Disroot Email vs PrivMail

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.

PrivMail, also called PrivateMail, provides encrypted email and file storage, along with tools including a calendar, tasks, notes and email aliases. Email supports end-to-end OpenPGP encryption. Users can generate or import OpenPGP keys, which the service says remain on their devices rather than its servers. SecureShare encrypts files locally before upload, for recipients to download and decrypt locally. PrivateMail Files encrypts synced-folder contents with AES 256 encryption and supports desktop folder sync. Users can add external services such as Gmail, Outlook or Mail.com and manage OpenPGP security through PrivateMail. Optional mobile sync covers native Android and iOS contacts and calendars. PrivateMail says it does not log inbox logins or IP addresses when users access its mail services. It is listed for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, web and Windows. A free plan is available with a TorGuard subscription; it is webmail-only and includes 100mb email storage and 100mb file storage per month. Paid plan prices listed include $8.95 per month for Standard and $15.95 per month for PrivateMail Pro.