Disroot Email vs VibeMail

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.

VibeMail provides encrypted private email with multiple addresses, custom domains, and a transactional email API. It runs on Android, iOS, web, and through an API. Message bodies are encrypted at rest and in transit; the maker says it cannot read mail sealed with a password-derived key. Each alias has its own encryption identity. VibeMail says it shows no ads, does not profile users, and does not train models on customer mail. Incoming mail is scanned for spam and malware before encryption. The API supports templates, webhooks, delivery tracking, and suppression handling, with SDKs for TypeScript, Python, Go, and Rust, plus MCP and REST access. IMAPS, submission, and POP3S are supported, and the maker says Apple Mail, Gmail, and Outlook on mobile can connect through IMAP and SMTP. The free plan costs nothing forever with one encrypted address, 500 MB storage, and web access. Paid plans start at $2.99 a month; overage sends cost $0.60 per 1,000.