I like Outlook as a Gmail client more than Gmail itself, and I’m tired of pretending I don’t

Last year, I wrote a controversial article about my opinion on the Gmail Android app, backed up by everything I had discovered that the Gmail app can’t do that other Android email apps can. While I was writing that Gmail opinion article, I was bouncing between a few different alternative apps, including my usual go-to, Blue Mail, and a terrific open-source app called FairEmail.

Ultimately, though, I settled on the Microsoft Outlook app for Android. I have since uninstalled all other email apps on my Google Pixel 9 Pro and gone all-in on Outlook — and I couldn’t be happier about it.