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Bitmail

Everything Bitmail does

A plain list of the app's functionality, grouped the way you would run into it. Nothing here is planned or coming later — this is what the app does.

01The core idea

  • An email client that presents a mailbox the way a messaging app does
  • One conversation per person instead of per thread
  • Inbox and Sent are merged, so both halves of an exchange sit in one chat
  • Quoted history and signatures are stripped out and folded behind a tap

02Accounts and sign-in

  • Automatic server discovery — type an email address and password, nothing else
  • Works with any IMAP/SMTP provider
  • Recognises Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, Fastmail and other common providers
  • Sign in with Microsoft, for personal Outlook.com and Microsoft 365 work accounts
  • Sign in with Google
  • Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace company domains are detected automatically
  • Warns up front when a provider needs an app password
  • Manual server setup, for anything discovery cannot find
  • Multiple accounts
  • A unified inbox across all accounts, or one account at a time
  • Passwords stored in the Android keystore, never in plain settings

03Reading mail

  • Chat bubbles with day separators and message grouping
  • Swipe to reply
  • Swipe to archive or delete
  • Five painted chat backgrounds, plus plain
  • Five chat list layouts to choose from
  • Light and dark themes, plus follow-the-system
  • Search across everything synced
  • Filters for unread, starred and messages with attachments
  • Read the sender's original HTML in a real browser engine when needed
  • Remote images blocked until you ask for them
  • Offline first — the chat list loads from the device before any network call

04Smart content

  • Parcel tracking numbers, with a link to the right carrier
  • Verification and one-time codes, tap to copy
  • Order, invoice and booking references
  • Receipt and invoice totals
  • Add-to-calendar for invitations
  • The one action link an email was sent to make you click
  • One-tap unsubscribe, read from the sender's own List-Unsubscribe header
  • Nothing is shown for ordinary personal email

05Spam and security

  • A spam filter that moves junk to the Spam folder and never deletes anything
  • Reads the spam verdict the mail server already computed
  • Checks SPF, DKIM and DMARC, and marks forged senders
  • Never files away anyone you have written to
  • Block a sender, or a whole domain
  • A blocked senders list, with one-tap unblock
  • Tells you every time it moves something, with a link to go and read it
  • One tap to put anything back in the inbox
  • Nothing is ever hidden without saying so

06Document viewer, built in

  • PDF
  • Word (.docx and .doc)
  • Excel (.xlsx and .xls)
  • PowerPoint (.pptx and .ppt)
  • OpenDocument text, spreadsheet and presentation
  • Images
  • CSV, with automatic delimiter detection
  • Plain text
  • Calendar invites, shown as when, where and who
  • Contact cards
  • Find-in-file
  • Spreadsheets get a real grid with a sticky header row and proper date and percentage formatting
  • Save any attachment to the device
  • Open in another app when you would rather

07Writing and sending

  • Reply, reply all and forward
  • Recipient autocomplete from everyone you have corresponded with
  • Cc and Bcc
  • Attachments
  • Drafts
  • A custom signature
  • A built-in file picker with photo, video and audio tabs, search and folder filters
  • A running total against your provider's send limit while you pick files

08Large files

  • Knows each provider's per-message attachment limit
  • Warns before you hit it, not after the upload fails
  • Send as a link instead — files up to 2 GB
  • An optional password on a transfer link
  • Upload straight from the phone

09Organising

  • Archive
  • Delete
  • Star
  • Mark read and unread
  • Mark all as read
  • Pin a conversation to the top
  • Mute a conversation
  • Snooze a conversation until later
  • Undo on every action
  • Browse any folder on the server
  • Move a message to any folder
  • Empty Trash or Spam

10Notifications and live updates

  • New mail arrives with the app closed
  • Works without any Bitmail server — the phone watches the mailbox itself
  • No mail password ever leaves the device
  • Tap a notification to open that conversation
  • Per-conversation mute
  • Notifications can be switched off entirely

11Privacy

  • No ads
  • No tracking or analytics
  • No Bitmail account to create
  • Mail passwords stay in the device keystore
  • Mail goes directly between the phone and your own mail provider
  • No storage permission requested at all — the app only ever sees the file you hand it

12Requirements

  • Android 7.0 (API 24) or newer
Download

Bitmail is on Google Play

Install it, type the email address you already have, and your mailbox turns into conversations. No Bitmail account to create, nothing to configure, nothing to pay.

Get it on Google PlayDownload

Requires Android 7.0 (API 24) or newer.