Gmail vs Outlook on Android: I see a clear winner

Last year I wrote a controversial article about my opinion on the Gmail Android app, supported by all I had discovered that the Gmail app Can’t Make it Other Android -e post apps can. While I wrote The Gmail Mening ArticleI jumped between a few different alternative apps, including my regular Go-To, Blue Mail and a fantastic open source app called Fairemail.

Over the past five months of using other than Outlook (I also use the new version of Outlook on Windows -Laptain computer), I have realized that it unfairly gets a bad rap. This prejudice may be because Outlook has historically been associated with business use, and its bulky, sadly outdated Legacy Windows app is the opposite of appealing. But Outlook has changed quite gracefully with times, and it is a pity that more people have not noticed.

In any case, many people are so dependent on the Gmail app – both on mobile and online – that I bet they have never even tried the newer versions of Outlook. In my opinion, you do yourself a bear service if you take Gmail to the face value. You may not be swayed by what this random stranger on the internet has to say, but I will still try to talk to you about why you should put a break on using Gmail on Android and start using Outlook as a Gmail client instead.

It is clear that each e -mail app under the sun can send/receive e -mail, let you add a customized signature, format text, organize mail to folders, etc. These are all basic, so whether you go Gmail or Outlook for Google -e your mail client, you find these features.

However, Outlook really shines when you help manage many e -mail messages from multiple accounts. This is where Gmail tends to fall flat. Outlook also offers a few quality of life that Gmail does not.

One of my favorite Outlook features, which you will not find in Gmail for Android, is the ability to standard to an “all accounts” feed. I know Gmail has an option “all inboxes”, but you have to select it manually every time you open the app, which is really impractical. With Outlook, when I open the app, the first thing I see is all my e -posts from all my accounts in one long feed. It is very useful for keeping me on top of the river of messages I get daily because I don’t have to bop from account to see for everything.

Outlook also lets me delete, answer or brand that read any e -mail I receive right from the notice. Gmail for Android offers answers and deletion from the notice, but marking an e -mail as a reading can only be done from the entire app. Honestly, the action I perform most when it comes to email on my phone marks messages that read from the notice, so this has become a must-have feature for me. It is ridiculous that Gmail for Android does not offer this (especially considering the iOS version of Gmail does).

Another integrated quality of life function at Outlook is a notice when sending an email without a subject line. I am quite forgetful, and it has been many times that I have made a professional e -mail just to send it without a subject, which not only lacks professionalism, but can get the message the wrong flag as a garbage. However, the outlook for Android ping me before I send to ask if I really want to send that message without a subject. It saved me more than a few times, believe me! Gmail, for whatever reason, does not offer this. It offers an option that notifies you about every E -mail you send to make sure you actually want to send it, but it sounds terribly.

Speaking of my professional life, the e -posts in my Android Authority The inbox is very sensitive. At any time, I could have embargoed information on unreleased units, not to say anything about the personal information of high -ranking employees in large companies such as Google and Samsung. I do not want that information to fall into wrong hands. That’s why I lock all e -mail accounts behind Outlooks included biometric safety check. In other words, if you were to access my unlocked phone Through a snatch-and-grab And open Outlook, you wouldn’t have access to my e -post. This is a nice extra layer of certainty that Gmail does not offer. Given, you can recreate this through a third -party app, but it is nowhere near as practical. You can also lock gmail in Android 15s private space Function or by using the Android skin’s app Lock feature, but none of these are ideal. Outlook’s option in the app is the best way to go.

Finally, and possibly most important, Outlook for Android offers a planning system to turn off e -mail alerts for specific accounts. In my case I use this to stop all e -mail notifications from my Android Authority Account in non-working hours. This still lets me get e -mail notifications from my friends and family, but none from my work account. With Gmail this is not possible: it only opens for planning a shutdown of all E-mail notifications, but not per account.

I try to be as objective as possible through all facets of life. With that in mind, I would lie if I were to say that Outlook can do everything Gmail can do because it certainly can’t.

A Gmail feature I want Outlook had is the ability to plan messages. If I used a Microsoft Exchange account, I could, but since I use a Gmail account in my Outlook app, I won’t get the opportunity to set a date/time for a message to be sent. It’s annoying, and I wish Microsoft would offer this with some kind of account, not just exchange.

In the same kingdom, Gmail offers a pretty nice “nudge” feature. If you start an e -mail call and there is an answer that you have not taken for a while, you get a nudge. The app will basically say, “Hi, you may have missed this message.” As I mentioned earlier, I’m pretty forgetful, so I definitely like this little reminder to stay up to date on things.

Another thing that is very nice with Gmail for Android is where the lean it is, at least compared to Outlook. Outlook tries to integrate all kinds of things into it, such as the calendar, contacts, cloud storage and more. Granted, you can only ignore all this (I absolutely do) or choose Outlook littleWhich explicitly focuses on e -post. But Gmail has taken over here, as it is only concerned with e -mail and chat, with everything else left to other apps. I appreciate that simplicity.

Finally, Google has Geminithe generative AI product. Gemini brings a variety of features to Gmail, many of whom are not present in Outlook or are disperative of Microsoft’s copilot. A good example of this is Gmail’s Help ME to write function, which uses AI to help you create an e -mail from just a little text. Outlook does not offer anything like it. Copilot allows for predictive text when composing a message in the desk version of Outlook, but Gmail offers this on Android as well, and it’s much better.

I understand that many people, after reading everything I have written here, will continue to use Gmail as their primary (or in many cases) e -mail app. It is possible that the extra prospects I emphasized do not appeal to them, while the Gmail features do. It’s fine.

However, if you read this and have ever used Gmail without questioning whether you like it or not, or if you did not know that you can use other e -post clients like Outlook, you should definitely give Outlook a chance. Like Chrome, Search and other Google products, Gmail has become one of these De-Facto apps. There are competitors out there, but very few people use them because they started with the standard Google client and never lost themselves. After all, sticking to what you know is easier.

Don’t let these excuses keep you away from trying alternatives to Gmail. As I have shown here, there are wonderful reasons to use Outlook instead of Gmail on the phone. Although they do not appeal to everyone, I bet they appeal enough to convince lifelong Gmail users who have always disliked some of the limitations or missing features of Google’s own app.

And you know what: If you try Outlook and still prefer gmail, it’s ok. Similarly, if you try outlook and realize you don’t like gmail but you also Don’t like Outlook much either, it’s good too. Blue mail,, Fair e -post,, K-9 in MayAnd countless other e -mail apps are out there, everyone offers things that Gmail doesn’t do. Try a bunch and I’m sure you’ll find one that fits your e -mail needs and habits.

After all, if this article can be a small motivation for you to go to the Play Store and try something new that will make your life easier, I will consider it a victory. And hey, if enough people start looking elsewhere, maybe Google will feel the heat and add some of these obvious features to Gmail. Who knows – we can see a “Mark as Read” option in Gmail’s notice of Android in our lifetime!