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Proton MailPick
Service5.7k
Swiss email where your mailbox is encrypted so the provider can't read it, with apps on every platform.
- Minimal tracking
- Partly open
- Partly encrypted
- Account needed
- Free plan
- Android
- iPhone
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Web
Posteo
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Ad-free German email you can sign up for and pay anonymously, with optional encryption of your stored mail.
No mobile app of its own; you use it in the browser or any mail app.
Privacy passport
1 of 5 checks- No trackingYesNo ads and no third-party trackers or analytics.
- Open sourceNoThe code is closed.
- Only you can read itPartlySome of it is end-to-end encrypted, or encryption is opt-in.
- No accountNeededYou need an account to use it.
- Free€1/monthPaid only.
Where it stands among 14 email services
No tracking
Yes
Partly
Not stated
Open source
Yes
Partly
No
Only you can read it
Yes
Partly
No
Not stated
No account
Yes
No
Free
Yes
No
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