Overview
HEY is a modern, design-led email service that replaces folders with tags and conversations, adds shared mailboxes for team inboxes, and ships native apps on every platform. Strengths. Genuinely pleasant UI/UX (the best of any mainstream hosted mail); shared mailboxes without per-seat cost; tag-based organization is fast to learn; no ads or tracking. Weaknesses. No E2EE between users (TLS in transit only); storage is per-mailbox, not per-user pool; IMAP access exists but the platform experience is first — power-IMAP users may chafe at limits. Pricing. Current entry pricing, free tier and storage are shown in the verified specifications panel above — read from the vendor’s own pricing page, never copied between languages. Verdict v1: the most ‘delightful’ email product on this list — great for teams that value UX over protocol depth; less ideal for heavy IMAP automation.