Disroot Email vs Private.Ki Mail
Disroot Email
disroot.org
Private.Ki Mail
private.kiSide by side
| Figure | Disroot Email | Private.Ki Mail |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $0.42/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 6 |
| Spec score · Secure Email Providers | 9.4 (#2) | 8.1 (#18) |
| Spec score · Email providers | 8.9 (#9) | 8.0 (#17) |
| Attachment limit | The service limits individual attachments to 64 MB. | Attachments are limited to 25 MB per file on the current Free plan and are encrypted on the device before upload. |
| End-to-end encryption | Disroot recommends GPG for end-to-end email encryption and says Mailvelope can provide PGP encryption with webmail in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Intended audience | Disroot describes its project as serving people seeking open, decentralized, federated services that respect freedom and privacy. | The maker describes Teams as intended for organisations and offers a Dedicated deployment on a customer’s own server. |
| Support | Disroot links to setup instructions for configuring email clients and says users can consult them for extra help. | The pricing page lists documentation and email support for Free and priority support for Plus; its help center contains product guides and how-to articles. |
Plans
Disroot Email
- FreePrice not published
- Free emailFree
- Free mailboxFree
- Extra mailbox storage€0.15 a month
- Custom domain linkingPrice not published
- Extra storagePrice not published
Private.Ki Mail
- FreeFree
- Plus$5 a month
- Plus$5 a year
- DedicatedPriced on request
- FreePrice not published
- TeamsPriced on request
In their own words
Disroot Email
Disroot Email provides free email accounts through webmail and desktop or mobile email clients. Its Roundcube webmail includes threaded messages, filters, folders, attachment previews, and MIME and HTML support. Mail clients can connect using IMAP over SSL, SMTP with STARTTLS, SMTPS with TLS, or POP over SSL; suggested options include Thunderbird, Evolution, KMail, ClawsMail, Mailpile, K-9 Mail, FairEmail, and iOS Mail. Connections to the mail server use SSL, while outgoing messages use TLS if the recipient’s server supports it. Messages remain unencrypted on Disroot’s servers unless users encrypt them themselves. Disroot says its data is stored on its own servers in a Netherlands data center. Email logs may include usernames, IP addresses, and sender and recipient addresses; they are retained for 48 hours and not backed up. The free email plan includes a 1 GB mailbox and 64 MB attachments. Plus addressing routes sub-addresses to the original mailbox. Users can link a custom domain for sending and receiving mail through a lifetime feature tied to a donation amount they choose. The service supports Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web, Windows, and extensions.
Private.Ki Mail
Private.Ki Mail is an email service that encrypts messages between Private.Ki users. Message bodies, subjects, and attachments are encrypted on the sender’s device and decrypted on the recipient’s device, with encryption and signature checks shown for each message. Mail to outside providers uses end-to-end encryption when the recipient has a PGP key; otherwise it is delivered normally and marked accordingly. The Free plan costs nothing and includes one @private.ki address, encrypted email and messenger, signatures, recipient autocomplete, search, and attachments up to 25 MB per file. Undo send supports 5, 10, 20, or 30 seconds, and standard mailbox folders are included. Web, iOS, and Android access are listed. Security features include TOTP two-factor authentication, QR pairing, and device-bound sessions. The maker says it cannot recover a lost passphrase or protected key and has no independent audit yet.