SEE: You have two options for getting Outlook: Subscribe to Office 365 ($6.99 to $9.99 per month or $69.99 to $99.99 per year) or use Outlook Online via your Web browser (free). Deciding whether to subscribe or go free is dependent on your needs. If you plan to use Outlook regularly or as your chief email client, it's worth subscribing to Office 365. If you want to test Outlook before you subscribe, Office 365 has that option. But Office 365 may be too expensive and Microsoft Outlook, too feature-rich for your needs. Here are the best free alternatives to Outlook for Mac 1.

Apple Mail The best free email client for you may already be built into your Mac, and it's called Apple Mail. The well-designed and easy-to-use email client enables you to write, respond to, powerfully search, and sort email into folders. Start by adding your email accounts: iCloud, Exchange, Google, Yahoo, AOL, or other provider and email address.

One of the best features of the Mail app is the ability to add and markup attachments with annotations and even sign your email signature. Gmail The Gmail (, ) app is one of the best Web-based email apps around and a great alternative to Outlook. It supports up to five accounts, organizes your mail by topic, and enables you to manage it in several ways, including archiving, labeling, starring, deleting, and reporting spam. And naturally it plays well with other Google apps, such as Drive, Photos, and Calendar.

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Spark The Spark (, ) email client, which handles Outlook, iCloud, Google, Yahoo, Exchange, and IMAP accounts, helps you get through your inbox quickly by sorting your messages into personal, newsletter, and notification inboxes. With natural language search, you can find emails, links, and files more easily. If you're in the middle of something important and can't handle an email when it comes in, you can snooze an email and get back to it when you're able. Mailspring Mailspring (, ) is a robust email client that works with multiple email providers (Gmail, iCloud, Office 365, Outlook.com, Yahoo, and IMAP/SMTP) in a unified inbox, so everything is in one place and easy to get to.

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Twitter's API changes went live today, disabling key features for third-party apps like Tweetbot and Twitterific.The new API removes timeline streaming, preventing third-party apps from refreshing timelines automatically, and it limits push notifications and other features. Twitter is also charging exorbitant fees for access to its new activity APIs, with access starting at $2,899 per month for up to 250 accounts.All third-party Twitter apps are affected by these changes. Tapbots yesterday updated the Tweetbot for iOS app to cripple multiple features popular with Tweetbot users. Timeline streaming over Wi-Fi is no longer available, for example, which means Twitter timelines will now refresh more slowly.Push notifications for Mentions and Direct Messages are delayed by several minutes, and push notifications for likes, retweets, follows, and quotes have been disabled entirely. The Activity and Stats tabs, which were reliant on now-deprecated activity APIs, have been removed from the app, and because the Apple Watch app was heavily dependent on Activity data, it too has been eliminated.Similar changes were introduced in Twitterrific in July, and as of today, the Twitterrific app is no longer able to receive and display native notifications. Twitterrific's Today center widget and Apple Watch app relied on these features, and have been removed.Twitterrific recommends Twitter users download the official Twitter app to receive their notifications, while using the Twitterrific app for everything else.As the changes went live, Twitter today sent out a.

Twitter is making changes to its API on June 19, and third-party Twitter clients are worried about the impact and Twitter's lack of communication about the issue.The developers behind popular third-party Twitter apps that include Tweetbot, Twitterrific, Talon, and Tweetings today teamed up to warn users about the upcoming changes and to hopefully spur Twitter to action.On June 19, Twitter plans to remove several streaming service APIs that are used by third-party apps. Disabling these APIs will prevent third-party Twitter apps from sending push notifications and refreshing Twitter timelines automatically.If you use an app like Talon, Tweetbot, Tweetings, or Twitterrific, there is no way for its developer to fix these issues.We are incredibly eager to update our apps.

However, despite many requests for clarification and guidance, Twitter has not provided a way for us to recreate the lost functionality. We've been waiting for more than a year.Twitter is replacing its current streaming APIs with a new Account Activity API, which is in beta testing, but third-party developers have not been given access. With access to the Account Activity APIs, third-party Twitter clients say they might be able to enable some push notifications, but Twitter has also provided no detail on pricing. Automatic refresh of the timeline is set to be disabled entirely.Automatic refresh of your timeline just won't work: there is no web server on your mobile device or desktop computer that Twitter can contact with updates.

Since updating your timeline with other methods is rate-limited. Popular Twitter client Twitterrific 5 for Mac and iOS received a major update today, introducing features that bring it on par with the official Twitter apps and competing third-party Twitter apps.Starting today, Twitterrific users can attach 140-second or shorter videos to tweets on both iOS and Mac. On iOS, a video can be inserted by tapping the camera when composing, and on Mac, you a video can be added by clicking on the camera button.The app is also gaining official support for Twitter muting, so users and accounts that have been muted will sync between Twitter and Twitterrific with muted content removed from the timeline. Third-party Twitter client 'Twitterrific' has dropped the price of the latest Mac app - Twitterrific 5 for Mac Direct Link - to $7.99, down from $19.99. The new price tag marks the lowest that Iconfactory's app has ever been on the Mac App Store, and follows a 50 percent discount to $9.99 that emerged in December 2017.Twitterrific's sale for Mac appeared over the weekend on February 17, the day after Twitter announced it would officially stop supporting the main Twitter for Mac app. Twitter said that it plans to focus its attention on a 'great Twitter experience that's consistent across all platforms,' confirming that the Mac app wasn't on the company's list of priorities. Beginning last Friday, Twitter for Mac is no longer available to download, and within the next month the company will stop supporting it completely.While Twitter guided users to the social network's desktop website for the 'full Twitter experience on Mac,' Twitterrific is now a cheaper alternative for those looking for an app to browse Twitter on a Mac.

Twitterrific presents Tweets as they were originally seen on the social network, in a chronological order that filters out other extraneous content, like which Tweets your followers like.Twitterrific 5 also syncs your timelines across devices (including iPhone and iPad), supports mute filters, has multiple font and text size options, integrates with the Voice Over accessibility feature, and more.Re-imagined from the ground up to be the Mac's most friendly, powerful and modern Twitter client. Twitterrific makes Twitter fun. Twitterrific issued a couple of notable updates for its macOS and iOS apps today that include new haptic feedback, chronological threads, and more.First up, version 5.18.3 of the third-party iOS Twitter interface introduces haptic responses whenever a user likes or retweets content, or pulls down to refresh a thread. On that note, and in a move that should please users keen to switch away from Twitter's native app, threads in Twitterrific now display in chronological order for consistency.Elsewhere, the developers have made it easier to display and hide reference tweets when replying to or quoting them.

Users can now tap the original tweet to expand and collapse it, which allows for a lot more screen space when composing on smaller devices.A couple of interface tweaks have also been implemented to improve the user experience, such as moving the unread indicator dot beside the timestamp, to make it less distracting. Lastly, push notifications and the Today view now work from behind more firewalls and proxies, while a Report Abuse option has been added to the tweet actions menu.Apart from the haptic features, the above improvements have also been implemented in Twitterrific v5.2.3 for macOS, along with some additional tweaks. For example, clicking a mention/message notification will now re-use an available account window rather than opening a new one on the desktop. Tooltips have also been added to tweet action buttons and the main window tabs, while an Option-Tab keyboard shortcut is now available for switching between thread/replied tabs.Twitterrif. Nearly two weeks after relaunching, Twitterrific for Mac has received its first major update today with over a dozen improvements.A key new feature is the option to keep the timeline pinned to the top like Tweetbot for Mac.

When the feature is enabled in Preferences General, tweets flow into the timeline persistently without having to manually scroll up.There's also a new Muffles tab in the Preferences menu for adding and deleting muffles, which minimize tweets containing any users, links, hashtags, or keywords you list without removing the tweets from your timeline entirely.Muffles are a powerful way to hide certain users, links, hashtags, or keywords from your timeline. The best way to think of them are like lighter versions of muting. Muffling does not remove filtered tweets from your timeline entirely, but instead minimizes them, out of the way of your reading experience. Muffled tweets appear as a single line in your timeline, with a short description of what has been hidden. This lets you to scroll through your filtered timeline while still allowing you to interact with filtered tweets if you wish.Other improvements include status indicators for new mentions or messages in the Dock and menu bar, a right-click 'Mark as Read' option for direct messages, improved image caching, new font options, and more.The update includes a handful of bug fixes. Changing appearance settings now updates message threads correctly, for example, while the thread indicator on a tweet no longer disappears when you retweet.

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