Monday 23 February 2015

TouchMail | App Review

Free Download for Windows 8.1

TouchMail is a visual mail app which can be found in the productivity category and ‘Organise Your Life’ collection of the Windows Store. The graphical interface is much more attractive than traditional email applications. The most recent update added the ability to see how many unread messages you have in each email account at a glance as well as the ability to move messages into and between folders.
Messages can be viewed in a timeline or grouped by sender. The view can be zoomed in or out so you can read more of the message without opening it or see more messages. 
TouchMail Inbox

Filters allow you to view only messages which are unread, with attachments, from a specific sender or have been flagged. If using the filters doesn’t help you to find the specific message you are looking for, you can also search for a message by clicking on the search icon and entering your search term.
Search with TouchMail

New messages are shown in toast notification (which appear at the side of the screen) and on the apps live tile on the start screen.
TouchMail supports gestures, for example, swiping upwards to delete. This is useful on Windows 8 tablets and touchscreen computers. Clicking on the message while it is deleting will cancel its deletion.
Delete with Gesture
Deleting a message from the Inbox
When sending messages, you can add attachments either from local storage or OneDrive. You can import contact pictures which will be displayed on the messages received from that contact. If the messages is being received from a well-known company, for example, Facebook or eBay, their logo will be already set as the contact picture.
You can also give contacts a specific colour which all future messages received from that contact will be displayed in. More control over how contacts are dealt with would be beneficial, for example, an ‘address book’. Currently, no more than three email accounts can be used with TouchMail. In the future, the developers may want to consider increasing this.

Alternative: 

Mail – Made by Microsoft and includes the ‘Calendar’ and ‘People’ apps. I don’t find Mail’s interface as appealing as Touchmail’s.

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