We believe there are better options available in this category, read below to learn what this software does well, and what they could do better. ⤵
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Personalized to your work and beautifully designed—Notion Mail is the only inbox that makes life simpler.
Notion Mail is expected to launch in early 2025, following its announcement at the Make With Notion summit in October 2024.
This offering appears to be Notion's latest attempt to keep their most loyal users firmly planted in the Notion ecosystem while expanding market share.
But there's a twist in all of this. You see, Notion didn't build Notion Mail.
No, no, no—that would require way too much time, thought, and resources!
Instead, they acquired Skiff—a privacy-focused email-app—and stripped away its core privacy features. The result? A Gmail- and Google Workspace-integrated email client with a "Notion-esque" interface and some database integrations. (Outlook users, you're out of luck.)
Is it good? While we haven't tested it yet ourselves, we've watched a few demo videos, and have to say, it seems a touch confusing (Seriously, do you really need Notion database items in your email?).
For now, Notion Mail feels like a shortcut: an acquired app, rebranded with a shiny Notion logo ✨, and marketed as their own innovation.
We've shared more thoughts in our full Notion Mail Review, so check back once it's released for our updated take!
Outlook is an email client and calendar for companies and individuals built by Microsoft
If you're a larger enterprise, you're likely using Outlook instead of Gmail (Google Workspace), to manage your email and calendar for work.
That said, most startups and quick growing companies use Google Workspace, so if you're looking into Gmail vs Outlook, we believe Gmail is the clear winner here. It just has a more user-friendly experience all-around, and has significantly more integrated tools (the most modern tools integrate with Gmail over Outlook).
In addition, you'll get deep Single-Sign-On with Google that you don't get with the Microsoft 365 suite, which just makes logging into many other tools significantly easier.
With that, Microsoft did acquire the beloved Sunrise calendar back in the day before killing it off and rolling it into Outlook. So the Outlook calendar should be quite decent in theory, although they seemed to strip some of the best things we miss about Sunrise from Outlook. We've looked elsewhere to fill our Sunrise void, now with Motion.
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