyo is a great choice if you want to be able to quickly turn emails into events or to-do actions. One really cool feature is its Agenda View, which shows you a calendar of all your emails based on to-do's or events created. Note, however, the Timyo only works with Gmail email accounts for now. Triage isn’t a full-service email client. Indeed, it’s done this on purpose. The goal of the app is to allow you to quickly skim your emails and sort them into important or not important piles.
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