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CloudMagic (for iPhone) Review

3.0
Average
By Jill Duffy

The Bottom Line

CloudMagic is a free and easy-to-use email client app for iPhone, with a simple, clean design. It supports all the major Web mail services. Power users won't find much of note here, though.

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Pros

  • Quick email client app.
  • Fast search with real time results.
  • Supports all major Web mail accounts and IMAP.
  • Free.
  • Easy to set up.
  • Good customization options, including pass code lock.

Cons

  • No calendar integration.
  • Limited swipe gestures.
  • No snooze options.

CloudMagic (free) is a simple and easy-to-use email client app for iPhone that unifies all your Web mail accounts, including Google Apps and Mac email, into one view. It offers a handful of options for viewing the content of your inboxes, such as showing only unread mail across multiple accounts. Each account is color-coded, and I love that you can customize the time that plays for new mail notifications for each account.

What CloudMagic doesn't offer iPhone users are more advanced tools for email pros. I've been hoping for another email client that integrates a calendar the way Seed Mail did before it was pulled from the App Store earlier this year. CloudMagic also doesn't have the much beloved snooze feature you'll find in Mailbox or Inbox for Gmail. Swipe gestures exist in CloudMagic but are limited.

Setting up the app is extremely easy. You select the email service provider from a list and enter your username and password. The service asks you to agree to lay CloudMagic access your account, and that's it. You have the option to set up an account with CloudMagic so that you can sync your customized experience to other devices (CloudMagic had apps for iOS and Android), but it's not required.

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After you've connected a few accounts, which includes Google App accounts in addition to standard Gmail, you'll see your accounts unified into one view. A dropdown menu lets you toggle between all messages, only unread messages, and just starred messages.

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As with most email client apps, CloudMagic shows you a brief preview of each piece of mail. Swipe any message right to left, and you'll find options for trashing it, moving it, and quickly marking it read or unread. You won't find a snooze tool, unfortunately, or other new options.

From a settings tray hidden to the left, you can switch out of the unified inbox view if you only want to see messages in a single account at a time. I love that CloudMagic gives you an optional passcode lock here, too.

CloudMagic (for iPhone)

Other customization options help keep CloudMagic lighthearted by letting you choose a color and custom tone, most of which are cheery chirps, for new incoming email alerts for each account.

The search works quickly and in real time, updating results as you type.

If you press and hold a preview of a message, CloudMagic lets you select multiple messages at once to perform an action in bulk, such as delete or move several message in one shot. One neat trick with this function: You can move multiple messages to a default archive folder, as long as you set up one archive folder per account beforehand. In other words, you'll need a default archive folder for your Yahoo Mail account, and another one set for your Microsoft Exchange account. I'd consider this ability a pro feature, though it may be the only one CloudMagic offers. The other features are pretty simple.

CloudMagic is clean-looking app with helpful features for managing multiple email accounts from your iPhone. Gmail power users will probably prefer the standalone Gmail app for iPhone, an Editors' Choice iPhone app. And anyone in need of a little more coaxing to actually do something with their emails might try Mailbox. CloudMagic is worth a spin, but doesn't have that magical snooze button that you'll find in Mailbox and Inbox for Gmail, which is an unbeatable feature once you try it.

For more advice on getting your email under control, see PCMag's review of SaneBox, as well as these tips for managing email.

CloudMagic (for iPhone)
3.0
Pros
  • Quick email client app.
  • Fast search with real time results.
  • Supports all major Web mail accounts and IMAP.
  • Free.
  • Easy to set up.
  • Good customization options, including pass code lock.
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Cons
  • No calendar integration.
  • Limited swipe gestures.
  • No snooze options.
The Bottom Line

CloudMagic is a free and easy-to-use email client app for iPhone, with a simple, clean design. It supports all the major Web mail services. Power users won't find much of note here, though.

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About Jill Duffy

Columnist and Deputy Managing Editor, Software

I've been contributing to PCMag since 2011 and am currently the deputy managing editor for the software team. My column, Get Organized, has been running on PCMag since 2012. It gives advice on how to manage all the devices, apps, digital photos, email, and other technology that can make you feel like you're going to have a panic attack.

My latest book is The Everything Guide to Remote Work, which goes into great detail about a subject that I've been covering as a writer and participating in personally since well before the COVID-19 pandemic.

I specialize in apps for productivity and collaboration, including project management software. I also test and analyze online learning services, particularly for learning languages.

Prior to working for PCMag, I was the managing editor of Game Developer magazine. I've also worked at the Association for Computing Machinery, The Examiner newspaper in San Francisco, and The American Institute of Physics. I was once profiled in an article in Vogue India alongside Marie Kondo.

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