HEY Email

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Last verified 6 Aug 2026

4.7 4323 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Love this email.

   I haven’t been this excited to use an email app since email came into existence. I love that I get to choose where emails go when they come in - I think my Imbox will be less cluttered overall except that I really like to tag things for later or “set aside” so I can see that turning into a parking lot of disaster for me…at least I can easily locate things I wanted to look at for some reason. Will I have to pay for it? Yes. I’m also okay with that because it will be money well spent! Glad I stumbled on this when trying to find a new platform to replace Gmail. Also stoked that I can forward other inboxes instead of filling loading all of the garbage. My hotmail has over 200k unread emails. Who can even deal with that?!?

   Delka76 · 6 Aug 2026

2. 5/5Finally a privacy-respecting inbox

   I was one of the first users of Gmail, getting in on the first round of beta invites that went out. I was so enthusiastic about a company bringing the concept of email out of the Stone Age. But as the decades passed, Google dropped the ball. They dropped the “do no evil” mentality in favor of the bottom line. We all learned, the hard way, that advertising-based companies like Google and Facebook don’t care about their users, they care about advertisers. Because there’s no such thing as a free ride, and on free platforms, your attention and data are what is being sold, to marketers. Finally, Hey is here to reinvent email again, and this time for the better. Yes, Hey is a subscription service. And that’s a good thing. That means they don’t have to sell their souls, and your information, to survive. They have an actual, ethical business model. On top of that they protect you by filtering out those nasty tracking “pixels” in emails that let marketers know a scary amount of detail about you, including how many times you opened their emails, at what times, roughly where (geographically) and on what types of devices. And there’s so much more to love about Hey. The Screener, the Imbox, the Paper Trail, Reply Later, Focus & Reply, global files browsing- I can go on and on. I’m thrilled to be a Hey customers, and I think you will be too.

   Evan Sims · 6 Aug 2026

3. 3/5Nice design ... but not a fit for business email

   No custom domains (are business users to promote your domain instead of theirs on all email sent and received - I know it is announced for future but at least you could have changed the email address in to/from/reply-to headers), no folders (how’s a giant inbox going to work after many 1000s of emails if you need to search for an email of a year ago ), completely captive service (how will you get your data out when you leave the service since it’s only on their server?), no read receipts (spying? Nothing more than bringing email on par with chat apps). Anyone who claims these features are ‘revolutionary’ are uninformed. Take a look at Polymail, Newton, Spark etc who’ve had similar functionality for years AND are compatible with existing email services. But 5 stars for great marketing : create artificial scarcity with a waitlist, and free viral marketing from a public rift with Apple.

   Techexpert007 · 6 Aug 2026

4. 5/5Goodbye Gmail... Hello HEY!

   I have been a Gmail user since the early days of the product. But after over 15 years I have become disenchanted with the service. Ads have taken over, my data is being sold and frankly my Gmail address is everywhere after 15 years and a spam filter just can’t do enough. I have tired every solution under the sun: specialized clients, add-ons, filters/rules, labels and no matter what i used something felt amiss. Along comes HEY, and from the first pitch I saw on the service I was intrigued. Basecamp and team definitely have a set of strong I ideals and opinions on what should and should not be in the world of email, and i strongly happen to agree. Privacy... CHECK, Data Security... CHECK, Quickly sort emails into practical categories...CHECK, In-depth Search.... CHECK, Great Unique Aesthetic....CHECK I am a full convert, and only after a day of use during the trial I happily signed up, forwarded my gmail to HEY and let everyone I knew I have made the switch. Not to mention how responsive the team is to both bugs and ideas for how to improve the service. Thank you Basecamp and HEY team... I finally found an email that gives me what I have been looking for.

   Choco Chicken · 6 Aug 2026

5. 5/5Excellent

   I had kind of given up on trying to manage my Gmail account. Every time I tried to clean it up, it would only be a month or two before it was flooded again with unwanted messages, and random receipt and shipping emails obscuring the stuff I actually cared about. “Hey” really does put you in control of your email inbox, and successfully separates the different categories of emails that there are (standard, newsletters, transactional ones) so that you can address each of them appropriately. The ability to screen out all first time senders empowers you to decide what makes it into your inbox, and the general policy of zero ads and zero data collection is a breathe of fresh air. If you have $99 a year to spare on an email service, it’s definitely a worthwhile investment.

   wtausus · 6 Aug 2026

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