HEY wants to reinvent how you handle email, while Fastmail wants to fit however you already work. After six months inside HEY and years of writing about Fastmail, here's an honest, fact-checked comparison of pricing, features, privacy and the trade-offs that matter day to day.
Proton is built so your mail is unreadable to the host, and Fastmail so email is fast and dependable. Here is how they compare on encryption, custom domains, price, support and jurisdiction, and who should pick which.
Masked email does the same job as a disposable address but forwards to your real inbox, so you keep password resets and can switch it off. This guide compares the two, explains why sites block disposable addresses and weighs the main services.
A technical look at paid Outlook and Exchange Online: which security features need which plan, how it compares to Google Workspace and Fastmail, and who should pick each.
A look at Fastmail the company rather than the app: who owns it, where your email is stored, how it handles legal requests, its new EU data region, what it does and doesn't encrypt, and why it keeps AI out of the inbox.
I still care about privacy, but I moved my main inbox from Proton Mail to Fastmail. Here’s why, what I kept at Proton, and the exact steps to switch without losing mail or changing your address.
Fastmail is the best pure email service I've used: fast, private and built on open standards. So why does my mail now run through Google Workspace? An honest long read on what I loved, what I miss, and why I still left.
