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Microsoft announced this week that the Outlook for Mac app will be available for free. The Outlook app, previously available with your Microsoft 365 account or as part of the Office for Mac app suite, is now available for download from the Mac App Store and works with Outlook.com, Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo, and traditional IMAP and POP email accounts. works.
Microsoft already offers free versions of its Outlook clients for iOS and Android and is currently testing a preview of the redesigned Outlook app that will replace the built-in Mail and Calendar apps that ship with Windows 11. increase.
The Mac version of the app doesn’t use that new design. Same with Microsoft’s late 2020 rolling out Outlook for Mac app. This is probably the same client that Microsoft is testing on Windows, is part of Microsoft’s “One Outlook” project (also known as Project Monarch), and works on all supported platforms. It aims to provide a single unified email client that looks and behaves the same.
As part of the One Outlook project, all email accounts should look and behave the same in Outlook. To achieve this, the Outlook app goes further than most email clients when it comes to syncing with third-party email providers. When you use a non-Microsoft IMAP email account, such as Gmail, with the Outlook for Mac app, Microsoft continuously syncs your email, calendar events, and contacts to its own servers, removing all data already stored by Mail. It effectively keeps the second copy. provider.
At least the new Outlook for Mac is a welcome alternative to Apple’s built-in Mail and Calendar apps. These apps work basically fine most of the time, but they rarely improve between releases of macOS. Outlook for Mac runs on macOS 11.0 (Big Sur) and later, and like most Microsoft apps these days, it’s a universal app binary that runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. If you’re using the iOS version of Outlook on your phone signed into the same iCloud account as your Mac, it also supports the Handoff feature.
