Alternatives to Migadu
Email hosting for custom domains, priced by usage rather than by mailbox, with webmail. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Migadu
Email hosting for custom domains, priced by usage rather than by mailbox, with webmail.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Migadu.
Purelymail
Low-cost email hosting for your own domains, with IMAP, POP3, SMTP and optional webmail.
Purelymail is low-cost hosting for multiple custom domains with no per-user charges and Sieve filters, though it is a small provider with minimal features.
Fastmail
A paid, privacy-focused email, calendar and contacts service with web and mobile apps.
Fastmail adds calendar, contacts and Android and iOS apps with custom domains and EU or USA data residency, priced as a paid service.
Zoho Mail
An ad-free hosted business email service for custom domains with calendar, contacts, notes and tasks.
Zoho Mail is ad-free business hosting for custom domains with calendar, notes, tasks and 24-hour human support, aimed at organisations.
mailbox.org
A German email and workspace service with mail, cloud storage, video meetings and office tools.
mailbox.org is a German paid service with mail, storage, meetings and office tools, hosted under GDPR with ISO 27001 certification.
Posteo
German ad-free email provider with calendar, address book and notes, run on green energy.
Posteo is an inexpensive German provider with IMAP, calendar and contact sync, but it is aimed at personal addresses rather than custom domains.
Runbox
A paid, ad-free email service hosted in Norway and powered by renewable energy.
Runbox is a paid, ad-free service hosted in Norway on renewable hydropower, with a 30-day trial and no free plan.
Mailfence
Encrypted email service from Belgium with OpenPGP support, calendars, contacts and document storage.
Mailfence supports custom domains and aliases with OpenPGP encryption and mobile apps, with advanced features on paid plans.
Proton Mail
Official Proton Mail apps for reading and sending end-to-end encrypted email on phones, desktops and the web.
Proton Mail brings end-to-end encryption by default but requires its own apps or Bridge instead of standard IMAP for any client.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Thunderbird
Mozilla’s desktop mail client, with calendar, contacts and a unified inbox, funded by donations rather than ads.
Roundcube
A self-hosted, browser-based IMAP webmail client written in PHP.
Mox
An all-in-one open-source mail server for low-maintenance self-hosted email.
Mailcow
Dockerized open-source mail server suite with web admin and webmail.
