Tutanota

I appreciate that Tutanota offers a privacy-respecting e-mail service with a decent app to go along with it. I am also grateful that they are so embracing of FOSS. That said, the app itself could use a refresh to the user-interface. I would love to see a more iOS centric design. Apollo for Reddit is a good example of this (albeit it is a Reddit client and not for e-mail). It could use better animations too. The loading animation (dotted lines) seems quite outdated. Why not have a more modern loading animation? Additionally, unlock with Face ID should certainly be an option. I’m surprised it’s not. The dark mode could use improvement too. I would like to see a true black dark mode, the way Apple implements it across iOS. Lastly, everything could use a speed boost. I suspect the app requires further optimizations to achieve this.

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I normally don’t write reviews but i felt that it was time to share my voice on Tutanota. First of all, I do love the fact that it’s a secure email however there are some flaws. First, I’d like to point out that when I get email on Tutanota, the app shows a number 1 on my iPhone regardless if I have 1 email or 20. I would love to see this issue get fixed. Secondly, when you are on the Tutanota app, if you slide an email to the left, it should allow you to delete it. Sometimes when I slide emails that I no longer want to the left, it “bounces” back and I have to try again until the email deletes. This is rather annoying. Thirdly, there is no option to “search your email”. For better organizing and storage, it would be truly helpful to search your messages by sender, message phrases, etc, especially when you are paying Tutanota to have an entire gigabyte of email, which to some people is a lot of mail. Fourthly, in the spam folder, i have to move some emails to the inbox. Tutanota does not give me an option that I have seen to declare them as a “safe email” or “not spam”. I really like having a secure email and I do like Tutanota. I just know that they could seriously improve their service, get rid of the bugs and add some good features to make things easier on their customers and users. That is why I gave Tutanota 3 stars.

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I really love this app BUT there is one thing I absolutely dislike about it - the delete function. You have to swipe, hold and then release for it to delete. I understand this may be a safety measure to ensure you don’t delete anything accidentally but it’s very clunky and unnecessary. I could just as easily go recover it from trash and would rather do so. I have to attempt to delete an email 3-5 times before it actually does, I swipe and hold and it constantly just slides out from under my finger even if I’m trying to hold it in place so that I have to keep trying until it finally deletes. I spend more time trying to delete emails than anything else. I absolutely HATE the delete function. If not for that I’d rate 5 stars for sure.

Yeah, yeah--I've experienced some of the little glitches in this (free for "regular" version) email service, but I've no doubt this very impressive company--I read much about Tutanota--will (or probably already had) fixed them. Most important, I used Protonmail (perhaps Tutanota's best-known encrypted email provider) for quite a while--until I learned that Protonmail received a $2 million investment by a large U.S. company that seeks a "strong *ownership* stake" in the smaller companies it funds. And as we know, Edward Snowden clued us in about US-owned companies being coerced into providing "backdoors"/intentionally compromising their own encryption measures, to allow government surveillance. So, not being able to trust Protonmail any longer, I switched to Tutanota, which has never accepted (to my, or it seems anyone else's) knowledge such alarming start-up funding. I find Tutanota's service exceptional, and I like it's pleasant/modern/~minimalist interface. I even entrust Tutanota with my domain/business email account. It's simply a great, trustworthy encrypted-email company that is responsive to user feedback and support queries.

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This app will literally steal your location without asking for it. How? If you have the Compass Calibration location service enabled under Settings-Privacy-Location Services-System Services (at the very bottom), then the app will access your location upon launch. This is evident by the location arrow that appears in the status bar (if you have the setting enabled) when the app is launched. Not sure why an encrypted email app needs to know anyone’s location, and more importantly why it steals it behind users’ backs instead of using the standard location permissions API and asking the user if they allow access to location. Very sneaky and underhanded. Not sure I trust this app with my supposedly encrypted emails any more. Shame on Tutanota and shame on Apple for allowing any app to access user location without asking for permission first using the compass calibration location setting.