Buy once instead of Mimestream
- Mimestream costs
- $50a year. Individual plan, $49.99 per year. Their pricing
- Ways out
- 3apps that do the same jobs
- Cheapest to buy
- $100Canary Mail, which pays back in 24 months
- Cost nothing
- 1freeware or open source
Read the catch on each before you switch. A one-time price is not automatically the better deal, and we say so where it is not.
 ThunderbirdFree mail, calendar and contacts with no tier above it | FreeOpen source | Nothing to pay, but it is a cross-platform app that never quite feels Mac-native |
 eM ClientMail, calendar and contacts client whose one-time licence covers future versions | €39.95Perpetual | VIP Support is free for the first year only, then needs a paid extension |
 Canary MailAi mail client that still sells a one-time lifetime bundle | $100Lifetime tier | Apple's store sells a $99.99 lifetime bundle; the website's Pro+ lifetime is $300 for the same name |