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About Runbox
Runbox is a hosted email service run from Norway, where mail is stored under Norwegian privacy law and the GDPR. The company is independent and employee-owned, and its servers run on renewable Norwegian hydropower.
The service is ad-free and paid, with a fully functional 30-day free trial. It suits people who want to move away from free, ad-supported mail providers and prefer their data stored in Europe with a small independent company.
Strengths
- Data hosted in Norway under Norwegian privacy law and GDPR
- No advertising
- Runs on renewable hydropower
- Fully functional 30-day trial
Limitations
- No free plan after the trial
- Hosted service, so you rely on the provider for your mail
Details
- Pricing
- PaidPaid subscription after a free 30-day trial.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Runbox
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Web application, Hosted service
- Account
- Required
- Best suited for
- People who want paid, ad-free email hosted in Europe
- Categories
- Email clients, Privacy tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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Compare allSoftware that can replace Runbox for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Fastmail
A paid, privacy-focused email, calendar and contacts service with web and mobile apps.
Fastmail is a paid private host with calendar, contacts, Android and iOS apps and a choice of EU or USA data residency.
Proton Mail
Official Proton Mail apps for reading and sending end-to-end encrypted email on phones, desktops and the web.
Proton Mail adds end-to-end encryption by default and apps for every major platform, with a free tier but Proton-account-only access.
mailbox.org
A German email and workspace service with mail, cloud storage, video meetings and office tools.
mailbox.org moves hosting to Germany and adds cloud storage, video meetings and office tools, with ISO 27001 certification.
Posteo
German ad-free email provider with calendar, address book and notes, run on green energy.
Posteo is a low-cost German provider on green energy, with signup without personal details and optional stored-data encryption.
Tuta Desktop
The desktop client for Tuta's encrypted mail service, with end-to-end encrypted mail, calendar and contacts.
Tuta end-to-end encrypts mail, subject lines, calendar and contacts, has a free tier, but offers no IMAP or SMTP for other clients.
Mailfence
Encrypted email service from Belgium with OpenPGP support, calendars, contacts and document storage.
Mailfence is a Belgian service with OpenPGP encryption, a freemium plan, and Android and iOS apps alongside IMAP access.
StartMail
Paid private email service from the Netherlands with unlimited aliases and one-click encryption.
StartMail is a paid Dutch service with unlimited disposable aliases and password-based encryption for recipients without encryption.
Migadu
Email hosting for custom domains, priced by usage rather than by mailbox, with webmail.
Migadu focuses on custom domain hosting priced by usage, with unlimited addresses per domain, but requires your own domain.
Runbox as an alternative
Listings that name Runbox as an alternative.
Purelymail
Low-cost email hosting for your own domains, with IMAP, POP3, SMTP and optional webmail.
Runbox is a paid, ad-free Norwegian service running on renewable hydropower, with a fully functional 30-day trial.
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Thunderbird
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Disroot
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Hushmail
An encrypted email service with secure forms and e-signatures, aimed at healthcare and small practices.
